Sailing the Netherlands: Amsterdam to Muiden - Three bridges and a Lock

We aren't in Amsterdam anymore:

We're a few miles away at Muiden. This town on the Markermeer is three bridge openings, one lock, and about eight nautical miles from our berth at Marina Westerdok. Our lock and docking techniques werent perfect, but we didn't embarrass ourselves or hit anything, so its all good, as John says.

Sjoerd and Julia were on deck to wave us off as we left just after noon today. Well see them again sometime, I think, especially since weve borrowed charts and almanacs from Sjoerd. He said he would meet us in Friesland to pick them up. The weather was a little on the cool side on the water, but the sun was out and the wind was calm. It was a good first day out after seven plus months at the dock.

Muiden is a pretty town. Its main attractions are water sports facilities and an old castle, Muiderslot. The castle is closed on Mondays, so we wont see the inside of it until Tuesday. We have a nice view of the exterior from our cockpit across the river Vecht. Well leave here Tuesday afternoon after our castle tour and spend Tuesday night at Volendam.

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• Sailing
• Amsterdam
• Markermeer
• Solstice
• Muiden
• Oranjesluis
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[SlippyJacks]

Obama sticker?

[jforbe]

We spent the 2008 election in Amsterdam and joined Democrats Abroad. We would here the tour boats pass by us at Westerdok and the tour guides would point out our boat as the "Obama Boat".

The sticker finally fell off in the Channel Islands in Guernsey. Prior to the Channel Islands we sailed in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and France.

[jforbe]

That would be hear not here. No coffee yet this morning.

[neverknow69]

Very nice keep up the good work. A trip of a lifetime.