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| Off our list! Mooring at Bergfriede |
Very hot and sunny, but with a
lovely breeze in our faces all day. The passing traffic started the boats
banging against the wooden edging of the passerelle that we were tied to at 7
am. Fenders went underneath it from the drag as the big stuff went by. This
mooring is definitely off our preferred list. Set off at ten following the
Snail. They were going to see if they could find somewhere to get water and
refill their tank. One of the cruisers that we locked with the day
before overtook us at KP277.
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| Diamante II about to overtake us. |
A commercial was catching up but in the far
distance yet and a cruiser passed us coming in the opposite direction which was
followed by a Berliner tug pushing three loaded 32.5m long pans. He was
followed by a Polish tug, Fabico-1 pushing a loaded pan of sand and gravel. The
loaded commercial behind us, Diamant II (80m 1,199 tonnes) from Bleckede,
slowed down while the Polish tug went past then overtook us nice and slowly at
KP279 just before bridge 457. I made some potato salad for dinner and some
sandwiches for lunch. Two more loaded boats went past, King Loui a big modern
boat and a Czech registered old East German boat. The canal skirted the town of
Calvörde.
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| Tucked in the corner at Bulstringen |
There was a huge long section of piled quay with a solitary
commercial moored on it and 50m at the end reserved for private boats. The next
boat to overtake us was an empty Dutchman called Zwarte Zee from Teil. He went
past at KP287 as we passed a brand new boat club mooring (Calvörde Motorboot
Club) with pontoon finger moorings in an offline basin. There were two boats in
there, a small Dutch-style cruiser and a small covered speedboat. Two pans full
of scrap metal went past, pushed by Polish tug Deni from Wroclaw. At KP289.5 an
80m Dutch boat called Dianita, went by loaded with sand. At 2 pm we moored at
Bülstringen in front of the Snail and just beyond a water tap in a box.
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