05.21.09
Day 3, 18-05-2009 (written on 20-05-2009)
All the below times are in UTC+1
All miles are seamiles
A knot is about 1853 Meters/Hour
Today I woke up at about 9 AM. Quite late considering we planned to leave early every day. My uncle and dad had already done some groceries and woke me up for breakfast. After breakfast we went to plan the route for today. We started off with wanting to sail to Faaborg, but that was around 43 miles away which was even more then the first day and this time we’d have to push up against the tide AND the wind. After some discussing we decided to go to Berjning, more to the north and we left at 10 AM. All the way to Berjning it was along with the tide and a decent wind force 4. We had some beautiful weather all day long, and I think I even burnt myself in the sun (The sun and water are very treacherous together).
We arrived around 5 PM in Berjning where we had a blast docking the boat. The dock was so that there was a round wooden place for all the guest boats to dock. Fortunately, it was Monday and there were almost no people sailing which meant we had all of the space for ourselves. We did get the boat in it’s spot after about 15 minutes of pushing, pulling, putting more lines to poles. I am quite satisfied.
I got to do a lot of fun stuff today, I actually steered the boat for a while which was rather cool! But I must say… It is SO much harder then steering in an automobile! A boat constantly fluctuates on the water and there is no "Straight Ahead". You have to make the "Straight Ahead"! I have learned even more things regarding sailing and I’m liking it more and more.
When we arrived at Berjning my uncle took care of the business with the dock master while my dad and me took care of the last few thing on the boat. We already decided we wanted to go into Berjning and see if there was anything cool to see. There was only one problem. The town was at about a kilometer distance from the docks so we had to bike there. Now, this wouldn’t be such a big deal if Denmark would be flat (like The Netherlands). But in fact, it had some steep hills that we had to climb. This also would have been not much of a big deal if we had some proper bikes, but if you take a look at the pictures (Included at the bottom of the post) then you’ll realize that we only had some very old bikes that nearly collapsed! All of that didn’t make it any less fun going DOWN those hills with blazing speeds!
We ate at a restaurant at the docks again and we think that so far we’ve been finding the best restaurants in the towns we’ve visited. So far I am enjoying every single bit of my holiday.
Regards,
Olrik
Billy said,
May 21, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Sounds like actually docking was a real PITA. Mom has a crappy tiny boat she shouldn’t have bought .. but even with a real dock it can be a PITA to dock. Docking to a pole would make my head spin — especially if it was windy.
Other big thing about steering a boat is that the wheel doesn’t “reset to center” by itself like it does in a car.
How much did you have to carry on the bikes? Just yourself?
Billy3
Olrik said,
May 23, 2009 at 4:03 pm
@Billy
Docking -can- be a PITA. Depends how the harbor has things organized. And steering a boat isn’t has hard as steering a car. You have a lot less traffic to take into account. You just know that if you see a big tanker coming at you to steer a different way
((Obviously there are some rules, but those were all handled by the 2 big guys on board 
))
And yea.. the only thing we had to ‘carry’ on the bikes was ourselves and a few groceries. Hill up was awful but hill down was great fun!
Regards,
Olrik