By Rhine and Danube to the Med?

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Graham W

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My wife and I wish to take our motor boat a Grand Banks down to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and the Danube. I remember seeing an article in one of the monthly magazines about a year or so ago about a couple who had made the same trip. I would very much like to find this article again to read of their experiences. Can anyone help me in locating the article so I can purchase a back copy. Also if anyone has any experience or anything that they feel may be of interest in planning such a trip I would be pleased to hear from you.
Many thanks.
 
I have a feeling that the article you are interested in, only deals with the couple bringing their boat up the Danube from the Black Sea as far as Vienna - so not the entire route you are intending.

In 2007 we drove to Mainze in Germany, then tried to follow the link between there and the Danube. A really massive piece of engineering I thought, also scenic, and well worth looking at. I gather the amount of commercial traffic it has carried since opening 17 or so years ago has been rather a disappointment.

I got confirmation this might be so, when the following year, we took a trip down the Danube from Vienna as far as Bratislava. The amount of traffic on that section was quite a bit less than I had expected. Absolutely nothing as compared to the Rhine, which as you will be aware is very busy indeed.

I expect you have a copy of the Guide to the Danube by Rod Heikel. Well out of date now I know, but still an interesting read.

I see no reason why a boat such as yours should not cope well with the trip.

Philip
 
Having spent some years visiting Bratislava on business I can tell you that the Danube flows jolly fast round there. It was always fun to watch the ships struggling up against the current, making just the odd knot or so over the ground while the downstream coasters shot past. Several hundred miles against a very strong current may use a lot more fuel than you might expect. I would not think it would be a relaxing trip, but there are lots of sights to see if you can find places to moor up.

One of the Tristan Jones books covers the trip - before the canal had actually opened & when much of the area was under comunist control.
 
Searush said:
Having spent some years visiting Bratislava on business I can tell you that the Danube flows jolly fast round there. It was always fun to watch the ships struggling up against the current, making just the odd knot or so over the ground while the downstream coasters shot past. Several hundred miles against a very strong current may use a lot more fuel than you might expect. I would not think it would be a relaxing trip, but there are lots of sights to see if you can find places to moor up.

One of the Tristan Jones books covers the trip - before the canal had actually opened & when much of the area was under comunist control.
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Sea rush - doesn't the danube flow INTO the Black sea and therefore in the right direction for the OP's trip? I may have my geography way out.
 
Great trip

Graham W said:
My wife and I wish to take our motor boat a Grand Banks down to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and the Danube. I remember seeing an article in one of the monthly magazines about a year or so ago about a couple who had made the same trip. I would very much like to find this article again to read of their experiences. Can anyone help me in locating the article so I can purchase a back copy. Also if anyone has any experience or anything that they feel may be of interest in planning such a trip I would be pleased to hear from you.
Many thanks.
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Lots of people have done this trip it is a great trip

I wish to do it too

try this guys story:
http://www.ellingmotoryachts.com/files/GEMINI_DUO_TRIP_2_TURKEY.pdf


in 6 parts

Tom
 
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