We left Bagenkop at 7am in a light SE breeze. There was a bit of swell, but not a lot. Had breakfast on the way. Visibility not that great but not too bad either and the AIS helped us to 'see' all big ships long before they were within visual reach.
Just as we spotted Kiel lighthouse from just over a mile away, a rain and thunder squall hit us with a bit of wind too, but nothing too serious and by the time we reached the lock at Holtenau it was dry. The big thing was that we could go straight into the lock. There have been horror stories about 3 to 4 hour waits, but we have been extremely lucky with the Kiel canal locks so far this year. Our waiting times have been zero, 15 minutes and zero. There is one more to come though, in Brunsbüttel on Tuesday morning.....
We got to Rendsburg 8 hours after leaving Bagenkop. It's 50 miles, so good going! We put 400l diesel into Onbekommerd's tanks and treated ourselves to dinner ashore.
Sleep will come easily tonight!
I am just going to try two pictures tonight, one of 'the dinghy' (anyone suggest a name please?)
And one taken on the canal this afternoon which shows quite nicely how close you are to the 'big ones':
On to Brunsbüttel tomorrow. Then we'll have to start taking tides into consideration again and that points to an early-ish start on Tuesday morning to lock into the Elbe and catch the outgoing tide to Otterndorf.
Location:Am Eiland,Rendsburg,Germany
Would "Blow Job" do?
ReplyDeleteHey, there are under 18's here (I think)!
DeleteBut thanks for the suggestion anyway ;-)
Mijn suggestie voor de naam is "Blaas Werk". Daar kan niemand zich aan storen.
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