Øer Maritime

Description

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The approach to the harbour is only recommended during the day, whereby the wind farm on the ferry pier just to the north is a good landmark. It is via a buoyed dredging channel immediately south of the ferry pier with a target depth of 3.5m. Set nets are located close to the channel in the shallow water area. The permitted speed in the dredging channel and in the harbour area is 3 knots. The harbour area itself is reached via a lock (width = 6.0 m, length = 30 m). There are waiting berths in front of the lock, where you can lie quite sheltered even in strong onshore winds.

Lock hours (as required): the lock opens in the low season (01.04.-15.06. as well as 01.09.-01.11.) every Monday to Thursday 8.00-11.00am and 16.00-18.00pm, also Friday-Sunday 8.00-20.00pm. During the high season (16.06. -31.08.) daily from 07.00 to 22.00.

The lock and the harbour office can be reached via VHF channel 12 and 16.

If the harbour cannot be approached, the signal mast at the lock shows a black ball during the day and three red lights at night. Anchoring is prohibited in the harbour area.

Berths

The facility offers guests a great many berthing possibilities in boxes on water depths of 1.5 - 3.5 m. The ferry port north of Oer is closed to recreational boating.

Surroundings

The large holiday complex offers the usual marina service as well as many leisure activities and good supply possibilities. Further shopping facilities can be found in Ebeltoft, 4 km away, which is easy to reach by bus or taxi.

NV Land Guide

On seven small artificial islands, the Øer holiday village has been created in a disused gravel pit south of Ebeltoft. A "harbour taxi" runs between the island community. Mediterranean facilities may have been the inspiration for the design, but this applies more to the size of the holiday village than to the layout. The simple Nordic architecture in wooden construction has its charm, but unfortunately the planners apparently ran out of money for the green spaces.

Critics call Øer also as Port Grimeaud (mondäne in the water built facility near St. Tropez) of the little man. But sailors have apparently found it too out of the way. Most of them make do with the northern "fairytale town" Ebeltoft and avoid the holiday village Øer. But if the so far dizzying harbour fees come down, Øer is well worth a stop. This is especially true for those who are passing through between Samsø and Skagen and don't want to make the long trip to Ebeltoft first.

The resort, which can be reached via a lock south of the eye-catching wind farm and ferry pier, not only has the advantage over Ebeltoft of being closer to the "main line", but also the plus point of shorter distances to all sorts of facilities. Fashion shops, a gallery, a grocery store, a restaurant and two cafés with wooden terraces directly at the large harbour basin are just as much a part of the offer as an indoor swimming pool and a sauna. A play island for the children, tennis courts, a sports hall, five badminton courts, table tennis tables as well as a volleyball court make it clear that active leisure is a priority here. Horses and bicycles can be rented, and children can sail free of charge on pedal boats on the canals between the houses.

The circular route with the stops at Hassenør, Elsegårde and Oerne is recommended as an excursion. Hassenør is the name of the south-eastern headland of the Djursland peninsula. From here you can see the small island of Hjelm, which unfortunately has no harbour. It was once the headquarters of Marsk Stig Andersen, an outlawed regicide and dangerous rival of the crown. Together with Jutland nobles, he murdered the Danish King Erik in 1286, when he sought shelter from a storm in a barn near Viborg. Marsk Stig was accused of being the leader of the counter-gang and was outlawed as a "peaceless man". Nevertheless, he remained a dangerous adversary of the royal house, because he succeeded in building an impregnable fortress on Hjelm and from there repeatedly set out to plunder the mainland. The royal troops of King Menved, the son of the murdered man, succeeded in capturing and destroying the castle on Hjelm only after the outlaw had died a natural death. The king thanked the people of Ebeltof for their support in the fight against the "Peaceless" by granting them town rights in 1301. Since those days, the population of Hjelm has greatly decreased. Only seven people are said to still live on the 1.5-kilometre-long and one-kilometre-wide islet.

Long the east coast and "Hjelm Dyb", the tar road that turns into a narrow road leads from Hassenør past a cottage area to the settlement of Elsegårde (three kilometres). From here, a winding two-kilometre road branches off to the southwest towards Oerne and Øer, with the Elsegårde forest on the left.

Marina Information

Contact

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Crane

Atm

Diesel

Petrol

Grocery

Ramp

Public Transport

Bikerental

Garbage