Almost drizzle but more like mist welcomed us to this new day so a walk out to the Submarine museum called where I went on board U955, a proper U-Boat. So incredibly small inside and what space there was crammed with pipes, valves and gauges. How they knew what to do I have no idea but it took me back to that remarkable TV series "Das Boot" but my goodness it was crampt, I don't think their galley was any bigger than ours and they fed 24 souls, also they only h...

We had rain for most of the night and a light wind from behind which caused a slap on the aft hull making sleeping difficult for Wendy who migrated to the saloon in search of peace. Our stay in Rendsburg had to end, it is a delightful haven with a very nice town very close by…lovely shops, clean leafy streets and a superb supermarket - Eneka - just half a mile away. Berth for just twenty one euros, including electricity and water it was stunning value. The...

Our departure from Cuxhaven followed a little light rain but once into the Elbe we fiddled around for a few minutes with the sails but getting no help we motored for a mile or so and then tried again. The joy of push button sailing. Then with the engine off we sailed up the Elbe in the company of some very nice English in a large Dutch motor yacht and several other boats. A lovely sail in varingy light winds got us to Brunsbuttle where we stemmed the tide fo...

A long day began with a swift walk into the town of Norderney, which by the way is a smart, clean and attractive one, to purchase a data only SIM to access the Internet for weather, e-mails etc. In France, Spain, Holland it is a piece of cake…buy it preloaded…fit it in the router and off you go. In Germany however one can't do that and after half an hour of explanations about dubious complex procedures I agreed to purchase the card the voucher and the bonus...

We needed fuel and liased with the people who collected the dues from the U-Boat pens to collect at 0900 on the othewr side of the harbour, so casting off in good time we duly collected fuel from his bowser. As luck would have it the gas tap failed when I tried to make tea this morning and I asked for help and said I would take a berth on the Yacht Club on the SW side of the harbour while waiting for an engineer. The YC manager helped us in and made us very wel...