The two routes

As mentioned before, we have two quite different approaches for going from Copenhagen to La Corona in northern Spain.  For planning without any commercial mapping programs, I´ve got the good idea from my sailing friend Ole Petter, using the Google Earth applicatioan with the ruler making path markings along the route for counting up the nautical miles. I´ve played with this method to accumulate the length for each of the routes:


The original plan through the Kieler kanal and then follow the English Channel, is the shortest obviously with a little more than 1200 nm.

nm     To - From
133    Ishøj - Kiel
  14    Kiel - Flemhuder See / Holm
  46    Flemhuder See - Brunsbuttel
  51    Brünsbuttel - Spiekerroog
233    Spikeroog - Belgia
190    Beliga - Isle of Wight
201    Isle of Wight - ile d´ Oessant
340    ile d´ Oessant - La Corona
1208    SUM

The other route is some 340 nm longer, but might look a little more interresting with sailing all of Loch Ness, among several other scottish lakes.  Then all the nice small british islands including Isle of Man:

nm     To - From
164    Ishøj - Skagen
477    Skagen - Inverness
  15    Inverness - Loch Ness
  20    Loch Ness
  10    Loch Ness - Loch Lochy
    8    Loch Lochy
    7    Loch Lochy - Ben Nevis
    9    Loch Linne
  20    Loch Linne - Oban
110    Oban - PortPatrick
  48    PortPatrick - Isle of Man
  78    Isle of Man - Bardsey Island
  59    Bardsey Island - Ramsey
110    Ramsey - Sennen Cove
415    Sennen Cove - La Coruna
1550    SUM