Holliday 2001

The first holiday wasn't a holiday to rest. Because we had the boat just one couple off month  and we hat  not that much time to practice  to navigate with the two motors. Also locks we hadn't  ever had. 

Still with our friends (Thomas and Korry) on holiday. We had agreed to begin quietly. First The Dintel and then  the Biesbosch, the Bergse Maas and then the Zuid-Willemsvaart  direction Maestricht. 

This went unfortunately not through. Worthy our boat is situated  in Dinteloord, and the people there found that we are able enough to take the Wilhelminakanaal . We just get the fire baptism. The one lock after the other lock. I did not count the navigate ours but the locks and bridges we had en witch yet to come. Fortunate my husband  is very quit  who the tense takes and not has yell at me. The first lock we took went oke. With specially thanks to Thomas and Korry. They  went before us  into the lock and told us  from  their boat what we were obliged to do . But our boat is 13.50 meter and my captain didn't hear what they are saying. Stain yours suggest , you  navigate for the first time into a lock, the nerve I had. We had much too many fenders. We just had  4. Before we went into a lock I didn't know which side the fenders must hang. At the time when i understand I had to hang the fenders from the one to the other side meanwhile I had to listen to Thomas because he told me what my captain with his motors had to do , witch one straight ahead and witch one backwards and how the steering wheel was obliged to keep . I was on the front deck listing what Thomas said, 13 meter  backward rush to my captain to tell him what Thomas said, run 13 meter to the front to hear what Thomas said and again 13 meter backwards to bring the message over. I have run some kilometers on our Trojan. And meanwhile I had to try to get the boat to the side sure within throw . Afterwards we had a  dreadful  laugh . I think the persons which we recline in the lock had thought, what one doings yonder. But it went oke. Nearly all the locks went oke. Only in the 2the lock we were nearly transversed. That came because I had understood, when you have the boat assure you keep him tight . So I had the boat hang onto ashore and began to wander the string, but so hard, that the reverse side  went off shore. And Thomas and Korry yell "release that boat El, release the string", But I was so pleased that I had him assure until my captain yell at me, release that  string, I can get  the backside ashore. Then I understood. You put the string to the bollard toss and then release until the boat is alongside and then hold fast. It should be better when I (my captain had yet sometimes one boat  of 11,50 meter but with 1 motorcycle) at first precisely was informed what they expected from me what to do in the locks.
They also had a lot off fun, that I always run with the fenders and the rope back and forth. The first thing we have bay is extra fenders and extra long rope . This is one holiday we never will forget. We had very many laugh, very much time spend in the engineering room because the motorcycle not was willing to start , a lot off navigate and little seen from the surroundings because I had the hole time the nerve, be afraid of the next bridge off  lock. 
Still next year again with the boat on holiday. Sometimes will it get used.
I don't gif up.