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On this day Safari and Adria left going downstream. The other 2 arrived in the afternoon heading upstream. They were heading for Germany by the Rhône Rhin  canal which was closed at Dole by the river section being in flood. Floan was going to Belgium from Sete. They all knew each other and we had a very convivial evening on our back deck.

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9 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

On this day Safari and Adria left going downstream. The other 2 arrived in the afternoon heading upstream. They were heading for Germany by the Rhône Rhin  canal which was closed at Dole by the river section being in flood. Floan was going to Belgium from Sete. They all knew each other and we had a very convivial evening on our back deck.

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That's a lot of weight hung on Floan's head line   ? 

 

Tam

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30 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

L00302s.jpg.4d0475c4a05c546bcb5351e6d147650d.jpgIn 1973 - just the 47 years and two days ago

 

Market Harborough Arm GULeicester Line

 

A (blurred) reminder of LifeBeforeTheWeedHatch

Personally I never went into the water to clear the prop but on one occasion in Leicester got a spring bed frame round which stopped the engine dead. Luckily we were just by a factory and borrowed some big cutters from them and the venture scouts on board soon jumped in and cut it off. One benefit of camping boating

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L00293s.jpg.d3d0650bb2b4b5d141c013e20bdd182c.jpg... and also from 1973 on the LeicesterLine summit, Before The Mobile Phone, mesages had to find a way.

 

Chalk on lockgates and bridges could help with the Canallers' Dilemma: arrived from elsewhere to meet a boat: best to walk on and catch up at the flight-of-locks? or wait-for-boat-to-arrive? ...

 

Always seems safer to walk-on (but Adventure Towpaths could be a problem). Boat heading up Marple Locks and valued crew-member gets off to find a morning newspaper: continues along main road to meet the canal and then walked on to catch us up. Sadly the boat was heading for Whaley Bridge at the time ...

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On this day 2009 we were at Conde sur Marne and staying over until Bastille day when Floan came down the canal. Loaded with petrol coke for a cement works on the Rhône. The junction with the Marne canal is a 90 degree turn .

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2 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

Personally I never went into the water to clear the prop but on one occasion in Leicester got a spring bed frame round which stopped the engine dead. Luckily we were just by a factory and borrowed some big cutters from them and the venture scouts on board soon jumped in and cut it off. One benefit of camping boating

 

My introduction to canalling was with  a mixed venture scout group on two self drive ex-working boats (one for the girls and one for the boys) from UCC in 1973.

 

Once into Birmingham we picked up a bladeful of wire on one of the boats and I drew the short straw to jump into the water and try to get if off the prop with a pair of cutters.

 

To date it remains my one and only full immersion in the cut. ?

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Yesterday in the Antipodes.

All "sticks and string", winter racing on classic yachts Auckland.

It was winter, 12deg day, colder on the water, and it rained.

flukey winds and strong outgoing tide in the race start direction caused considerable grief for some at the start, including one boat that had a physical tussle with the start bouy, (in the background in the photo with the harbour bridge)

12 nautical mile course. 

Followed by an outdoor bbq here with the crew tanks to the gas heater .

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They used a tool like that to get our old prop off. It was steel and couldn’t be repaired and we needed a slightly different pitch anyway after the engine change. They certainly used a big spanner to tighten it up. The surveyor decided we needed a new stern bearing hence the hole in the rudder to get the shaft out.

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