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Just to say that I have spoken with Scenic Swiss office who tell me that Jewel had no problems getting down to A from B and that apart from being 3 hours late in Cologne today, all is OK. It is raining in Basel with more rain expected. Elena from the Swiss office says they have not experienced, nor are they expecting, any serious disruptions. The Swiss office mans the emergency number found in the Scenic booklet and can be contacted for updates over the weekend.

Hope all the stress turns out to be unwarranted and look forward to meeting you onboard next week, Jeff

Kind regards

Anne

We are leaving for Zurich via London tomorrow. Hope Jewel can make its way to Zurich. See you on board, Anne.

Regards,

Anna & Jeff

Welcome to the river cruising forum, Boswalls. And thank you.

 

 

I admit, the figures do not mean that much in themselves as they are basically something attached at a specific point on the river on a wall. Sort of. They need to be related to the depth of the river channel or, in absence of knowing that, onto themselves as they increase or decrease. Hence the graph I put in the cloud. On the left, the figures 50 to 90 are the gauge. On the base from left to right are the dates. So looking from left to right you follow the graph going down until the 24th of August from when it increases again. The graph is of Koblenz where the navigation channel is 2.10m. On the graph the line saying Glw represents that depth. For river cruise sailing being slightly under that line is ok but figures of 65 or under are really low and while just about being ok in Koblenz itself, hinder sailing in the Rhine gorge, depending on ship. Sailing, by the way, is never officially stopped in drought. It is onto the captains (and ship owners) themselves to judge whether they can sail or not.

 

 

Ships do sail in and out of Basel alright as the navigation channel is deep there but sailing downstream they can run into problems after the last lock at Iffezheim. Your river cruise ship could sail out of Basel but you might not get on it in Amsterdam! I.e. a ship swap along the way... See posts of past cruisers further up.

 

 

Oh, and here is such a gauging station, in Koblenz it is: http://undine.bafg.de/rhein/pegel/rhein_pegel_koblenz.html You can see it well when walking along the embankment and has even got a restaurant in it! I have never eaten there, so cannot tell you what it is like, but the view is great. http://voap.restaurant-pegelhaus.de/

 

 

 

notamermaid

I'd like to add my thank you to Notamermaid as well.

I’d like to add my thanks, Notamermaid.

Not sure I really understand all the data but it is comforting when levels appear to increase.

We’re due to travel with Scenic from Basel to Amsterdam leaving Basel,on September 3rd. Are ships moving in and out of Basel? The Rhine Gorge looks dreadfully empty of shipping still

Kind regards

We will be on our first Scenic, Jewel, sailing from Basel on Sep 3rd as well.

Wish us good luck!

Jeff