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Scholar Gypsy

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  1. Yers, a lot of water! Some of the stream goes down the Seacourt Stream which leavers the river above Kings Lock; some through the Castle Mill stream past Isis lock, and there is also a weir by the road bridge. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7556715,-1.2751725,15z Elton lock on the Nene has the landing stage above the weirs.
  2. Here's the hydro scheme, and also (in the foreground) one of the weirs. This photo is looking upstream from just above the lock. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7494837,-1.2723469,3a,75y,310.9h,86.7t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sAF1QipN_02DvHH0i6PbUGgeIcXWmXr0UMKkdeBu4VRtt!2e10!3e11!7i5376!8i2688
  3. I would certainly agree with leaving Teddington before High Water. Also worth adding that you need to book Thames Lock, Brentford, at least 48 hours in advance. You can do this on the CRT licencing website. They will normally expect you to arrive at or shortly after high water (which at Brentford and Teddington is 1 hour after London Bridge). The lock is now only operated HW-2 to HW+2, between the hours 0700 to 1900. This page includes some tips on how to spot the entrance to Brentford Creek. http://thamescruising.co.uk/?p=36
  4. This seems like a good place to share this recent video...
  5. This firm look quite helpful. Not used them myself (as I have a Mitsubishi not an Isuzu). https://www.enginesplus.co.uk/product-category/isuzu-canal-boat-engine-spares/
  6. I have clambered ashore to untie all the ropes and collect the pins, push off the bows, and then realised that the stern line was still attached to the bank. My excuse was that I had broken my wrist the day before, and was just about to cruise to Peterborough in order to visit their A&E department.
  7. PS the photo above is of the disused Wilmington railway bridge, now a footpath. The next one upstream carries the railway to the docks.
  8. Thanks, I was getting rather confused by the Wikipedia pages on bridges in Hull.. I think there are two adjacent bridges, one still in use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Hull#River_crossings
  9. Here's the one on the River Hull, although I am not sure if trains still go over it. I believe the last regular commercial traffic along the Hull has just come to an end.
  10. Inverness, Selby, Goole, Hull, Boston, Norwich. Vazon is a sliding not a swing bridge. Sutton Bridge no longer carries a railway. Disused lift bridges at Keadby, Deptford Creek. Any more??
  11. The Duke's cut was built by the Duke of Marlborough in 1789, not part of the Oxford canal I think. Built to link to Upper Thames and to Wolvercote Mill. Many years before the railway..
  12. That could have been us on that 1970s video, though sadly it isn't. I remember spending quite a bit of time wandering around the sidings looking for someone to open the bridge for us....
  13. Same for me. I have a fixed TMV near the calorifier that mixes and hot and cold, is the right temperature for the washbasin and the shower, and keeps a stable temperature whatever is done elsewhere. The galley sink is connected direct to the hot, good for filling kettles and doing the washing up.
  14. Porter is the correct term. The works are until June 2023, although the river (ie the centre arch) is only closed to powered boats for the month of February. More detail just published here: https://www.camconservancy.org/public-announcement In most parts of the river the depth is normally 3 feet, I would say. I reckon we are about 24 inches at the stern. The shoal that was causing the problem is marked on this chart (from the excellent guide by @FadeToScarlet) just to the right of bridge 10. It gives access to a wide and deep pool (with piling on the south shore) just before the weir and punt rollers, which is a very easy place to turn. I think I could probably have battled my way over the shoal, but it didn't seem a very good idea. So we backed down to the marked turning point (at which point one of the competing punt firms said "Oi mate, you can't park there"). It was fine the following day when the water was back to normal (ie 9" higher). There are half a dozen residential moorings on the right bank above the lock, they use the lock all year round to access the water point and the pumpout (when it is working...). Maybe they used to be visitor moorings too?
  15. I do take guests on these trips, as you can see. If anyone is interested please send me a DM. Will probably be autumn 2023, as there are works on Trinity Bridge at the moment. (We didn't hit it).
  16. Thanks! Part 2 should be out fairly soon. Tim has a speaking part in that, as well as some physical action ...
  17. My Mitsubishi is self bleeding, ie I just need to bleed at the top of the main filter, which is after the lift pump and on the banjo joint at the inlet to the high pressure pump. I never need to touch the pipes (four in my case) from the high pressure pump to the injectors.
  18. And don't forget locks where the chamber is 14' or more wide, but the entrance to the lock is less than 14'. As noted above, some on the Great Ouse, and also at Jesus Green lock in Cambridge.
  19. Sadly the footage of Tim eating his bacon buttie (including black pudding, by his special request) seems to have ended up on the cutting room floor...
  20. Surely the map is incorrect - it doesn't seem to match the words for where you can turn?
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