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Originally Posted by R Leo
Anyone here ever done this?
Self-drive canal boat
I've wanted to for years and this summer will be the one where we actually make it so. We plan to visit friends in Paris and Colleen has to teach in Amsterdam so, my task is to integrate the boat holiday with the remainder of the trip putting the days in Paris at the beginning of the time and Amsterdam at the end. I'm having a hard time deciding where to hire but, the Loire-Nivernais-Bourgogne area or Alsace-Lorraine sure look tasty.
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Cool. I have friends that live on a (motorless) houseboat in Amsterdam and have cruised the canals off the Amstel in their tender(john boat
). As comfortable as I am with boats, I would be nervous about bareboating my own canal cruise in Europe. I remember being in Delft one time and a huge barge was pushed by--there seemed to be mere feet on either side of the canal, and there was a lock about 1/4 mi. from it. All I could think was, "holy $h!t--what if I was in a boat in between that barge and that lock--how do they control traffic?" Maybe go to Cruising World's(magazine) website and email one of their editors--they periodically do articles on this sort of thing.