CRUISING French canals is relaxing? NIVERNAIS canal bridge will CLOSE, can we get through?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Ep18: Sailing along the Nivernais Canal we are swept away by its beauty and challenged by so many locks. We're taking the long way down to the Mediterranean Sea through farm land, forest and village in the middle of France but we must reach the overnight mooring before the locks and bridges stop working. We were told by helpful lock keepers (eclusiers) that the last lifting bridge after three locks ahead would stop operating at 7pm AND with no where safe to moor up for the night before the bridge there's no choice, the race is on - but there is a speed limit of 8km/hr on the canal! We cannot fault the help and thoughtfulness of these people working the locks.
Acknowledgments and links:
Georg and Gaynor: @georgstroebel407
Châtel-Censoir: www.francethis...
Clamecy Port de Plaisance: www.burgundy-t...
Discover Clamecy: www.clamecyhau...
Basseville Rocks: www.clamecyhau...
Canal du Nivernais: www.french-wat...
VNF Main Site: www.vnf.fr/vnf/
VNF Route Planner: www.vnf.fr/calc...
French Waterways Main Site: www.french-wat...
French Waterways Routes: www.french-wat...
European Waterways, best 6 canals: www.europeanwa...
Dutch Barge Association: barges.org/9-u...
Fluviacap Route Planner: www.fluviacarte...
Navionics: www.navionics....
Another great video.
Thanks again Patrick
JnS
Lovely video. Like the added history information
Glad you enjoyed it Andrew
JnS
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thank u loving this series we are travelling next year down to the south and all of this information is like golddust to us so thank you sooooo much
Thank you for watching and commenting. We’re glad that some of the stuff we’ve experienced will have some relevance for your travels 😀
booombastique, guys & girls! Nail-biting race and everybody won. :) BTW, we sailed our boat from Brighton to Rouen this week with two nights in Honfleur. Took a ferry back to the UK yesterday as the crane operator in Rouen is on holiday and we didn't want to waste our post-Br*$@!!! stay limits.
Congratulations Igor on getting into Rouen - excellent! On the Brex… 90/180 - today we received our passports back from long stay visa application 23/03/23 and thankfully they accepted the Long Stay documentation submitted Now we have until November to visit France multiple times and stay as long as we want within the 6 months period. This doesn’t affect the Schengen visa - so we could be in France for 6 months and elsewhere in Europe for 3 months!
Glad you liked the video!
Stay safe & enjoy cruising
JnS
@@sailingoptions yep, we'll have to do this at some point. 6 months is OK, but a year would be more welcome. Regards.
@@ivsuk 100% agree with that sentiment 👍
Great video thanks. How good do you find the folding bikes are for covering distances. We are unsure whether to get folding or full sized bikes for our river cruiser in Netherlands
Hello and thank you for watching. If you have room on your boat for full sized bikes then this is a better choice for longer distances. If your available boat space is limited then folding bikes are great and they're good for raising heart rate too :) Smaller wheels increase effort required compared to larger wheels. I can't really say which would be best for you - but I know our folding bike helped immensely.
Stay safe and enjoy cruising the Netherlands.
JnS
Question in english What does your blue white flag with a red circle stand for
Thanks for watching our videos and for the question. We are members of the Cruising Association - this is the Club flag. www.theca.org.uk/
Merci d'avoir regardé nos vidéos et pour la question. Nous sommes membres de la Cruising Association - c'est le Club. www.theca.org.uk/