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Canal feesFree travel for DMYV and SBV members

Jill Grigoleit

 · 21.03.2024

Free passage through the Ems-Jade Canal (photo) and the Elbe-Weser shipping route for DMYV members
Photo: Adobe Stock; nordseefoto
The Elbe-Weser shipping route, the Ems-Jade Canal, and the Nordgeorgsfehn Canal branching off from it, are popular and safe routes for pleasure boaters to avoid and shorten the long distance by sea along the North Sea coast between the Elbe and Ems rivers. However, members of the DMYV Sports Boat Association (SBV) and members of DMYV-affiliated clubs will still be able to travel here free of charge in the 2024/25 seasons.

As the umbrella organisation for motorised water sports, the DMYV pays the passage fees for members of the SBV and DMYV member clubs. This requires the display of a special flag when travelling through the canals. These flags are valid for two years and authorise free passage through all three canals.

SBC members can order the flag directly by e-mail, stating their membership number, at info@sbv.de or by post to the Sportbootvereinigung im DMYV e.V., Vinckeufer 12-14, 47119 Duisburg. For members of DMYV clubs, the flag can only be ordered collectively via their executive boards using a contact form at www.dmyv.de/kontakt/vignette be ordered. A list with the names of the club members who are to be provided with a flag must be submitted. Only a processing fee of three euros is charged for each flag ordered.

The vignette for all skippers without a DMYV licence

All skippers without a connection to the SBV or a DMYV association can purchase the vignette for the Elbe-Weser shipping route for 20 euros and the vignette for the Ems-Jade Canal for 40 euros. The vignette is valid for one year and only authorises passage through the respective canals. Alternatively, membership of the SBV, for example, can be purchased at www.sbv.de can be taken out online. Individual membership currently costs 60 euros per year and, in addition to free passage through all three canals, offers numerous other benefits and the advantages of being part of a strong community of around 5,000 boating enthusiasts.

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Jill Grigoleit

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Jill Grigoleit was born in Hanover in 1985. An early childhood memory is the large collection of YACHT and SURF magazines from her sailing and surfing enthusiast father. However, growing up in a small Swabian village on the Neckar, she had less to do with water sports in her childhood, apart from a few trips to the Baltic Sea with her family. After studying journalism in Bremen and Hanover, she went into television for a few years. Through a few lucky coincidences, she ended up on the water in 2011 and then returned to the written word professionally. For over ten years, she lived with her family on a houseboat in their own harbor south of Hamburg and wrote a book about houseboat building and life with children on the water. Since 2020, she has mainly been writing travel reports and features about people who live and work on and near the water for BOOTE. She has been a permanent member of the Delius Klasing water sports editorial team since January 2024.

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