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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Pulling Copperkins out of the water. Etruria. T&M

 

[Dav and Pen]

Like the fortified farm in post #4402. This is also on the Nivernais canal near Lucy sur Yonne. It has always fascinated and eventually found out it houses a museum of innovation showing how things were in medieval times

[bagginz]

Autumn into winter 2020 - Macclesfield Canal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 6, 2020 by bagginz

[Mad Harold]

5 minutes ago, bagginz said:

Autumn into winter 2020 - Macclesfield Canal

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely pictures,top one especially.

[bagginz]

23 minutes ago, Mad Harold said:

Lovely pictures,top one especially.

  Thanks!  

[Nightwatch]

Beautiful colours. 

[bagginz]

13 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Beautiful colours. 

Thanks   The Macclesfield is a pretty canal all round.  It's my new favourite.  There are worse places to have had to endure the lockdown.

 

Edited December 6, 2020 by bagginz

[John Liley]

1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

Like the fortified farm in post #4402. This is also on the Nivernais canal near Lucy sur Yonne. It has always fascinated and eventually found out it houses a museum of innovation showing how things were in medieval times

This is the Chateau de Faulin, which until recently has not been open to visitors. The lock-keeper at Lucy once said it was owned by"a retired professor of medecine from Paris", adding that he was "pas sympathique," but that was years ago. The Internet now says the building is indeed open, or an exhibition within a part of it is.  We shall check it out next summer, if we are able. Ah, summer! See below.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

 

 

Aston flight B+F BCN Compare #3890 (2004)

 

 

If the firefighters use their red door, best if the lock were full: even so, would a lockful be enough? I wonder if the operations manual says to open a top paddle, and then to walk up the flight opening all the paddles. Further along the flight

 

Edited December 6, 2020 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Painting dock at Streethay Wharf Coventry Canal

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

Aston Business Park, Aston flight B+F BCN

 

 

 

The ornamental lockgates are to the left of this image, by the flagpoles

Edited December 6, 2020 by PeterScott
missed year

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Toddbrook reservoir drained. The inside of the dam that was overtopped. Emergency emptying arrangements

 

 

 

 

Emergency shoring-up of the failed spillway: the bags were  dropped from a military helicopter.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2020 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Peak Forest Canal Bugsworth Basins. Detail from a model of the basins. Compare #2748 (2006) #3777 (2012) #3052 (2013)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Old Turn Junction BCN Compare #877 (2003) #2768 (2005) #3903 (2009) #3021 (2016) More sixths of December. Try the slideshow button

 

[tehmarks]

A few from up North.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

 

James Bridge Aqueduct

Walsall Canal BCN

 

One of those structures that look inconsequential from t'cut and are chunky when viewed from below

 

Edited December 7, 2020 by PeterScott
mistyped year

[tehmarks]

And one more from up North ?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Northern Oxford. Barby Straight Bridge 77

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Railway Aqueduct Walsall Canal and nearby the cloed Anson Branch

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in  1974

 

Portsdown Hill More sevenths of December. Try the Slideshow button.

Edited December 7, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Northern Oxford southbound above Hillmorton locks. Fulbourne returning to Aylesbury after, for us, a year of extensive cruising including the Jubilee Pageant on the Thames, Liverpool, and Sowerby Bridge.

 

At the tiller that day is HenryTillotson, our friend, fellow-owner and enthusiastic navigator.

 

Henry died from the AccursedVirus last week, after thirty days in hospital on a ventilator.

 

We will miss him mightily.

[PeterScott]

On 16/05/2020 at 13:51, Pluto said:

... photo shows what was a sort of floating drydock which I was told could be used to take boats with high airdraft through the [Pouilly] tunnel. Anyone have the full story?

 

On 16/05/2020 at 13:55, Dav and Pen said:

This tank had sluices at each end and could be used to lower an empty peniche by around 8 inches only but it must have worked. ...

On 16/05/2020 at 14:20, John Liley said:

The tank, or bac, as it was sometimes known, only just worked. It involved endless messing about There was a dry-dock or sorts, also, to put it in, at Escommes, at the southern end of the tunnel....

Width and depth of UK tunnels preclude these ideas here.

 

At Standedge in 2006 we filled some (ex-lime ??) barrels with water and pumped them out afterwards. A cubic metre of water-ballast for about an extra inch of draft, and we had eight barrels altogether, with six inside in the display area. Most boats wouldn't have the space for this, of course.

 

We failed to persuade BW to take the barrels and offer it as a service to height-challenged narrowboats.

 

 

There are some floating drydocks: Worcester

 

Denham (GU South)

 

[Dav and Pen]

In Antwerp harbour the company Moordtgat has 3 floating docks which have big tanks on each side that fill with water and then are pumped out to raise them up. The yard specialise in Rudders and props for their commercial customers and even have in stock spare props and rudders for their clients. They do general repairs and tolerate pleasure boats ,yachts in Flemish, if they don’t interfere with the commercial work. Rick one of the owners has a notebook which has your details in so the balks in the dock are correct, size of prop and shaft etc. 

[PeterScott]

Continuing with floating drydocks, there are three together on the tidal Thames (sarrf bank of the River)

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Tinsley Flight S&SYN