As the skippers had to be very vigilant, with a fair amount of traffic around, it was Crews’ job to be the photographer through this spectacular scenery - not as easy a job as one would think, since standing straight was a bit of a challenge!
After around 24km, we came across the famous Loreley rocks (bigger than expected), where sailors were said to be lured onto the rocks by their murmuring - luckily, we didn’t hear it!
Another 3 km found the entrance to Sankt Goar marina. As a commercial barge was coming up we had to go quite a bit past him to turn into the entrance. As a result we discovered what it was like to go upstream - very slow! It seemed to take an age to get into the protection of the harbour.
Sankt Goar is only a small marina but we were found two good places right outside the little clubhouse by a very helpful young man.
We settled in and asked about obtaining WiFi, which, eventually we did......hoorah! Luckily, the clubhouse was open for food on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays - for once we have struck lucky as we plan to stay for four nights.
We had our usual lunch on board and decided to give it a try for dinner.
Skip chose a fairly odd combination of three eggs, chips, gherkins and salad, Henk had big prawns and salad (he asked for a small salad but it arrived huge, as usual) and Crew braved it by ordering a pork chop, which was also huge of course - everything is big in Germany in the food department! Needless to say, only about half was consumed and the rest taken back to the fridge!
We had a couple of drinks on board, then retired to watch an episode of Vera on ITV3, which is our strongest channel, then bed.
32 km 1 3/4 hours
Very nice done Pauline love the story!
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