bastonjock

one of my other concerns is, what will happen when Brexit bites ? if our east European friends decide to head home , that will create a hole in the buy to let market

yes something along those lines , I do have investments , and if I like and buy the mooring im looking at , I can continue to work ,its not a stressfull job either

ive got more than 100k ,im looking at a residential mooring this week

don't know about buying a house to let ,but im now thinking of buying a mooring and putting a wide beam narrow boat on it , that I think could be a possibility

ive enjoyed reading this , must admit that its all a bit confusing at the moment, cab I ask a straight question? if you had 100k in cash ,where would you invest it , ive just sold my rented out house and im not wanting to get back into renting

i blew my trumpet,does that count?

well i tried to make it as far as the Farne Islands but got storm bound a bridlington for 5 days. have a look at the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/42967465@N06/...in/photostream/

gazza i think i remember you,im a member at PYC and one of my buddies has a seamaster and a brown Lab.I have a thick scots accent if that helps

i have the latest all signing and dancing GPS/chartplotter from standard horizon.It combines with my Dsc radio so that i can send out an automatic distress call. Its only any good for speed on the inland stuff,when you zoom in on the map it shows a river(nene) great i though but when you zoom in closer the river dissapears A gps on a narrowboat might be usefull on the middle levels,my buddy does not call fenland "deliverance country" for nothing

if you look out on the wash this friday and see a lone sailorman,please wave My plan for this week is to leave Peterborough at 11 am and exit onto the tidal side of the nene by way of the dog and doublet.I shall then take a slow ride down to sutton bridge where i shall rig my boat for sailing.As lomg as weather permits i will enter the wash at around 2am friday and head up the coast,depending on progress will dictate as the weither i anchor overnight at spurn head or if its good sailing ill aim for Bridlington. The rough plan from there is to have an enjoyable sail all the way to the holy Isle and return by 2 weeks on thursday.

There was a chap badly injured at Orton Lock on the river nene this year.He came within a cats whiskers of death,the accident happened around April,he has jus recently been released from hospital,the incident involved the beam

i had a great bank hol weekend messing about on the Nene,i did however get very wet when i tried to push a narrowboat off of the bank,my boat hook slipped and instead of having 20 or so tonnes on the end of the boat hook it was fresh air and in i went The winds were a bit blowy and the guy was pinned to the bank,later on i watched him land at 45 deg to the lock, i guess he needs more experience the one bad part was when i went to get petrol at Warmington,the cops had shut the station down for forensics,some bloke had killed a little girl and hung himself:(

ive also been told that the sand bank is moving,its making the starboard hand markers look a bit out,ive been told to hug the port and markers from Boston No1 buoy to the witham.

phyllis have you checked the weather forecast? nipping out and into the wash may not be a good idea,i have not checked the tides but they are at springs,so you will find yourself in a wind over tide situation and its strong winds forecast.

Ive shared the locks on the nene quite often with narrowboats,the narrowboat is ushered in first,i tie up centrally and i usually exit first,i find that the narrowboat owners are usually very concerned about not damaging my grp boat.

Call in at Peterborough Yacht Club,if its at the weekend the bar will be openTheres a harbourmaster present and we usually welcome visitors.you can also fule up there we have showers and shore power.There are free moorings at Wandsford (48hr) and ferry meadows,at Fotheringhay the farmer charges 3.50 a night.

thats good news but it could be better,boaters on the nene and ouze are charged for usage of the river glen and welland yet are unable to use either river. Its about time that they linked the drain,glen,welland and nene

There are plenty of GRP cruisers on the Nene,we even have a Chinese wooden Junk in our club,there are a wide variety of boat types on the nene and there are a regular bunch of canoeists and rowers to keep a boater happy. The older GRP boats tend to have a much thicker hull than the new ones,they just did not know 30 years ago that GRP was so resilient. Where i moor i have a narrowboat on the next mooring,an ancient birchwood on the other side of my mooring and a sea going man made jobby next to that.

i was not aware that there was a new slipway at Surfleet,there was one on the right just before you get to the sluice gates.If you have no experience of the sea,please do not be tempted to launch at fosdyke,the other alternative is crowland. ill try to get a limk to google earth for surfleet

when did you pass Peterborough?i think i saw you

if you make it to Peterborough,the boat with the mast up is mine

ive got a half decent sony video camera,any suggestions on what software to use?

can you compress a normal lenght video into a 5 min one.I have seen the vids of boats going through what normally take a couple of hours,compressed into 5 mins. do you need a camera that does a frame every 5 seconds or can you achieve the same result with editting software?

I would suggest bankside pins just incase you cannot find a mooring.As for moorings,they are not in abundance,there are 48hr moorings at Wandsford,24 hr moorings at Ferry meadows,you can also moor up at ALwalton agacent to the lock.Im not sure if ARC membership is open to non members but if it is then thats the solution to mooring up on the nene,for a fiver,i can moor at any club on the nene and if i brake down, the closest club will send a tow boat out,there are clubs at Peterborough,Alwalton,Oundle and tichmarsh. i am a member of Peterborough,its a vry friendly club of 400+ members and 104 moorings.If you are coming down to peterborough call in at the club,we often have visitors stopping over for a night or two, we have showers,toilets fresh water,diesel and beer at the weekend,its close to Orton and ferry meadows and VERY secure. I can get you some usefull numbers for the EA.As has already been said,you do need a winlass for the gates and an abloy key,ive never used an anchor on the nene in 2 years of motoring up and down it