Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

 

Battlebridge Basin  Regents Canal  from London Canal Museum  (Compare 30Nov2019)  and a  model lock therein

 

[Stroudwater1]

Yesterday 

 

it’s better by boat? 
 

 

Ghent, canalised rivers. Further down the Ghent-Terneuzen canal is 200 metres wide and 32 kilometers (20 mi) long, capable of accommodating ships of up to 125 000 gross tonnage. The largest permitted vessel size has increased, correspondingly, to 265 metres long x 34 metres wide, with a draught of up to 12.5 metres.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheffield Basin (Victoria Quays) S&SYN  

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[phillarrow]

I love this page! Thanks Peter (and others) for the photos!

[peterboat]

2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheffield Basin (Victoria Quays) S&SYN  

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And I am in there today and for the foreseeable future lock 4 broken and sand bar blocking canal at Jordan lock

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

offside moorings above Stone bottom lock27  Compare  23Dec2001   3Dec2010    13Dec2010  6Jan2011   27Sep2012  29Sep2016 (#2)

[PeterScott]

Today 2023

 

 

High Bridge br57, Woodseaves Cutting SU, carries a farm track across the cutting  Compare 22June2020

Picture by ©  MikeParker 

Edited December 15, 2023 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2021

 

 

rowing below Knostrop Fall Lock  A+C Leeds.

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shireoaks Marina  ChesterfieldCanal

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Thorpe Low Treble Locks  Chesterfield Canal  Compare 14Dec2020

 

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by PeterScott
combined pics

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

Ice in the canal below the locks in Stone T&M

[PeterScott]

This evening 2023

 

Across Albert Dock Liverpool Picture by IainScott

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

below Thornes Lock  C+H   Compare 16Nov2014  (#2)  16Dec2021  29Dec2022 (and from which posting this pic disappeared into the ether ...)

 

[magnetman]

 

Riversdale. Bourne end on Thames. December 2023. 

 

 

 

 

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2017

A cold start to the day at Burton Waters,  Lincoln 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

 

 

 

Newbold Tunnel Northern Oxford during the time that the lights worked:

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stretton Stop  and junction OxfordC

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Edited December 19, 2023 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1999

 

 

Iciness Huddlesford CoventryC

[PeterScott]

On this misty day in 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Hawkesbury Junction  CoventryC/OxfordC.

and the fading cat

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[Stroudwater1]

10 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this misty day in 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Hawkesbury Junction  CoventryC/OxfordC.

and the fading cat

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Unusual manoeuvre of nb Gordon Bennett there. Looks like they came into the “basin” , then turned 90 degrees and moored up. Presumably they intended to head back up the Coventry the next day?
 

 However when just about to nudge the bank  the steerer is steering the opposite way to expected when looking at the final mooring position in the second picture? 

 

Would they have incurred a toll in days gone by entering the basin  or was the toll collection from the lock? 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Huddersfield University HNC  from Bridge 21 :  and Bates Tunnel approach :   Compare 25Jul2009  20Dec2021  (#2)

[PeterScott]

 

3 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:

Unusual manoeuvre of nb Gordon Bennett there. Looks like they came into the “basin” , then turned 90 degrees and moored up. Presumably they intended to head back up the Coventry the next day?  However when just about to nudge the bank  the steerer is steering the opposite way to expected when looking at the final mooring position in the second picture?

Aha. A bit of artistic licence there in the order of the pictures. ... It was a misty morning, and, for us,  a passing-visit by car, so pleasing to find a boat moving. It was basically a wind, from mooring overnight in front of the Greyhound and returning along the Oxford.

 

In chronologibal order, then- the mooring convenient-for-t'pub

 

 

 

 

 

and steering into the corner to get the stern out ...

 

 

 

 

 

.... until achieving a sensible angle to reverse under the bridge ...

 

 

--- (then a different camera angle) ...

 

 

 

.... forward again for an ordinary turn into the stoplock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All went smoothly enough. We all do manoeuvers for our own boat with the resources available. I enjoy fiddling with ropes-and-no-engine, and wondered at the time whether a long rope from the front could be walked across the bridge, leaving the backend on the bank: better with another person to assist with pulling the stern towards the corner ... even so might have stuck on the mud ...

...

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Kings Bromley Marina  T&M

 

 

 

 

... and a misty morning a mile north ...

 

 

 

 

... and around Handsacre

 

 

Edited December 21, 2023 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

 

 

 

Salford Junction,  and along B+F

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northern Stratford Earlswood

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Double Lock  on Boardmans Bridge Branch  of the Sankey Canal    Compare  21Dec2009 (#2)  (#3)