Through the Netherlands via the Standing Mast Routes: A guide for masted yachts and motor boats to the standing mast routes of the Netherlands - Softcover
Synopsis
Several hundred sailing and motor yachts travel through the standing mast routes each year, many of them en route to the Kiel Canal and the Baltic. However, obtaining accurate, up-to-date advice in English on the routes has always been a challenge. This guide provides detailed navigational information on 14 different routes by which yachts can transit the Netherlands. Written by Cruising Association (CA) members Andy Mulholland and James Littlewood and edited by Gordon Knight, it covers nearly 1,000kms of waterways from Vlissingen near the Belgian border to Delfzijl close to the border with Germany and includes maps, distance tables, lock and bridge opening hours and colour photos to help skippers plan alternative routes. It is updated annually via reports from CA members actively cruising the inland waterways, several hundred of which are submitted each year, and includes a 25 per cent discount offer on first year's CA membership to purchasers joining online during the year. Members then have access to the online edition of the guide, which contains hyperlinks to the CA's proprietary CAptain's Mate app, enabling users to access the most up-to-date information on routes and mooring locations.
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About the Author
Andy Mulholland was smitten during early holidays on the Norfolk Broads and the love of boats has since been a strong lifetime influence. Moonlighting as an engineer in his 20s on Thames hire boats led to building his first boat, using a cheaply-acquired GRP hull. Ever bigger boats ensued, till by the 90s a Broom cruiser and enthusiastic wife enabled widespread cruising of Channel coasts from his Solent base. A special Millennium trip from Le Havre to Paris planted an interest in inland cruising. Now equipped with a new Dutch-built cruiser designed and fitted out for extended inland cruising, he has over 12,000 kms under his belt in the Netherlands alone, plus 4,000 kms in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. He is also author of another, major 246-page guide to '50 Great Cruising Routes in the Netherlands'. James Littlewood sailed Fireballs, Finns and Lasers in the 70s, before purchasing an Achilles 24 sailing boat in 1979. Getting his Yachtmaster ticket in 1983, he progressed through a Feeling 720, Jeanneau Attalia 32, Southerly 115 and a Moody Eclipse 38. On retiring as senior partner in his business, he cruised as far as the Norwegian Arctic Circle, most of the Baltic and down the French coast to La Rochelle.that time he used the Staande Mast Route many times heading to and from Norway and the Baltic and clocked up over 60,000nm. In 2013 he switched to a 13m Dutch steel motor boat, exploring the Netherlands away from the Staande Mast route and most of Belgium and France and visiting Berlin and the Mecklenburg lakes.
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