North Sea Crossing
When planning a longer passage across unprotected water a careful preparation is essential. The first thing is certainly checking the weather forecast. To precook some hearty food for the time of the passage is advisable, just as preparing the appropriate warm clothes for cold nights, and everything else that needs to be at hand. To cook and to extract things from the cupboards is highly strenuous on a swaying boat. For the next day a fair, later decreasing wind from…