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The sun was out, the wind was in the right direction. Gouda grins all round 😁.

As we faced 3 watersheds today it was a fairly early start. The early shallows kept us slow along the channel and a murkiness had joined us. The wind was light so we decided to set up the Code 0, followed by the Main sail to try & catch up with 2 other yachts on the same course. Under sail today was so relaxing perhaps excepting the hour in which we had 0.8m of water at 5 Knots. The chart looked like we were sailing over land but as our Dutch friends say, nothing is deep in these parts! We took our time to pass the Dutch boats ahead of us. We were enjoying the open water with full sails and fresh warm breeze that we overshot the entrance to Borkum by a couple of miles & the Dutch must have laughed as they found us following them once again.
Today we hoisted the German courtesy flag and we only hope this stage is a bit warmer. Please. Certainly though, it will be hard to beat the warmth of the Dutch. Thank you Netherlands for having us.

Soon after arriving we were ready to explore. A quick chat with the Hafenmeister and I was dragging Ron off to catch the lovely little train (Borkumer Kleinbahn) into the centre.
Enjoyed a lovely stroll to take in the magnificent white beach with the famous 'Strandkorb' chairs and beach tents.
A lovely waiter gave us a taste of German hospitality (although he said it didn't count as he was from down south in Bavaria😄)
Anyway there were no trains back by the time we'd strolled around, the buses seemed hit and miss & so the taxi waiting must have seen this a hundred times, but we went for it. The 24 euros for the taxi cost more than our berth for the night 🙄 🤷‍♀️ which admittedly is probably the cheapest yet!
A late evening stroll followed by planning for our next island hop & tidal flows, sea state, wind, channels or out to sea - these are the questions!Read more