Jump to content

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

DandV

By DandV
in General Boating

 Share

Featured Posts

Mike Todd Veteran II

Mike Todd

Posted
Posted
14 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

 

Some nice machinery in there.

 

When we first got Rowner lock on the Wey & Arun working years ago the bottom gates we had rebuilt from EX GU gates obtained on the very cheap from BW, we stripped them down and cut off the bad bits as we needed to make them narrower and shallower, trying to drill bolt holes in that black very seasoned timber was incredibly hard going.

And just remember that the originals were made with no power tools!

PeterScott Veteran II

PeterScott

Posted
Posted (edited)

On this day in 2015

spacer.png

 

spacer.pngChain Ferry. Cowes

 

and from 11Feb2018, in Portsmouth Harbour

 

"Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking." HHGTTG Douglas Adams. Sadly Douglas didn't write about the chain ferry doing a sharp-left halfway across, to chase an IOW ferry.

 

 

spacer.png

 

spacer.pngspacer.png

 

Edited by PeterScott
PeterScott Veteran II

PeterScott

Posted
Posted

On this day in 1982

spacer.png

 

RiverThames from Greenwich Observatory looking upstream. And Greenwich Maritime Museum and RiverThames looking downstream

 

spacer.png

 

  • Greenie 1
PeterScott Veteran II

PeterScott

Posted
Posted

On this day in 2010

spacer.png

 

Contemplation, Instruction, Action ...

 

spacer.pngspacer.png

spacer.png

 

spacer.pngReaction. 

 

Result.

 

Weston Shore Southampton

PeterScott Veteran II

PeterScott

Posted
Posted (edited)

On this day in 2016

spacer.png

 

spacer.png

 

spacer.png

 

spacer.pngDon Bridge

at Tinsley Bottom Lock

Sheffield S&SYN.

 

Maintenance work

and C&RT Open Day above.

 

And determination about it all.

 

Edited by PeterScott
extra pic
PeterScott Veteran II

PeterScott

Posted
Posted (edited)

On this day in 2017

spacer.png

 

spacer.png

 

Westminster River Thames

 

spacer.png

 

Edited by PeterScott
extra pic
Dav and Pen Rising Star

Dav and Pen

Posted
Posted

I went to see this barge which belonged to The Who and was moored at Pete Townshend’s house above Cleve lock on the Thames. It was one of a pair that the group brought with the idea of floating through France with one as a recording studio and this one fitted out as accommodation. The chap looking after them had the same surname as myself but no relation. It had a 5 cylinder hand start Gardner which fired up straight away. The barge type is a Hagenaar which by coincidence was what we brought some 20 odd years later. I wonder what happened to it.

2E484A6E-8A87-43D1-9BB1-79107F7D38F4.jpeg

  • Greenie 1
Athy Veteran II

Athy

Posted
Posted
16 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

I went to see this barge which belonged to The Who and was moored at Pete Townshend’s house above Cleve lock on the Thames. It was one of a pair that the group brought with the idea of floating through France with one as a recording studio and this one fitted out as accommodation. The chap looking after them had the same surname as myself but no relation. It had a 5 cylinder hand start Gardner which fired up straight away. The barge type is a Hagenaar which by coincidence was what we brought some 20 odd years later. I wonder what happened to it.

2E484A6E-8A87-43D1-9BB1-79107F7D38F4.jpeg

Phew! The French don't realise how close they came to having Keith Moon cruising through La France Profonde.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.