A new crew arrives

On Thursday May 22nd we received a text message that our daughter Nicola was about to produce our first grandchild, more than two weeks early. Annika Joanne arrived into the world at 12:30pm, while we were busy changing travel plans.
We left Jomora on a pontoon berth at Fehmarn and flew / drove home, arriving on Saturday 24th.
Unfortunately the little lady and her Mum had to go into hospital for three days as Annika had a touch of jaundice and was not feeding properly, so it was four days before we met her.
We think she is very cute and thoroughly charming, but admit to being somewhat biased!

Annika, one week old

 

Tired parents

 

Kept them awake, now I'm tired

 

Getting ready for the trip home

We arrived in Fehmarn on Thursday 15th May.
Jomora is looking good and they seem to have done a nice job of resealing all the windows. Hopefully no more drips!
We are now doing all the chores required before the mast is stepped and we launch.
The first part of our voyage home will be along the German coast to Kiel where we will enter the Kiel canal at Holtenau. We plan to take two days transiting the canal, stopping again at Rendsburg. We exit the canal at Brunsbuttel and then have a short trip down the river Elbe to Cuxhaven where we will leave the boat in the City Marina to travel home to await the birth of our first grand daughter.

The decks look nice!

 

 

Our planned route home is pretty much the same as for the way out, along the North German and Netherlands coasts, past Belgium to France where we cross the channel from Dunkirk to Dover.

Then we plan to jog along the UK south coast via the Solent where we will spend days looking at places we have not visited before.

After this, we have the trip across Lyme Bay to Dartmouth and then home.

We are not in a big hurry so, assuming we are back to Jomora in Cuxhaven by mid June we will probably get back to our mooring at Mylor by mid July.