#58 Take a Punt Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By The 2 Dogs on 26-Jun-02. Waypoint GC68E1

This is the "Elbefähre Pretzsch", a "Gierseilfähre" on the river Elbe in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
On the photos you can see how these ferrys work; they are held by a long cable in the river, app. 2 to 2.5 times longer than the distance to cross - at the current low level the river was 110 metres wide. Two short cables are fixed on the long one, so that the angle of the ferry towards the river's current can be controled. You can see the difference in angle on the photos 'coming' and 'going'.
The invention of the Gierseilfähre is credited to Hendrik Heuck from Nimwegen in the Netherlands, 1657.
The ferry crosses at a speed of 2.5 to 3.5 km/h.
Although being a very small town Pretzsch has a nice castle - like some other small towns on the Elbe, e.g. Torgau.
This was #1 of 2 of my last locationless tour [:(!] - 275 km in 7 hours on a slippery but nice winter day...
Thank you for this Locationless! (my Locless #60 )
Best regards from Berlin - and a Happy New Year!
Wolfgang

The coordinates are for the southern terminal of the Lewes, DE to Cape May, NJ Ferry. This was fun!!! Our first time on a car ferry! (OK, so we need a life! )

Thanks for the reverse!!

Our 100th Reverse!!

Where is the "CABLE" at a North Sea Ferry (Dagebüll to Wyk) ?
Or do you think "cable driven" is an older term form "drive by wire" ?
And where has the river Rhine with its heavy traffic a Cable Ferry?
Regards, Wolfgang

[This entry was edited by xylanthrop on Friday, December 30, 2005 at 1:14:23 AM.]

I found the car-ferry in Düsseldorf-Urdenbach. The car-ferry brings cars, bikes and peoples over the river rhine to zons.

Thx

Team Hildanuns

Die Zürichseefähre. Sie fährt ziemlich genau 7Min. um den See zu überqueren. Der Ankerplatz liegt in Horgen. Diese Bilder wurden allerdings auf der anderen Seite, in Meilen aufgenommen.

Found this one today with my Garmin. The ferry is servicing a little island here in Denmark every half an hour.

We found it in Zons, Germany.

Neanderwolf und die Meute

Lynchburg Ferry across ship channel in Houston.

Bodininick ferry , Fowey in Cornwall, U.K.

I have traveled many times over the river Fowey on this charming ferry and never actualy taken any photos.

Thanks
Jules
Slaters of St.Ive

we found it in Rolandseck-Bad Honnef,Germany.
Thanks Tom

I was able to log this cache on a working trip to Estonia.
This is the ferry boat from VIRTSU to KUIVASTA (or from the mainland to the isle Kuressaare.
Thank you for the cache and greetings from Belgium.

Taking a trip across the bay on the Bolivar Ferry near Galveston Island.

This ferry takes trucks to canada from detroit across the detroit river.

This ferry i found on the river Labe in Usti nad Labem - Czech republic

These pictures are from "Pont Buitenhuizen", which sails from Spaarndam to Assendelft on the Noordzeekanaal (which runs from IJmuiden to Amsterdam)

Team Whitey Sikk
Anja, Mark & White

This ferry, we found, sails from Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth to Meerbusch Lankst-Kierst, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany.

Greetings from Germany
Wetterwachs

Found this with the Trilogy of Terror; Check4Cache and The AlbinoRhino.

The "Carlisle II" has been in service since 1917 as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and is currently transporting passengers between Bremerton, Washington and Port Orchard, Washington.

This ferry on the river Rhine in Germany connects the cities of Leimersheim and Leopoldshafen.

Imagine our glad surprise when on a journey through the Ozark mountains of Missouri we found that in order to continue on, we would have to take the ferry across! We had to ring a bell, and a man came to the ferry (on the other side of the river) and started manipulating the cable to pull the ferry to our side of the river. It looked so small, we were a little afraid that our minivan would sink it. But everything went smoothly - it was the highlight of our trip!

This punt is called Lexkseveer and is nearby Wageningen Holland. We were on our way to a other cache and we found this punt. I rememberd that i had seen a cache with it.
I took a lot of pictures just in case. People were strangly watching me.

HEY,, THIS FERRY ON THE GREEN RIVER IS NOT FAR FROM NOLIN, KENTUCKY. A FULL LOAD IS ONLY 4 CARS... THANKS FOR THIS TREK,,,, JEEPSTAFF.

This is a little ferry just south of Independence, OR.

Nice Idea. The Ferry cross the River Elbe in Dresden (Germany). Between Pillnitz and Blasewitz. die_zittauer

Ferry to Dordrecht/Werkendam (The Netherlands)
Logd by Team The Lion

Found during our summer holiday. The cyr ferry is a big one - see the pictures including the technical detaills.

Found a very small ferry across the bay from Exxon-Mobil in Texas. It only held about 16 vehicles, and it made a round trip every 10-15 minutes.

This punt (the "Coot") crosses the River Murray at Swan Reach. Couldn't get a picture with cars on it as it was coming back empty, sometimes it's nice not to have to queue.

THIS IS THE Chicheemaun, the Manitoulin Island to Tobermorry FERRY
IT IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IN SARNIA,ONTARIO CANADA
AS IT UNDERGOES AN INTIRE ENGINE RETRO FIT

FOR MORE INFO ON THE CAR FERRY
http://www.chicheemaun.com/

sorry this is not a punt but nice ferry anyways

[This entry was edited by tnt77 on Monday, October 24, 2005 at 7:07:59 PM.]

This is the Wheatland ferry just out side Brook, Oregon

Bac à traille from Seltz-Plittersdorf
N 48° 53.282 E 008° 08.010

Here is the last ferry on the Rhine between Basel and Rotterdam where the engine is the Rhine itself. In French: "bac à traille".
They are two parts of a floating bridge, each on a riverside and in the middle the 120 meters navigable channel will be cross by the ferry only by the craft of the streaming water.
There is a cable crossing above the Rhine maintained between two tower. On this cable runs a trolley with the cable which retains the ferry.
The driver of the Ferry, in Rhine-captain uniform, gets quickly the rudders in position so that the stream keeps the ferry in move.
He has to pile the right moment for crossing over because of the many barges on the Rhine which have the priority (a barge going down stream needs about 2 to 5 kilometres to stop)
The capacity of the ferry is about 8 cars.
Today the ferry was not in action because of repair and maintenance.
A little story : many years ago an army jet fly to low by high speed over the cable, so that the shock of the wave broke it. The ferry was without engine, free on the Rhine and could be recuperated 10 km down stream. By chance nobody was hurt. See also http://www.photo-alsace.com/thematique/activites/portuaire.php


[This entry was edited by DGSTRUCH on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 3:55:06 AM.]

Finding a punt is not difficult in the netherlands but most of them don't have clable across the canal, this one has.

It is a rare one because it is private, I had to pay one Euro for this thirty meters across the Noordhollandskanaal near the city of Den Helder in the very north west part of the Netherlands.

#90

bjorri, de reis is het doel.

The punt is about 50 years old and is run as a family business. The punt is hauled across the Breede River by two or three puntmen by "walking" the punt across the river with drag chains attached to a steel cable that is suspended across the river.The punt can accomodate two vehicles at a time. Although the owners could use an outboard motor to power the punt they prefer to stay with the traditional method which is eco-friendly. The punt is located at Malagas in the Western Cape Province of South Africa about 200 kilometers from Cape Town.The cost of a river crossing is currently ZAR 25.00 (US$3.50)
Tricky Vicky & Mickey.

Hello,

i found the ferry in Duisburg/Germany. The ferry is crossing the Rhein betwen Orsoy and Walsum.

Thank you for the Cache and Greetings from Germany.

Carsten

# 58: Found this cable-ferry in Poland. It is a ferry to cross the river odra.
Greetings from germany, quadman

Logged this one on a day of caching in Sydney. This is the Mortlake - Putney Punt across the Parramatta River.

This punt is 2 km West of Bedlam Point the location of one of the earliest punts in Sydney:

"In 1829 with the closure of the lunatic asylum at Bedlam Point, a punt/ferry service began to operate. The old sea wall from the ferry site is still clearly visible. The punt/ferry crossed from Bedlam Point to the Great North Road at Abbortford. Before the punt, there had been a ferry service for passengers but the introduction of the punt meant wheeled vehicles could cross the river as well.
Many roads converged to Bedlam Point to use the punt service because it provided a shorter route to Sydney that either going through Parramatta or crossing further up the river near the site of the present Ryde road bridges. The roads from the Hunter Valley and from Pittwater converged to use the punt which operated for more than 50 years until the Gladesville Bridge was opened in 1881."

Busy littel boat at times
Caught this on the way home form a family day out caching

You can find this punt in the river IJssel, between Dieren and Olburgen, in the east of the Netherlands (near Arnhem).
There are still a lot of these punts in the Netherlands.

Greetings from the Netherlands.
Team CrankyHenkie

In Basel (Switzerland) there are also four ferrys for persons beside five bridges as spciality.Those ferries cross the river "Rhine" and connect the large and the small Basel

This Ferry crosses the river Weser in Germany near Bremen!

Thanks for the cache!

Von diesem Cäsch habe ich lange nichts gewusst.
Doch nun ist der Loc geschafft.

Horgen-Meilen Fähre in der Schweiz in Europa

Gruss Die Motte

This is a cable ferry the traverses the beautiful Kennebecasis River. From it you can see the Hampton marshes in the east and looking west you can almost see the city of Saint John. Forgein visitors have said that vista along this river are similar to those on the famous Rhine River? We know we enjoy its peacefulness and beauty. This ferry is know as the GOndola Point Ferry as one of the cable was attached to the hamlet of Gondola Point. The other end is attached to Kingston Pennisula. This particular ferry has it's bubble generating system which allows it to remain active even in the winter. Just be careful when ice skating.

This cable ferry crosses the Lower Arrow Lake, at Fauquier in the West Kootenays of British Columbia. It operates 24/7. It was built in North Vancouver, BC at the Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. and became part of the Provincial Ferry Fleet in 1990. It is named "Needles" for the displaced town the waters of the lake covered when dams were built for hydro-power generation as part of the Columbia River Treaty was signed.

Found this one between Oka and Hudson in Quebec, Canada.

It is cable driven but by boat also.

I think it is the one and only boat pulled ferry in the entire country of Canada.

We found this very strange ferry in Portugalete. It crosses the Ria de Biboa between Portugalete and Las Arenas in Spain. Lovely there it was.

This is the auto ferry General Jubal Early, the only remaining ferry in operation on the Potomac River, and it operates 365 days a year between Maryland and Virginia. The ferry itself is named for a Civil War Confederate General. The coordinates listed are from the center of the Potomac River. The crossing location is Whites Ferry, Maryland. Please see the web link for additional information.

http://www.mcmullans.org/canal/whites_ferry.htm

One of the many NB Canada ferries that ensure a pleasant, laid back look at life. My cousins in this province would never even consider building a bridge!
Good thing too, because there is definitely SOMETHING about cable ferries. I remember we use to ride these back and forth across the Saint John when I was a boy summering in Westfield. On our recent visit, we again made several crossings on these majestic river craft. This one traverses the Kennebecasis River from the Kingston Penninsula to "K" Island, formerly known as McCormacks....TFTC

This ferry is accros border´s river between two states : Austria and Slovak Republic.

This cable ferry crosses the weser river at Grohnde, near Hamelin, Germany. It takes cars and passengers across the river, especially at sunny weekends.

Thanks for the cache,
Findonaut

Found it on the island Sylt (most nothern part of Germany).
The route goes from Sylt (Germany) to Romö (Denmark).

Greetings,

Fenriswolf

Hello,
this ferry cross the river WESER, near the town BREMEN, Germany
thanks for the cache, Martin

This cable ferry in the Lake District National Park in the UK takes cars and passengers across the lake between Far Sawrey and Bowness.

Broekhuizen, in the South East of the Netherlands. Punt crosses the Maas. The pictures are taken by night. The punt goes till 10 o'clock in the evening.
Load: 12 ton
Cars: 6 cars / 8 ton
Persons: 50
Costs: 1 person walking Euro 0,10, car with persons Euro 1,70. It takes only a few minutes to cross the Maas.


[This entry was edited by kibas on Monday, August 22, 2005 at 3:21:59 AM.]

This is the Car Ferry or Punt to get our vehicles across the Genner Bugt between island Barso and Loddenhoj in Denmark

This is a real cable ferry for crossing the Schlei (a river in nothern Germany) by Arnis (the smallest town in Germany).

Sorry, there are no cars at the ferry but you can see at the photo that the ferry is able to transport up to 6 cars.

Ferry at Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada that crosses the St. Lawrence River to St-Simeon, Quebec, Canada.

I looked for ages on this one then realised... hey the Lower Portland Punt hasn't been logged yet... so here we go...

after a quick trip around the block and some cache maintenance checks and a reconn for a new GCA cache I finally get to bag the punt.

This is a car ferry over the luleå river.
near luleå town in the northern sweden.

This punt I stumbled over by chance, I didn't expect one here. But I was enroute from one cache to another and found that instead of a bridge there's a ferry on the shortest way between them. Turns out it's a punt. Location is east of Rovaniemi, Province of Lapland, Finland, Europe. The actual place is called Oikarainen, and that's also the name of the vessel. The river is called Kemi. By the way, when I arrived the ferry had just departed and was about 2 metres from the shore. But when they saw me, it reversed and picked me up. While I was boarding, another car arrived and managed to get on. So I had to take photos after arrival, no time before departure. The trip itself is so short that I was too busy taking the co-ordinates, so no time to get out and take a photo, esp. because I was alone (except for Ben-dog).

Historic Saugatuck Chain Ferry over the Kalamazoo River, Saugatuck, Michigan

We have a cache (Hula Girl) on our favorite, but it was already claimed. Don't you hate it when that happens... So we had to come all the way to Michigan to find another.

According to published information this is the only hand-cranked chain ferry left in the World. Saugatuck is quite the quaint village to visit to do a little shopping. Nearby was a cool independent music store and a spice store with very rare and expensive varieities. Come ride the ferry. They won't make you crank it or cranky...

The Klondike Ferry is one of only seven remaining ferries in Alberta. The ferry operates from April to October. An ice bridge serves as the crossing during the winter months.
The waypoint was recorded midstream and pictures were taken during the crossing. It looks like the ferry can hold up to 4 cars. Only two were on it on our crossing.
Thanks,

This ferry transports cars and pedestrians across the Kiel-Canal (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

After Purk logged the other punt on the Bersche Maas, I had to do this one. Was a real "Back to the Roots" experience, since I have lived here for over 15 years, quite some time ago.
My camera did like the place too much; after empty batteries, it failed to give me a sharp picture of the punt. Well the rest will tell some more.

Thanks,

Ad

just discovered this one is already taken

[This entry was edited by GIN51E on Saturday, September 24, 2005 at 1:48:14 AM.]

The punt connects two country-roads near Zwingenberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and crosses the river Neckar.
However, the days of this small punt are said to be soon over as the community decided to build with Governmental support a small bridge for some million EURO which is less expensive on the long run. Another part of history will soon be gone.
Albatross1901

This is a small punt wich connect teh smallest city of Netherlands Bronkhorst to the other side of the river IJssel.
it is 5 kilometres from my home village Baak

It 's mostly used bij tourists and bikers, but you can use it with a car.
So no long travel to find this cache

greetings Tenorblower

You have to take this ferry to get to GCKAEB. It crosses the Fraser River in B.C. My daughter and I had a great time with both the cache and the ferry. The ferry uses no power other than the river's current.

This ferry is situated in Denmark near the town of Skjern.
In fact there is two of them at this point. I have photographed the smaller one, which is hand operated.

In fact there are 3 rope ferries within 500m.

We took this ferry to cross the Donau to reach Kloster Weltenburg. With this small ferry it was a little bit of adventure.

Greetings Team knuffelschnupps

I couldn’t resist trying to sneak this one by The 2 Dogs for purely historical documentation and maybe even a find if he/she/them let it stand. While waiting at the lift bridge, this location less cache jumped into my head. Too bad this wasn’t 10 years ago before modernization crept into even this remote part of Nova Scotia ( Cape Breton Island ) Canada. Some people call it progress, but I think not. The original ferry at this site was only the size of a small cable ferry, but due to the strong tidal current in the Barra Strait, it was propeller driven and ran from Grand Narrows to Iona. It was actually quite a ride due to the fact the little boat had to swing and power way out into the oncoming current in a large arch, to be then swept back down current and into the dock. The captain had to know his stuff back then. I grabbed a few pictures and continued on my way. Well, to my surprise, approx. 2km further on up the Saint Columbia Road at Plaster Cove, there it was, The Littlest Ferry! Floating majestically in Plaster Cove Ponds, flags a flying and crew on board. Just too good to pass by said I. Constructed by one of the former worker ( progress has its price ), it ride the waves in silent tribute to that progress or the lack there of, in this ever changing world. So to make a long story short, pictures I took to prove my story. Also drove back and recorded the remains of the docking structure on the Grand Narrows side of the Strait which is being turned into a marina to attract tourists ( N45 57.379 W60 47.561 ). I believe the original ferry here attracted more local people and tourists just for the ride. And to make this story even more amazing, I came across the Littlest Church you likely see in your travels. Had to include its picture.

This punt operates to the island of Soisalo in Vehmersalmi, Finland. It is the largest island in Finland (1 638 km²) and somewhere it is even named the largest inland island in Europe, but I haven´t been able to confirm that.
Thank you for this locationless!
N_7_yrs, K_4,5_yrs, S_1,5_yrs (& Mum & Dad)

We were on the Koegelwieck from Terschelling to Harlingen and meet the Friesland. At N53.15.044 E005.10.911 we meet the Midsland. Gr. Bram, Marijke en Tineke

been today twice with the ferry across the Bergse Maas.
these are a couple of pictures from our trip where my son was very happy because it was his first time to travel with a ferry.

greets,

Purk

The Drummond island Ferry was a link on our pathway to hit some caches on drummond island!

A small ferry in the Netherlands in de Deventer region. It crosses the river Ijssel. It's able to transport cars, small trucks, bikers and pedestrians. At the moment we were there it was'nt very crowded, but the weather was nice and we were able to take the necessary pictures. I hope the cahce owner likes our input!

Team VDE
Apeldoorn
Holland

Found it at ile de boucherville, a island park near of Montreal

It's a small Cable Ferry for 2 cars and many bikes

BeerMan-Qc

This punt (ferry) goes across the south arm of Lake Charlevoix in Charlevoix County Michigan.

I was stucked in traffic in Montréal (going to my brother's place in Laval) and I decided to use a different route. I ended up on l'Ile Bizzare, which is right across my brother's place. Instead of a bridge, it is a ferry, a cable-ferry, that people use to cross the river there. What a coincidence... It is a locationless I wanted to do! SO I took the necessary pictures and here they are...

Thanks for the locationless.

Mr. Speedy's parade

this ferry is located in wisconsin, we took pictures back in july but finally got around to logging this one. one picture is taken at the landing, and the other is taken on the crossing. TFTC

Cool idea for a locationless. Will try to find one soon.

The Albion Ferry is a short 5 minute crossing of the Fraser River between Maple Ridge & Langley, British Columbia, Canada.

This is a very busy route and is scheduled to be replaced by a new high level bridge crossing down river a few miles very soon.

Currently this route is served by two vessels which can both be seen in one of the pictures I have uploaded.

Took a ride on the Bemus Point-Stow Ferry in Stow, NY

N 35° 54.731 W 076° 49.058
Found this cable ferry near Williamson, NC on the Cachie River. Skyboy01

Fort Morgan,AL. to Dauphin Island ,AL. ferry trip

We used this unique car ferry on a day out caching in the South West of England. Wasn't sure if it counted at first as it doesn't use cables but have checked other logs and have come across another one of these rare tug-driven car ferries. This one is the lower ferry from Dartmouth - Kingswear (the upper ferry is chain driven but has already been logged).
Many thanks,
The Hancock Clan

Car ferry from Hattaras Island to Ocracoke Island on the outer banks of North Carolina.

Not sure if this will count since the GPSr in not in the correct picture. This is an afterthought, since I was actually on the ferry last year. There is a virtual cache in the middle of the ride--the cache is called HI to OI (OBX Ferry Cache). Please feel free to edit/erase this log if neccessary.

[This entry was edited by FatTony on Friday, June 17, 2005 at 2:46:24 PM.]

We watched this ferry go from Fort Ticonderoga,NY to Larrabees Point,VT on Lake Champlain many times while anchored nearby,before we started Geocaching It operates 8:00AM-5:45PM every day when the ice is off the lake, its about a 0.5 NM. crossing

I know that this one was already reported. But it was reported in winter while the ferry is closed. So here are some photography while on-board...

Location at center (more or less): N45 31.195 W73 52.147

This cross from l'île Bizarre to l'île Jésus (near Montréal in Canada).

The log by Team Vertigo of May 31 is obviously a fake, and a rather primitive one, as are all their other Find logs.

Here the boot incl. gps (left)

Neat Ferry crossing the Green River in Mammoth Caves State Park in Kentucky.

N 45° 10.465 W 061° 41.830
I completed this cache on May 29, but am logging on June 22 because I could not find the listing.

This cable ferry is located near Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, (pop. less than 1000; boasts one of the deepest natural harbours in North America) and runs between the tiny communities of Country Harbour Mines and Mount Misery. Caching buddy seashadow and I were the only passengers, and had a great chat with the ferry captains before and after the crossing.

There are three other cable ferries in Nova Scotia, all of which have previously been logged. The other ferries are very short crossings. This took about 15 minutes.

TFTC!

This chain ferry runs from Plymouth in south west Devon to Torpoint in south east Cornwall, England. There are three ferries, the Lynher (Which we travelled on for this log), Plym 2 and the Tamar. The website for the ferries is http://www.torpointferry.org.uk

The car ferry from Neckarhausen - Ladenburg, near Mannheim, Heidelberg in Germany.
It's pulled by chain, but guided by cable.
The first ferry was here on 1483!

mike

Found this car ferry on the Rhine River at St. Goar, Germany while on a three-week backpacking trip through Europe.

In my hometown (Culemborg, the Netherlands) there is a fixed cable ferry to cross the river Lek.

[This entry was edited by Kinabalu on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 1:41:01 PM.]

Found this ferry near Brunsbüttel / Germany. This location called Ostermmor and there is a ferry.

Thanks, greeting Sueffel

This cable driven ferry crosses the Kootenay River on Highway 3a near Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.

This cable ferry ("Schleifähre Missunde") crosses the Schlei in Missunde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The Schlei is a beautiful 42 km long fjord. It stretches from the Baltic Sea near Kappeln to the city of Schleswig.

Grabbed this while in Virginia. This Cable Ferry crosses the James River. I'll post the photos as soon as I download them. TFTC!