Micael's comeback

August the 6th

We wake up when the propeller stream from the barge in front of us stretches the lines. We are on our way after a few minutes to try to keep up with them to go through the locks with them. We keep good speed, above 7 knots and catch up with them. It turns out that their planning with the locks is not as good as we thought and we have to wait together with them for a few locks until they stop in a port.

this is the place where we go from DMK to Main

We finally leave the canal and enter the river Main. Here we anticipate a favourable stream that will make us go really fast. It turns out that the stream is almost zero. The first lock on Main, number 34, takes 2,5 hours to go through. With that speed through 34 locks and no stream we calculate that Main will take us a long time to pass.
After the second lock, that only take 1,5 hours to pass, we catch up with another ship and things are going a bit better.

waiting and waiting fo the lights to turn green

A little later in the afternoon we pick up Micael that is coming back onboard and we greet him a welcome and celebrate with a specially composed drink (banana dream by the kids J).