Tuesday 26 January 2016

No turning

 

IMG_1957At 09.10 and in lovely sunshine we pulled pins and after filling with water at the slowest tap on the system we headed up the Hillmorton flight of 3 locks. Its the last time I put any logs on the fire before cruising. With the smoke and the sun I couldn't see a bleeding thing.

IMG_1967With Carolyn on lock wheeling duty because she is twice as fast as me, we make good progress up the locks with a bit of help from the crew of Nab Lindy Lou.

IMG_1979Below and above the locks there are 10 acres of fenced off field. Apparently the a water main for the new Hillmorton developement  is going through here and there are some newts that live locally. So far they have found just a few newts in the 10 acres and mooved them to another location. Im sure the newts would have mooved happily by themselves without all this fuss.

IMG_1984I wonder why so many marinas put up signs to say no turning in the marina entrance. Surely it cant do any harm and anyway what can they do about it. If we needed to we would use one to turn especially if it avoided needing to make a long detour to turn.

IMG_1991Back in Braunston and look, nothing has changed . There's still a right boggy mess at the service point. If all the Canal and River Trust managers and office staff that work in nice cosy offices had to trudge through this mess to fill their kettles for their coffe breaks it would soon be made good. I have complained mentioned it to C&RT before, but what a waste of time that was.

IMG_2010Back outside The Boathouse but hopefully only for a couple of days. We need to arrange for getting a new zip replaced in our cratch cover and we then have a few other bits and pieces to do before we are on our way again.

                                                                                                         Happy Days

8 comments:

  1. One reason why some marinas don't like boats turning in their entrance is that doing so tends to push silt that way.

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    1. I've never heard that before, but I suppose it is possible. I know that the one at Braunston is a winding hole and hundreds of boats a year turn there, but I don't know if they have a problem with silt ..interesting !! Thanks for the comment.

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  2. Mmmm, hope you are going to stay away from that pub, my friend - I am sure you're going to healthier and more plump in the pocket if you can stay away ...

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  3. Hi Marilyn ... Sorry but just couldn't resist a quick visit..

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  4. Quite by chance, we were in The Boathouse on Wednesday and recognized NB Inca from having previously been reading the blog. Snapped a pic on the phone while you weren't looking! http://i.imgur.com/BruNPUE.jpg

    Back home in Bangkok now - nice an warm!

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    1. Hi , you should have knocked and said hello. Very good photo we have moved up towards the stop house now for a few days, Carolyn wishes we had some of your weather...Gary & Carolyn

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    2. Yes, that would have been good. We were on our way to see a boat on the Oxford Canal. Would have had a lot to chat about! Next time....

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    3. Look forward to meeting and having a chat ...

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