Hi and thank you for the awesome stories and films.We are getting ready for the trip, starting in the middle of 2018. However, we have a small (big) problem, 175 in draft does not mean there is a problem in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, but in some of the French channels. Do you have any idea of which might be a problem.
Mvh Ole
wrote it 14. September 2017
kl.
16:18
Admin reply by: carlager
Thank you for the nice words about our blog.
On our trip to the Mediterranean the "critical" stretch was from Givet at Meuse to Corre at the end of the Canal des Vosges.
The guaranteed water depth is here 180 cm. Same as guaranteed on most other channels in France.
When we went through May, the warranty was fine and we met a couple of the same depths as you.
Later in the season this year it counted less than normal. Therefore, there was a lack of water in the channels. I think the route closed a couple of weeks for that reason. But thinking it has not been a problem in the last few weeks.
Keep an eye out for the messages at www.vnf.fr and look forward to a great trip from Statte in Belgium to Port Saint Louis, in our opinion, was very nice.
// Carl & Pia
On our trip to the Mediterranean the "critical" stretch was from Givet at Meuse to Corre at the end of the Canal des Vosges.
The guaranteed water depth is here 180 cm. Same as guaranteed on most other channels in France.
When we went through May, the warranty was fine and we met a couple of the same depths as you.
Later in the season this year it counted less than normal. Therefore, there was a lack of water in the channels. I think the route closed a couple of weeks for that reason. But thinking it has not been a problem in the last few weeks.
Keep an eye out for the messages at www.vnf.fr and look forward to a great trip from Statte in Belgium to Port Saint Louis, in our opinion, was very nice.
// Carl & Pia
