5 boats in 2 weeks. Check the charts. Just East of K1, there is almost zero water depth covering a large area of rock. No keelboat, dinghy or motor boat can get through there. This rock is about 460 million years old (from the Ordovician period), so this situation is unlikely to change in the near future.
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