{"id":7730,"date":"2016-09-19T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:36:43","slug":"stadskanaal-haren-ems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=7730","title":{"rendered":"Stadskanaal &#8211; Haren (Ems)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a well-deserved Sunday break I returned to Stadskanaal this morning. Luckily, <em>Balkonia<\/em> was still where we had left her on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I called the number of the local bridge keeper (coordinator?), who told me that someone would be with me to open the next Bridge (Eurobrug) within 10 minutes. And indeed, I had just finished preparations for departure when the lights went red\/green at the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>From then on traveling was again a blast, along Stadskanaal, Musselkanaal, and finally Ter Apelkanaal. I was &#8216;handed over&#8217; from one volunteer lock\/bridge keeper to the next without delay. Unlike on Saturday, where the two bridge keepers operated all 20 or 30 bridges and locks (or more?) on Leinewijk, Kielsterdiep, and Grevelingskanaal, these guys here only did a few each.<\/p>\n<p>Just after Ter Apel I turned into Haren-R\u00fctenbrock-Kanal, which connects the Dutch canal network with the river Ems in Germany. It used to be part of a bigger German canal network east of the Ems, but most of those are no longer navigable (with the exception of the Ems-Vechte-Kanal a bit further south which is a dead end and not rated for <em>Balkonia&#8217;s<\/em> length anyway). Bridges here are remote controlled from the Ems lock in Haren. Sometimes the bridges were just 10 or 20 centimeters too low, but they were always opened completely and stopped traffic over it for much longer than I needed to get through. Perhaps a technical limitation?<\/p>\n<p>At the outskirts of Haren I was forcefully stopped at a bridge because the lockies\/bridgies had gone home for the night. Unfortunately, the only option to moor didn&#8217;t have access to the shore. 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Luckily, Balkonia was still where we had left her on Saturday. 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