Söby-Ballen-Nyborg-Rönne

28.6. Rendsburg-Söby, Denmark. Again a rainy day. First we motored to Kiel and after getting out of the lock we saw hundreds of boats. There were many older big replica boat and hundreds of smaller sailing vessels attending in regattas. After getting out of the hassle we hoisted the genoa and with the strong southerly wind sailed to Söby in Denmark. It didn’t rain all day, just occasionally. The weather really sucks.

29.6. Söby-Ballen. Another rainy morning. We bought some food and took a short trip to Ballen which was a very small harbor. In the afternoon the sky cleared and we took a long walk around the countryside. I even had a change to feed some horses.

30.6. Ballen-Nyborg.  We had a strong westerly wind to sail north to Nyborg. We sailed close to the eastern coast of Fyn and I got a good change to race with the sails as the wind was between 9-15 m/s. Our boat proved its’ strength with the variable wind as we left a similar size ordinary sailing boat far behind. In Nyborg we took a spot right in the middle of the town with a bunch of Germans, again.

1-2.7. Nyborg-Rönne, Bornholm. We left Nyborg for a 70 nm leg but as the first harbor was silted so that  we didn’t get through the mud to the harbor and the next was full we sailed overnight to Bornholm. The wind was very good until we left the mainland for Bornholm but after a while the wind stopped for the night and we were able to set sails again early in the morning. We arrived at Rönne in the afternoon after 27 hours. We both managed to sleep well during the night. The marina was quite full but we found a spot between two German boats. There was even one Finnish boat there and two more arrived later. After a short afternoon shower the evening was sunny and we had delicious pizzas for supper in town.