We are now safely in the shed ( halls ) for the winter, all the water out, and everything left tidy. It's going to feel very strange not being able to pop down and do some work on the boat. The boats been great the only problem being the propeller that was easily fixed. We are having a quote for a new head sail as ours is over 20 years old and there is a rip in it and some stitching coming apart. There are a few jobs that I can do at home as we will drive out in ...

The flags on our mast are all the country's visited this year.

We have arrived here in Fehmarn after a hard 47 mile sail to windward. Everything is in place for us to be lifted out of the water on Thursday, we then have a few days to winterise the boat before flying home on the 2 nd. We have met with about ten other UK flagged boats that are also spending the winter here. We had a good evening yesterday 12 of us went out for a meal for Brenda's birthday. The strong winds have dropped and the sunshine is back. We have had a ...

We left our anchorage near Kiel before 09.00 as we were up and about, not the best place to stay as we had wash from the ships all night they were a long way off but we still had some movement. The wind was gusting up to 26 kns but with two reefs in we were sailing along at over 7 kns. We took a few waves over the deck, they only managed to soak me..! Brenda always managed to get behind the spray hood just in time. We arrived in the Schlei a 20km fjord, we ancho...

We arrived at the canal entrance at the top of the tide after carrying the flood all the way down the Elbe. There were about five other yachts waiting for the lock, after about 20 mins the lights all changed and we all motored in, we raised up very slowly only about a meter. It is forbidden for yachts to travel the canal at night so we needed to get to a mooring within the next three hours. There was a space about half a mile up from the lock. We took this but it...