Andyaero

Watford & Foxton only open Fri/Sat/Sun 8-12, last boat in at 11 from 14/8, to be reviewed on 1/9.

A procreation proficiency test?

So now they are locking every lock between Kibworth and Kings lock, telling boaters to leave as they cant guarantee water levels. So is the thinking here to virtually drain it and keep the Harboro arm open for the day boats to Foxton? Maybe move water up Foxton to the top which is low? Only been doing this life 18 months so not worked out CRT's thinking yet!

I agree which is why I stated the source. Got a feeling this one may well turn out to be true though.

Facebook rumour is Foxton and Watford will announce full closure at their next review, between 12th and 18th August. Its currently unpleasantly low between the two, feels worse than last year.

Kibworth Top Lock and King's Lock being closed on Monday for 3 weeks initially. Though movement between the locks will still be permitted, boats are advised to leave the area. Opinions on if getting stuck between these two locks is such a bad thing? All facilities at Kilby bridge & the Navigation. The area between Husbands Bosworth and Foxton is getting very difficult for moorings, took 4 attempts to find somewhere we could get in with a 26" draft.

Mac Sports XL Steel Folding Wagon | Costco UK https://share.google/wwWI3V4RlovugU5dS We've got this one, its great, has carried 4 sacks of coal, 2 three year old grandkids, a big shop, tho not all at once! 2 years in it still looks new and we use it along the tow path a lot.

Thanks, but we'll be approaching from Kilby Bridge, so not wanting to go as far as Thurmaston. Plan is to get to Friars Mill for 48 hrs then turn somewhere nearby (Memory Lane?) and go back south. Was looking for somewhere close to Leics ( between Kilby and Friars) to spend the 4 days prior to that, rather not spend £25 per extra night at Friars. Cheers

As an alternative to my current plans.....does anyone have any ideas on where there are any decent 7 day moorings (not 24hrs), before Leics Castle Gardens approaching from the south? Cheers.

Apologies, but I did mention it was a vetus m4.45 and I was of the belief that in order to measure the cranking voltage the battery had to be fully disconnected, I.e, not taking its trickle charge from the inverter or dc chargers, was I wrong? I didn't want to disconnect everything until I had acquired a known good battery so that I was only doing the job once. Anyway, thanks for the pointers. Cheers

Memory Lane L1 :: Waterside Moorings https://share.google/jRIZJK5noIlXwo0DI Just found this, so maybe something is happening in July? No mention of visitors moorings though.

Whats the story with the Memory Lane Wharf moorings in Leicester, can't find much info about them. Whenever anyone asks about city centre moorings, only Castle Gardens and Friars Mill get mentioned. They seem to have been there around 10 years, but mothballed? Going to a concert at Abbey Park and thought they'd be ideal, so went for a look in the car yesterday. Was like Fort Knox, couldn't get near, everywhere locked up. Big, thick black fences all around with padlocked gates.There were 7 post boxes on a fence, but no boats there at all. I'd read there was supposed to be 7 residential and some 48hr visitor moorings, but it still all looks new and totally unused. Did think of mooring up over a Saturday night, who'd know? But the tow path is on the Abbey Park side and there didn't appear to be anyway to get out of the pontoon to find a bridge to access the park. Anyone know what's happening? as close as I could get.

Just to round this one off, it was a duff battery, tried a known good one and all was fine. When the battery was on the boat it read healthy, but was taking a trickle charge from either the dcdc chargers or the inverter, still not sure which, but definitely not the solar. When it was off the boat it was reading 8.5v.

We were sent a cleaning kit by the corian supplier on our boat, its the Bar Keepers friend spray and paste. Works great on cleaning stove glass too.