IJsselmeer to the Wadden Islands
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Sep 06, 2025 β’ Enkhuizen, Compagnieshaven
Provisioned, fuelled, tide tables printed and stuck to the bulkhead. We slipped out of the Compagnieshaven mid-mornin...
Sep 07, 2025 β’ Makkum, Friesland
Proper crossing today - beam reach across the open IJsselmeer with one reef in for the gusts. The lake gets a short, ...
Sep 08, 2025 β’ Harlingen, Noorderhaven
First salt water of the trip. We locked through at Kornwerderzand on the Afsluitdijk - fenders down, lines ready, the...
Sep 09, 2025 β’ Oost-Vlieland
You don't sail the Wadden Sea on a clock, you sail it on the tide. We left Harlingen on the last of the flood and rod...
Sep 10, 2025 β’ Vlieland, Vuurtoren
No engine today. Vlieland has one village and no through-traffic, so we walked - up to the lighthouse, over the dunes...
Sep 11, 2025 β’ West-Terschelling
A short, sociable leg over to Terschelling between the sandbanks, timed once again to the water. The Brandaris lighth...
Sep 12, 2025 β’ Harlingen, Noorderhaven
The front came through overnight and left a brisk south-westerly behind it. Reefed down and ran back across the Wad o...
Sep 13, 2025 β’ Hindeloopen, Friesland
Locked back into the IJsselmeer at Kornwerderzand and pointed south for Hindeloopen - a tiny old Frisian town that fe...
Sep 14, 2025 β’ Enkhuizen, Compagnieshaven
One last crossing of the IJsselmeer, close-hauled most of the way, back to the home berth in Enkhuizen. Nine days, tw...