We took advantage of the beautiful, sunny Thursday for a final exploration tour of Ramsgate towards the south - this time on foot. Right on the harbor we came across the sailor's Church. Here sailors are invited to certain times of day, even for a cup of coffee. Since we had already had breakfast but, remained this offer unused and we followed the scenic cliff. Our aim was, according to the prospectus of the faithful replica of a Viking ship, but we did not found. Was probably a very small boat :-). Also, where it was marked on our map, we can find no evidence for large-scale search operations and we lacked today the time. About six clock in the evening we wanted to use the good weather and set off in the direction of Oostende.

So we were against 2 Clock back to the Summer. I treated myself to after a delicious lunch or an hour sleep, while Dietmar again brought to his favorite activity: In chandlery (more or less) shopping meaningful things for our boat. And they always say, only women love shopping. Since I can not really confirm. You have to select only the transactions according to. 
A few more emails from the island, a few pictures posted on Facebook, then everything was stowed in the boot tidy for the next sailing route. In perfect weather we walked at low tide from. In the harbor entrance, but could not we almost have the heart: The depth gauge only shows 1,8 Feet of water at. These are actually 20 Centimeters too little in our draft of 1.95 m .... slowly and carefully we pushed us further about the reason and came to minutes, which seemed like eternity, back to deeper water. That was close, but yes again went well.
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But this should be the greatest excitement for the whole sailing route. On the glassy North Sea we sailed with a maximum 10 Knoten Wind. The biggest challenge was to be the crossing of the large and busy traffic separation scheme between England and the Continent.
Traffic separation schemes are set up for the commercial shipping that works like highways. There is a separate area for each direction. From sailors the traffic separation schemes may only be at an angle of 90 ° ± 10 be crossed and commercial shipping has always priority.
While we sailors in the normal case with 5-7 Knots are on the road, can the professionals at speeds up 30 Impress node. It's a bit like, as one would with the Bobby-Car cross the highway. So there it is called "eyes on" and always beautiful the AIS (Automatic Identification System) watch, that gives us information about the speed and course of all vessels.

For safety reasons, we decide to make this portion of our trip under engine. Thus, we remain flexible and are also faster.

I have the exciting part of this crossing but sleepy. When I woke Dietmar four clock in the morning, We had just reached the other side. Together we sat still and took the sails parallel to the coast heading for Oostende.