30th June to Sjaelland

I was up at about 0700 and had breakfast and a shower at the museum which was lovely and hot, the previous one I’d had was only luke warm, probably I’d followed several others at the time. I was intending to go to Sjaelland - the Island where Copenhagen lives. There’s a fjord, Isefjord,  in the North coast which I’d like to explore. Once I’d cleared up I looked at getting away. There was a 15 knot wind blowing me straight onto the berth and there were expensive yachts ahead and astern of me. I’d thought that putting a spring out aft  with appropriate fenders and going astern on it would work well enough. When I tried this our bow came out only about 20 degrees.  My bow was clear, just, of the Najad 44 ahead of me but my suspicion was that by the time I’d stopped the engine, gone aft, let go of the spring and got back to the wheel it would have blown back in again. I went to the Rema 1000 supermarked to top up on cheese and to buy a couple of spare wires for my new cheese slicer. Whilst walking I reckoned that I needed to go ahead on a bow spring to get my stern right out and then let go, this would mean fendering the bow well, possibly bringing the anchor in so the bow could rest on the quay and quick foot work once we’d arrived at the appropriate angle to let the spring go. I was wondering about using a light line which I could go astern on  enthusiastically and hoping it would break but didn’t really think that this was a good plan in case either it didn’t break, or it broke whilst going ahead on it and leaving a broken line lying around in Denmark went a bit against the grain too. In any event by the time I returned from the supermarket the boat astern of me was preparing to leave so it was all unnecessary and once she’d gone I slipped aft a bit then had plenty of room to do the astern on a back spring move. Once clear I set the genoa and sailed on a broad reach then run out of the Bay and then to the East towards Sjaelland. The wind backed to the SW from the NW and I put up the main for a bit, we made it about half way before the wind died and I started the engine motoring for about 4 hours to Isefjord which has a narrow entrance but then opens out into a broad expanse of water with a couple of islands and various towns. I think I might plan to go to the South of Roskilde fjord next week as it looks fun and is close to Copenhagen  where Simon and family arrive. There’s a viking museum………….

Arriving past Hundested, where I could possibly have berthed, I pressed on down the channel and ended up anchoring off Lynaes where the sailing club were having races which provided amusement whilst I had a sundowner and fishcake.