Sue & Charles Sail Ariel-: May 17th Helsingor

Helsingor is the site of Kronborg Castle, which is Shakespeare’s location for Hamlet. The yacht marina north of the castle is very crowded, poorly arranged and almost full of local boats; finding a slip in a strong wind would be a challenge. Because we had visited the town by car a couple of days before we had found a separate basin outside the Maritime Museum that had very nice floating docks that were empty except for two apparently derelict and abandoned sail boats. No information anywhere as to the status of these docks or their availability. Anyway we decided this was a much better location then the marina. On arrival at the basin entrance we found a huge sign painted on the dock wall (not visible from the land) saying for boats 50 feet and above only all other boats to go to the marina 1,000 m to the north. Ariel magically grew 9 feet and we went in and tied up. It is quite early in the season and the harbor office was actually OK with our being there and came around the next morning to collect their fee. We spent two days in Helsingor, toured the castle and the Maritme Museum which is housed in the dry dock of the now defunct ship yard.