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26th to Hadsund

  • Writer: jockhamilton01
    jockhamilton01
  • Jun 27
  • 4 min read

We had a relatively leisurely start leaving just before 0900 and heading out into the channel on a fine day with light Southerly breeze from the South. We hoisted full sail and sailed outbound along the channel until we reckoned it was deep enough to depart from it, the museum at Hals had pictures of wrecks on the Hal bar, a bit like the goodwin sands, they extend out a few miles and have caught many an unlucky sailor out in the past. We were in no particular hurry and as we couldn’t head to our destination  because it was into wind we sailed initially on the starboard tack, close hauled with about 10 knots of breeze pushing us along in bright sunshine and calm seas. Lovely. Debating when to tack we tacked early and were then most fortunate with the breeze backing to the SSE allowing us to head for our waypoint in the channel for the Mariager fjord. This is described as a beautiful fjord. The channel is narrow and extends out a few miles from the entrance. We arrived at the waypoint just after some delicious chicken and sweetcorn soup that Katharine knocked up for lunch. In the channel the wind was now a bit free and we picked our way along it to the entrance  and on into the inlet. There was a colony of seals snoozing in the shallow water just before we entered the Fjord. Once inside we picked our way from buoy to buoy but found it remarkably well marked with leading lines on all of the different lines. It is wide and meandering with the channel fairly narrow as it wends itself towards a bridge at Hadsund before continuing on to Mariager and ultimately Hobro at the head which is accessed by ferry from Mariager.  There were plenty of swans swanning around and Katharine at one point said, jokingly, please pass the binoculars it looks like a herd of horses up there, thinking it was likely to be bushes or a wreck but no, it was a herd of horses which we both spotted at about the same time through binoculars or a monocular in my case and burst out laughing. As we approached the bridge at Hadsund we saw boats berthed in a little harbour at the river’s edge. As we needed to leave in the morning and the further in we went the further out we’d have to travel I thought, I wonder if we would fit and be welcome in there. A couple of boats were astern of us heading for the bridge and as I decided to investigate, we dropped the sails  and the November flag for the bridge and quickly put some fenders out on the Starboard side. It looked like there was an outside berth which would take us if there was enough water. There was a slight stream so I approached gingerly and the Southerly wind was also pushing us onto the berth.  I kept a bit of an angle to the jetty in case we ran aground so I would be able to go astern to get into deeper water. The sounder slowly reduced to zero as we came alongside but we didn’t actually seem to be aground so tied up and Katharine went to ask  a chap in a motor boat if he thought it would be ok for us to stay there for the night. He said it was no problem so we tied up and tidied up. There were notices on the jetty in Danish which we didn’t understand, but looked like they were how and who to pay. Katharine has an app on her phone which can translate signs but couldn’t get her phone to work. I tried downloading google lens but they wanted me to pay 7 quid a week for it so I deleted it again. I found that from a photo of it I could copy and paste into watts apps AI assistant that translated it fine. We couldn’t work Mobile Pay as it seems one needs a local bank account but they seemed happy with cash so we left some in an envelope having filled it in. Berthing here is a lot cheaper than the UK normally about 30 quid for the night. This one was 15.

Having had a nice cup of tea we walked into town to get some bits and pieces and to look around before returning to the boat for a kedgeree dinner after some bridge with Katharine and Martin.


Katharine has been struggling to get here telphone to connect to a usable data connection so I’ve been her IT support as I’ve got mine working and have been able to offer her pairing etc. some of you may find it surprising that I can offer IT support to anyone.


I forgot to mention the flags. I’d totally failed to buy courtesy flags for over here before it was too late  but had time to get Katharine to buy some to meet me with which left me with just the Danish arrival to cope with without a flag. Flag 4 is a pennant but otherwise a Danish flag so I flew that on arrival and it turns out that lots of people fly pennants instead of Flags, although mainly from houses and museums, but in any event I had something to fly or ‘wear’ as some people like to say for arrival.

Upwind sailing as it should be.
Upwind sailing as it should be.
Seals, Port tack cooking and leading marks, we had passed them when this was taken!
Seals, Port tack cooking and leading marks, we had passed them when this was taken!

 
 
 

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