Thursday June 2nd.

Trip from IJmuiden to Roompot (Zeeland)

Dear followers,

This morning our alarms went off, the moment most of you probably just went to bed: 04:30 AM
We managed to be outside of IJmuiden harbor by 05:10 and there we noticed that it was indeed high tide,
but the South bound current hadn't started yet.
However that was not our biggest problem: again there was not a trace of wind....
So, motoring again in the direction of Scheveningen or further.
The wheather was despite the absence of wind glorious: sunny and warm.

By 10:00 O'clock the marifoon refuged further services, but Sam and I managed to fix the problem.
Thus we could cross the Maas Entrance of Rotterdam, where pleasure crafts do have to report their
presence so that they will be guided over the very busy shipping lane to Rotterdam harbour.
Anyway, the problem was fixed and we crossed rather quick.

At the otherside of the crossing lane we were surpised by a nice north east wind.
We inmediately set our Half winder sail and that produced a speed of 7 knots in no time.
We sailed fantastically and became even so optimistic that we believed we could reach Zeebrugge in belgium
today, but calculating the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) we discovered that we would be too late
to find any berth. (= landing place for our boat)

So we then decided to land in Roompot outer harbour and stay there over for the night.
Sam took advantage of the situation and decided as soon as we were moored with our landlines to the
shore, to go out for some kite-surfing.
From both events we have made some pictures which we have attached to our todays blog.

Some facts: max wind speed: 25 knots.
Total distance: 72,5 Nautic Miles
Average speed: 5 knots.