Thursday 22 September 2011

Who nicked the wood?

Leaving himself to watch the rugby, I set off in search of the Co-op and a hair cut. Having checked with BW for permission to harvest the wood I decided to check on it. Horror of horrors it was gone.

Then I realised somebody had been in to saw it and had put it in a heap by the rear fence. Thank you very much, it was now in manageable pieces ready to load so I abandoned my shopping trip and phoned himself to move the boat up whilst I started lugging it down the bank to waterside.
Daisy took the opportunity to do a bit of her own type of logging.
Having loaded the wood onto the roof I resumed my trip into Saxilby village

The village has a couple of pubs and shops, plus greengrocers, butchers, bakers (no candlestick makers) and a florists. Also a fish and chip shop and Chinese. What more could you want? We haven't done this area justice due to circumstances beyond our control - we shall, however, be back to do it properly another day
On my return we headed off for Torksey Lock.
The tides are getting a bit funny now and are very low so we locked down about 4pm and.struggled to get out of Torksey Lock due to the low tide (and this was high tide!)
I took this from the fore deck looking back into the huge lock - just before we got a little bit stuck
and then back out onto the tidal waters and into a head wind.
Getting a bit cocky now - moored here at Dunham on tidal waters. An early start tomorrow to catch enough water after sunrise.
A narrowboat confused it's left and right and has been stuck on a sand bank just up here for at least 12 hours (that'll be the other left then!!!).

2 comments:

  1. Thats one of our favourite moorings. Just be sure to set some spring lines because you could well get big commerial vessels coming past. Narrowboats tied on just a couple of ropes and cleats have been known to rip the cleats from the pontoons. The pontoon at Gainsborough now doesnt allow narrowboats for that very reason.

    Naughty-Cal

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  2. Tnanks guys, We shall heed your advise next time, but on this trip we haven,t seen any commercial traffic whatsoever and I know Jill was looking forward to meeting one at Normanton Sands!

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