NMYC Yacht Club Deggendorf

Guten Morgen….

   Our definition of a good morning has totally changed.  Once upon a time “good” was bright sun and no rain in the forecast.  Now it’s just the opposite.  We need several days of rain to raise the water level of the Danube or we’ll have to race through the rest of the Schengen countries so as not to outstay our 90 days.  Thankfully Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia aren’t part of Schengen, at least they weren’t the last time I looked at the US State Department list.  So when we finally get there we can spend as much time as we want.  But my  goal is to get to Turkey, get the boat in ship shape, and get it sold, so being forced to stay put when we want to be moving down river is rather depressing.  Far worse things are happening to far too many people around the world so whining about having to stay too long here in Deggendorf seems rather self-indulgent.  Shows what an easy life I have! 

   I’ve been catching up on my reading and have downloaded several books to my Kindle because we do have great FREE wifi here so I can search around Amazon for books to read.  And I do have Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek to remind me that one day we’ll live back in Roanoke on our mountainside.

    This past week Mary, Rick and I took the “forest train” up into the mountains for a day hike.  And we’ve been around town several times so know it quite well.  The local library is really nice and I may go one day to look at their art collection.  It will be in German but I can look and learn. 

   So that’s what is and isn’t happening with us.

Happy Summer!

Ru

Deggendorf NMYC

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Ernst Erdl’s bike on the grass verge overlooking the harbor area just off the Danube and Ernst and Randal on our flybridge.

Ernst was also waiting for enough water to continue to Vienna and then Greece.

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This is where we were tied up our first two nights until the visitor berth became available and we realized we’d be here a while so needed power and water available at the dock. 

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Bow to the rock and attached with lots of lines.

A high stone wall and railroad tracks separates the yacht club from the club’s shower block.  You must also climb up, over and down the wall to get to town.  The gate is kept locked when no one is around but we have access to the visitor’s key as well as the keys to the shower block.

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The small, square, sparkling clean building is the shower/toilet block.  Randal and I always shower on DoraMac but Rick and Mary prefer marina showers where there is an unlimited amount of hot water.  When 4 people shower as we did when Charmaine and Linda visited us, you have to use the water more sparingly or wait for the hot water tank to refill.   In the heat of Israel, you really didn’t need much hot water anyway. 

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The club building where many of the members gather to eat their meals or watch the World Cup now.  On June 26th Germany and the U S face off.  We all might have to go watch that game.  The weather forecast is just for sunny weather until the very end of the month and the beginning of July!

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Randal, Rick and Karen

Karen is a member of the yacht club and kindly offered to drive us to the “too far to walk to, big supermarket.”

Later in the day she and her husband and the “harbor master” and his wife came on board for a tour. 

Everyone here, and they’ve been together for about 20 years, are very friendly and welcoming.  We have definitely found that cruising communities around the world are very supportive.  Our Diesel Duck is really the “odd duck” along the river so helps us make friends.  Everyone is curious and wants a tour which we’re happy to oblige.