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| Looking south Wentowsee |
Grey and overcast, rain later. Up
early. Mike lifted the mudweight and anchors (it took about 15 minutes to do
this) and I untied the bows from round the tree. We set off back down the lake
at 8.20 am. There was hardly a ripple on the surface. About 400m beyond where
we’d moored there were four chalets afloat, moored permanently to the bank, we
were surprised we’d moored so close to them. Three grebe and a cormorant were
fishing in the lake.
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| Looking north Wentowsee |
A bright yellow Bungalow Boat was anchored (they have
wind-down legs) near Ringsleben, where a row of red-sheeted log cabin rafts
were moored behind the reeds (must be day-hire for fishing, we’d seen several
over the weekend). It was very quiet as we cleared the last of the lake, but
the wind started to pick up and was chilly so we put fleeces on for the first
time in a long time. Down the narrow channel to Marienthal lock. The lady
keeper came out and filled the lock and then we dropped back down 1.9m on to
the river Havel. It was 9.55 am. Nothing coming as we turned right and ran the
short distance down to Burgwall. Two cruisers and a Free Camper were on the
restaurant moorings. The Free Camper set off as we arrived and went downriver
towards Spandau. The crew of the cruiser, moored by the first tap, told us
there was no water, it was broken.
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| Red sheeted log cabins moored at Ringsleben |
Mike said what both taps? They’d only seen
the one – which now had tape over the money slot. The other one worked OK 1€/80
litres, which is about all we needed. Mike moved the car up the street beyond
the white house again. At 10.30 am we passed the junction with the Wentow
kanal, heading upstream on the Havel again. Numerous cruisers went past and a
yacht. The latter was having trouble with weed as he stopped his outboard and
lifted it just after we’d passed him.
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| Boat houses abv Marienthal lock. Wentow kanal. |
Just after we’d passed our wild mooring
place at KP28.5 we were overtaken by a large Kuhnle hire boat. 11.45 am we
turned right on to the Trempliner Gewässer, which was just as winding as the
Havel. As we turned two boats were approaching that had just come down the next
uphill lock on the Havel, one went straight on towards Burgwall, the other
followed us and within minutes had overtaken us at speed. Minutes later we
passed a large cruiser coming the opposite way. Out into the first lake,
Grosser Kuhwallsee (7m deep in the middle), with a large hireboat behind us,
which overtook and moored in the middle of the lock waiting area below
Kannenburg lock, leaving just enough space for us behind him.
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| Hireboat below Kannenburg lock. Templiner kanal |
A Free Camper was
going up in the lock, which was sloping sided (44.5m long x 5.3m wide with a
lift of 1.4m) and manually operated by two men. Several cruisers came down then
we followed the hireboat into the lock. The keeper had to tell him to keep
going up the chamber until our stern had cleared the gates. Looped fore and aft
ropes around yellow painted poles and rose gently as the lock filled. As we
left Mike asked the keepers if Templin lock was still closed – no, it had
re-opened six years earlier and was now automatic.
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| Sloping sided chamber. Kannebnurg lock |
Great. A new waterway for
us! It was 1.00 pm as we passed the canalside café above the lock. The hireboat
soon disappeared from sight as we went into the first lake, a little round one
called Lankensee. The Free Camper was stooging around the edges, then it
decided to follow us as we went into the large lake called Roddelinsee, which
was wide and very deep, over 20m but most of it around 18 to 20m deep. The
camper overtook us before the entrance to the Templiner kanal. As we took the
tight right hand bend at the entrance there was a small cruiser coming out
who’d been about to cut the corner! We missed!
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| Moored outskirts of Templin. Templiner kanal. |
Again, although this was a canal
it was more winding than the Havel and was bordered by reeds and water lilies,
white and yellow ones. As we neared the town of Templin we decided to stop and
tie to the towpath which was edged with a double row of logs supporting bunches
of long branches laid horizontal, put there as wash prevention bank edging and
now overgrown with vegetation. It was 2.40 pm and it had started to rain. We
put the TV dish up and couldn’t get a satellite TV station to work – must be
the weather! Within ten minutes it was pouring down. Glad we decided to stop
below the lock. Looking forward to new waters tomorrow.
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