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[mark99]

Behind the Wey.

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day 2019

Harecastle Tunnel T&M

It was a wet day (a miserable excuse for the blurry bits in main pic) and we formed an orderly queue

Edited May 9, 2020 by PeterScott

[Ray T]

8 hours ago, Mr Norman said:

Impressive detail in that his right shirt sleeve is down to his wrist. Legend has it that he rolled that sleev up before every delivery and every time it came loose!

He looks like Sonic the Hedgehog in that statue.?

[MHS]

Three very different locations:

9th May 2017 moored just below Chasewater Reservoir

 

9th May 2019 Schleuse Krotzenburg and Wertheim on the River Main. Onboard the MS Charles Dickens, celebrating our 30th wedding anniversary.

[PeterScott]

1 hour ago, MHS said:

...9th May 2017 moored just below Chasewater Reservoir...

 

 

Interesting that the boom has been there for three years. It's not as if there is a vast amount of mooring there, and C&RT blocking off the mooring rings by the outflow doesn't seem to help. Our 2013 visit was at #648 and from 2018 above. And the sign from t'other direction says

[Scholar Gypsy]

11 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Interesting that the boom has been there for three years. It's not as if there is a vast amount of mooring there, and C&RT blocking off the mooring rings by the outflow doesn't seem to help. Our 2013 visit was at #648 and from 2018 above. And the sign from t'other direction says

And I thought there was currently no outflow anyway, due to an argument about who is responsible for the valve house??

[Athy]

To take a leaf out of Peter Scott's book, on this day in 2018 - well, on the nearest Saturday anyway. One of our favourite restaurants, La Poule A Vélo, a converted lock-keeper's cottage at St. Christophe just South of Agen. The charming proprietress Christelle Cousset works culinary magic there with local ingredients, and serves wines made from grapes grown just a few fields away. We should have been mooring up our hire boat there today and dining there this evening.

[ditchcrawler]

5 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day 2019

Harecastle Tunnel T&M

It was a wet day (a miserable excuse for the blurry bits in main pic) and we formed an orderly queue

I have never managed to get a photo as good as that in the tunnel 

[PeterScott]

43 minutes ago, Scholar Gypsy said:

And I thought there was currently no outflow anyway, due to an argument about who is responsible for the valve house?? [Chasewater Reservoir to Anglesea Branch]

Here's a minor dribble from 2018 ?

and Wikipedia has a summary of who-owned-what-and-why, and this is IWA's analaysis of the problem as it was in late 2017. Since then I have lost track of where the discussions have gone. Reservoir activities seem to carry on

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Redhill Flood Lock River Soar and more

Edited May 9, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

Ansty, Oxford Canal. Ten day closure here to knock down the bridge befoe it fell down. This was progress after one day iirc. These local residents didn't look particularly impressed.

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

Garston (turf-sided) Lock K&A

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

Alrewas, T&M

Was Will wot thought of the name

[Dav and Pen]

Please don’t tie on bends. Erewash canal

[John Liley]

Time for a scary moment, perhaps, way up the Haute Seine. The wheelhouse telescopes inside itself and the steerer sticks his head through a hatch. There was a near-miss one day when they forgot to fold back the helmsman's chair andt he roof couldn't come down enough. A (biigger) waterway is being built alongside.

[cuthound]

18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2004

A rusty-watered Harecastle Tunnel (T&M)

 

We were waiting to go into the Harecastle Tunnel, southbound, back in the 90's. Out came the convoy.

 

First boat went for the narrower arch and stemmed up.  Next two boats ran into him. 

 

Third boat (just) managed to stop. The steerer then cupped his hands and bellowed to the first boat "what's up? Sign not f***ing big enough?"

 

???

[Athy]

1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

Please don’t tie on bends. Erewash canal

I'm not sure I want see a photo of what happened 30 seconds later.

[Dav and Pen]

28 minutes ago, Athy said:

I'm not sure I want see a photo of what happened 30 seconds later.

Believe it or not we only brushed it.. Richard Cooper on the helm, known to many as Railroad Bill.

[TheBiscuits]

Extra points for the location if anyone fancies a guess.

 

Not on this day in 2018, but I posted it elsewhere in a discussion about beer brands.

 

[PeterScott]

17 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

Extra points for the location if anyone fancies a guess.

Big Lock Middlewich. I'll add a pic in a mo!

 

C&RT people were measuring the bridge as we passed in early june 2019. It has had some red signs saying only ten people should use it at a time, and the local authority finally insisting on its replacement. Yes the six or seven minutes did include checking with the nice Mr Google streetview that my immediate impression was right.

Edited May 9, 2020 by PeterScott

[TheBiscuits]

5 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Big Lock Middlewich. I'll add a pic in a mo!

I thought it might take longer than that, but when you know it, you know it.

[ditchcrawler]

26 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

Extra points for the location if anyone fancies a guess.

 

Not on this day in 2018, but I posted it elsewhere in a discussion about beer brands.

 

I would have taken that Guinness back

Just now, ditchcrawler said:

I would have taken that Guinness back

I understand the bridge may have been removed soon.

[TheBiscuits]

10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

I would have taken that Guinness back

 

Middlewich Folk & Boat 2018.  We were lucky they had two glasses left to be honest, but it did tickle me that we ended up with an amber ale in a guinness glass and a G&T in a coke glass. 

 

Enough so that I moved 4 people to get the photo. 

 

[DandV]

6 hours ago, John Liley said:

Time for a scary moment, perhaps, way up the Haute Seine. The wheelhouse telescopes inside itself and the steerer sticks his head through a hatch. There was a near-miss one day when they forgot to fold back the helmsman's chair andt he roof couldn't come down enough. A (biigger) waterway is being built alongside.

Considering the absolutely minimal clearance the brickwork is outstandingly unscathed.

[John Liley]

24 minutes ago, DandV said:

Considering the absolutely minimal clearance the brickwork is outstandingly unscathed.

That is because barges of this size (1450 tonnes) have only recently been operating here. Nominally, this part of the waterway is for 700 tonners only, but this particular barge, L'Auxerrois, has ballast tanks enabling her to get 60 empty containers back to the silos. So the operators naturally take advantage.

 

In a different way some of the river sections are every bit as exciting, particularly when the river is in flood. Then, AIS is vital, in order to see if something similar - or somethjing similar pushing something of the same size again - is coming the other way. Hoisting the wheelhouse high helps in judging distances from the bank.