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| A cruiser heading downriver at speed |
Hot and sunny. Lian, now loaded
with sand again, went past us heading downriver again before we left. I
downloaded yesterday’s photos before we set off at 10.15 am. I made a cuppa and then set to work to catch up with the photos and
the log. Mike did time trials to check our speed. Two commercials went upriver passing two commercials coming
downriver, all four were “Blue boarding”, ie wanting to take the “wrong” side
of the river to pass on and they did this on a section of Z bends. We kept over
on the right giving them plenty of room to pass each other. Mike called Minden
on VHF and they said to follow the two empties in (Albatros and Rolf) that were
already below Landesbergen lock. We tied to the pontoon and Snail came alongside. A few
minutes later a three-decked cruiser came down and we followed the two
commercials into the chamber. Not a lot of space left behind them, so we did
fore and aft ropes up the wall. Gongoozlers on bikes were taking pictures from
the road over the tail end of the lock. It was 3.55 pm when we moored on the
pontoon above Landesbergen lock. Anne spoke to Minden via the intercom to ask
permission to stay overnight and the guy said yes, OK. Berlemar-S from Brake,
loaded with sand went past heading into the lock. The deck hand spoke English
and said they were off down to Bremen again! (Mike said they’d overtaken us
earlier in the day, so their sand loading quay wasn’t much further above
Landesbergen, probably at Stolzenau)
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