Next cruise - round trip of North and South Holland in Netherlands
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| Guide and charts |
We will have about a month between my offshore working trips, and the plan is to do a large, sort of winding, loop through the province of Holland in the Netherlands.
People tend to erroneously refer to the whole country as Holland, but Holland is actually a province on the east coast of Netherlands, with Amsterdam more or less in the middle.
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| Our hired boat in Hardewijk in 2011 |
I have made good use of the book - Inland waters of the Netherlands, by Louise Busby and David Broad, and together with the Netherlands Inland Waterway map and some of the ANWB charts, I have put together a route. (see the two maps)
We might not stick to it exactly, but we need some idea of where we are going.
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| Map of first and last parts of the planned trip |
The other thing is we have three sets of friends joining us for a few days each, so we need to know roughly where we will be so they can make their travel plans.
Meanwhile, back at de Kranerweerd, Martijn, the engineer, has been doing lots of work on Shangri La. He has sent me progress updates, and by the sounds of it, all the jobs will be done by the time we return. Which is most encouraging!
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| Middle part of the planned trip |
So, starting and finishing at Zwartsluis, the route looks something like this:
Zwartsluis, Hardewijk, Naarden, Weesp. Uithoorn, Alphen aan der Rijn, Gouda, Rotterdam, Delft, Leiden, Haarlem, Zaanstad, Purmerend, Edam, Monnickendam, Monnickendam, Amsterdam, Leleystad and back to Zwartsluis.
This trip is going to be more interesting by the fact that there are a lot of fixed bridges, and we will have to lower the radar mast and awnings a few times. And on the section between Pumerend and Edam, will also have to lower the widscreen, as the maximum allowable air draft (or doorvaarthoogte) is about 2.9 metres.
So that should be fun to say the least!
By next week, I should be back at Zwartsluis and getting ready to set out.
Till then - happy boating!Labels: Amsterdam, blog, Delft, Haarlem, Inland waterways of the Netherlands, Leiden, waterway cruising, Zwartsluis