The border runs through the middle of the channel in the Flensburg fjord: the green marks are in Denmark and the red ones in Germany.
The trip across was nice, all in all about 4 hours in 12 to 15 knots of breeze. Early on a few drops of rain and later a few waves over the bow, but the going was steady enough to allow coffee to be made just after 11!
After we had tied up in the Sönderborg marina, the courtesy flag needed to be changed:
We walked the 20 minutes into town to get a Danish SIM card for the iPad. On the way we noticed again how clear the water in the Baltic is:
This is taken from the boulevard, the rocks are on the bottom, under water!
Sönderborg is not all that special, but it has a nice waterfront:
You can tie up there as well, but the road along the quayside is busy / noisy and there are awkward mooring posts sticking out. The marina is less quaint, but more comfortable. We managed to get the card for the iPad so we are in comms reach again (although there is good free wifi in the marina as well).
The weather outlook for the next few days is quite favourable. We plan to go to Augustenburg, on the island of ALS, just like Sönderborg, tomorrow. It's important to arrive early at each stop: school holidays have started in Denmark (they start at midsummer) and with more boats on the water, the harbours tend to start to fill up from midday.
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