Joker
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Limfiord is quite easy, but the N Sea Jutland coast is not at all friendly. Starting from Poole, Kiel is the best option going.
Cruise planning poole - Sweden
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johnalison
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You will find that box mooring has been covered here before. Some of the pontoons are quite high and exit over an "old" pulpit is possible. I did it once with a Sadler 29, which has a high prow. A friend of mine with a large boat had a gangway made for his bow, but some kind of ladder, even a step fender would be useful. Occasionally ones sees boats mooring stern first but this can sometimes be hard without a bow-thruster.
Personally, I don't like stern mooring, partly because I believe that it increases the risk of damage (to other boats, ie me!). This risk arises mainly when exiting as you have no alternative to sweeping round going ahead. In leaving while going astern you have a variety of options in any wind.
Rossynant
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Well, only time the boat got into grave danger was about Helgoland on way to Kiel. Shallows there, breakers can grow, coast as said, not friendly. From this time it's Limfjorden, a nice place, no rush as in kiel kanal. We changed crews there (in Thyboron), but by car. Train is possible, some came this way, but I have no details.
wazza
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Agreed about laying up here...I live in Sweden & we have our boat on the West Coast, we pay roughly £900 Sept/Oct through until Apr/May, that includes lift out & in. We have a 34 ft sailing yacht..
Like I say live on the West Coast & we've had a boat for 15 years and there are still hundreds of anchorages that we haven't been to...
For our 3 week holiday in the summer we start off on and island called Tjörn then sail up north to Norway, less boats up there as it does get very busy down here (probably no comparison to the solent, but busy enough).
Charts, we have Båtsportkort which are very detailed and also the larger scale Skargrak & Kattegatt plus our Garmin plotter.. there is no tide so to speak but millions of underwater rocks so navigation isn't too difficult.
Mooring bows to, to the rocks off an island is the norm, protecting the rudder. We anchor out in bays and always have an anchor light on unlike, unfortunately a great many others so be wary if sailing at night!!!!
Definitely stock up with booze, either in the UK or on the way because that is very expensive. Diesel is around £1.50 per liter.
Can't think of anything else. I've helped few people from this site with regards to info as well as even checking on their boats during winter...
Hope this helps.. not too many of you coming is there
Resolution
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Wazza
Thanks for the info. Like so many others on this thread, your comments are very helpful and keep the level of excited anticipation on the boil!
Peter
Thanks for the info. Like so many others on this thread, your comments are very helpful and keep the level of excited anticipation on the boil!
Peter
jimbaerselman
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Large amount of information about Baltic Cruising on http://www.kissen.co.uk/
The site hasn't been up dated for a while, but the author is now the web master at the Cruising Association (CA).
The Baltic Section of the CA (some 500 members) provides a wide range of Baltic Cruise Guides written by members. See http://www.cruising.org.uk/public/cruising_info , click on "Country Guides" in the big blue box, then the red "more" button. Loads of first hand, up to date stuff there. If you're a member . . . cost, the same as a pint of beer a week.
The site hasn't been up dated for a while, but the author is now the web master at the Cruising Association (CA).
The Baltic Section of the CA (some 500 members) provides a wide range of Baltic Cruise Guides written by members. See http://www.cruising.org.uk/public/cruising_info , click on "Country Guides" in the big blue box, then the red "more" button. Loads of first hand, up to date stuff there. If you're a member . . . cost, the same as a pint of beer a week.