May 22nd Thyboron

We left Fur at 1100 hours intending to bypass Thyboron at about 1700 which would have put us into Kristiansand at about 0800 the following morning.  At 1700 we exited to Thyboron channel into the North Sea.  About ten minutes out Channel 16 came on with a security gale warning for Fisher which is the body of water we were traversing.  The broadcast required you switch to channels 1,2,7 or 63 for the full report.  I tried all of them, no broadcast.  It turns out US VHF radios have different secondary frequencies so our radio has channel 63 A but not 63.  Anyway we returned to Thyboron and tied up at the Marina wall and got the long rnge forecast from the internet (we were working on a two day old forecast because internet had been unavailable in either Aalborg or Fur.  The gale forecast was really for 36 hours into the future and mainly concentrated West of our intended track.  So rather than be trapped in Thyboron (a most unattractive, dirty and smelly place) for at least another four days we decided to proceed.  Although the wind stayed consistently out of the NNE (the direction we were going) it never exceeded 15 knots and we had an uneventful passage arriving kristiansand at 1000 hours on Monday the 23^rd.

From this quick dock tie up we got internet to confirm the "gale" was not near to us so we carried on.