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| Wernsdorf locks Wikimedia photo by hans g oberlack |
4.3°
C Sunny with a cold east wind. Mike was up first at 7 a.m. Bill wanted some
shopping before we set off, so Mike took him in the car to Extra and I got on
with some chores. It was on the news that Superman, actor Christopher Reeves,
had sadly died at the age of 52. We set off at 8.50 a.m. Rosy following after a
Berliner tug had passed. There was no one around at Werndorf lock when we
arrived. Mike had called three times on VHF and had no reply, but the lock
emptied and we went up. As we left a 60m empty called Cor-Mar arrived to go
down. At eleven I made us a cup of soup. The Refleks decided to smoke a lot, so
I turned the fuel supply up full until the whole pan was burning evenly then
turned it back down to two. I did that three times and then finally had to turn
it off as it kept on smoking.
The outside temperature was increasing, but the
east wind in our faces was bitterly cold. The Schiffahrtspolitzei tug See Otter
went past heading downstream and came back again not long after. Bill tried to
let Fanny off at a landing stage and, to his surprise, almost got stuck on the
bottom. Not deep at the edges! We decided as it was so cold we would cut the
journey in two and stop at Große Tranke. Three people with baskets
(mushrooming?) were walking along the towpath just before the double chambers
of the stop lock at Große Tranke. A Polish tug came through the stop lock and
picked up a loaded pan, which had been sitting next to the piling, then he set
off downstream. Through the stop lock and turned left towards the weir on to
the Spree and moored by the little landing stage for canoes to portage and
little boats to use the bootschlepper. It was 1.40 p.m. Mike was sure we would
have trouble getting the satellite due to the trees in the way, so he made up a
length of coax with two plugs as a second extension cable - and then found that
there was a sufficient gap in the tree foliage exactly in the right place for
the dish to work in its usual place on the roof! Never mind I’m sure we’ll have
to use the extension some time. At 3.40 p.m. Mike went to get the car and move
it on to Neuhaus. He was very late getting back, it was dark and cold when he
arrived at 7.30 p.m. He’d had trouble with the roads, either they didn’t go
where he wanted or there were diversions. The light over the “No Entry” sign by
the mooring was very useful as we stored the moped back on the boat roof in the
dark.
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| Wernsdorf bridge. Wikimedia photo by fridolin freudenfett |
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