We are headed back to Fehmarn. We spent quality time with our new granddaughter and now it's time to head for home. We plan to leave Fehmarn on Friday and sail to Kiel where we will be joined by our Australian friend Bob before heading through the Kiel canal and into the North Sea. Our route thereafter depends on the weather, but the current plan is to sail roughly West via the islands of Heligoland, Borkum, Vlieland (in Holland) and then to Den Helder.
Sailing along the North German and Dutch coasts represents the big challenge of the trip as bad weather makes a lot of the harbours difficult to enter, and it is necessary to sail a fair way north of Cuxhaven to clear all the sand banks off the entrance to the river Elbe.
There are stories of yachts waiting at Cuxhaven for a week for good weather!
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