This is the entrance to Travemünde. The larger version of the picture (click on it) shows the whole harbor but does not have too good resolution since this site restricts how large of a file can be uploaded. The aerial picture comes from www.stadtplandienst.de, is © GeoContent GmbH and is here only for private use. You can see it better at thier website.
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I don't have many pictures taken in the cabin, but here is one of the clock, barometer, and thermometer/hygrometer. And yes that's my clothesline.
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Hanging above the port light (sailor talk for window, although on this boat they are so big it's hard not to call them windows) is my umbrella and the wooden overhead (more sailor talk - for ceiling).
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So, back to the outside. These buildings at the marina look like aircraft hangers. I was told that they were built in England during WWII to build fighter airplanes and brought here after the war by the occupying British forces. I never checked if that's true, but it is an interesting story.
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This is the dry-dock/boat-lift at the Marina Baltica by Travemünde. This isn't the largest boat it can lift - works with a large steel tank that is filled with water to lower and with air to bring it back up.
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Another old boat that docks at Marina Baltica.
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This is my last day in Travemünde; docked at the Lübeck Yacht Club docks.
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The harbor control tower is near the entrance of the River Trave. Since the last war this has been an important Baltic Sea port with numerous large ferries sailing to all over Scandinavia every day. Seaspray is docked somewhere in that little group of masts right in the middle of the picture.
You can see the tower from the other side too, in the picture to the left.
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This is that hotel that was just a bump on the horizon in that picture on the "Sailing 1" page.
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The beach at Travemünde has to be the most typical of West German Baltic-coast beaches.
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… and on the other side. In the distance is a beautiful, long and natural stretch of beach that until the re-unification of Germany was strictly prohibited. The East German (GDR) government did not want anyone swimming across to the west.
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"Passat" is a German four-masted steel barque and now a museum ship docked at Priwall, a little piece of West Germany stuck on the east side of the river and the farthest east part of the West German Baltic coast. Before re-unification the residents had to take a ferry to go anywhere, just like living on an island.
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I seem to have taken no pictures of my sail from Travemünde to Timmendorf on the Island Poel. It was much like the first leg of my trip - sunny, very warm, light changeable winds. This is the harbor at Timmendorf, the first of two evenings.
The next picture, to the right is the breakwater the next day.
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Beyond is another beautiful beach. The shore slopes away so gradually that you can walk out a long way before it gets even to your waist. Later in the evening, I didn't take one of those breathtaking pictures that you don't often get the chance for. It was a midsummer twilight scene just about here. Picture the colors like the picture on the left. The water was so still that the parts of the bodies of people above the water seemed to be floating in space. There was a woman with her two children playing while the father stood waiting (impatiently?) on shore. Also, an older man who had left his crutches on shore was walking with great effort through the shallow water to get to where he could let his weight sink into the sea where it would carry his weight. Technically it would have been hard to capture - if at all. The memory is so clear in my mind that I wish I were a painter instead of photographer.
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But back to what I did do. The next morning the weather forecast wasn't good and I was still unsure about setting the larger foresail. Even though it isn't far, I went under power all the way to the west harbor.
That's the new dry dock built to help revive the shipbuilding industry in northeastern Germany.
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This Danish sailboat left Timmendorf long before I did. Under motor I was a little embraced to catch up.
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This is "The Old Harbor", very picturesque, but full of fishing boats and sightseers.
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I chose to dock in the West Harbor. It's on the edge of what was an industrial area (actually on land that was used for lumber storage and loading) and not far from that new dry-dock and shipbuilding wharf.
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Last updated -- 19 March 2007
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