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France La Manche / English Channel Netherlands North Sea

Playing hide and seek with the big boys (NL to FR)

This week, we covered 300 nautical miles along the coats of the Netherlands, Belgium and France to reach Cherbourg. During this journey, we kept a constant look out for big ships as we crossed the entrances leading to major european ports. Because their speed is 2 to 4 times faster then ours, these cargo carriers […]

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Sporty crossing of the North Sea

It was time for us to leave the Scotland and to cross the North Sea to Norway. The passage from Inverness to Stavanger is 345 nautical miles. There are alternative routes, where you do a first leg along the East coast of Scotland to place your starting point closer to Norway. However, since we had […]