The Gota canal starts at Mem but does not fully open till Monday. You can enter earlier but you need to book four days ahead,if you are unable to be there, they will fine you up to 500 skr. We arrived on Saturday evening to find approximately ten other boats wailing for Monday. Trevor and Lesley are leaving us Monday lunch time after spending a good holiday with us. We need to get signed into the canal at 09.00 the cover about 5 kilometres and 3 locks to get them to the first town of Sodaccping so they can get there bus, train, plane then taxi back to woodcote.