Denmark

[sailaboutvic]

This year will be our second northern Europe cruise after our long stretch living full time and cruising in Southern Europe.
2022 we spend six months cruising the Netherlands which was not only very different to what we use to but very enjoyable although mid summer was interesting to say the less with so many boat racing for locks.

2023 we looking at going further North to Denmark using the Kiel canal we not sure how long for as yet maybe 4 or 5 months any one else have plans to head that way?

 

[ChromeDome]

Having the boat there, so will be around.
Happy to meet up, just say when.
My Marina

 

[johnalison]

Depending on how far you want to go, although Denmark is lovely, I can also recommend a diversion to the nearby coast of Germany. Heiligenhafen and Neustadt are both delightful, as are some others, with Laboe being a useful stop before/after the canal, along with Moltenort.

 

[ChromeDome]

When coming via the Kiel canal, both the northern Baltic coast of Germany and Denmark is within reach.

I'd say that Denmark's number of marinas, location and features are a plus.

Alone the fjords on the eastern side of Jutland deserve looking into (well protected from the mainly western winds)

• Mariager Fjord, length 35 km
• Randers Fjord, length 30 km
• Norsminde Fjord, length 3 km
• Horsens Fjord, length 16 km
• Vejle Fjord, length 22 km
• Rands Fjord, length 3 km
• Kolding Fjord, length 10 km
• Haderslev Fjord, length 15 km
• Åbenrå Fjord, length 10 km
• Als Fjord: length, 12 km
• Flensborg Fjord (south side is in Germany, north side is in Denmark, length 30-40 km

 

[ex-Gladys]

This year will be our second northern Europe cruise after our long stretch living full time and cruising in Southern Europe.
2022 we spend six months cruising the Netherlands which was not only very different to what we use to but very enjoyable although mid summer was interesting to say the less with so many boat racing for locks.

2023 we looking at going further North to Denmark using the Kiel canal we not sure how long for as yet maybe 4 or 5 months any one else have plans to head that way?

Surely you're constrained to no more than 90 days out of every 180 in Schengen area?

 

[billskip]

Surely you're constrained to no more than 90 days out of every 180 in Schengen area?

Dont.......

 

[Daydream believer]

Surely you're constrained to no more than 90 days out of every 180 in Schengen area?

He will learn

 

[sailaboutvic]

Having the boat there, so will be around.
Happy to meet up, just say when.
My Marina

Nearer the time I let you know

 

[mattonthesea]

In Denmark you can let the wind direction decide where you go next

 

[ChromeDome]

'eh?

 

[mattonthesea]

'eh?

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[ChromeDome]

Edited

 

[johnalison]

In Denmark you can let the wind direction decide where you go next

That’s basically the same throughout the southern Baltic. You get up, have breakfast, then look at the chart and think “where shall we go today?”.

 

[Daydream believer]

That’s basically the same throughout the southern Baltic. You get up, have breakfast, then look at the chart and think “where shall we go today?”.

Obviously people dream of such a lifestyle & if it suits you then do it. But not having a daily target well before hand would drive me mad. I already know where & when , almost to the day, what I want to do on my August/September cruise. I have the departure times & tides plotted. I may not make it. That being said, I have in previous years, so why not this year (covid etc aside). But just drifting around aimlessly from day to day would never be my sense of enjoyment.
But to each his own of course. That is what makes us different

 

[ChromeDome]

Personal preferences. I also make plans, use data, know the next step, etc.

I was once asked if I ever do something completely impulsively: "Oh yes, every time I've planned to do it"

 

[johnalison]

Obviously people dream of such a lifestyle & if it suits you then do it. But not having a daily target well before hand would drive me mad. I already know where & when , almost to the day, what I want to do on my August/September cruise. I have the departure times & tides plotted. I may not make it. That being said, I have in previous years, so why not this year (covid etc aside). But just drifting around aimlessly from day to day would never be my sense of enjoyment.
But to each his own of course. That is what makes us different

I am delighted that you should manage your sailing that way, and equally delighted that I don't have to sail with you. Friends of ours sailed as you do. We once met them on Sweden's west coast when our passages intersected. They had worked out exactly where they would be each week of the three-month cruise and where and on what day their crew changes would take place. In contrast, the couples who came out to join us, some half a dozen over several years, would have to work for their leisure and make their way to or from wherever we happened to be. Their visits have involved such efforts as driving to Gothenberg or flying to Malmo and catching a train to halfway up the coast. Transport over there is so easy and usually reasonable that there is no need for over-planning.

Of course, we would have a general idea of where we wanted to go, but often the weather, or advice from locals would send us to delightful places we would never have thought of visiting if we had just relied on the charts and pilots. My life at work and at home was always somewhat organised and I have a great yearning for a bit of chaos in my life.

 

[Daydream believer]

delighted that I don't have to sail with you.

I did not ask you to. Most of my sailing is SH, so I do not have to rely on others. Saves a lot of problems.

 

[mattonthesea]

Of course, we would have a general idea of where we wanted to go, but often the weather, or advice from locals would send us to delightful places we would never have thought of visiting if we had just relied on the charts and pilots. My life at work and at home was always somewhat organised and I have a great yearning for a bit of chaos in my life.

Exactly, I would never have experienced the cacophony of the frogs in Lyo if the wind had not given up as we passed

 

[johnalison]

I did not ask you to. Most of my sailing is SH, so I do not have to rely on others. Saves a lot of problems.

That is lucky for you. I am not cut out to be an obedient crew member.

 

[steve yates]

Obviously people dream of such a lifestyle & if it suits you then do it. But not having a daily target well before hand would drive me mad. I already know where & when , almost to the day, what I want to do on my August/September cruise. I have the departure times & tides plotted. I may not make it. That being said, I have in previous years, so why not this year (covid etc aside). But just drifting around aimlessly from day to day would never be my sense of enjoyment.
But to each his own of course. That is what makes us different

If it works for you, fine but I couldnt think of a worse way to go sailing personally.