A place to launch

Last weekend, we were invited to have a look at 2 things. Till had seen us on our YouTube videos and got in contact. A few weeks ago, he came down to visit Tapatya and we spent an enjoyable afternoon chatting about boating and European inland waterways in particular - Till has travelled these fairly extensively and had a wealth of good info for us. Then, last weekend, we went up to visit Till and his boat - a very pretty Dutch-build steel motor yacht.

He has this moored at the confluence of the River Elbe and the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, in an old working boat boatyard. We had a tour of the boatyard facilities and then a good look around Till's boat. 

The boatyard is ideal for us as a launch site. It boasts a huge hall with 2 gantry cranes of 32 ton capacity each. At the river end of the hall is a launch pool, with a big door that opens up to let boats out to the river and canal. The yard is only some 25 mins drive from our place, so about as good as it gets in terms of location. Excellent!

This week's video shows that and the recent progress on the boat. Enjoy!