Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 September
We eased gently out of the marina and into the Holtenau Lock, in the company of ten other yachts and a couple of commercial barges. Having waited our turn to get on the holding pontoon to pay our canal fees we motored to Rendsburg, where we were denied an anchorage and directed to spend a night in the marina, for €19.
On Wednesday we completed our second transit of the Kiel Canal, filled up with diesel at Brunsbüttel and spent the night in the small marina just inside the sea lock. After a less than peaceful night, we had the outbound lock to ourselves once again, and realised we were out of practice with tidal calculations, so slogged under motor up the estuary of the River Elbe and back into Cuxhaven.