Baltic Sea: Denmark's opening - a solution to the problems

Following our reports on YACHT online about the various Problems that have already arisen in connection with the entry into Denmark permitted from 15 June harbour operators are now coming forward with good-sounding news:

"We have the solution," says Bent Larsen from the marina Dyvig Bro. Together with Marina Minde, Marina Nyhavn2 in Middelfart, Ballen on Samsø, Kertemidne, Svendborg Byhavn, Ærøskøbing, Marstal, Lyø, Mommark, Høruphav, Spodsbjerg and Bagenkop, he has developed a form on which the aforementioned harbours assure a yacht crew that they will confirm a berth during a period that can be entered on the paper.

"We are not confirming the reservation of a specific berth, but we are confirming that the yacht is allowed to moor in all our harbours for overnight stays," says Larsen, who has coordinated the procedure with the police. "I have been informed that the new entry regulations from 15 June will make no distinction between traffic on land and at sea," says Larsen.

The police had informed him that the only requirement for entry from Germany, Norway or Iceland was that six planned overnight stays in Denmark could be documented - whether in a summer house, on a campsite or in a marina. According to this information, which explicitly refers to marinas (which has now also been published on the official website of the border police It is also no problem to spread these overnight stays over several harbours - provided that this plan can be documented upon entry.

Serve this the document which can be downloaded from the Dyvig Bro website, for example. According to Larsen, this means that incoming yacht crews are sufficiently legitimised and can move freely between the 13 harbours during the self-imposed period without any further formalities.

"Anyone wishing to visit other harbours during this time can obtain further berth confirmations independently en route," says Larsen. This satisfies the requirements of the border police and, in his view, nothing stands in the way of a holiday cruise to Denmark from 15 June.