Schleusen Brunsbüttel — Attraction in Brunsbüttel

Nice experience .... It's "just a lock" but it's huge. The kielkanal itself is boring, nothing for yachties. There is somewhere a known and very good restaurant.... But where you are allowed to moore?? Actually nowhere. So just go through and do it at 12,5 km/h. Yepp, there is more traffic here than in Panama. Well. No choice, or you have to go around Denmark which is a beautiful trip if...

Pretty well organised but I don't like the floating ponto ons. They are too low, really no higher than the water, and you have to get onto them to bring out mooring lines, as there are no bollards to throw a line over but only rings. With Heerenleed's high freeboard it is very difficult to get off the boat and onto the ponto on, and even more difficult to get back on board again. An...

The 98-kilometer Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea begins at Brunsbüttel on the Elbe River, Germany. Locks are necessary at both ends of the canal to control the sea tides. The busiest artificial waterway in the world, the canal saves vessels a 450-kilometer detour around the top of Jutland when traveling between the North Sea...