Scholar Gypsy

I would put that down to the Scotch that was consumed...

I am just doing something similar for the Great Ouse between Denver and the Wash. I am intending to use my £20 GPS dongle which will tell Google Earth exactly where we are ...

As far as I can see here, the Environment Agency do not offer an online service yet. I guess you missed this thread that started four days ago??

Winter moorings ended on 31 March, according to the latest C&RT London newsletter that issued this week. (By the way, in subsequent discussion about the tidal locking times (penultimate item) C&RT have pointed me to the 2015 times).

The gauge at Adelaide seems to show the usual daily cycle (driven by the tides), so I wonder if the problem is low fresh water flow?

Tired muscles, more wash, and slower progress. Pumping is a useful technique when turning the boat round ("winding" - there are other threads devoted to the debate on how to pronounce that word ...). Squeeze the tiller rapidly one way (the way you want to turn) and then back less rapidly.

Here's another video, turning a bit late? Some quite colourful commentary...

So, I delisted the IP address quoted (which belongs to server.canalworld.net). Email notifications worked again for a few hours, but the address has been blacklisted by spamhaus again, and email notifications have stopped (I use ukservers.net for my mailbox). Spamhaus output (PDF file) here. It says "Perhaps the person who previously removed it didn't actually fix the problem." which I suspect is correct...

It is perhaps worth adding that there are a large number of charities who provide services commissioned (and paid for) by national and local government bodies. That does not make them "controlled" by Government.

and they also do a natty pennant, if you like such things (as I do).

Amazing: http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artwork/grand-junction-canal-0

What is the legend bottom left? I would guess "Published by Contemporary D ???, London". The drawing is a bit stylised, so is hard to date! My initial thought was "Camden Lock, London" (Hampstead Rd) but there are so many reasons why it is not.... It could be further east on the Regents?

Locks 9, 10 and 11 will be closed between the hours of 8am and 3pm on Thursday 16th April 2015. May affect those lucky people having a post-Easter break ...

I thought the dinghy was the fender ....

The PLA have just launched a consultation - closes 6th May - as the first stage in a 12-month project to develop a Vision for the future of the tidal Thames. Details here, if anyone wants to comment. This newsletter also includes dates of some open meetings in May and June. And a nice video (but no shots of narrow boats ....)

That photo was taken fairly soon after we arrived, so there was scope for quite a bit more fiddling around. What you are noticing is the effect of the flood tide. On the ebb the boat would have slid backwards a bit, until the bow line went tight. It got rather more exciting at 0300, when two large ship tugs went past (backwards) at full speed.....

... indeed so, and there were lines going the other way as well, as we were there for 24 hours from low water to low water. This was quite tricky for the boats in the background, which were right up to the end of the pontoon, with nothing to tie onto this side of the yellow buoys to hold them in position during the flood tide. I improvised using a centre line to the fifth boat out, which did the job. The forces on some of these lines, with a 2-3 knot tide, were quite substantial, but nothing snapped.

Gravesend ...

I wasn't quite clear if you have a split bilge. If you do ... The part of the bilges under the engine can be kept pretty dry, but as Tony says is well rust proofed by a mixture of oil and diesel (with a bit of water too, and the odd tumbler of orange squash in my case). For the "wet" part of the bilge, under the stern tube, I basically applied rust proofing, and then poured the paint in, sloshed it around with a brush, and left it for a fortnight to dry. Photo here. You can see the rust treatment at the foot of the photo

I hope I won't get in trouble with GOBA for copying this helpful posting from their forum. I should also add that the Cam Conservators have just added a very neat widget to their website for online purchase of visitor permits - I was user #1 !! EA ON-LINE BOAT REGISTRATION - NEWS by M409 » 01 Apr 2015 00:07 The Environment Agency reminds all boat owners that they must renew their boat registrations by 1st April. Enforcement action will commence immediately. EA spokesperson, Lila Proof said “In 2006 we announced that we would develop a new on-line registration and licence renewal scheme. Since then we have been working tirelessly on the project with major resources committed to establishing a state of the art registration facility for boaters.” “The scheme is still in its early stages but so that all boaters are ready and able to take full advantage of the exciting changes ahead, we would encourage everyone to watch our short tutorial video here:” Watch the new EA on-line Boat Registration Tutorial Video The Environment Agency ………. creating a better plaice.

The Aire and Calder did not look too bad yesterday - view of Great Heck from the train...

Please see this recent thread: http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=74809&hl=olympic

I dont think it is quite fair to describe this scenario as bad planning. In an ideal world, on rivers especially where decent moorings can be very hard to find, even in the middle of nowhere, I like to start early and stop at teatime. But that is not always possible, at which point I may get out the mud anchors. But many people do need a reasonably decent mooring, for a whole variety of reasons related to access, agility, children, dogs etc, and I agree the norm should be to encourage breasting up to permit that (or stern-on for cruisers if they feel like it!). There are quite long stretches of the Ouse where if you try to moor other than on proper EA moorings you will get stuck on the mud until a passing boat pulls you off. (Don't ask).

(Repeat of a posting on another, old, thread) Personal messages appear to have stopped again, the last one was yesterday (Sunday) at 1030. http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=5.77.47.171 (a link I used back in January) produces the result "IP Address 5.77.47.171 is listed in the CBL. It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy or some other form of botnet. It was last detected at 2015-03-29 09:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 22 hours ago." There is then quite a lot of techy Linux stuff that I do not understand, I have not clicked the link to delist this IP address. I hope this is helpful;

Dear Sirweste Note that there is a gate in the fence in front of Asda, which makes loading up the beer and other supplies rather easier, and reduces the chances of falling in (I am sorry, I don't think you are going to be allowed to forget that ....).