noddyboater

The Gods were on our side at 4am when stars aligned, wind changed direction and the temperature dropped below 15 degrees!

Quick word of warning re. the good old Vazon sliding railway bridge above Keadby lock. It's been closed, then it opened - but it's not really. The temperature of the bridge has to be below 15 degrees Celsius now for it to operate, it was previously 21 before last year's repairs. Today's opening window was 4 -7am, if we had rain which would definitely cool things down. It rained, the bridge didn't open. My tide has been and gone again. But there's a chance it may open tomorrow morning, possibly. Between 4 and 7am.

Never saw a sign, or a person. Came down from the locks and tied up on the first mooring, place looks on it's arse. I really don't see why anyone would mind if you pulled up late and left early.

I pulled up there last night and was away before 6am this morning. There was plenty of room but I had to clear the weeds and fag ends to find the mooring rings.

Just topside (Fradley) of Streethay I'm being polite, the sign definitely isn't. If I was on a family holiday with young kids I wouldn't be happy. Personally I'm more concerned about the pile of crap that will be left behind when he eventually moves/sinks.

I don't think it had an engine.. In fact most of the knackered old cruisers don't appear to have an engine. Maybe they have one that's shared around once a year when they actually decide to move.

Has anyone passed Streethay Wharf lately and seen the knackered Dawncraft with it's adjacent boat size pile of crap on the towpath, including a lovely homemade sign saying "SLOW DOWN CUN#? I'm not entirely sure someone bending the rules as such can expect a sedate, tick over pass by. Or can they?

Looks to me like the photo of the boat on the river isn't either, it's above Holme Lock. The other one is a canal, possibly Beeston opposite the Boots estate?

Hopefully "kind George" will have got the message by now as my partner posted on the group chat with the name of Lady G's boat and a screenshot I sent her from here explaining what had happened.

I don't do Facebook either, it's on a local Todmorden thing. Chat, group, page.. whatever it's called.

I've used Araldite 2000 for similar jobs which is a two part epoxy developed for bonding metal and aluminium parts in industry. I heard they use it for bonding structural parts on new cars, so you should be safe enough with it. It doesn't come in little tubes in a box like normal Araldite, but you can get away without buying the special application gun with mixing nozzle.

I know because I have read the post on Facebook. Apologies, there's no mention of the basket being taken, just the cat. Hope that clears everything up.

Someone took the cat and basket thinking it had been abandoned. Messages have been sent on the local Facebook group, hopefully all will be good again soon.

Hardly legitimate activity then. Any boater that leaves their crap behind deserves naming and shaming. Then drowning.