Vecht valley and Twente marinas

The Overijsselse Vecht winds from the German border through Hardenberg, Ommen and Dalfsen to Zwolle: a small river for motorboats and sloops through a landscape of fields and woods.

The Vecht is dammed and shallow, with locks and low bridges: water for boats with little draught and a low profile, where you get a few villages further each day and are often the only one about. The Almelo-De Haandrik canal links the Vecht valley with Almelo, and the Twente canals lead on to Hengelo and Enschede, canals with commercial traffic and big locks. At Zwolle the Vecht joins the Zwarte Water, and with it the Kop van Overijssel, Kampen and the IJsselmeer.

Ommen, Dalfsen and Hardenberg have visitor harbours on the river, Almelo and Hengelo club harbours on the canal, and Gramsbergen lies closest to the border. This is the area for a slow boating holiday with bicycles on board, for seeing Twente and Salland from the water, and for German neighbours from the Grafschaft Bentheim, for whom this is the nearest Dutch cruising water.

All 9 marinas in the Vecht valley and Twente sailing area, grouped by water, with facilities, number of berths and maximum boat sizes. Blue Flag: 4 · visitor berths: 5.