15.9° C Sunny start, cool and windy, clouding over shortly
after we set off at 8.10 a.m. Sun
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| Wittenberge on the river Elbe - Wikimedia pic by niteshift |
out again after lunch. Thunderstorm after
dinner. A cruiser had set off from one of the sandy bays between the stone
groynes just after we set off and overtook us shortly after. Several WSA
workboats were moored where they were rebuilding groynes at KP 467, they
obviously didn’t work at weekends. A fast speedboat, called Kiaora, went
upstream at KP 470. I made
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| Junction of the Elbe and Muritz-Elde-Wasserstrasse, Photo from Wikimedia by niteshift |
us a cup of soup for elevenses as it was chilly. A
small yacht went past, battling against the flow at KP 482. At Lenzen, KP 485,
there was a new mooring place in a new offline harbour just beyond their motor
ferry. A Czech tug and pan went uphill a kilometre further on and three small
speedboats, just as we were having lunch on the move. A large speedboat,
tanking up river at high velocity at KP 501, went past on the wrong side and
caused me to go and close the side doors to keep his wash from washing the
kitchen floor. Two cruisers (which had been moored in Wittenberge the night
before) overtook us just before the junction with the Müritz-Elde-Wasserstraße
(MEW) and turned right, going the same way as us! There were two upriver boats
as we arrived at the junction and one of them turned off into the MEW too. It
was 1.20 p.m. as we left the Elbe. A tjalk (you certainly don’t see many of
those here!) called Bienvenue came out of the lock and we went up Dörmitz lock
with the three cruisers plus two canoes. I asked the keeper if there was
anywhere above his lock where we could stop overnight, he said the boat haven
and I
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| Domitz lock from below. Photo from Wikimedia by Schiwago |
told him the boats were too long for their moorings so he (reluctantly, I
thought) said we could use the very end of the waiting area above his lock. We
went as far upstream as possible and Rosy moored alongside us, leaving one and
a half landing stages for the small boats to hang on above his lock. It was
2.15 p.m. Helped Mike get the moped down off the roof, the landing was higher
than the gunwales so we didn’t need a plank. He said he’d rather have gone for
a lie down than fetch the car as he was starting to get flu symptoms. Great! I
put the Mac on to do some catching up. It was on for 15 minutes and then
switched itself off for no apparent reason, so I turned it all off and went to
do some chores instead. Kids from the chalet just upstream from the boat were
swimming in the river all afternoon. Late in the afternoon it clouded over
again. Mike returned at 5.45 p.m. just as one of the boats we came up the lock
with earlier was sitting at the far end of the staging waiting to go back down
again. Had they left the gas on? We put the moped back on the roof as a gaggle
of uphill cruisers left the lock and turned off left into the boat harbour.
Mike went for a lie down while I made a chicken stir fry for dinner. We couldn’t
get satellite TV at all as there were trees in the way. Watched the weather
forecast on German terrestrial TV. Then the rain started and we had a good old
thunderstorm. The TV stations had said the same weather for Monday. Great
stuff. The space on the landings above the lock had filled up with small boats
during the evening once the lock had closed for the night.
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