Harwich to IjMuiden

Now in Seaport marina, IJmuiden. It's only about half full! That's an awful lot of empty boxes (they are fingers, with a post which most people don't bother to attach to). If you arrive late at night, you won't be able to get into the loos anyway, so moor up on the long alongside pontoon on the left after the entrance, and move to somewhere closer to the loos in the morning.
Oranjesluizen has nice loops of rope to grab, and only goes up/down a foot or so. IJmuiden has good bollards, but they are about 4m apart, so miss one and you are a bit stuck! And then it has a range of a couple of metres. Having said that, they were both fine today, and I think we have been ok with all the locks on this trip - even the Kiel Canal big ship lock!

Hope the crossing and the holiday go OK.
 
AliM said:
Now in Seaport marina, IJmuiden. It's only about half full! That's an awful lot of empty boxes (they are fingers, with a post which most people don't bother to attach to). If you arrive late at night, you won't be able to get into the loos anyway, so moor up on the long alongside pontoon on the left after the entrance, and move to somewhere closer to the loos in the morning..
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Good luck with your crossing too. It looks as if you've got some helpful winds for a few days, though maybe you are heading south first.
 
Tradewinds said:
Not quite as simple as 075 IMO.

There are DW routes , TSS's and, a newish wind farm on the rumb line just off IJmuiden.

This is the route I took from N. Shipwash in July this year.

Didn't see a huge amount of shipping on the way there but a different story on the way back. Radar & AIS very handy if you have them.

Best to carry the tide up the Shipwash.

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Other may follow a different route :)

PS We always go direct to Amsterdam - recommend the new Amsterdam Marina on port side (same side as Sixhaven)
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Pretty much the same route we took in the first week of August - non stop from BYH. A great week. +1 for Amsterdam Marina if you can blag your way in when you arrive. Great steaks at the restaurant there. Otherwise, Sixhavn is another option, near to town with the usual free ferries. But it does apparently get rammed which can delay arrival and departure times.

Have a good trip.
 
I hope you made it. It seemed to be a good day to choose to cross.

We crossed IJmuiden to Lowestoft yesterday. Rough to start with, but it eventually calmed down and the wind stayed sufficient to give us a bit off a push.

For the record... We saw only one ship near enough to worry about once we were west of De Ruyter. Most of the shipping seems to be concentrated between De Ruyter and the IJmuiden approach TSS. There were a few ships on the DW routes, but very sparse and none near us.
 
Well, We made it to Seaport - to cut a long story short First 70 miles really enjoyable despite motoring into the wind - Last 50 miles horrendous worse than the Wallet on a bad day.

Shipping was not too bad although I did use the VHF twice for dodgy encounters. Once to the Queen Elizabeth (Cruise Ship) when I was the stand on vessel, to let her know I was turning to port (before she turned to Starboard) and the second when the CPA got down to 100mtrs to make sure he'd seen me ( he had, and altered course for me).

I'll post the story when I get a chance tonight

Thanks to everyone who posted, your help was appreciated and made life much easier :) :)
 
Oh, that call to the Queen Elizabeth was you, was it? We heard it when we were getting towards Lowestoft. Did you see the 23ft rowing boat called Ravi? It is a bizarre feature of AIS that you get the same symbol for a 1000ft cruise liner and a 23ft rowing boat, which were quite close to each other when we passed them.

I am sorry you got the horrible conditions on the last 50 miles into IJmuiden - we also got the worst conditions there, but that was the start for us - it got better.

Anyway, you made it - well done!
 
We were down on the boat around Titchmarsh at the weekend and at one point we were getting AIS signals from over 100miles away off the Dutch Coast. I expect we could have watched the Queen Elizabeth if we'd known.
 
The intrepid Dutch Rowers were moored next to us in Seaport. This morning the television were recording an interview. They had to abort the row as the conditions were, as we experience, pretty bad, but they looked to have survived OK; there were in fact two rowing boats? Well there were two boats here. I would have found out more but when we returned from the office this morning they had all gone, both the two support boats and the rowers... to where I no not ;)

As to the conditions yesterday 'Into every trip (life) a little rain must fall'. It certainly exposed our stowage plan, not so much punching into the sea, but the cross wave rolling when we turned for Ijmuiden through the anchorage.....

As we approached the welcoming arms of Ijmuiden outer harbour, 3 extremely large ships were entering, I thought it prudent to stay out of the way. How do they get those ships into those little locks, absolutely amazing....
 
cueball said:
I am interested to make a similar crossing from the Crouch. How long did the crossing take?
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We were slightly exceptional. We traveled from North Fambridge to Shotley and left from there the next day. I took my departure from Platters outside Harwich at 1400 and made good passage to North Shipwash with the Ebb. Turning North East we were headed and motored on to the Racon and the De Ruyters.. During the night the wind increased on the nose and I was only able to make maybe 3kts over the ground especially when the Tide turned against us. We actually arrive in Seaport Marina at 1800. making a total passage time of 26 hours. I had planned for 20 hours and hoped for 18.

The last 50 miles were extremely uncomfortable, but on reflection I knew the wind would increase but I hadn't anticipated the short, steep and confused sea which my underpowered Westerly finds it hard to cope with ..... hence hopefully our experience is not typical. But this thread and others on ECF will provide a wealth of useful information for planning :)
 
It is about 105 miles Lowestoft to IJmuiden, we took 17-19 hours
About 120 from Harwich - say 20-22 hrs
And from the Crouch about 140 miles, 23-26 hrs.

Heaviest shipping is on the Dutch side, say 50 to 20 miles before you get to IJmuiden, so try to do that in daylight. At least those have been our thoughts over 23 crossings from Crouch, Harwich, and Lowestoft, although some have been to or from Den Helder. If you go from Harwich or the Crouch, get the timing right to exploit the tide this side, otherwise it gets very frustrating.
 
AliM said:
Heaviest shipping is on the Dutch side, say 50 to 20 miles before you get to IJmuiden, so try to do that in daylight. At least those have been our thoughts over 23 crossings from Crouch, Harwich, and Lowestoft, although some have been to or from Den Helder. If you go from Harwich or the Crouch, get the timing right to exploit the tide this side, otherwise it gets very frustrating.
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+1. The total time for us in August was 33hours from BYH. We left at 0200 with not enough wind but enjoyed some practise with the cruising chute during the following day. Return trip was done in better wind but still took as long. We got the tide wrong during the last leg from Harwich to the Crouch. Lesson learned.
 
Safely tucked up in Marina Muidenzand , but its turned cold we've had to put the cockpit tent up - that damned depression over Denmark I think is going to wreck the next couple of days, but with a 15 minute train service into Amsterdam we will 'do' the Museums especially the Van Gogh , a passion of the Wife's.

Ijmuiden lock went perfectly, and the trip down the Noordseekanal, even the blue and white ferries all docked as we approached, maybe they'd heard we were on the way. Then came the Oranjesluis lock. At first there were just three boats, easy peasy I thought. But then a large piratical two master turned up with about 30 raucous Dutch blokes and loud disco music. by the time we were called forward there were two booze cruisers (Corporate entertainment) a Government 40ft launch and 5 yachts. I was third yacht in , the bigger boats had entered already, The second yacht ahead of me didn't go far enough forward and I didn't think I had enough room but eventually they got us all in but with little semblance of order and much fending off...


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All grist to the mill as they say and it only took me 7 attempts to get into the Berth here, it has a finger pontoon as well, but someone stuck a couple of posts in the way :)
 
Re the Van Gogh museum. Most likely there will be quite long (multiple) queues so be prepared for that. It's worth the wait.

The other 2museums - Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk are well worth a visit (we went to both this July) - both have been refurbished and are a delight (IMO).

Also the Scheepvaartmuseum (https://www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl) is excellent.
 
My favourite museum is the Tropenmuseum, only a short tram ride from the station. Fabulous collection of stuff from around the world and very imaginative displays. Inexpensive ethnic foods in the cafe. Adults not allowed in the children's bit.
 
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