Plea­sure ves­sel and tra­di­tional ship nav­i­ga­tion in the port of Ham­burg

Sea­far­ing at­tracts recre­ational sports­men or en­thu­si­asts of his­tor­i­cal ships as well. There are seper­ate berths all over the port just for those in­ter­ests. The 'Mu­se­umhafen Övelgönne' as well as the 'Stiftung Ham­burg Mar­itime' offer berths for tra­di­tional ships of dif­fer­ent sizes. 

The HPA doesn't run any berths for sport boats or tra­dion­tional ships. Sail­ing and motor boats ex­clu­sively used for sport and leisure pur­poses re­ceive a berth in the mari­nas which are scat­tered all over the port.

The 'Mu­se­umshafen Övelgönne' as well as the 'Stiftung Ham­burg Mar­itime' offer berths for tra­di­tional ships of dif­fer­ent sizes. 

Sail­ing re­gat­tas which are going to be held in the Port of Ham­burg re­quire a li­cence. 

To apply for an au­tho­riza­tion please con­tact: 

Mr. Werner
Tel.: 040/42 84 7-2582

Con­tact

In the Port of Ham­burg as well as out­side of the fed­eral wa­ter­way Elbe and its out­ly­ing dis­tricts the sport boat li­cence order for in­land and sea ship­ping is valid. 

The high­est per­mis­si­ble speed in the port of Ham­burg for recre­ational ve­hi­cles with a ma­chine drive is 22km (12 nau­ti­cal miles) per hour. This max­i­mum refers to the speed through the water. Re­gard­less of the pre­scribed speed lim­its, each per­son must ad­just their speed in such a way so that no other water users are en­dan­gered, harmed, or im­peded or in­con­ve­nienced more than cir­cum­stances dic­tate.

Ve­hi­cles with rud­ders must nav­i­gate on the north­ern Elbe be­tween Nieder­hafen und Fis­cherei­hafen on the north side be­hind the land­ing fa­cil­i­ties; they may nav­i­gate in both di­rec­tions out­side of the fair­way as well as on the south­ern Elbe be­tween the Rethe and the 17. Juni bridge on the east­ern side, near the east­ern or north­ern bank, as well as on the South­ern and Upper Elbe be­tween the 17. Juni bridge and the port limit in Oortkaten, near the south­ern bank.
Out­go­ing recre­ational ves­sels may use the water south of the south­ern buoyed chan­nel in the main chan­nel in the Lower Elbe from the Rüsch Canal to the do­mes­tic bor­der. Recre­ational ves­sels that must cross may not hin­der on­go­ing ship­ping. Among recre­ational ves­sels on other wa­ter­ways in the port of Ham­burg, the COL­REGs rules of way, notwith­stand­ing sec­tion 20, para­graph 4, num­ber 3, apply.

Sport ve­hi­cles on trail­ers can be launched at dif­fer­ent slip­ways:

En­ten­werder am En­ten­werder Zoll­hafen (En­ten­werder 7,20539 Ham­burg)
At Holzhafen - Bill­w­erder Bucht (Holzhafen­ufer 10, 22113 Ham­burg)
In Oortkaten (Oortkaten­ufer 12, 21037 Ham­burg)


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