Shardlow Visitors Moorings

[Nightwatch]

Hello.

We are arranging to meet friends during the early May Bank Holiday. They have a caravan and are booking into Shardlow Marina. We have said we will meet them there.

 

What's the mooring like in the area? Nearby or a walk away?

 

Advice needed please.

 

Martyn

[zenataomm]

Shardlow Marina is on the River Trent.

Shardlow visitor moorings are on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

 

However because the river winds around the bottom end of the village the distance is very short to walk.

 

I suggest you look at it on Google Maps, it'll make sense then.

[FidoDido]

5 min walk. Lots of mooring all through town, by the Malt Shovel, Clock warehouse, and either end of town too.

[andywatson]

You should be OK in the village, below Shardlow Lock and under the road bridge on the right. (coming downhill)

There are a few moorings further down on the left near the New Inn and Malt Shovel pubs.

If these are full keep going down and you'll find some more on the right after Bridge 1 before Derwent Mouth Lock.

[GoodGurl]

as long as its not a weekend or bank holiday you should be able to moor outside the Clock Warehouse just before the lock but this is not always possible, failing that just after the lock just off the lock moorings, if you go any further it will be a longgggggggg walk back..

[Guest]

Just through the flood gate on the left there is a bank side mooring that from memory you need pins for. We have moored there a couple of times when everything else in Shardlow itself was chokka.....

[b0atman]

Why not book into marina too and take advantage of the electrickery

[Nightwatch]

Why not book into marina too and take advantage of the electrickery

I like the idea of a shore line, it does the battery's a world of good. But can I justify the cost? No matter how inexpensive.

 

Thanks for the comments. Didn't realise that the 'river' and the canal was so close by each other. Homework required.

 

Martyn

[Nightwatch]

Shardlow Marina is on the River Trent.

Shardlow visitor moorings are on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

 

However because the river winds around the bottom end of the village the distance is very short to walk.

 

I suggest you look at it on Google Maps, it'll make sense then.

Looked at Googly maps. If,and it's only if, I want to moor in the marina, I 'assume' rightly or wrongly, that I pass Shardlow turn right onto the Trent and enter the Marina after a stretch on the Trent.

 

Having said he above. If I find a mooring near the village/town are they mostly 24 hour jobbies? Or 14 day. Have to judge when to get there.

Have to be near Crick for the show end of May. Have decided to back track,down the Coventry,North Oxford and through Braubston,up the Liecester Section to Crick. Certainly less locks for the one woman crew.

 

Martyn

[zenataomm]

You assume correctly concerning your route to Shardlow Marina.

 

It's astonishing the number of boats travelling from the Trent who totally miss the turn into The Trent when looking for it and continue on up through Derwent Mouth Lock.

 

Many years ago whilst sitting outside The Clock Warehouse enjoying a totally unearned or deserved third pint, we observed a commotion occurring under the London Road bridge.

The kerfuffle centered around a large wide beam wooden cruiser that clearly had ambitions regarding its passage that fully exceeded the air draft.

As we approached along the towpath we were impressed to see how quickly they were coping with unmantling the wheelhouse, then Bill pointed out that they should be well versed in this process as they must have done it twice times already since passing through Derwent Lock.

As we stood there mentally calculating how many more bridges they were facing before grinding to a halt when the narrow locks kick in at Burton, the owners had man/children and woman handled a lot of varnished wood and glass along the towpath without almost not damaging very much of it at all. The cruiser obligingly sucked in its extremeties and allowed itself to be gently pulled through into the basin.

 

Sucking their hair and scratching their teeth they then swizzled their heads about and commented on the titchiness of the basin and lack of other boats.

Smiling through clenched teeth the captain expressed his dissatisfaction at the thought of running the gauntlet of those "Bloody bridges" every time and how come they hadn't appeared on the map.

We welcomed him to Shardlow and offered him a pint, his need seemed obvious. With true pain in his eyes and elbows firmly clenched, he sadly declined pointing out they were already running nearly two hours late for their arrival at their new mooring ..... "Is this Shardlow Marina?" he pleaded.

 

Suddenly everything became clear to us, they'd missed the turn into The Trent and continued on up the cut. Ironically they were only about 150 yards away .... by road!

We escorted him up onto the road bridge, pointed down the road and said "That's where you want to be."

The look of total puzzlement on his face was of an intensity I hadn't witnessed in many a year. He expressed his distrust in what his senses were telling him by drawing his thoughts together and succinctly demanding to know .....

"Uh ... but .... erm ... how ... I mean .... why?" His next action was puzzling, he turned around and looked up the road the other way. What did he expect to see .. The Cairngorms?

 

He was so relieved when we explained where he'd gone wrong and that he wasn't going to have his boat shipped by road to its new mooring he bought us a pint.

In turn we helped load his wheelhouse kit on board and assisted him to squeeze through the bridges and past the two overflowing pubs on the corner where around 200 people who'd watched him knowingly go up an hour before now all cheered as he went past again.

[Guest]

That's one hell of a big entrance to miss though. Unless you are boating with your eyes shut.

[Suzie_q]

You assume correctly concerning your route to Shardlow Marina.

 

It's astonishing the number of boats travelling from the Trent who totally miss the turn into The Trent when looking for it and continue on up through Derwent Mouth Lock.

 

Saw a similar situation 2 years ago when we arrived at Porters Bridge to discover a queue to Derwent Mouth lock and a very pretty wooden river cruiser with a big dent in the bow and splinters of wood on the tow path.

 

They had collided with Porters Bridge, been able to turn in the marina entrance and were trying to get back to the lock but where aground by the sewage farm. After much help from the assembled boaters he got moving again and back to Shardlow Marina.

 

It was supposidly their first trip and they had turned left rather than right.

[Woodstock]

Looked at Googly maps. If,and it's only if, I want to moor in the marina, I 'assume' rightly or wrongly, that I pass Shardlow turn right onto the Trent and enter the Marina after a stretch on the Trent.

Having said he above. If I find a mooring near the village/town are they mostly 24 hour jobbies? Or 14 day. Have to judge when to get there.

Have to be near Crick for the show end of May. Have decided to back track,down the Coventry,North Oxford and through Braubston,up the Liecester Section to Crick. Certainly less locks for the one woman crew.

Martyn

. We moored there for 2 years and they didn't have visitors moorings-might be worth you checking with them For such a small place Shardlow has plenty of pubs- the New Inn became our favourite and we had many good meals there. Plenty of moorings on the canal. Enjoy.

[Mrs Trackman]

Looked at Googly maps. If,and it's only if, I want to moor in the marina, I 'assume' rightly or wrongly, that I pass Shardlow turn right onto the Trent and enter the Marina after a stretch on the Trent.

Having said he above. If I find a mooring near the village/town are they mostly 24 hour jobbies? Or 14 day. Have to judge when to get there.

Have to be near Crick for the show end of May. Have decided to back track,down the Coventry,North Oxford and through Braubston,up the Liecester Section to Crick. Certainly less locks for the one woman crew.

Martyn

 

 

 

 

 

Moorings actually in Shardlow are 48 hours. Moorings towards the lock are 14 day. I wouldn't regard them as that long a wslk from the marina.

[Nightwatch]

We will probably arrive in Shardlow tomorrow, ready for the weekend.

 

We plan to head for the 14 day moorings as suggested.

 

Good to meet you, Mrs Trackman, and from a distance Mr Trackman in Burton the other day.

 

Martyn