RCR Rescue Narrowboat on the Trent

[Naughty Cal]

Details on their Facebook page here.

 

https://www.facebook.com/River-Canal-Rescue-360550173965172/

 

Seems they missed the turn off onto the Beeston Canal and went up the non navigable section of the Trent, running aground just before the weir!

[rusty69]

Last time we were on the Trent we helped pull a couples narrowboat off a corner as they had cut it too fine. I think it was an ebbing tide too (although may be wrong).

 

The Rivers are a great place to visit but require a bit more planning than your average canal journey.

[Naughty Cal]

Last time we were on the Trent we helped pull a couples narrowboat off a corner as they had cut it too fine. I think it was an ebbing tide too (although may be wrong).

 

The Rivers are a great place to visit but require a bit more planning than your average canal journey.

This is on the non tidal Trent.

 

They have missed the entrance to the Nottingham Canal and continued up the non navigable Trent, almost making it to Beeston Weir, which isn't a bad effort!

[Mal in Somerset]

Just read the RCR facebook posting.

 

becoming grounded just before the wear...!

 

Didn't realise the trent went as far as sunderland these days!

Edited November 8, 2016 by Mal in Somerset

[koukouvagia]

I remember thirty odd years ago hauling a working boat off a shoal in the Trent. We had a little Springer at the time.

[Naughty Cal]

I have lost count of the number of stranded boats we have passed on the tidal Trent this year, far more then I can remember in previous years.

 

Not that often one gets lost though!

[Guest]

This is on the non tidal Trent.

 

They have missed the entrance to the Nottingham Canal and continued up the non navigable Trent, almost making it to Beeston Weir, which isn't a bad effort!

 

We once got nearly caught out there, by not keeping far enough to the left (there are signs to warn you to ) we just cleared the end of the lock landing to pass the correct side. I can imagine that if you do get the wrong side the pull of the current would easily pull lots of boats towards the weir.

 

The moral of the tale is not to cut the corner and keep well over to the left particularly if there is a strong current flowing on the river. (though I'm not saying this boat did what we did).

 

There is from memory a floating barrier but presumably this boat managed to ride it.

Edited November 8, 2016 by MJG

[WJM]

It must be a couple of miles fro, Nottingham up to the weir at Beeston. How could they have failed to notice their mistake?!

[Proper Charlie]

Looking at the photos it seems as though they were heading upstream, so I imagine the turn they missed wasn't Trent Lock but the one at the other end of Nottingham - off the Trent at Meadow Lane, opposite the City Ground and just before Trent Bridge.

[Naughty Cal]

 

We once got nearly caught out there, by not keeping far enough to the left (there are signs to warn you to ) we just cleared the end of the lock landing to pass the correct side. I can imagine that if you do get the wrong side the pull of the current would easily pull lots of boats towards the weir.

 

The moral of the tale is not to cut the corner and keep well over to the left particularly if there is a strong current flowing on the river. (though I'm not saying this boat did what we did).

 

There is from memory a floating barrier but presumably this boat managed to ride it.

No. They have come up the non navigable river the other way!

Looking at the photos it seems as though they were heading upstream, so I imagine the turn they missed wasn't Trent Lock but the one at the other end of Nottingham - off the Trent at Meadow Lane, opposite the City Ground and just before Trent Bridge.

Correct.

[WJM]

So they ignored the very obvious canal entrance, passed under Trent Bridge and the other ones in the city, and travelled two or three miles up river. Jeez they were lost!

[Guest]

No. They have come up the non navigable river the other way!

Correct.

 

Ah damn, memo to self read stuff correctly.

 

That does take some doing!!

[Dave123]

Oops! I wonder how quickly RCR got to them? Would this count as a real emergency if the boat was only stuck not sinking?

[Naughty Cal]

So they ignored the very obvious canal entrance, passed under Trent Bridge and the other ones in the city, and travelled two or three miles up river. Jeez they were lost!

Just measured it on Google Earth. Nearly 4.5 miles from the lock to the weir at Beeston along the non navigable river!

 

How did they not notice they had gone wrong?

[rusty69]

It amazes me how people can get caught out. We often visit a popular Norfolk sea side town where a siren is sounded everytime the tide is coming in to warn people. On a regular basis the lifeboat is called out because the people have been cut off by the tide.

[mrsmelly]

It must be a couple of miles fro, Nottingham up to the weir at Beeston. How could they have failed to notice their mistake?!

 

It is actualy navigable. There is a channel if you know where it is for very shallow draughted stuff such as narrowboats. Even stuff of 4 feet plus can get quite a way under and along from Trent bridge.

 

Tim

[billS]

 

It is actualy navigable.

 

It must be - after all they navigated it until it wasn't.

[Naughty Cal]

 

It is actualy navigable. There is a channel if you know where it is for very shallow draughted stuff such as narrowboats. Even stuff of 4 feet plus can get quite a way under and along from Trent bridge.

 

Tim

We have been part way up it by dinghy. Didn't realise we could get all the way to the weir though. It was getting a little shallow in places.

 

Might have to try again.

[mrsmelly]

We have been part way up it by dinghy. Didn't realise we could get all the way to the weir though. It was getting a little shallow in places.

 

Might have to try again.

 

Yeah you can but it does of course vary depending on water levels which as you know can be varied quite substantialy on that section especialy by the sluices at Holme pierrpoint. Its a nice trip with the right levels but of course is advised quite correctly as non navigable by CART etc though its not actualy under CARTS duristiction.

 

Tim

[sirweste]

cool little adventure to have, would have been alright if they'd got to the weir, realised, turned around and gone back.

[ditchcrawler]

How would they know they were going the wrong way if they have never been that way before after missing the turnoff and signs. From the photo it looks quite a wide river up to the weir?

[Naughty Cal]

How would they know they were going the wrong way if they have never been that way before after missing the turnoff and signs. From the photo it looks quite a wide river up to the weir?

Having missed the lock signs there probably wouldn't be any other signs.

 

It isn't navigable so why should there be signs? Boats wouldn't usually be up there further then the moorings area.

[FadeToScarlet]

Been up there a few times, albeit in rowing boats, racing the Head of the Trent- starting up towards the weir, racing back through Nottingham, and finishing towards Holme Pierrepont- the wind tunnel cunningly disguised as a rowing lake.

[mrsmelly]

Been up there a few times, albeit in rowing boats, racing the Head of the Trent- starting up towards the weir, racing back through Nottingham, and finishing towards Holme Pierrepont- the wind tunnel cunningly disguised as a rowing lake.

 

Lovely bit of our system though innitt.

 

Tim

[tom_c]

If only the side lock at Beeston was still in use, they could have just gone around the weir then!

Tom