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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

K&A near Fobney Lock

[John Liley]

On 07/05/2021 at 11:01, Athy said:

The Diapason looks a tight fit, and it looks as if her skipper agrees!

The last photo gives us an inkling of just how many men were involved in WW1; after all, this is only one small part of the line, and there must be over a thousand in that picture alone.

 

The picture of troops at Ricqueval is just one of several remarkable photos taken by 2nd Lieutenant David McClellan. With his bulky plate camera gear, on the very same day, he travelled 80 miles along roads crowded with military transport and refugees to take more photos at Abbeville near the mouth of the Somme. The one seen here is of German prisoners-of-war in a compound at that town.

 

The other pic (my own!) is of tows crossing at the southern end of Ricqueval prior to our journey onwards to the second tunnel at Le Tronquoy. The Diapason was, in fact, a comfortable fit - provided the crew kept their heads out of the way of the overhead wires.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

 

 

 

Attention

This lock gate has a metal leg on the up stream side which should be used to assist you when filling the lock.

To use, please

1.  Close the lock gate

2. Unhook the metal leg and place behind the heel grip

3. Operate the lock as normal

4. Replace log onto hook when completed

 

Churlish, I suppose to point out that it's on the 'lower' side of the bottom gate.

 

Aston Lock T&M

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

 

 

Disused lock Beeston River Trent More eighths of May

[ditchcrawler]

12 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2011

Limehouse Basin (Regents Canal Dock) London and River Thames Compare 15Jan1978  24Mar1979  5May2005   5Sep2006  8May2011

saw him out last trip

[Tam & Di]

6 hours ago, John Liley said:

The other pic (my own!) is of tows crossing at the southern end of Ricqueval prior to our journey onwards to the second tunnel at Le Tronquoy. The Diapason was, in fact, a comfortable fit - provided the crew kept their heads out of the way of the overhead wires.

 

We were told by a mariner on the first trip we made to take our vhf aerial down in case it made contact with the overhead cables that provide the power for the tug.

 

Tam

[Tam & Di]

On 07/05/2021 at 11:01, Athy said:

The Diapason looks a tight fit, and it looks as if her skipper agrees!

 A rather larger scale perhaps, but no different really to taking a 7' boat into a narrow lock

 

Tam

[Dav and Pen]

Today in 2004 we went to Gent with our friend Wanis who was buying this 38m to turn into a live aboard. This barge had been used as the pushed part of a pair but had a V8 GM engine and was just out of trade as the owner was retiring. Lots of work ahead but Wanis is a welder by trade.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

Cranfleet Lock

 

River Trent

 

 

[John Liley]

2 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

Today in 2004 we went to Gent with our friend Wanis who was buying this 38m to turn into a live aboard. This barge had been used as the pushed part of a pair but had a V8 GM engine and was just out of trade as the owner was retiring. Lots of work ahead but Wanis is a welder by trade.

A lot of work there - eight times the volume of a 70 foot narrow boat!

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

 

 

Redhill Flood Lock River Soar

and more

 

Compare this

2020 posting from the same day

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Newbury K+A

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratcliffe Lock River Soar (GU Leicester Line)  More ninths of May

[Dav and Pen]

In 2005 still in the dock in Antwerp having doubling to bilge. The joy of 90 year old boats

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

Middlewich Junction

 

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[John Liley]

1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

In 2005 still in the dock in Antwerp having doubling to bilge. The joy of 90 year old boats

 

 

It is the starboard side, generally, that needs the attention, through pssing others on a narrow canal, though in our case, portside bow plating seems to get clobbered as well.

 

[Dav and Pen]

Rainy day in 2016 The dog decided to let the humans get wet.

Edited May 10, 2021 by Dav and Pen
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

 

Tinsley Flight SSYN. Compare posting this day 2020

 

The rope is attached to a sunken cruiser,, whose crew had been distracted by a discussion on the lockside about a dog, while the boat was being caught under the walkway on the inside of the lower gates, just visible in the lower image.

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horsedrawn tripboat Kintbury K&A

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

 

Ashby Canal Association's

newly opened length of canal

 

Snarestone

 

Compare posting this day 2020

[Jen-in-Wellies]

4 hours ago, PeterScott said:

The rope is attached to a sunken cruiser,, whose crew had been distracted by a discussion on the lockside about a dog, while the boat was being caught under the walkway on the inside of the lower gates, just visible in the lower image.

To complete the story, the boat needed divers to refloat it as even empty, the water in the lock is still deep. The owner stripped out and replaced the interior and still has and cruises the boat all these years later. A little more to the sinking than just inattention, but that was the root cause.

[Ray T]

Even though the clouds were about to disgorge their contents it was still lovely to be boating.

 

T & M this afternoon.

 

Edited May 10, 2021 by Ray T

[PeterScott]

Yesterday 2019

 

Dog, Middlewich

 

 

and the corner by the drydock   More tenths of May

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Selby Swing Bridge

 

 

Ready for the sun in the basin

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Marple Junction

and Marple locks

Peak Forest Canal 

 

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