July 7, 2011

July 6, 2011: Ijmuiden – Den Oever.

As we are one day ahead of schedule, we decided to take the long way home:
Ijmuiden – Den Oever – Lelystad. This rote is known as the North-Holland tour. (or in Dutch: rondje Noord-Holland)
We started or day quite early in order to benefit fully from the current in the Northerly direction.
The rather strong wind was South to South-West.
We had both sails fully employed and with a nice speed we raced to Den Helder.
There we had to turn East and at the same time the wind deminished.
At the end of the bouyed channel “Het Vissersgaatje” the wind was completely gone.
We landed in the fishing harbour in Den Ever, which is not open for yachts, but we convinced the harbourmaster that we only wanted to eat some fresh fish and then leave for the marina.
We suspect the harbourmaster has family relation to the fish restaurant, because not only did he happely agree that we would raft up to the “Wieringen 142”, a local fisherboat, but he also recommended a restaurant...

Anyway, the fish was excellent and after dinner we went to the most boring marina in the Netherlands: Den Oever.
A very nice sailing day ended with 46,5 mile on the log.

We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.