Cruising Plans

Netherlands, Ijsselmeer, cruising the Wadden Sea and Dutch Islands, and NE to Norderney, maybe up to German Islands - Heligoland, Borkum - basically Riddle of the Sands hopefully without the grounding on sand bits. Maybe attend the IP rally in Netherlands. If weather permits may head down coast to Zeebrugge, Boulogne then back up to NL for winter. First though we have to get the mast up after a winter in a Dutch barn...

Great to hear, that there is another Island Packet around northern Europe. We sail an IP 27 (Carpe Diem) on the Baltic Sea, located in Rostock (www.yhd.de).

Maybe you´ll get a bit further into the Baltic Sea and drop by. The islands of Denmark and the german island Rügen is also really nice.

Check out our Blog: www.sailingcarpediem.blogspot.com

Have a nice trip!

Sebastian

Norway.
We are planning to sail the entire coast of Norway and then set off to the northernmost part and sail further to Svalbard.
Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic (independent in a way, but under Norwegian jurisdiction). The North part of which is around 80 degrees North, only about 600 nM from the Northpole. But that's as close as you can get if you're not an icebreaker
The Norwegian coast is gorgeous. Think Maine and Alaska rolled into one. Beautiful coastline, deep fjords (both depth and length), high mountains, glaciers.

We have Touche overwintering just South of Bergen and will start from there may 1. Can't wait.
BR Judith and Haakon, SY Touche IP380 # 147

Mini facts:
Geographic location
Located in Northern Europe with borders to Sweden, Finland and Russia.

Area
The Kingdom of Norway: 385 155 km2
Mainland: 323 758 km2 (7.6 per cent protected)
Svalbard and Jan Mayen: 61 397 km2 (57.1 per cent protected)

Length of coastline: 25 148 km, including fjords

Highest mountain: Galdhøpiggen, 2 469 m

Population: 4 888 000 inhabitants (as of 1 July 2010)

25 reasons Norway is the greatest place on earth :
www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/norway...earth_n_4550413.html

As you can see below, we are also located in europe

Above, I guess. Just wanted it to be answer to CarpeDiem - but now I can't delete it