Man & Van needed for one way trip to Germany!

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Sy-Revolution

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Hi Folks,
I'm having some logistical headaches trying to sort out a trip to Laboe in Germany (near Kiel), from Cambridge, to bring back my boat. there's 3 of us, and some heavy kit, including a liferaft. Car hire one-way is impossible from the UK to Germany and pretty expensive even to hire one from Rotterdam to Kiel one-way. I could DHL the gear and get a Ryanair flight to Hamburg but would still have to hire a car one-way to get up to Laboe. We might get there and find the gear isn't of cause. So does anyone know of a man+van combo (perhaps a people carrier or large estate) who does/would do this sort of thing and if so, would ya gimme his number?
Please......

Hoping to leave next Monday.
Cheers,

Jon
 
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You could hire in uk and get a mate to drive and return the van.

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If I had a mate who could do it....but sadly I don't (call me Jonny No-mates )

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Doesn't the man and van make it back to England then?

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Not with me no, my boat won't take a van I'm afraid!................but then he does have a van and a return ticket on the ferry.............
 
Thought about the train but I've got about 3 Xlarge holdalls full of stuff including a damn liferaft (the others contain lifejackets/oilies/charts inc. reeds almanach, tools, bolt cutters etc,etc) and it weighs a ton! Plus it's at least a nine hour journey with 5 changes, also the train leaves Hook of Holland at 11.00 and the fast ferry doesn't get into port 'till after 15.00 (or thereabouts) so it's a nights stay for nothing.

See why my head is aching?

Ideally I'd like to be on the 07.00 ferry from Ramsgate to Ostend (£78 return for a large car/camper + 4 passengers) and get's into port at around midday leaving a good half a days drive.

C'mon 'sgotta be worth a monkey to someone innit?
 
If you're really struggling you might try this.

Find a local cardboard boxmaker in your area - get him to make either 1 big box or a number of smaller ones to suit your stuff - ask him to supply a pallet to load the stuff onto and then stretch wrap the whole lot.

Next contact Europa pallets

http://www.europa-worldwide.co.uk/europallete.php

who offer a standard 2-4 day service door to door and providing the yard where the boat is can off load the pallet etc etc.

You make your own way there.

Peter.
 
When I bought my boat back from Germany I drove over with my Landrover laden down with all the boaty stuff. Left the LR a the British Kiel Yacht Club whilst we sailied home. Then went back to collec the Landy.

BKYC very welcoming and the grog is cheap too.

For train travel I've found these sites very useful:

Here and here
 
Indeed, but I don't want to risk the lives of others by not taking a liferaft, life jackets or charts with us. These things we already own, I don't want to have to buy more stuff just for this trip. The boat is a new aquisition and the present owner doesn't seem to have done a lot of serious sailing so there's lots of equipment on the boat that's missing. Also I didn't want to have to buy equipment in a hurry from Laboe as I don't know how good the chandlers is there nor would I be likely to get a good price if I were short of time.

I'll get there in the end.....
 
If I was closer to Cambridge I would come up and drive a hire van across with you, but unfortunately rather a long way away I'm afraid.

But still, am empty transit returning from the continent... are you thinking what I'm thinking???? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
why dont you get a ferry to hamburg, then train or taxi to laboe (presumably bkyc). get someone to help you get to harwich, 24hr trip arriving in morning...

just looked on the internet and the only option would be to go to denmark from harwich by ferry, and get a train to kiel...

the harwich cuxhaven route had been discontinued late last year....
 
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