Winter casualties

[Naughty Cal]

I met this boat, and its owner at Torksey last year. nice chap who was trundling up to Newark to met his girlfriend.

 

by all accounts he'd put heaps of work into her, and she was looking lovely. Sunken boats make Fuzzyduck cry.

 

The Freeman has been raised again and pulled out of the water to have some work done. It has poured engine oil all over the marina so not sure how well its engine is anymore.

 

NB Moorhen at Torksey has also been refloated and seems to be floating happily on her mooring. Not sure why that one sank.

[Heffalump]

Not sure why that one sank.

 

But was it sunk?

[Naughty Cal]

But was it sunk?

 

NB Moorhen was well and truely sunk. All you could see was a little bit of the roof

[Heffalump]

I think we can call that sunk, was it trying to be a submarine?

[Josher]

A bit sunk (north of Nantwich) - sad all the same.

 

[Naughty Cal]

I think we can call that sunk, was it trying to be a submarine?

 

I think there must be something in the water at Torksey. They are up and down like a whores knickers there at the minute

[Heffalump]

LOL. Must be a horrible feeling

[Matthew Dowson]

Morning Mist was bought by Pennine Cruisers and is for sale by them after they had raised her. Ian Clarke said that the connecting pipe to the water tank had fractured, the water dumped into the boats bilge, leaked through the bulkhead into the engine hole, the water then pushed the stern down the vents under the water. After they had pumped it out and left it, the refilled water tank then did the same again - after which they found the cause.

[Jim Riley]

I had a puncture on one of my wheels on my car, but it was only flat at the bottom, maybe the top half was punctured just the bottom half.

Puncture? was it the last fork in the road, just turn the wheel round so the flat bit is on top and you'll be fine.