Hi Folks
"Its been a funny old Day" I do not know where to start, lets start with the weather its been a really grand day, The morning started bright but cold in fact not that far off freezing However as the day progressed the sun broke through and the heat transformed us. from Skipton to Bingley there are 17 swing bridges which we flew up John did advance party and had the bridges ready for us then the girls took over, As a crew they worked perfectly as a team and we were in Bingley in record time.
I will state some facts here, Any boater coming this far needs to invest in a wet suit. the water coming in over the cills of all the b
Bingley five rise and the three below are: without swearing awful they leak and shower the occupants of a 60 ft with a constant avalanche of water I have two bilge pumps that only just kept pace with the flow of water entering the through the decking plates, I had to close all doors and being a trad does not leave a lot of room for manoeuvres I was hit by a cascade of water equivalent to 6 hose pipes. to make matters worse a 50ft cannot exit without having to back into the opposite corning causing an angle acute enough to get the bow out from the lock gate as you are performing this operation you are being subject to a maelstrom of water, I accept that locks are not the most technical of machines however I am sure that if the tradesmen of the 1800 could make a lock gate that does not leak WHY can,t we with today's technology do the same?????
After leaving the bingley three rise we thought we were on a winner and we may get at least three hours in front of our schedule BUT entering the next lock Bugger lugs must have started to feel the cold and wrapped a DUVET around her prop maybe to protect her from the winter night as I do not agree with such frivolity It took three of us three hours to remove the bloody Duvet If I ever find the cretin who throughs whole king size duvets in the canal I swear they will alsobe keeping my prop dry.
As it is we are still ahead of schedule but we could now be further, lets see what tomorrow will bring, that's one thing about boating you could never get boared ???
Big Al
Buggerlugs
"Its been a funny old Day" I do not know where to start, lets start with the weather its been a really grand day, The morning started bright but cold in fact not that far off freezing However as the day progressed the sun broke through and the heat transformed us. from Skipton to Bingley there are 17 swing bridges which we flew up John did advance party and had the bridges ready for us then the girls took over, As a crew they worked perfectly as a team and we were in Bingley in record time.
I will state some facts here, Any boater coming this far needs to invest in a wet suit. the water coming in over the cills of all the b
Bingley five rise and the three below are: without swearing awful they leak and shower the occupants of a 60 ft with a constant avalanche of water I have two bilge pumps that only just kept pace with the flow of water entering the through the decking plates, I had to close all doors and being a trad does not leave a lot of room for manoeuvres I was hit by a cascade of water equivalent to 6 hose pipes. to make matters worse a 50ft cannot exit without having to back into the opposite corning causing an angle acute enough to get the bow out from the lock gate as you are performing this operation you are being subject to a maelstrom of water, I accept that locks are not the most technical of machines however I am sure that if the tradesmen of the 1800 could make a lock gate that does not leak WHY can,t we with today's technology do the same?????
After leaving the bingley three rise we thought we were on a winner and we may get at least three hours in front of our schedule BUT entering the next lock Bugger lugs must have started to feel the cold and wrapped a DUVET around her prop maybe to protect her from the winter night as I do not agree with such frivolity It took three of us three hours to remove the bloody Duvet If I ever find the cretin who throughs whole king size duvets in the canal I swear they will alsobe keeping my prop dry.
As it is we are still ahead of schedule but we could now be further, lets see what tomorrow will bring, that's one thing about boating you could never get boared ???
Big Al
Buggerlugs
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