Boat/Weir interface on the Nene.

[lampini]

Being the Daily Fail, the info is prolly all wrong, but any ideas which hire company this is?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226937/Shocking-moment-14-tonne-narrowboat-smashes-river-sluice-gate-Northamptonshire.html

[Keeping Up]

Yes most of the details are wrong, as expected from that publication. It wasn't a hired boat but the "journalist" probably didn't realise that there was any other way of having a boat. Note the date on the article, November 2012; it was discussed at length on here, you could probably search for the original threads.

[carlt]

As the story is over a year old there is probably a thread you can search for.

 

Edited to add: struggling to keep up with the Jones.

Edited February 6, 2014 by carlt

[Burgiesburnin]

Looks like a mess. Must have been a really frightening situation. I didn't see where or if it mentioned the time of day but if this wasn't in full daylight it must have been very traumatic.

[matty40s]

It was indeed on here, quite a long thread, and the owner is a forum member.

[lampini]

Ah - idiot didn't read the date on article apologies! It just appeared on my FB feed..

[Mike Tee]

I thought, that looks identical to one a year or so ago, almost looks like the same location.

And it looks a similar colour too ...............................

[Pembroke]

This happened a couple of years ago and from memory it was a retired couple who had just bought the boat and it had either been refitted or was about to have a refit before they set off on long cruise

 

Can't remember how it happened but I'm pretty sure everybody was okay

[ditchcrawler]

Being the Daily Fail, the info is prolly all wrong, but any ideas which hire company this is?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226937/Shocking-moment-14-tonne-narrowboat-smashes-river-sluice-gate-Northamptonshire.html

And doing someone who had broken down a favor I got stuck on the same weir in the floods before that one, but I managed to rope it off.

[MoominPapa]

the owner is a forum member.

Not as far as I know. The boat (and its owners) were our next-door neighbours at Bill Fen marina, which might be what you are remembering.

 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither boat nor owners have ever been at Bill Fen since.

 

MP.

Edited February 6, 2014 by MoominPapa

[Scholar Gypsy]

Here you go: 201 postings on the earlier thread. Ditchford Lock.

 

I went over the Nene near there on the train today : rather wet.

[matty40s]

Not as far as I know. The boat (and its owners) were our next-door neighbours at Bill Fen marina, which might be what you are remembering. Perhaps unsurprisingly, neither boat nor owners have ever been at Bill Fen since. MP.

Ah, sorry, knew there was good informed forum feedback at the time.

[ditchcrawler]

Just been a posting on Facebook saying it has been restored at Ringstead

[tree]

Here you go: 201 postings on the earlier thread. Ditchford Lock.

 

I went over the Nene near there on the train today : rather wet.

yep we still on Red Flag here due to the rain

[Chop!]

It was brought to our marina and bought by them, it was to be modified to become another day boat, but recently a neighbour sold his boat and bought this one and has started re-fitting it with the help of all and sundrie, it's been nick-named 'The Boat that Blackthorn Marina built'