Another short hop today of just 19 miles from Aeroskobing to Bagenkop, a fishing port, in our odyssey through Danish islands.
It was yet another windless day of motoring although we did raise the main sail just in case. And later on Nic decided to try using our horribly heavy spinnaker pole which lives its life vertically attached to the mast. It was a tricky job to get it attached to the foresail (the idea is to stretch the foresail right out to get more wind in it) but he did it! (See pic)
However the sail still drooped forlornly, as there simply was no wind. The glassy Baltic was like a vision from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Earlier in the journey we spent a lot of time carefully negotiating narrow channels marked by buoys. What we had always assumed would be a straight line journey from A to B turned out to go over nasty shallows. We discovered that last night, when passage planning, and noted the narrow buoyed channels that took us safely where we needed to be. It meant we sailed into Marstal harbour (where we had gone by bus yesterday) and out again! (See pic of Marstal with blue tanker on right)
Bagenkop turned out to be a pleasant enough harbour though with a fishing section which smelled very ripe indeed. We climbed a small tower to take a picture of Sirena IV in her alongside berth. This is effectively the last day of the sailing holiday before we return to Germany and the complex bedding-down process, so we treated ourselves to ice cream to celebrate.
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