To the Baltic via Delfzijl, the German Friesian Islands and Kiel

[catfisher]

Hello.

I'm just in the process of constructing a log for this route, which we followed in March 2007. If you want to access it, you can go to the Cruising Association on:

www.myca.org.uk

and look for "Bob to the Baltic". You don't need to be a CA member because I've put it in the public area - but please consider joining!

If you are going that way, I do hope that you enjoy it as much as we did.

Bob

 

[johnalison]

A very interesting and informative log. I hope you find a summer like the one we enjoyed last year.

If you'll excuse me, there is a lot of information about the Baltic for anyone going this way on the site of a mate of mine here

 

[Twister_Ken]

CA plug

The Cruising Association does seem to be making the Baltic its own lake. Anybody considering heading there would do well to join - there's a ton of info available - on file or through personal contact – plus CA bods in many of the ports over there. There's also a specific Baltic section (like a mini-club) which organises meets, etc.

 

[trouville]

Is kissen still in the Baltic? I wonder where?

The Ca is rubbish!! they ask HUGE fees for events eating out at their prices would keep a boat in the med for 1.4 days!!Including eating out

The Baltics just a very boreing septic place that costs a fortune without any adventure.

Come to the Baltlc its great ticks which will kill you if you walk under trees or throw grass,a 60 foot HR comes around to ofer vaccinations at a huge price!!There are ques

The resturants(cafes dont exist) Are dreadful! the quality depends on the price paid(ideal for todays new rich but they havent found the Baltic yet!)

You can pay easly 600SEK for a salad with first price supermarket dressing,Then meat potatoes and veg all school dinner in a working class public school such as prince charles attended. I could give examples, from but Sandham as well as it known but id most likekly get ticks!!Or problems when i retern which i will

Where else can we sail in peace bring a group bring your amore but never alone the woman there are like those in New York USA but far worse

Life is utilaterian except for the very rich that eat out to show how well off they are dinning at one of the best resturants and expensive. Mac donalds would offer a better fare! Better cooked and well persented!

Such is life up there.Help please send me money that i dont have to go there.The poor are deported to the cold widernesses where the rich have the say

I will be there.god forbid,by the will of god and neptune the will of povety and misery, or not. By the will of Stella. good luck and will power by end june.

I have a bad feeling that the Atlantic and Baltic may be my destany this year /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gifBut with Stella my woman and mentor i have hope


OH MY GOD i forgot http://smallboatclub.proboards98.com/index.cgi

Its a wonderful forum and in the Baltic.That is in the new republics Im going to vistit this summer .I have a pilot and now paper charts as i cant get the electronic charts to display,nor sea clear to do enter ny charts.
Im promised when i arrive my sea clear will be established

 

[catfisher]

Thanks, Kermudjon, and I like your website.

My log is primarily aimed at smaller craft than yours, and/or those with shoal draft, to whom the inner Friesian experience is a possibility.

Your points re the Elbe are excellent, and I think that the pilot books gloss over the problems. I'll be writing my Elbe entry next week.

 

[Amphitrite]

Nice reading, and I am glad you liked the german watt.... btw, a good source for charts is www.hansenautic.de (nothing to do with them, just a satisfied customer).

 

[Gargleblaster]

I notice that in the section on the Elbe that it is stated that there is no alternative. From Helgoland it is only a couple of hours to the entrance of the Eider and although there are a number of locks to contend with and it is a bit shallow at the entrance at low tide, it is a very pretty and interesting alternative entrance to the Kiel Canal.
I don't particularly like the drag up the Elbe as the first time I tried it was into a F6 SE with a spring tide beneath me in a 23 footer. Quite a lively experience. Another time myself and another boat came out of the Kiel Canal intending to stay at Cuxhaven. I stayed over on the south side and got in easily, the other boat missed the entrance on another spring tide and couldn't get back or at least he worked out that it wasn't worth the fuel trying. I had a lovely night pulling other peoples boats into berths that were too shallow for them. So we had to meet up at Nordenay.

 

[catfisher]

Amphitrite, thanks for correcting my spelling - watt it is, then!

 

[wagenaar]

The official name for the Kieler Kanal is the "Nord-Ostseekanal" and not Nord-Ost Kanal es you write in your blog.

 

[Luanda]

I far prefer the originaLname - THE kAISER WILHELM KANAL