Longmeadow

It was eventually turned off at 01.30.. We have moved! Looking forward to a good night sleep tonight.... Last time I moor within a mile of that boat.

Still running... on EA waters not CRT and I don't feel like moving the boat at this time of night....ignorant

Please be considerate. Running a generator from early morning until gone 11 at night is not acceptable with other boaters trying to get some sleep. Especially when the generator is a non-silenced especially noisy one.

Howard, you are quite correct...the term 'guide' is preferred by those so engaged. As regards to Scholar Gipsy, yes there is much information to be found contributed by him. Thank you for your input

We have arranged with a guide to cross the Wash from Boston to Denver (Kings Lynn) between June 10th - June 15th (weather permitting). If anyone else is interested in sharing the cost of the guide and joining us please let us know, via Message please.

Thank you for the replies... that's settled! Don't need to plan that trip!

My boat is 60' x 10'. I would like to travel from Leicester to Market Harborough. Having not done this route before can anyone please advise me if there is anything that would prevent the passage, i.e. low bridges that are ok for a narrow boat but the arch would cause problems for a wide beam. I have used CanalPlan .. putting the boat height in at 7' it shows as not possible, at 6' no problem. Anyone with a similar size vessel who has travelled this route can give advice? Many thanks

The River Trent near Farndon/Fiskerton is apparently a dangerous place to be if you are in a small boat, having seen a recent video on Facebook, where the owner of a large cruiser travelling at a high speed nearly swamped a small cruiser, in fact damaged its sterndrive when the resultant wash caused it to hit the river bed hard. Not content with that, when the skipper of the small boat shouted across at the offender to slow down, the big cruiser was turned around and accelerated hard and extremely close to the small boat, nearly swamping and capsizing it. My question is who enforces any speed limits on the Trent and how can the rivers in the UK be regulated to prevent this type of dangerous 'driving'? In France all skippers of motorised craft over 5m have to hold a permit... which can be withdrawn when this type of stupidity occurs ... but in the UK?