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RE: The Kiel channel (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal)
looks busy - even that it might be a bit boring passing it.
"In all the locks there are wooden floating platforms along the edges. That means the fenders need to be ridicolously low, take them down until they touch water and then continue lowering them with half a fender-length. Even then the fenders will probably end up on the top of the platform rather than between the platform and the boat."
Here in Czech I have recognized that they have the fenders out all the time, I dont know why - as you know in Norway seeing this it basically means that it is people with lack of knowledge, or dårlig sjøkunnskap in Norwegian.
Safe travels mate, it is interesting to follow your posts,
I'm a bit lazy taking in the fenders myself sometimes.
When traveling inland and there aren't many waves and not much keeling, there is only aesthetic reasons for taking them in, no practical reasons. Likewise, sometimes I'm going directly from a harbour to an anchorage, planning to return to the harbour again next day, and I often leave the fenders out - but it's very ugly.
But no, we didn't go through the channel with fenders out :)