We arrived late at Cuxhaven and left early the next morning. The conditions for sailing to Helgoland was good.
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We had a close reach all the way. Full main to start with but as the wind increased we reefed the main and ended up with a bottom reefed main and full jib. Good speed, we had the current with us most of the way.
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The marina was packed with boats as we arrived at the weekend so that meant rafting, we were six boats at the same spot, Mist as number four.
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Duty free shopping and lots of tourist, at least between one and five a´clock when the ferries arrive and depart.
Sunday morning boats began to leave and after moving Mist around a couple of times we found a spot of our own. We took a walk around the island and had a look at the gannets, you got really close to the birds.
![](https://media.sy-mist.se/2021/09/Helgoland-cliffs-1024x730.jpeg)
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![](https://media.sy-mist.se/2021/09/Nortern-beach-1024x683.jpeg)
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![](https://media.sy-mist.se/2021/09/Gannet-1-1024x682.jpeg)
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Sailed distance 36,4 nautical miles.