What a lovely picture this is and unfortunately we now have to un plug it . Its a different world when you are getting electric online instead of having to rely on your batteries and having to produce all the electric through solar or running your engine.
Its time to reverse off our pontoon in Lincoln and head back towards Torksey and then up the river Trent to Shardlow and then back onto the canal system.
After leaving Lincoln and needing a fill up with diesel and get a gas bottle so we pulled in to Burton waters marina.
After ringing them and getting prices before entering we were directed onto the service dock which appeared to be a bit burnt. It seems that a guy with a wooden boat came in for petrol and was cooking his lunch on his gas stove as they started filling his boat with petrol . Needless to say the inevitable happened and the fumes from the petrol set the boat and everything else on fire . The boat as well as the pumps and everything in the vicinity was destroyed. There is a link to the video of what happened below.
Leaving the marina we arrived at Torksey for our passage on the tidal river Trent up to Cromwell lock.
After locking down and in my element we joined the Trent on a Spring tide which carried us up the river Trent at a great speed towards Cromwell. As you can see Carolyn is just not happy on rivers even though there is nothing to worry about.
With a speed limit of 8mph we get plenty of plastics/Tupperware/GRP’S/Yogurt pots speeding past us.
We had a great cruise up to Cromwell lock with the spring tide in our favour all the way up to the lock.
After passing through Cromwell lock and a very long day we arrived back at Newark and were very lucky to pick up this mooring on the pontoon outside of the CRT offices.
After an early morning shop we pulled ropes from cleats at 09.05 and headed up through Town lock in Newark and then on towards Nottingham. The weather was overcast and a bit wet but to be honest we didn't really care . This has to be better than working.
With the weather brightening up we had several locks to negotiate on our way and after a bit of rain the flow in the river had increased making it a lot more fun ,although Carolyn didn't think so.
Nearly in Nottingham as we enter and ascend Holme lock which seemed to be a lot bigger as we were the only ones in it.
The last lock on the Trent before the Nottingham and Beeston canal where we will spend the night before cruising the last bit of the river Trent tomorrow and then back onto the canals .
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The boat that set on fire at Burton Waters was a petrol powered Freeman 22. It was plastic not wooden!
ReplyDeleteI only wrote what the guy who served us in the marina said and he was there
ReplyDeleteat the time. The report does state that 2 boats were damaged so maybe the Stella Maris was the wooden one.
Stella Marie was also a plastic Fairline. We were there also at the time. There are plenty of pictures of the event on our blog.
ReplyDeleteThe burnt out plastic hull of the Freeman that started the fire is still in the smaller yard around the back of the workshops.
Hi Naughty-Cal . As I said I only wrote what the guy that served us said who was probably in his mid to late twenties . I do wonder if after what you have said he was winding us up .
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