Staandemast Route Holland - where are the bridge opening times this year?

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We've do this a couple of times in the past - love the trip!! We used a downloadable booklet published by the Rijkswaterstaat which contained all the bridge details and the opening times were updated annually - it was very convenient. This years version of the booklet is much shorter and has no bridge opening info.
Anybody know another source of that data?
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Thanks for that, Troubadour. App looks good, if not cheap to run (we're going for 5 weeks or so thus it'll be 40 euros to use), so might just get a new copy of Wateralmanak 2 - my current copy is 2011.
We've found in the past that it's the rail bridges that tend to result in the longest waits - understandably. Do you happen to know if the times are roughly similar to last year's?
 
Modulation said:
Thanks for that, Troubadour. App looks good, if not cheap to run (we're going for 5 weeks or so thus it'll be 40 euros to use), so might just get a new copy of Wateralmanak 2 - my current copy is 2011.
We've found in the past that it's the rail bridges that tend to result in the longest waits - understandably. Do you happen to know if the times are roughly similar to last year's?
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Sorry no. I've only been once and it was last month still on winter schedules, just a quick trip collecting a boat.
There is a PC version of that app where you buy an annual licence don't know how cost compares.
 
Modulation said:
Thanks for that, Troubadour. App looks good, if not cheap to run (we're going for 5 weeks or so thus it'll be 40 euros to use), so might just get a new copy of Wateralmanak 2 - my current copy is 2011.
We've found in the past that it's the rail bridges that tend to result in the longest waits - understandably. Do you happen to know if the times are roughly similar to last year's?
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The only hold-ups are Schipol & Gouda, go via Harlem & no probs
 
We got stuck overnight at Spaarndam on the Haarlem route. Opens at 13.00 and 20.00 (weekdays). We waited for 0530 rather than go in pitch dark. Then we had to wait to 0915 to go through Haarlem. Nice looking girl cycling ahead and opening each bridge for us.

At Gouda we just missed the 18.00, next was 20.30 so again waited until early next day. Not very nice just on waiting posts with no way ashore.

Isn't it amazing to see a busy motorway brought to a halt just so your little yacht can go through a bridge?
 
Troubadour said:
We got stuck overnight at Spaarndam on the Haarlem route. Opens at 13.00 and 20.00 (weekdays). We waited for 0530 rather than go in pitch dark. Then we had to wait to 0915 to go through Haarlem. Nice looking girl cycling ahead and opening each bridge for us.

At Gouda we just missed the 18.00, next was 20.30 so again waited until early next day. Not very nice just on waiting posts with no way ashore.

Isn't it amazing to see a busy motorway brought to a halt just so your little yacht can go through a bridge?
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If only the local food was as good
 
Local where? While working on the boat in Monnickendam we had 3 really excellent meals in the little town (and one cr*p one).
One of the restaurant owners (not the cr*p one) had a Colin Archer boat on the IJsselmeer there.
Thought it was a very nice little town actually, and would recommend Waterland Marina (where we bought the boat) if you're going that way.
At Spaarndam we were given "BitterBalls" in the bar at the marina. Hmm. Had dinner on the boat.
 
Troubadour said:
Local where? While working on the boat in Monnickendam we had 3 really excellent meals in the little town (and one cr*p one).
One of the restaurant owners (not the cr*p one) had a Colin Archer boat on the IJsselmeer there.
Thought it was a very nice little town actually, and would recommend Waterland Marina (where we bought the boat) if you're going that way.
At Spaarndam we were given "BitterBalls" in the bar at the marina. Hmm. Had dinner on the boat.
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Pan fried n chips is the norm
 
sailorman said:
If only the local food was as good
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You can say that again. We spent 7 years there as semi-liveaboards (April-October each year) and good meals out were very much the exception. Not bad with fish, as long as you could persuade them not to smother it in sauce of some sort.

I had previously been to the Netherlands on business and on one occasion, the gentleman assigned to chaperone me asked where I would like to dine. " How about a traditional Dutch restaurant", I suggested. He recoiled in horror, struggled for breath and then gasped "You do realise that will involve enormous quantities of boiled cabbage, don't you" :D
 
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