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But in this case running on ice for them is impossible no traction for them, they can hardly walk never mind run! If the imbeciles on the boat had 2 brain cell between them they would have seen that wouldn't they?

Wind in right direction and panic might do it, I walked one back to the water the other month in Rotherham, clearly lost, it was like herding cats!

Yorkshire Swan rescue told me that swans can't take off from roads apparently its too painful on their feet. They land on roads because if wet they looked like water. I have with a police inspector captured a Swan using his coat. After that it was easy I walked down the stairs and released him in the canal. Not you and the ice was a large thick sheet of ice that was pushed under his boat and lifted up.

I wish it had been, Alan's boat next to me wouldn't have been lifted out-of the water.

It's a 15 foot wide pusher tug, it's all but flat, it was pushing big sheets of ice in front of it, unfortunately as it made progress it got faster

With them in it with 30 sheets of thick ice going in all directions? If they had left it another day it would have all but melted it's so warm Thick ice is thin at the edges. What amazes me is if this had been your boat and it had been sunk by there actions would you have Been happy? Most certainly the people filming the swans trying to escape wernt happy and thebpeople on the boats which had their recently applied blacking removed were definitely unhappy! But does that matter when for a thousand pounds they can book dry docks to repair the damage

They can' hardly walk on ice and can't take off from ice Esther, just like they can't take off from roads. Water or grass only However another day would have seen it a lot thinner and less damage done to boats, given where they are going the locks would be frozen as well, fast flowing water requiring unfastening 1 pan at avtimevto pass through lockshard work given the cut was frozen there as well

When thebice lifts a boat out of water complaining is justified plus the swans had nowhere to go from these thick sheets of ice! Killing those I suspectbis against the law

They left them at AMA, trouble is offroader delivers there, of course if CRT clearing the continuous moored off the commercial moorings at Eastwood would help as you say. Water levels are projected to rise rapidly on the Don so they will be lucky methinks to Dam the Don there?

The boat concerned Uranus had to reverse of and ram the ice it was so thick at the turn point it kept on doing this, in reality there was no point the locks further up are frozen solid as well, it had 2 pans and a digger On a another pan at the front. It goes into a river section which is in the red so if something goes wrong it's in the weir for them. All seems pointless as in a couple of days the ice will be gone. Whilst our section of navigation is commercial at Rotherham Town lock it it was at one point a remainer waterway don't know if that has changed? Picture of ice below it was in a trailer and is over 3 inch thick same as the ice in the cut

The Tanker declined to run to avoid damaging boats as the ice was that thick! It was a large slab of thick ice that rammed into its side and slid under the boat lifting it out of the water. It was totally unacceptable really as the flight no doubt will be iced up as well I think its going up there to do work. It had to drop its pans off the ram its way through the ice, the first boat was only blacked last year looks like its wants doing again Shouldn't have to is the answer as there isn't room in the boatyard to put them there How?

Today a Rothens workboat Uranus fought its way through ice on our moorings, the ice is over 2 inches thick and caused havoc with swans, ducks and boats as it pushed them out of the way! I phoned both CRT and Rotherns which got me nowhere! The ice lifted the plastic cruiser out of the water so I think it counts as potentially damaging to move! I know they have to get on with things but these are our boats and if one had sunk who would have been to blame?