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Notec Waterway: Rivers Notec, Brda, Gwada & Canal Bydgosky | Poland: Characteristics & Overview

Rating of waterway

Degree of difficulty:
Demanding

Requirements:
Boating license essential

Character of waterway:
back to nature, old waterway, to be rediscovered

Profile of waterway:
Commercial traffic and tourism

Facilities groundside:
Not sufficiant



Notec Waterway: Rivers Notec, Brda, Gwada & Canal Bydgosky | Poland: Tips & Detailed information

Wharfs, Marinas, Harbors, Facilities, Houseboat hirers, Restaurants and Shops.




blank_pageRiver Notec and Notec skanalizowana (canalised)
Notec flows into the Warte at the village of Santok, just before Grozow Wielkopolski. From this point there are another 68.2 km to the mouth of the Oder. Over the first 49 km the river is free, afterwards more or less canalised. Before arriving at kanal Bydgoski (Bromberger Kanal) one has to deal with 12 locks and 138.1 km. Colonies are rare and one is well advised to start the journey well equipped, in any aspect. 


blank_pageKanal Bydgoski (Bromberger Kanal)
takes us across the eastern outskirts into the middle of the city of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), ending as a dead end. But short before, there is the turning off into the Nowym canal, this brings us over 1.5 km into the, from there, canalised Brda (Brahe).

River Brda (Brahe)
is navigable after the confluence with Nowym canal. It flows through the old harbour town of Bydgoszcz and meets the Wisla (Weichsel) 14 km later.

River Gwada
turns off to the north at the small town of Ujscia and used to be navigable over 3 locks to the industrial town of Pila / Gwada. However, these locks are not intact since the Second World War.




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