Day 14 Willenstad to Dordrecht
Just a 13 leisurely miles today to the attractive heart of Dordrecht, the oldest city in The Netherlands, founded in 1220. Only 2 challenges today, getting to the railway bridge on time, else a 2 hour wait, and mooring in…
Day 13 Bruinisse to Willemstad
A moderate 16 miles and 3 lock systems, taking us from sea, to fresh and back to sea water, along very busy barge routes. One barge had over 100 containers on board, that's a lot of lorries off the road….
Day 12 Middelburg to Bruinisse
Motoring for 25 miles though Zeeland, a huge area that makes Norfolk look like the Lake District and apart from a few very large barges, a couple of fishing boats, it's featureless. 3 more locks negotiated and moored overnight just…
Day 11 Vlissingen to Middelburg
Life definitely in the slow lane today, 4 hours to do just 5 miles!, with 1 lock and 6 bridges ticked off. We soon established that a bridge will only open if there is more than one boat passing underneath…
Day 10 Vlissingen
After 250 miles, it was time to pause for a day. So a relaxing 24 hours catching up with the laundry, restocking food and beer and some sightseeing. The highlights included a working windmill, which although the sails were racing…
Day 9 Dunkerque to Vlissingen
This was a very long day with an early delay whilst we waited for a tanker to be tugged into Dunkerque, Force 5 winds close to the nose and a foul tide running against us for 7 hours. So we…
Day 8 Dover to Dunkerque
Left Dover Marina at 0700 and following permission from Port Control headed to the East Entrance, where at the Knucle lighthouse sought final permission to exit the Eastern entrance. Nice friendly wave from Port Control as we left. Very patchy…
Day 7 Brighton to Dover
60 miles to Dover so an early(ish) 0700 start. The wind had dropped to virtually nothing so started out motoring towards Beachy Head. At the head, the wind started building, and with a favourable tide we made a good 7-8…
Day 6, a day in Brighton
A horrible wet and windy day, although the sun did appear at lunchtime, so a trip to Brighton in the afternoon was planned which included The Lanes and a game of crazy golf.