BORNHOLM

Bornholm is probably one of the particularly attractive destinations for most Baltic Sea sailors - and it is also tempting for those with a home port on the North Sea - but for North Sea sailors it is quite far away. We therefore took SNIFIX to Kiel before the actual summer cruise and starting from from there we did a beautiful cruise "counterclockwise" round of the Western Baltic via Fehmarn, Warnemünde, through the Strelasund south around Rügen to Sassnitz and from there to Bornholm. The wind was strong from SW and so we slipped to the east very well. Our favorite destination port on Bornholm is Gudhjem - a port like a fortress. There were a lot of holiday sailors who intended to head back to the west, however it was blowing heavily from the west for three days they wee trapped in Bornholm - but that didn't bother us at all, because those were the days we had planned to stay on Bornholm anyway.

​

The way back went via Christiansoe along the Swedish south coast - of course with a stop-over at Wallander town in Ystad - through the Falsterbo Canal to Copenhagen (there was triathlon all the next day - great) and from there through B0egestrom and Ulvsund to the Smalands fairway, then (laborous) tacking the Store Belt), north around Langeland to Lundeborg with great full moon sailing and a fantastic night atmosphere in the harbor. Finally we headed back to Kiel via Marstalrinne (tacking faster faster there than some smaller boats under engines). We immediately fell in love with Ulvsund, which has been our "standard route" to C'hagen ever since, and it fully exploits the limits of SNIFIX, since it includes shoal waters of some 2.oo m depth and a 20 m clearance bridge. The first time, despite knowing all the facts (including our VHF antenna, we'll definitely stay below 20 m), that really took a toll on our teeth. Today we pass there under spinnaker too - and yet it's always a relief when it works again, since from our cockpit perspecive it always seems as if it couldn't possibly go well. Lovely place on this route again and again Nyord, where we have to be very precise at the harbor entrance in order to fit through it. This place is a real Denmark dream.

​

And on the final leg from Kiel to Bremerhaven via Kiel Canal we turned starbord at Gieselau lock and chose the detour via river Eider to Tönning and from there back home via Helgoland - also an attractive route!