Boat going boating on its own on the Trent...

[frangar]

Just had this from CRT...could be interesting!!!!!

 

Notice Alert

River Trent
Location: River Trent after Hazelford Lock

Sunday 26 January 2020 18:30 until further notice

Type: Advice 
Reason: Information

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Original message:

 

There is currently a large craft on the River Trent that has become loose from Hazelford Lock and is making it's way down the river in the direction of Newark

The Police and Fire Brigade are aware

[matty40s]

Hope its got up to date charts and VHF.....

 

Enough fresh to get stuck on the Staythorpe wier I suppose.

Edited January 26, 2020 by matty40s

[Alway Swilby]

Are those big old skip barges still tied up around Hazleford Lock? Maybe it's one of them?

Edited January 26, 2020 by Alway Swilby

[frangar]

Could get messy if it finds a fibreglass fender.....

[Jen-in-Wellies]

The locks in the way will stop it getting beyond Gainsborough. ABP are the navigation authority from then on and the boat must have at least 2 crew on board.

[Alan de Enfield]

6 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

The locks in the way will stop it getting beyond Gainsborough. ABP are the navigation authority from then on and the boat must have at least 2 crew on board.

And a VHF

[Momac]

2 hours ago, matty40s said:

Hope its got up to date charts and VHF.....

 

Enough fresh to get stuck on the Staythorpe wier I suppose.

That's called Averham Weir

https://canalplan.org.uk/place/mo35

 

[zenataomm]

I bet Newark Marina at Farndon hope it ends up on the old power station weir.

There's a lot of potential Airfix kits tied up on the outside bend of their mooring entrance.

[Scholar Gypsy]

I wonder if it is one of these barges, which we spotted between Hazelford and Newark last summer

[Momac]

12 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

I wonder if it is one of these barges, which we spotted between Hazelford and Newark last summer

Sounds like it could be, rather than a boat.

 

[MtB]

2 hours ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

I wonder if it is one of these barges, which we spotted between Hazelford and Newark last summer

 

 

That's a rather gorgeous tug shoving it along.....

 

 

 

What's the staircase for on the back of the barge? Or is it on the front of the tug?

 

 

[matty40s]

3 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

That's a rather gorgeous tug shoving it along.....

 

 

 

What's the staircase for on the back of the barge? Or is it on the front of the tug?

 

 

That's the pushing nose .

[noddyboater]

Doesn’t our old friend Mr Dunkley keep his “large craft” below Hazelford lock?

 I do hope it’s not that! 

[Scholar Gypsy]

This photo shows the pusher on the front of the tug, just before she overtook me. Second one sharing Newark Nether lock with EXETER, 
 

[Sea Dog]

18 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

This photo...

Crikey, had you just been to a string and flag sale?

 

[Scholar Gypsy]

1 minute ago, Sea Dog said:

Crikey, had you just been to a string and flag sale?

 

Yes, I have been getting a bit of stick for this contraption.  I have been building up a collection of flags and pennants over the years, and wanted to find a way to fly them all. This is Mark IB, which didn't survive contact with a low bridge on the Witham.  Here's Mark 2, in a bit of wind just north of Boston, also with the main flagpole (Fenland flag). I like flags...

[Alan de Enfield]

12 hours ago, frangar said:

Just had this from CRT...could be interesting!!!!!

 

Notice Alert

River Trent
Location: River Trent after Hazelford Lock

Sunday 26 January 2020 18:30 until further notice

Type: Advice 
Reason: Information

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Original message:

 

There is currently a large craft on the River Trent that has become loose from Hazelford Lock and is making it's way down the river in the direction of Newark

The Police and Fire Brigade are aware

What are the Police going to do ?

Rather than waiting for it to hit something, surely C&RT could send out Robin Hood or Maid Marion, they are both normally 'hanging around' in that area.

[frangar]

7 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

What are the Police going to do ?

Rather than waiting for it to hit something, surely C&RT could send out Robin Hood or Maid Marion, they are both normally 'hanging around' in that area.

Ask it for details when it hits something?? They aren’t much use the rest of the time so I don’t see how this is any different....quite surprised theve found the Trent tbh.....

[NB Esk]

8 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

 

That's a rather gorgeous tug shoving it along.....

 

 

 

What's the staircase for on the back of the barge? Or is it on the front of the tug?

 

 

 

I think the steps are included in the push plate, to take account of taller or unladen hopper barges.

 

 

[Naughty Cal]

5 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

What are the Police going to do ?

Rather than waiting for it to hit something, surely C&RT could send out Robin Hood or Maid Marion, they are both normally 'hanging around' in that area.

Maid Marrion was moored at Cromwell yesterday.

15 hours ago, zenataomm said:

I bet Newark Marina at Farndon hope it ends up on the old power station weir.

There's a lot of potential Airfix kits tied up on the outside bend of their mooring entrance.

It has to negotiate the moorings at Fiskerton first just below the lock!

[pearley]

18 hours ago, Alway Swilby said:

Are those big old skip barges still tied up around Hazleford Lock? Maybe it's one of them?

They were moored above the lock. I wonder if it is Selby Michael which had been moored below the Weir on the lock island for some time.

Edited January 27, 2020 by pearley

[noddyboater]

Yes that’s the one owned by (or previously owned by) Tony Dunkley, who is the guru of navigation knowledge on the river. 

So it should be fine. 

[Sea Dog]

It's been drifting.for at least 24 hours now and still we speculate. Stealthy little monkey,isn't it!

 

[Naughty Cal]

It is indeed the Selby Michael.

 

You would have thought Dunks would know how to tie a vessel up on a river!! 

 

 

No doubt this will all be a ploy by CRT to get him to buy a river licence.......................

Edited January 28, 2020 by Naughty Cal

[Proper Charlie]

How far did it get from Hazelford?