Øer Maritime

Description

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

Accessing the port is only recommended during the day, although the wind farm on the ferry pier to the north is a good landmark. It is accessed via a concrete dredged channel directly south of the ferry dock with a target depth of 3.5 m. Set nets are located close to the channel in the shallow water area. The permitted speed in the dredged channel and in the harbor area is 3 knots. The harbor 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 are quite sheltered even in strong onshore winds.

Lock times (as required): The lock opens in the low season (01.04.-15.06. and 01.09.-01.11.) Monday to Thursday 8.00-11.00am and 4.00-6.00pm, 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 port office can be reached via VHF channels 12 and 16. If the port cannot be approached, the signal mast at the lock displays a black ball during the day and three red lights at night. Anchoring is prohibited in the harbor area.

Berths

The facility offers guests a wide range of mooring options in boxes at water depths of 1.5 - 3.5 m. The prices are, for example, 150Kr for a 12m yacht (as of 2025). The ferry port north of Oer is closed to pleasure craft.

Surroundings

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

NV Land Guide

The Øer vacation village was created on seven small artificial islands in a disused gravel pit south of Ebeltoft. A "harbor cab" runs between the island community. Mediterranean facilities are likely to have been the inspiration for the planning, although this applies more to the size of the vacation village than the design. The simple Nordic architecture in timber construction certainly has its charm, but unfortunately the planners apparently ran out of money for the green areas.

Critics also refer to Øer as the little man's Port Grimeaud (a sophisticated resort built into the water near St. Tropez). Nevertheless, the sailors have apparently found it too outlandish. Most make do with the northern "fairytale town" of Ebeltoft and avoid the vacation village of Øer. But if the previously dizzying harbor fees come down, Øer is definitely 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 journey to Ebeltoft first.

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

The circular route with the stations Hassenør, Elsegårde and Oerne is recommended as an excursion. Hassenør is the southeastern tip of the Djursland peninsula. From here you can see the small island of Hjelm, which unfortunately has no harbor. It was once the headquarters of Marsk Stig Andersen, an outlawed regicide and dangerous rival to the crown. Together with Jutland noblemen, 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 band of thieves and ostracized as a "peaceless man". Nevertheless, he remained a dangerous adversary of the royal house because he managed to build 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 of natural causes. The king thanked the people of Ebeltoft for their support in the fight against the "peaceless" by granting them town privileges in 1301. Since those days, the population of Hjelm has declined sharply. Only seven people are said to still live on the 1.5-kilometre-long and one-kilometre-wide island.

Along the east coast and the "Hjelm Dyb", the tarred path, which turns into a narrow road, leads from Hassenør past a vacation home area to the settlement of Elsegårde (three kilometers). From here, a two-kilometer long, winding 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

Fuel

Diesel

Petrol

Grocery

Ramp

Public Transport

Bikerental

Garbage

Sewage