Tale of Crossing the North Sea - Shetland to Norway

7:58 PM Mon 4 Oct 2010 GMT

'They missed the Flugga tide' . Click Here to view large photo

Sailors who regularly cross the North Sea are a hardy crowd, as the North Sea is famed for its freezing winds and rough seas. Marsali Taylor experienced her first North Sea yacht crossing this year. Here, she describes what turned out to be a difficult and eventful journey: Sailing across to Norway is something Shetland yachts do almost as regularly as south coast ones go to France, and I was keen to do a real open sea voyage. I crew regularly on Joe Irvine's Cynara, from Brae, so when Joe said 'How about ...

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by Marsali Taylor, Shetland News/Sail-World