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| Liftbridge over Szkarpawa at Rybina - Wikimedia photo by Polimerek |
13º C overnight. Sunny with
not a cloud in the sky and a light breeze.
Set off at 8.15am pins in and the washing machine going as soon as we
turned on to the Nogat. I vacuumed the floor and then emptied the dust on to a
tray, I looked but couldn’t see the tiny screw that Mike had lost. He said use
the sea searcher magnet. One pass and the screw leapt out of the dust! I stuck
it on a piece of sticky tape so it couldn’t escape again. I did the ironing then made a cuppa and went to sit out
with my coffee at 10am. A beautiful morning. Overtook a couple of little
yachts, one which was obviously home built was having engine trouble and ended
up being towed by the other. We turned left on the Szkarpawa river heading for
the Wisła, a winding, wide, reed fringed river, 2.5m deep, passing empty
meadows and the occasional farmstead. Groups of kids were swimming in the
river, all wearing their underwear – no fancy swimming trunks or bikinis here.
The washing finished just before eleven and Mike paused to take the pins out. We
came to a large bright yellow painted lifted bridge – a giant Llangollen style
cantilever bridge. At 2.58m clearance it was high enough for us to get
underneath with the sun canopy lowered
and the mast taken down. A board stated
the opening times 8.30 a.m. 11.00 a.m. etc etc. Two men were on duty, they came
out to see if we needed it opening. A swing railway bridge was in the open
position for river traffic. Lunch, sitting under the sun shade. We passed half
a dozen small yachts from Elblag yacht club, they must be doing the circular
tour via Malbork and down the Wisła and back along the Szkarpawa. Shortly
afterwards we came to Drewnica, where bridge rebuilding works were going on apace.
A barge was being used as an access
pontoon for cement mixer trucks and another
for cranes and a pile-driver. We tied to a wooden pontoon placed there for the
purpose and Rosy came alongside. Within minutes a three man delegation came to
show us where to go to get through the blockage. They moved the accommodation
barge, called Rekinn, and we went through the gap and the bailey bridge which
had a moveable middle section powered by a motor in the end flotation tank. We
counted twenty cars which had been
stopped by the moving of the bridge. Two
kilometres to the lock on to the Wisła. It was 2.15 p.m. getting hotter and we
decided discretion was the better part and decided to stop below the lock at
Gdanska Głowa. There were only green painted metal pilings arranged as unlinked
dolphins 10 metres from the bank, so Rosy went at the back of the left hand
ones and we went between Rosy and the dolphins, tied our bows to one dolphin
with Rosy attached to our port side. Then Mike got the plank off Rosy’s counter
and Bill knocked a couple of
pins in. Rosy was just grounding on the bottom.
The men went to find the keeper and ask if we could stay until Monday morning.
They found a lady keeper. Yes, OK. They were open until 4 p.m. but for double
the fee you could go through up until 7 p.m. She told them that the lock was
closed on Sundays. Then they went to have a look at the river. It appeared to
be as high as when we came down to Biała Gora, but didn’t seem to be flowing as
fast. The lift on the lock was about a metre up on to the Wisła. Mike put the
35mm camera back together, still not working properly. Looks like we need a new
one
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| Liftbridge over Szkarpawa at Rybina - Wikimedia photo by Martin Poljak |
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| Liftbridge over Szkarpawa at Rybina - Wikimedia photo by Gregy |
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| Liftbridge over Szkarpawa at Drewnica - Wikimedia photo by Aktron |
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| Moored by the lock on to the Wisla - photo by Bill |
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