who nicked all the water

[GUMPY]

Coming over Tring summit today from Leighton to Berko quite a few pounds on both sides were down over 6" some by a foot, even the summit was down by a noticable amount. Several boats were on the bottom at obtuse angles.

So

Who nicked alll the water?

[alan_fincher]

Don't know, but as we drove over Billet Lane bridge in Berkhamsted today we saw a moored boat very heavily leaning over, (and I do mean very heavily).

Mind you that pound between Bushes and Gas 2 often seems problematic.

[GUMPY]

Yes I passed that there were also at least a couple of boats aground on the summit even here below rthe riser I am on the bottom and we only draw 2'5"

[alan_fincher]

Yes I passed that there were also at least a couple of boats aground on the summit even here below rthe riser I am on the bottom and we only draw 2'5"

As long as we have some "fit for purpose" Visitor Moorings, who needs anything as trivial as water to float the boat in!

 

All our recent passages through Buckby, Braunston and Hillmorton locks have seen pounds seriously depleted as well, by the way........

[Captain Fizz]

Going up the Buckby flight last Monday in the company of Corona, she was bumping the bottom on the last pound.

[Pembroke]

Going up the Buckby flight last Monday in the company of Corona, she was bumping the bottom on the last pound.

Blimey how things change

Back at the end of March there was so much water we had to wait a while at Buckby while the CRT chaps opened up all the paddles to let water through

[nbfiresprite]

Someone better pop round to the pumping station and stick a quid in the meter.

Edited September 19, 2013 by nbfiresprite

[Guest]

Apparently somebody left a paddle up on each gate and the gates open......

 

Just sayin like....

[Sunsoup]

Someone better pop round to the pumping station and stick a quid in the meter.

LOL

[joflet]

Similar on the West of the Rochdale Summit; many pounds down by 2-3 feet or more. No obvious issues on the Eastern side though - waterfalls evident from the upside gates from Todmorden to Hebden Bridge yesterday!

[Grace and Favour]

Going up the Buckby flight last Monday in the company of Corona, she was bumping the bottom on the last pound.

We are down to the loose change of this month's pension - my wife had the coins in her back pocket

 

 

The Pound was bumping the bottom

[matty40s]

In previous years, BW only ran the back pumps fully in peak season, outside these periods, you would regularly have to either sort the water level out yourself near to Tring, or ring BW to come and do it for you.

[Captain Fizz]

"The" bottom, not "her" bottom!

[Lesd]

When we came through the damaged lock at the Riser last week BW nearly drained the pound above trying to lock us down, the top gates were so poorly sealed. We could have done with a large tarp to drop down there. There's an abundance of water further south, Sharps Lane has plenty

[billS]

Several boats were on the bottom at obtuse angles.

 

 

I hope not! If that was the case, they would be capsized.

[alan_fincher]

There's an abundance of water further south, Sharps Lane has plenty

Be grateful to the good (and often affluent!) people of Berkhamsted, regularly taking large baths and showers, and flushing their loo lots.

 

(Perhaps I mean effluent, not affluent!.......)

[GUMPY]

There is always lots of water there, one winter before they reopened the weir opposite the sewage farm was spent with a ground paddle half drawn 24/7 and the level didn't drop.

Between 57 & 56 was down 2ft this morning ran some down from above to free the boat stuck mid channel below and allow me through. CRT were told but never called back.

 

I hope not! If that was the case, they would be capsized.

doesn't that depend where you measure the angle to the horizontal from, one side will be acute the other obtuse

[billS]

doesn't that depend where you measure the angle to the horizontal from, one side will be acute the other obtuse

 

For a boat, we would be measuring an angle of list from the horizontal, so up to 90 degrees (as in Costa Concorde) would be an acute angle, Beyond that, we are inverted, at an obtuse angle, and in Poseidon Adventure territory.

 

Having said that, it does seem strange that the more accute the angle, the less accute the list.