Dalbi shows 691 moorings carrying the Gelbe-Welle quality mark, 123 boat fuel stations, and the federal WSV waterway network in one app that works without signal. Built for inland water tourists, recreational boaters, and paddlers in Germany.
The Gelbe Welle (Yellow Wave) is the German Tourism Association's quality mark for water-side moorings on Germany's inland waterways. Since 1991, it has been awarded to marinas, city moorings, and canoe rests that meet a fixed set of standards: reachable by boat, maintained, with clearly stated opening hours and supplies.
Until now there has been no digital, searchable overview of the stations carrying the Gelbe-Welle mark. Dalbi shows them on a map with filters, distance, address, and, where available, photo.
Location data comes from OpenStreetMap, the waterway network from the WSV. On-site photos, where available, from our own captures, operator submissions, and Wikimedia Commons. Dalbi does not source data from the German Tourism Association; the Gelbe-Welle mark only identifies which moorings we display.
Find stations, save them for the next trip, and at the dock read distance, address, and photo at a glance. Three screens, three jobs.
Each of the 691 stations in Dalbi belongs to one of three types. The filters in the app follow the same split, the search too.
Piers, jetties, and bollards on Main, Weser, Mosel, Spree, Havel, and Elbe. Classic city moorings, scheduled-boat docks, overnight charter berths, and marinas with finger jetties, shore power, and a harbour master. Over 500 entries — the largest of the three types.
Low wooden jetties, sand beaches, and water-tourer rest stops on German rivers and lakes. For kayak, canoe, and SUP, often with picnic and overnight options.
123 boat fuel stations for diesel and petrol right on the water. 49 with on-site photos. With opening hours and fuel grades where reported by the DTV.
Trier → Bernkastel-Kues → Koblenz
Classic charter region. Moorings every few kilometres, fuel station in Winningen, Bernkastel-Kues with 35 stations as the centre.
Waren → Plau → Mirow
Mecklenburg lake plateau: Europe's densest inland charter region. 94 stations around the Müritz, plus smaller moorings on Kölpinsee and Plauer See.
Lübben → Schlepzig → Lübbenau
Low wooden jetties, picnic and overnight places. Quiet channels instead of shipping lanes. For kayak, canoe, and SUP, no boat licence required.
Route hints are illustrative; the skipper verifies legs and distances against official sources (WSV, ELWIS). Photo licence and credits per image.
Dalbi is not a chartplotter and not an ECDIS app. It is a directory with a map, built for boaters who want to know where the next safe stop is and how to get there.
Tap a mooring: Dalbi draws the line over the actual federal waterway network, not over the road, and counts distance and ETA down to 0 m. Where the network is missing, it draws a straight line. Even with no signal. Note: route planning arrives in the next update; the waterway network itself already ships offline on the device.
Mooring, canoe, fuel. Every symbol carries its type in shape, background, and pictogram. Recognised at a glance, no reading required.
Save stations as favourites. Stored on your device only, no account, no syncing to outside servers. With photo where one exists, and distance from your current position.
Just fuel stops on the Mosel? Just canoe access in the Spreewald? Three filters, three seconds, a different map.
Map data, stations, and the waterway network are part of the app itself. No internet round-trip, no waiting. Works on the Müritz just as well as behind the Müggelberge.
No account, no trackers, no cookie banner. On first launch the app fetches the OpenFreeMap style once; after that it works offline. Sparing with data, because nothing else gets sent to us or to anyone else.
Spree, Havel, Dahme, the Spreewald. The largest region by station volume in Germany. Charter cruising between Berlin and the Mecklenburg border, plus Spreewald canoe access and the Havel lakes.
172 stationsWeser from Hann. Münden to Bremen, plus Elbe, Aller, and Oste. A classic water-tourer region with closely-spaced moorings along the entire Weser.
110 stationsMüritz-Elde waterway, Peene, the Mecklenburg Lake District, and the Baltic coast. Europe's largest inland charter region, centred on the lakes around Plau and Waren.
94 stations75 of Bavaria's 80 stations sit on the Main, from Schweinfurt through Ochsenfurt and Volkach down to the river mouth. Classic water-tourer territory along the great Main bend, with marinas in Lohr and Haßfurt.
80 stationsSpree, Havel, Wannsee, Tegeler See, Müggelsee. City moorings in a capital where you can still tie up freely on a summer evening.
68 stationsEider with 20 stations, Treene, Ratzeburger See, and the Baltic coast with the Schlei and the Bay of Kiel. Transition region between inland and coastal cruising, with marinas in Kiel and Ratzeburg.
64 stationsThe remaining 103 stations are spread across Rhineland-Palatinate (43, mostly Mosel), North Rhine-Westphalia (26), Hesse (14), Baden-Württemberg (7), Saarland (5, on the Saar), Hamburg (5), and Saxony-Anhalt (3, Elbe).
691 moorings with the Gelbe-Welle quality mark, including 123 boat fuel stations. Stations sit in 13 federal states, from Saarland to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Brandenburg leads with 172, followed by Lower Saxony (110) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (94).
Yes. Maps, station data, and the WSV waterway network are part of the app itself and stored on your device. On the water without signal, you can search, filter, save favourites, and open station detail with photo and address.
Not yet. The full WSV waterway network already ships offline; route planning with distance and ETA is coming in the next update. Today, every station shows address, distance from your current position, and an on-site photo.
€4.99 once on the App Store or Google Play. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no advertising. Updates and new stations are included.
No. There is no account, no cloud syncing, and no tracking. Favourites and settings live on your device only.
Every German federal waterway with Gelbe-Welle stations: Main (75), Weser (85), Mosel (38), Eider (20), Havel (21), Elbe (20), Aller, Oste, Peene, the Müritz-Elde waterway, the Schlei, and the Bay of Kiel, plus the Spree-Havel system around Berlin and the Spreewald. Regions without Gelbe-Welle stations, like Lake Constance, are not included.
Navionics shows nautical charts with depths and seamarks for professional skippers, Komoot is for hiking and cycling. Dalbi is the digital directory of DTV-listed moorings for inland water tourists and recreational captains, with photo, address, distance, and route planning in the next update. Not a replacement, a complement.