Alway Swilby

We've moored opposite College Cruisers in Jericho many times. They are two day moorings in summer and not far to walk to the city centre. There has always been space available there for us to moor. The nearby Bookbinders pub does great food. The nearby railway can be a bit noisy but we always sleep through that. As said above you would have to go down the next lock, Isis Lock, to turn but as long as the river isn't in flood this is an easy thing to do. There is no way the Environment Agency (the navigation authority below the lock) would enforce any kind of licence requirements there, in fact I've a feeling that licensed CRT boats are officially allowed to do that to turn. About half a mile further out is Aristotle Lane visitor moorings. You are not allowed to run engines for battery charging here but I understand they are in the process of installing electricity bollards for use by visitors.

Be careful that they don't break your arm!

I think Stoke Boats have a wet dock. And what about the hire base at Stone?

There are bookable visitor moorings in Paddington Basin, Little Venice, Islington and Kings Cross. Some are £25 per night and some £35. There used to be some in Camden but the London boaters complained too much and they have reverted to normal free moorings. The Islington and Kings Cross moorings have hookup points and you need to set up a MeterMacs account to use then. Nearly all other moorings in London are 14 days, they do not become 2 days in summer. You'll probably find a free 14 day mooring but you are likely to have to brest up or be brested up to, there's no asking if this is ok it just happens.

I slept through that one! My telly aerial blew down. Insurance paid up very sharpish.

They are still using the Beaufort scale in the shipping forecast in Radio 4 this morning. I think the chap enjoyed saying "Hurricane". https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00274zb 3:05 in.

Last time I was along there in October there was bank reconstruction work going on between the junction and the breach site. I don't know how far they got.

Youtube video from NB Olive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OCzhBi4ow Basically the coffer dams went in yesterday and the canal is now slowly refilling.

I rewired my bilge pump to run off the domestic batteries. 100ah verses 920, no brainer really. As said above many boats have the bilge pump wired off the starter battery. I think this convention is wrong.

Yes. But if the ice gets broken up before it gets too thick then it gets all lumpy when it later does freeze properly making it impossible to skate on. Hence the ban on any ice breaking at all.

Held up by the wires maybe?

Isn't there a rule on the Middle Level Navigation that you are not allowed to break ice with your boat? This is because it is used for skating by locals when it freezes over.

As Jen says above speak to Viking Marina in Goole. 01405 765737. I'd say your size of boat might be above their limit, but then again it might not! Or maybe Selby Boat Centre. I think they have a crane. Very handy for York.

It has come from a local councillor though so it probably is. It's not really any different to the said councillor publishing something in the local newspaper.

I don't think it is the same now as it was then. I think the Bridgewater was owned by the Ship Canal and in turn they were owned by the Manchester Corporation. Peel weren't involved. That is the reason that this canal wasn't nationalised in 1948 as it was already in public ownership. I do however stand to be corrected on any of this.

We are CCers and have a Metermacs account. We used it a couple of years ago in Islington. Back then you could only use it at Islington or King's Cross, not anywhere else like Doncaster or Boston. I don't know the situation now, perhaps it has changed to include others. I think the River Trent card reader bollards at the VMs at Newark and Cromwell are being replaced with something else.

We could do with more of these around the network. Just as long as they don't charge 95p per kwh like they do in Banbury.

Out of interest who maintains the lock up onto Beverley Beck?

The lift is closed ATM and a long term closure for refurbishment is happening soon

Or you just use half a second of BT. That has the same effect.

Is there actually a navigation authority for the River Hull? Is it covered by ABP who are in charge of the Humber? Who will pay to get this fixed? Maybe Hull City Council. So many questions!! We are vaguely planning a trip this year down the Humber, either from Keadby or Goole, then up the Hull to Beverley and maybe beyond. Not sure when, maybe May / June time when the days are long.

And if bow thrusters had been a thing in the 1920s they would have been much appreciated by the boatmen and women of the time.

Todbrook reservoir isn't fixed yet so there probably won't be enough water for extra traffic across that summit.

Was the canal owned by Peel Holdings back then? These days I can't see a local authority stepping in to help them out.

That's going to take a while to fix. And will the Bridgewater Canal Company bother?