The time had come to move on from the little slice of England in Germany, with its cheap beer and good food.
We decided to head for De Schlei, and see how we felt once off the entrance to this area, as to whether
we'd head further north to Denmark in the Flensburgh Fjord and drop the hook for the night. We left Kiel after a
splendid Full English 'army brunch' courtesy of the BKYC and managed to extract ourselves from the pile moorings
just about without hitting the boat next to us though there was an anxious moment or two!
Then we got ourselves ship shape for sea and got the main up....with the wind...you guessed it, right on the nose.
(there is a pattern building here!) So we made good time with 'victor'volvo driving us into a F5.
We were off De Schlei about 14.30 so decided to make the most of the dry weather and push on north. As we turned into
the Flensbugh Fjord, we spotted our first porpoises!! As we decided to keep going this meant a long
day and we got into our little anchorage about 7pm. However there were two boats already in the plum postions so we tried
to get in behind them, however there was a line of rock just where we were trying to get the hook to set, so after two
attempts we decided to try a slightly more exposed part of the anchorage and got the hook set first time, and were still
reasonably sheltered. However it was now 19.40, and the temperature had plummeted. (it is supposed to be hot here in may!)
Because we were tired, cold, hungry and a little anxious morale on board was a little low. However we got rupert the refleks fired up, on high
and Nichola rustled up a really great carbonara, and by 9.30pm we were warm, replete and ready for a nightcap!
Next day dawned nice but cold again, and we wondered whether to head into Flensburgh or stay at anchor. We were nervous about mooring
onto piles with a building wind, but in the end we had a crew discussion and decided that we should head on and at least scope it out, so
anchor was up at midday and off we went....
slainte skip

PS photo of sunset at BKYC, the beautiful yacht without the mast is Flamingo, part of the war reparations from Germany to the UK. There is a picture
in the mess of BKYC of it sailing with a swastika on the flagstaff, with Bismark, and Goering (I think) in the cockpit with a german naval rating steering.
It is currently being restored.