Nemesis below Solloms

[davidb]

We thought we might have met ours yesterday morning when we ran into the PennyWort just below the A59 bridge on the Rufford Branch on the way to our winter mooring:

 

 

Firstly we ran staight into it, but came to a complete standsill as it closed in behind us, blocking the prop and rudder. A lot of jiggling about with the gears got us out backwards and we managed to get tied to a tree and off the boat up the bank via the plank to find a phone signal and check on the length of the blockage (about 60m realy bad and 100m not good). We rang the family to re -arange our plans, got through to CaRT eventually and put the kettle on to consider our position.

 

The solution seemed to be - take a little run at it, let the boat come to a stop, reverse half a boat length, repeat.   Again and again. So we felt like we had cried wolf after we got through to Tarleton with  half an hour performing like this. Never needed to open the weed hatch once, thankfully.

[JohnEW2912]

I don't suppose you found a pair of glasses there when you were ploughing through?! My wife fell in when we were turning the boat there about 15 years ago and came out without her glasses.

[davidb]

Sorry, no, you should have reminded us earlier, we would have kept an eye open for them