#2 Great Belt 2015
My second sailing trip took us through the Great Belt again. We were particularly taken with Denmark.
We started again with the Veronica, an Oceanis 430, from Nyborg.
Only seaworthy boats should sail through the Great Belt. This does not apply to its peaceful part, the Lundeborg Belt, which is similar to the Danish Archipelago in many ways and just as protected. Weaker boats should therefore sail to Nyborg and then turn back.
For larger yachts, the Great Belt is the classic, fastest and most direct passage to the north: whether you want to go to Samso or the Kattegat or even eastwards along Zealand's north coast - you will choose the short route through the Great Belt.
There are certainly small, quiet ports besides the ones you usually visit, such as Nyborg, Kerteminde , Korser or Spodsbjerg. The others, Musholm, Mullerup, Reerso, Agerse and Omg, are well worth a longer stay than just one night.
The highlight is of course the Belt Bridge.
The gigantic structure has a total length of 18 km. In the middle, the bridge rests on the islet of Sprogo. The western bridge crosses the Vesterrenden. It is solid, rests on 63 pillars and is 6.6 km long; it is a combined road and rail bridge. The eastern bridge crosses the Osterrenden; it is 6.8 km long and is only for road traffic. The railway disappears into a tunnel on Sprogo and only reappears after 8 km at Halskov.
Work on this impressive structure began on June 23, 1988 and was completed - almost exactly ten years later - on June 14, 1998. It cost around 22 billion Danish kroner at the time. Now that the bridge over the Öresund - between Malmö and Copenhagen - is finished, it is now possible to cross Denmark to Sweden "with dry feet".
In total we covered 201 nautical miles from August 29th to September 4th.
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