Cruise log

[slowcoach]

just a quick cruise log for anyone interested

 

 

 

 

 

Just a quick log of our journey and a few notes with them:

 

Saturday 5th May 2007

Number of persons on board: 3

 

Goole to Whitley

Weather conditions:

Sun out, quite warm, slight breeze

 

15:15pm – Step On Board

15:25pm – Untie Moorings and depart

15:30pm – Exit Marina

16:06pm – Pass Rawcliffe moorings

16:26pm – Under M18 Motorway Bridge

16:44pm – Under New Bridge

16:59pm – Under Beevers Bridge

17:10pm – Pass By New Junction Canal Entrance

17:37pm – Under Crow Croft Bridge

17:55pm – 18:05pm – Pollington Lock

18:25pm – Under Heck Railway Bridge

18:37pm – Heck Road Bridge

19:02pm – 19:12pm – Whitley Lock

19:25pm – Moored Up Under Bridge at Jolly Miller Moorings but the rings in the side of the bridge didn’t look too clever so we moved along at back of others and put pins in

 

Total Travelling time: 4 Hours (giver or take a couple of minutes)

Time in car would have been about 20 minutes

 

Sunday 6th May 2007

Number of persons on board: 3

 

 

Whitley to Goole (Return Journey)

Weather Conditions:

Sun out, but very windy, bit of drizzle during night

 

07:05am – Everyone up

08:00am – Breakfast

(Sausage, Egg and Tomato)

(broke 3 eggs by merely picking them up)

08:30am – make way on foot to car boot at Whitley, have a mooch round, me brother bought a C.B radio, and i got some dried sausages for jake, our dog, some pigs ears for my brothers dog Flash and ours Jake, and some markies

10:05am – Back to Boat

10:30am – Check oil and water in boat

10:42am – Cast Off

10:47am – Under A19 Bridge

10:58am – Arrived at Whitley Lock, stopped to use Sanitory station

11:15am – 11:25am – Whitley Lock

11:45am – Heck Road Bridge

11:55am – Heck Railway Bridge

12:20pm – 12:32pm – Pollington lock (shared lock with 3 other boats, an Atlanta which the wind has got and was all over the shop, a 50 foot narrowboat and a widebeam plastic about 30 foot or more, along here was very windy, Atlanta came in lock then reversed hit side of lock and cracked corner fender, the wind was very strong, the widebeam grp, scraped along lock gates with the wind blowing it onto it, thought it was gonna get stuck length ways, weren’t using long enough ropes, our nb and the other perfectly calm, the message to all boaters GET A STEEL NB OR WIDEBEAM BOAT, after came out of lock moored up to wait for steve finishing lock and then we reflected on the lock, as you do)

12:46pm – Crow Croft Bridge

13:09pm – Pass Entrance to New Junction Canal

13:18pm – Beevers Bridge

13:32pm – New Bridge

13:46pm – M18 Motorway Bridge

14:02pm – Pass Rawcliffe Moorings

14:36pm – Enter Marina

14:40pm – Moored Back in berth

 

Total Travelling Time: 3 Hours 58 Minutes (give or take a couple of minutes)

Time in car: 20 minutes

 

 

 

 

 

the only problem we had started in saturday in pollington lock took boat out of gear into neutral and engine died, but starts easily again as it normally does, about 7 or 8 times yesterday but only 2 or 3 today, when it is moving its okay but when you take it out of gear the engine dies, and we have found that it puts more revs on it self other than that we had a really nice time, any ideas on the engine/gear situation

 

 

any comments on the trip we had would be appreciated(as long as they are nice)

Edited May 6, 2007 by slowcoach