July 5, 2011 From Zeebrugge to Roompot (NL)

Yesterday evening when we entered the Marina of Zeebrugge, we saw that the local yacht club was having a party. We were however too eager to find us something to eat, that we didn't bothered to disturb the party with our presence.
However, one of the guests had seen us enter the harbour and came to us to compliment us with this boat. He called our boat a pearl under the yachts.
Unfortunately, he didn't made me an offer for the ship that I couldn't have refused, so we were still obliged to continue our trip.

We started today rather late as we had to do some shoppings and waited for the harbour master to pay our duties.

So we left the Zeebrugge harbour at 09:45.
Hardly any wind and visibility. On motor and with the help of our radar and AIS screen we could safely cross the shipping lane to Antwerp.
We crossed the Dutch boarder at 12:40 CET.

During the day the wind increased till 15 knots, but the heading wasn't favorable for us: N.E.

That meant that the target (Hellevoetssluis) could not be reached and we landed in the Roompot and stayed outside the lock.
Thefore we can have an early start tomorrow and benefit from the North going current for six hours.
Sam isn't entousiast about it, but we simply don't care.

The target for tomorrow is IJmuiden, outside Marina.