tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54905818068728302892024-03-06T02:31:49.933+00:00Nb.YarwoodThis blog is about our life aboard Yarwood, a 66' Tug style narrowboat launched in Jan 2012. Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.comBlogger661125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-21711672290961564622015-06-08T09:00:00.001+01:002015-06-08T09:00:24.257+01:00Post lunch on a sandbankSo we have lunched and celebrated our arrival on the sandbank in the Wash and as the tide turns; we came out of Boston on a falling tide and it is now rising to take us in to Wisbech, we prepare to depart.<br />
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Jackie 'O' has been resurrected and joins Amanda on the back of WaL (not sure where Lisa has gone) for a chat about the Greek finances...</div>
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David Lewis, armed with boat shaft, is trying to locate an expensive ladder that has disappeared from WaL's bow.</div>
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Sarah and Andy suitably fed and watered are ready for the off</div>
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The dutch barge that joined us reverses off of the sandbank</div>
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WaL gets stuck but not for long</div>
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With the change of tides we got a change of weather, the sun was obscured by a cloud cover and the wind had picked up. See photo's on <a href="http://seyellas-journey.blogspot.co.uk/">Nb. Seyella</a> Blog here for this bit - I think my camera had jammed and I was trying to clean it at this point.<br />
The move of the sand back was a bit shall we say, chaotic. Daryl had briefed 'skippers' about what came next, what they needed to do but the execution was muddled and boats set off in all directions for a few moments before 'pennies dropped' and we were soon playing follow-the-leader again.</div>
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Heading down the straight channel of the tidal R. Nene on our way to Wisbech and an overnight mooring.</div>
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The crew of this freighter were somewhat bemused by the sight of us as we pass below them</div>
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Sutton swing bridge in the distance carrying the A17 trunk road across the river</div>
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Seyella and Panacea follow us beneath the span of Sutton bridge</div>
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As we approach Wisbech on a fast flowing flood tide we come alongside Nb.What a Lark as per Pilot instruction and raft the two boats. Amanda and I secure the bows running lines back and forth to until we are happy they are secure and David and Lisa are doing the same at the sterns of the boats.</div>
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We are to wind (turn) the boats and approach Wisbech in reverse with the bows facing the fast running tide. The turn starts now.</div>
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Still turning and being swept into Wisbech</div>
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Completing the turn, Joe and David operating the reverse and forward gears on each boat to assist the turn</div>
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Nb.'s Clarence and Seyella proceeding in reverse</div>
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Easy as she goes past a 360 degree dredger and a catamaran and into a berth at the end/start of the Wisbech harbour.</div>
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We had to wait for two hours for the incoming tide reach 'slack water' before we turned the boats again so that it would be easier to get away in the morning. After that operation was completed it was time for guests to be ferried back to their cars to start their journey's home. It had been a very long day and bed was calling so after everyone had left it was a lovely hot shower and bed!</div>
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The next morning I was up at 4am...it should have been 5am but what's a hour when you can't tell the time? </div>
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With instructions from the pilot, and the lockkeeper at the tidal lock at the Dog in a Doublet, to leave between six and six thirty we were up and away, waving to David and Lisa as they untied us and we escaped with their boat strapped to Yarwood. </div>
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The advice from the pilot was we needed power and steering from both boats to make our way through Wisbech and boy did we.</div>
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Making our way carefully through Wisbech with about a tea cup of water beneath the baseplate. The tide was still running against us and we began to think our timing was all wrong but the experts had said....<br />
I think the timing was all wrong and we could safely have left at least an hour later but hey ho. We got stuck, fortunately just out of sight of David and Lisa, and not matter what we tried could make no headway. Waving through Nb. Clarence and their passing pushed a little water under us and a foot or three of progress was achieved. Same with Panacea and Seyella and every foot by foot we progessed through Wisbech. Out into open countryside the sky turned black and the heavens opened and deluged us and sent lightening rods into the ground around us. The camera and self got soaked.<br />
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Arriving at the Dog in a Doublet lock they were awaiting us and we were waved in. The use of a shoe horn was required to get out 14' wide by 70' long 'raft' into the lock but we did it with everyone's cooperation.<br />
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Guillotine gate closing...is it going to miss the tiller???</div>
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We sat in the lock for an hour while we were all quizzed about registration numbers, home addresses and our boat licence status. Then those that needed facility keys for Environment Agency waters and /or licences were invited up to the office for their purchases. Joe also blagged a tour from Ann of Viator the dutch barge and was very impressed. I suspect that if their is ever going to be another boat it might be something like that.<br />
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The trip has been everything and more than I anticipated. The dynamics of the group of boaters that set out together to share this adventure has been the 'icing on the cake' and their comradeship has been invaluable. The cruise up through Nottingham and the Trent, all new waters for Joe and myself, on to the Fossdyke and the R. Witham has been very enjoyable and we will come this way again. And the crossing of the Wash..great, delighted to have done it and impressed with how well Yarwood handled the choppy blue stuff. </div>
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The run in Wisbech and then on to Peterborough was less enjoyable but it was a means to an end because we are now on the R. Nene and ready to savour the joys of cruising this lovely waterway.</div>
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It's Thursday and it has dawned beautifully sunny and windless for our crossing of the Wash. A <em>WhatsAp</em> message goes around the group of '<em>Washers</em>' to say we will start off for the lock at 9.15 in the order we go into the lock. </div>
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Nb. What a Lark is first into the lock so of they go, we are next so just casting off to follow them down to the Grand Sluice Lock</div>
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Following WaL into the Lock</div>
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Nb. Clarence follows us down and he will slip in between WaL and Yarwood</div>
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Joe and Derek getting Nb. Clarence secured to Yarwood's stern </div>
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I think Lisa is getting her husband David slavered in sun block</div>
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Sarah and Andy and Ship's dog Floyd on the tug deck anticipating the opening of the lock gates. No sun block for this rufty-tufty pair but our guests looked a bit more 'ruddy' at the end of the trip!</div>
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Clarence leads off followed by What a Lark</div>
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After 30 minutes waiting in the lock for the tidal Witham to reach the level of the non tidal river the gates are opened and we have two and half minutes to get out before they are closed again, no time to dither about then. <br />
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We are now on the tidal stretch of The Haven and about to pass under St. Boltoph's tower</div>
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Looking back towards the lock Seyella and Panacea have followed us out</div>
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Andy and Floyd check out some of the commercial boats tied against the haven walls</div>
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We were warned to expect quite a 'race' as the tide narrows through the swing bridge</div>
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Here comes Nb Seyella with Mags and Geoff - Where's you hat Mags?</div>
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Sarah takes the helm while Joe fiddles with the marine radio</div>
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Here we are out of the Haven and into the Wash. Just a smidgen of turbulence and then calm again. The tea shirts have been supplemented with sweat shirts as the wind is cooling of the coast but conditions are perfect.<br />
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Seyella making a photo op</div>
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Geoff and Margaret</div>
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Nb. What a Lark takes the lead of the convoy, they had Daryl our Pilot aboard, Nb Clarence drops back to number two boat as we play follow-the-leader.</div>
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A lovely elegant motor yacht ...the crew were very interested in the convoy of five ditch crawlers....or was it a mirage?</div>
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The weather conditions were conducive to a beaching on a sandbank for lunch. WaL turns 90 degrees and takes her bow on to the sandbank followed by Clarence.</div>
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WaL is aground and Clarence follows suit</div>
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Now we start the turn</div>
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NB Panacea turning in to beach</div>
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Amanda capturing the moment from WaL's cabin top</div>
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Derek talking to the Pilot</div>
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Lots of these about</div>
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Here we be, five narrowboats beached on a sandbank in the Wash</div>
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The dogs were beside themselves with glee, Floyd and Fletcher were swimming, Meg was paddling.<br />
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Fletcher</div>
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Got It!</div>
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David Lewis, Derek and Sheila enjoy a celebratory glass of fizz! The smiles say it all.</div>
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The food came out and the beers, ,tea, whatever the requirement, and a happy band wandered about and paddling of just sat and talked. So far it had been a brilliant experience and the weather had blessed us.</div>
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From Sandbank to Wisbech harbour tomorrow.</div>
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The next window for our crossing was likely to be Thursday so on Wednesday afternoon we were summoned to the Lockeeper's office for a briefing on lock procedure and safety and mathematics and seals and pensions and navigation lights and what we needed to do if we have to turn back; a jolly time was had by all.....<br />
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The Stump</div>
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On Wednesday morning ahead of our briefing three valiant 'washers' went up the 'Stump', the tower of famous Boston parish church of St. Boltoph's and while they did that the wiser three went off to sit in the sunshine at a café on the market square and enjoy a cuppa and a scone.<br />
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Margaret of Nb. Seyella was trying out here new lightweight folding wheelchair so that we could all get out and about together.</div>
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Lisa, Nb. What a Lark (WaL) was orderer of teas and sustenance and while Geoff, David and Sheila climbed the tower we sat and waited for them in civilised surroundings. </div>
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We ended up going to bed at 11.30pm knowing that if we were lucky the dogs would let us stay there until maybe six, maybe not and the day for our big adventure was fast looming. <br />
Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-12661817697021124222015-05-28T19:53:00.002+01:002015-05-28T19:53:25.587+01:00Six and a half miles nearer BostonWe left our mooring at Bardney Village late morning and headed off towards Woodall Spa, some six and a half miles further alone the R. Witham towards Boston. I sat on the tug deck in the sunshine with Floyd for perhaps an hour before a <em>seasonal</em> shower of hailstones drove dog and self inside, leaving Joe to cope with the elements.<br />
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This is the extensive sugar beet works at Bardney, closed in 2003 because the economics of growing and processing beet made to sense...shame.<br />
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After tea and cakes aboard <em>Seyella</em> I head off with the dogs to explore our surroundings.</div>
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The defunct Woodall rail station, a victim of the Dr Beeching cuts in 1963</div>
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Striking out towards Woodall Spa which is north of the river I turn a sharp right and head off into 'no mans land' looking for the remains of yet another Abbey.Lincolnshire seems to have been inundated with religious settlements they seem to occur every five miles or so. I imagine that this is productive land, the Church owns great tracts of it and therefore the Abbeys thrive.</div>
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This thirty foot 'monolith' is almost all that remains of Kirkstead Abbey which was founded in 1139 and established in in 1187. The ground around this tower of stone is testament to the extent of the former structures and the remnants of the fish pools are there to be seen. Good King Henry saw the demise of this Abbey along with all the others when he dissolved the monasteries in his great 'land grab' and <em>tax dodge</em>, no more 'Peter's pence' heading of to Rome!<br />
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Extinct fish pool</div>
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And again, the remnants of another fish pool</div>
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And here, just in water, another fish pool. This would have been a vital source of food <br />
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A little further along the lane is the church of St. Leonard. Part of the Abbey and built in the thirteenth century it is quite exquisite. I didn't see inside as it was locked but the outside was very interesting.<br />
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Having returned from walking the boys I got the bike out and peddled up into Woodall Spa. This is an elegant settlement that was founded in 1811 when mineral rich waters were discovered and the fashion of 'taking the waters', allowed the area to become a Spa in the same way the Malvern or Tunbridge Wells or Harrogate had embraced the Regency fashion.</div>
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The Kinema, a cinema in the woods built in the 1920's and equipped with a Compton organ. if I had more time I would dearly like to see a film here and soak up the ambiance.<br />
Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-32073329828423901452015-05-28T08:44:00.002+01:002015-05-28T08:44:24.389+01:00A couple of days at BardneyHaving left Lincoln on Monday we moored above Bardney lock and stayed put until Wednesday morning. It was a chance to explore on foot or bicycle and both options were utilised.<br />
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Setting off for a walk on Tuesday morning we found the lock jammed with floating reed. We stayed to help clear it, opening the bottom gates and lifting the top slackers to flush it through but it after twenty minutes it didn't want to budge so Lisa called C&RT to inform them. The keb (a rake like tool on a long handle) was too short to allow us to get to the reed from the lock side and squishing the bottom gates to alter the flow didn't help either. When a boat showed up to lock down and the man proceeded to tell us that we needed to 'flush it through' and was dismissive of David's assertion that we had been <em>trying that for twenty minutes</em> we left him to it...arrogance doesn't deserve or require help so we went to explore Bardney village.<br />
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Tupholme (sheep island) Abbey remains</div>
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Within a couple of miles of each other are the remains/ruins of two former abbeys, one at Bardney and one at Tupholme. Invited to join the Wally's (WaL crew) for a cycle ride I readily agreed, the first day we covered nine miles and the second day over twelve...I am somewhat wary of what a third day may bring!</div>
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Intrepid cyclists, David and Lisa checking out the information board at Tupholme Abbey site</div>
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At the village of Southey we came across this tiny church that was erected by the village towards the end of the 19th century and is kept in immaculate condition.</div>
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This newly commissioned stained glass window depicts the men of Southey that have died in war. The figures in khaki were the victims of the first world war, the figures to the right are aircrew from world war two and the chap in green lost his life in Afghanistan or Iraq.<br />
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The interior of Southey church</div>
Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-19384783916573560052015-05-26T07:35:00.004+01:002015-05-26T07:35:53.655+01:00Farewell Lincoln Monday dawned dull and cold. Is this really the end of May?? With last minute things completed in Lincoln we dismantled our connection to shore power and followed Nb. What a Lark, the Wally's, off across the Brayford Pool towards the far corner and the start of the R. Witham Navigation.<br />
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Brayford Pool</div>
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We have a green light to indicate that the river levels are fine, rather than it is clear to proceed through the narrows; as it happened the plastic boat coming the other way had a quick panic when confronted by two steel ditch crawlers coming towards him.</div>
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Wal makes the turn to go through the Glory Hole ahead of us</div>
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The <em>Glory Hole</em> is created by a bridge that carries the old Roman Ermine Way, now the High Street, with its shops on top across the R. Witham. </div>
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The Glory Hole from the other side</div>
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The river now passes between shops, offices, inns and plazas until it reaches Stamp End Lock</div>
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Lisa has prepared the lock for Wal while we hold off. Concerns about the length of the cill in this lock and the safety of getting a 70' boat through without mishap meant that we were not sharing the lock. </div>
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Seen en route, eat your heart out Milton Keynes, the R. Witham has a steel cow!</div>
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We reached the extensive pontoon visitor moorings above the next lock at Bardney and moored up rather than drop down.</div>
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Walking back to the boat with the dogs..plenty of mooring and shore power should you want it.</div>
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Five of our eight crew members set off yesterday morning to walk UP the hill to the Tourist Information Office and book ourselves on a City walk. Waiting to cross the road as we left Brayford Pool, the former inland harbour at the base of the City hill we heard the distinct rumble of Harley Davidson motor cycles. The International Harley Convention was in town and really boosting the tourist takings!<br />
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Happy Harley owners</div>
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Our first point of interest as we will be going through here tomorrow, was the Glory Hole which is our route east out of Lincoln, off the Fossdyke and on to the R. Witham.</div>
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Wending through narrow alleys and steep steps we emerge on the High Street, the former Roman Ermine Way.</div>
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The view along the R. Witham from the High Street</div>
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Turning left we start to head up the hill towards the Cathedral Quarter and the original Roman and Medievil origins of the City of Lincoln.</div>
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Steep Hill, and well named</div>
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A former medieval bank, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_House">The Jews House</a> and Jews Court. Money lending was the forte of the Jews as Christianity forbad usury in much the same way the Islam does now. Jews were a welcome addition to commerce and Kings when they needed money and a useful scapegoat when they didn't. Now a <a href="http://www.jewshouserestaurant.co.uk/">restaurant</a> and the place that David, Lisa and I had a splendid lunch.<br />
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Yet another former Jewish establishment. Its robust construction of thick stone walls where the contempory in mid eleventh century would have been largely oak framed and wattle and daub infill indicates the likely use it was put to, i.e. a bank.</div>
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Arriving at the tourist Office we met Vic our guide and it was just us five! Our extremely well informed and fascinating guide spent two and a half hours introducing us to Roman and medieval Lincoln and it was worth every minute.</div>
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The house occupied by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford">Lady Katherine Swynford</a> of Kettlethorpe Manor, widow of Sir Hugh Swynford, mistress of John of Gaunt and latterly his wife and Duchess. The house is in Catheral Close and her mortal remains are entombed beneath the High Altar in the Catheral.</div>
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Bank Holiday weekend and there was a joust going on as well as demonstrations of medieval crafts.<br />
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From atop the castle walls I am looking down on the Georgian façade of the Victorian prison</div>
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Within the precincts of the Castle is the County Court House and the former Victorian gaol. Lincoln Castle remained an administrative centre of Lincoln and although they don't imprison and execute in the grounds any longer justice is still administered here.<br />
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One of the two mottes/mounds in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Castle">Lincoln Castle</a>. This is the Observers tower and the other is the Lucy tower which is now a ruin and a place of burial for those executed at Lincoln Castle. Public hangings were carried out on the top of Cobb tower where upwards of fifteen thousand spectators would gather to watch some poor sod spend half and hour dangling on a rope in their death throes, this was in the days before 'the drop' that despatched you quickly by breaking your neck.<br />
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View of the west front of the Cathedral and the medieval street pattern laid out below us.</div>
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We went off to see the original copy of the Magna Carta in its secure and darkened vault before a refreshing ice cream and the tramp back down Steep Hill to Brayford Pool and our boats. Lovely day, lovely City!</div>
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This dutch barge was just moving off the water as we snuck up behind him.</div>
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What a Lark waiting for us to vacate the water point.</div>
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We were stopping off at <a href="https://www.burtonwatersmarina.co.uk/">Burton Waters Marina</a> for fuel and as we approached the marina the entrance was made clear to us by a GRP shooting out under our bow. Ah there it is thought Joe as he slammed Yarwood into reverse...or something like that perhaps.. The first plastic was soon followed by his plastic mate who again gave no warning hoot as he pulled out but Joe was ready and although I could see 'ramming speed' flash across his expression we made the turn in without destroying either boat.<br />
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Helpful staff as we fill the generator tank. 75p per litre self declaration.</div>
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This looks a very nice marina complex with housing all around and attractively set out moorings,<br />
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Sadly the fuel pontoon is designed for higher sided plastic cruisers so Yarwood's newly painted bow flare/side paid the price</div>
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We had just finished fuelling when What a Lark arrived to do the same.</div>
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On the way out Joe demonstrated the use of the horn to warn other boaters</div>
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Turned towards Lincoln we pass the Pyewipe Inn (Pyewipe = Peewit, Lapwing) and the Dutch barge again that had preceeded Wal along the cut.</div>
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Foss Dyke into Lincoln</div>
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On the approach to Lincoln there are extensive residential moorings and a real variety of craft both in style and condition.</div>
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Rafted up together, Yarwood and WaL almost under the flyover on the Brayford Trust visitor moorings. </div>
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We were met by Geoff as we approached and he assisted us to get moored up before WaL arrived and rafted up with us. Clarence is just behind and Seyella a little further back. Our £10 a night charge for mooring includes hook-up (shore power) so as I type the washing machine is working through its fourth wash load and I an eying up the dogs beds for a little freshen next.</div>
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Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-82948498774365668572015-05-24T11:43:00.000+01:002015-05-24T11:43:04.637+01:00Day Trip to...the pastOne stop north on the rail line from Saxilby is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainsborough,_Lincolnshire">Gainsborough</a>, a town on the R. Trent and once, as with many others, an important inland port. Now the river traffic has ceased and the wharves gone but on the edge of town is one of the best preserved medieval manor houses in the UK. On Thursday David of <a href="http://nbwhatalark.blogspot.co.uk/">Nb.What a Lark</a> went off to London to see the cricket at Lords and Lisa and I jumped on the train to Gainsborough. We walked up through the town from the rail station and located Old Gainsborough Hall. The great manor house was built in 1460 or thereabouts and replaced a smaller house just to the north at Ingeby. Sir Thomas Bough (pronounced bruff) had the place built and the Brough family managed to hold on to it until 1596 when it was sold to a non-conformist London merchant by the name of Hickman. <br />
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The brick wing in the foreground was family accommodation together with the great hall that links the wing to the rear. The 'wing' at the rear primarily comprises servants quarters, kitchen, pantry's and the like.<br />
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The magnificent great hall</div>
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Ceiling detail of the great hall</div>
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Lisa in the Buttery...not where butter is produced but rather where the <em>butts</em> of beer and ale and wine are kept for serving in the great hall, having been brought up from the cellars and where the <em>butt</em>...ler has them under lock and key</div>
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Back in the Great Hall after our tour of this fascinating building and there was a class of <em>little people</em> from a school near Boston dressed in historic custom playing lord of the manor and having a grand old time. Richard III and Henry VIII who had visited this Hall in its heyday might have recognised some of the antics that these children were enacting...<br />
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Across the road from the Old Gainsborough Hall is the church of All Saints. The former medieval church had fallen into disrepair so was rebuilt in 1748 keeping the medieval tower but adding a classical revivalist nave.<br />
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Medievil tower</div>
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Classical interior with stunning pastel coloured plasterwork</div>
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L-R Derek and Sheila, the Clarence crew, Geoff and Margaret, the Seyella crew, Amanda the famous boat stalker cum boat sharer, Lisa, Joe and David.</div>
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We headed south from Saxilby and soon got a glimpse of our next destination, Lincoln in the east. </div>
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The footpath took us through this strip of planting, about twenty feet deep and the width of the field.</div>
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Presumably this is for bees and pollination and is subsidised by the taxpayer but what is it?</div>
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Close up of the plant?? Does anyone know what it is?</div>
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Geoff and the three dogs as we reach the dappled shade and shelter of Old Wood</div>
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We were heading for Old Wood which lies between Saxilby and Skettlingthorpe.<br />
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The dogs, particularly Meg, were quite fascinated by this peacock that we came across in the wood<br />
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The last stretch before we get back the Saxilby and the boats. Fletcher and Floyd being followed by a <strike>sheep</strike>, eh Meg that is of course.Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-92026175052907147482015-05-20T15:00:00.000+01:002015-05-20T15:00:07.989+01:00Into SaxilbyEight sharp yesterday morning and Nb.What a Lark and Nb. Yarwood untied and headed off towards Saxilby and a reunion with the rest of the Wash Convoy. We are now in fenland countryside, flat fertile land with BIG skies and drainage dykes and embankments. <br />
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Approaching Saxilby</div>
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Under the railway bridge on the Lincoln to Doncaster line</div>
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An hour and five minutes after setting off we were moored up on the Saxilby visitor moorings with Clarence and Seyella</div>
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We will stay here until Friday morning after which we will pull pins and head into Lincoln where Geoff has arranged moorings at Brayford Pool for the weekend.Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-54054878953284579252015-05-20T10:31:00.000+01:002015-05-20T10:31:10.732+01:00Historical InterludeA couple of days ago when we all piled aboard Nb. Seyella after our cruise to Cromwell Lock there was much talk of books and one of the questions raised was 'Does anybody re-read books?' Well I for one am definitely in the <em>re-read</em> camp and one of my favourite books is Katherine, by an American author called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anya_Seton">Anya Seton</a>. The book was first published in 1954, a historical novel that was incredibly well researched about the life of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Swynford">Lady Katherine Swynford.</a> Katherine's progeny become the forefathers of future Kings of England and American Presidents and it is a book that I have probably gone back to read ten or more times over the last thirty odd years. <br />
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Having arrived at Torksey Lock after our cruise up the tidal Trent on Sunday and looking at a Memory-map for somewhere to walk the dogs I found that <a href="http://www.kettlethorpe.com/kettlethorpe%20hall.html">Kettlethorpe</a>, the home of Katherine Swynford is only a short distance away from our moorings. <br />
When the weather had moderated on the Monday afternoon Nb. Clarence and Nb. Seyella set off for Saxilby and Lisa, David and myself set off on our bikes to find Kettlethorpe.<br />
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Kettlethorpe Manor gateway, the former home of Lady Katherine Swynford</div>
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There is little remaining of the former Manor House but the gate and part of the moat survive after 700 years. This is a private home so we were able to see the gate but not the moat. The author of Katherine stayed here as a guest when she did her research studies in 1952.<br />
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St. Peter's and St. Paul's Kettlethorpe</div>
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The church is directly across the access road from Kettlethorpe and although amended over the years it would have been part and parcel of Manor life for the Swynfords and their serfs.</div>
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The pulpit is of carved black oak and dates from Tudor times</div>
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We cycled back to Torksey village and had a wee look around before David discovered that his rear tyre was punctured. We retired to the local inn, The Hume Arms to consider what to do and while we were there we thought to sample the local ale, just a passing thought...<br />
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Trent Bank Path</div>
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Clouds already beginning to build as we head back to the boats</div>
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Four narrowboats abreast in Cromwell while we wait for a GRP cruiser to join us at the back of the lock</div>
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Here we go as the gates start to open revealing out first sight of 'slack water' that will soon turn into the ebb tide that will assist us downstream to Torksey</div>
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That's <em>Seyella</em> and <em>Clarence </em>away</div>
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And here is <em>Yarwood </em>and <em>What a Lark</em> following them</div>
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Following Clarence</div>
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Seyella and Clarence, we stayed in quite close formation for this stretch</div>
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Floyd observing from the tug deck</div>
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Torksey turn, we are now heading off of the River Trent on to the Fossdyke Navigation</div>
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We have arrived in time to be locked/penned up through Torksey. The tide has to be right to allow us to get over the lock cill. If we had missed this 'window' we would have moored on the pontoons below the lock and waited for the next tide.</div>
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All manoeuvring to get in the lock and secured before the lock is filled</div>
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Come the afternoon and Lisa and David have arranged a guided tour of Newark Castle. Derek and Sheila of Nb. Clarence were otherwise engaged, Margaret was baking, Joe was looking for a leak...so Geoff and I joined the WaL crew for the tour.<br />
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Newark Castle Gatehouse and Geoff trying to walk backwards out of shot...</div>
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We met the Castle Warden, a lady called Floss who had formerly been a Bank Manager but unhappy in her work had thrown it up , taken a degree in History at Lincoln and applied for the role of Castle Warden. Floss was passionate about Newark and in particular the Castle and setting the historical context of when and when the Castle was built we set of on a tour of the ruins. Newark is/was on the crossroads of the great north-south Roman road now known as the A1 and the west-east Roman road the Fosse Way now known as the A46 and therefore the area was always significant for defence purposes...if you controlled the main routes you had the upper hand so to speak. </div>
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Post Norman Conquest a Motte and Bailey (mound and earthworks) was erected and remained in situ until The Bishop of Lincoln a hundred years later gained control and decided to build a <em>Castle</em> or more robust construction. Getting permission from King Henry I to build a Bishops <em>Palace </em>rather than a <em>Castle. </em>By exploiting a few <em>'planning loopholes' </em>up went the Castle. </div>
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Imagine the floor in place in the space above the gatehouse and that is the room where King John died in 1216 after his ill-fated crossing of the Wash.<br />
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Looking down on The Ossington Temperance Hotel</div>
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Geoff, Lisa and David after our fascinating and informative tour</div>
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Chewing the fat, Joe, David and Geoff. We were preparing the four boats to leave Newark and head downstream to overnight at Cromwell Lock, the start of the tidal section of the Trent.</div>
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We were at Nether Lock in Newark by four thirty so that the lockeeper could 'pen' us through before he went off shift. there were slight issues getting into the lock because they had had a power outage and the generator wasn't kicking in...it also meant that the traffic lights system the lock uses was playing silly buggers so Lisa was upbraided for going through a red light...that had gone green and then back to red. A little unfair given that Lisa wasn't 'in charge' of the boat but the rest of us have enjoyed ribbing her about it anyway!<br />
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Nether Lock, Clarence and Yarwood</div>
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Enroute to Cromwell</div>
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Moored up ready for the tidal stretch on Sunday</div>
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Once securely moored out came the G&T's care of Lisa and the beers, care of Geoff and we all piled into Nb. Seyella to discuss books with Margaret; on the agenda at this impromptu book club was Margaret's review of <em>Fifty Shades of Grey</em> and this prompted quite a bit of hilarity!</div>
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Tomorrow we hit the tidal Trent.</div>
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Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-32387375281368826192015-05-17T10:23:00.004+01:002015-05-18T10:52:14.593+01:00What a Gem...The<em> 'Gem'</em> I refer to is the town of Newark. Yesterday I took the time to have a wander around, or a more extended wander around, the town was bustling as it was a market day. This is a medieval town that has retained many ancient buildings and added to them over the centuries, a town with character. Lots of independent shops and very few charity outlets indicate a thriving town.<br />
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This building is The Ossington built in 1882 as a replica of a 17th Century Coffee Palace in London and opened as a Temperance Hotel i.e, no alcohol..<br />
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Detail of Ossington Hall</div>
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Jeticed timber framed buildings</div>
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The town water pump on the Market Square</div>
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This is stunning, a 14th/15th Century <em>galleried </em>timber frame building</div>
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Detail of the building above</div>
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Behind the market stalls is the palladian style Butter Market and Town hall</div>
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Below the spire of St. Mary Magdalen, the bustle of the market place</div>
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A plaque on the building above</div>
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All the street signs are in red and white cast iron</div>
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The Danube Restaurant specialising in the foods of the course of the Danube river. Joe and I dined here Friday evening and it was simply lovely. If we lived in or around Newark this eatery would be a firm favourite.</div>
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The Corn Exchange</div>
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In the afternoon I joined three other members of the Wash Convoy for a tour of the Castle but that is for another post.</div>
<br />Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-16524675982374035782015-05-15T09:15:00.002+01:002015-05-15T09:15:37.276+01:00Nottingham to NewarkNottingham to Newark, a journey of 25 miles, was completed in three stages. Leaving Nottingham on Tuesday morning we serviced Yarwood at Meadow Lane lock before dropping down on to the River Trent and following Nb. Clarence and <a href="http://nbwhatalark.blogspot.co.uk/">Nb. What a Lark</a> down stream to Holme Lock where Nb. <a href="http://seyellas-journey.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/nursing-aching-legs-as-we-head-back-out.html">Seyella</a> was waiting for us. No photo's of this part of the cruise because it was blowing a hooley and I was hanging on for grim death...perhaps we shouldn't have moved? When we did arrive and spotted <a href="http://nbwhatalark.blogspot.co.uk/">What a Lark</a> (WaL) and Seyella Joe couldn't get Yarwood in against the wind so after an attempt to turn her against the current and moor facing the flow failed Joe used Yarwood's grunt and big prop to reverse against the flow and get in behind WaL. WaL had had even more difficulty and had damaged the swan neck (steering gear) slamming the boat against vertical girders. Fortunately the crew, David and Lisa, were quite unharmed!<br />
Nb. Clarence missed the moorings and were obliged to drop down through Holme lock. There they moored up and returned to a very crowded Seyella, - we were all aboard, - for tea and doughnuts.<br />
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Moored at Holme...eventually.</div>
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Canoe slalom/rapids course?</div>
Holme Pierrepoint is the National Watersports Centre and we were moored adjacent to the park so ideal for a we wander with the dogs.<br />
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The rowing lake</div>
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All hands to the tiller on WaL</div>
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The very next morning, Wednesday, an attempt was made to repair WaL's Swan neck. Lisa supervised the procedure and David, Geoff and Joe provided the muscle, and expertise, for the task. Sadly, the blow torch couldn't generate enough heat to allow the steel to be pulled back into shape so it would have to be oxyacetylene and the ministrations of a boatyard.<br />
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We were 'booked' to go through Holme lock at 10am and all three boats were there on time but a single boat had gone through moments before so we had to wait for the lockie to refill the lock for us.<br />
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Seyella secured to Yarwood</div>
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The boats have to be secured fore and aft in the locks. There are vertical cables inset in the lock sides and you pass your line behind the cable and hold on while the lock empties or fills. Mags on Nb. Seyella is not so confident on her feet so we have been sharing the task. Seyella pulls alongside Yarwood and I secure Mags line to Yarwood and then secure Yarwood's line to the lock cables.</div>
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Lisa takes the tiller aboard What a Lark</div>
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All in Gunthorpe Lock</div>
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Mags doing her bit from a safe position</div>
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Leader of the pack..</div>
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Wednesday was a lovely day to cruise and we saw the Trent in the best possible light</div>
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The following morning it was cold and windy again for our push into Newark where we plan to stay a couple of days before tackling the tidal Trent.</div>
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Out of the lock, Seyella takes the lead towards the town moorings. </div>
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Nb. Seyella below Newark Castle ruins</div>
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The Castle again...nice oriele windows</div>
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Moored up and ready to explore the Town</div>
Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-84027610811029941262015-05-12T18:00:00.000+01:002015-05-12T18:00:03.922+01:00A day in NottinghamIt is Monday morning, Nb <em>Seyella</em> have left mid morning because they had been in Nottingham since Friday but the remaining <em>Washers</em> are off for a look around the town and lunch. We have arranged to meet at The Trip to Jerusalem, a famous Nottingham landmark, i.e. a Pub. <br />
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l-r Himself, Sheila, Derek and David</div>
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L-R Lisa, having an incident with her hair, Joe and Sheila's arms..</div>
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L-R Sheila, Derek, Joe, Lisa and David</div>
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The famous Nottingham landmark..</div>
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Lisa, post Thai lunch and ready for some shopping...</div>
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At Kegworth Deep lock we encountered the resident Fox who was happily being fed by passing boaters..a couple of bacon butties had gone towards the fox's diet by the time we arrived. Lovely sight.</div>
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Once through Radcliffe lock we were on the last stretch of the cruise because we were meeting up with three of the four boats going across The Wash. Already moored at the bottom of the Erewash canal were Nb. <em>Clarence </em>and Nb. <em>What a Lark</em>. We let the wind <strike>take</strike> slamYarwood in to the bank, it was by now very lively with white caps in the waves but got moored up nethertheless. </div>
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Well worth a visit, nice Pub, good service and food and beer, and wine.</div>
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Winding Yarwood for the trip into Nottingham</div>
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Setting off towards Nottingham Sunday morning, first job turn Yarwood in the right direction.</div>
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Late morning on Sunday and all four boats were finally moored up in the Nottingham in readiness for our trip up the Trent and across The Wash.</div>
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While Sheila and I prepare the lock at Birstal Joe gets into conversation with a couple of Police Officers...on foot!</div>
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We settled Yarwood into a berth at Pillings Lock Marina having filled with diesel, sadly only available at a 60:40 split, and set off with the dogs to Market Harborough to see the Vet. This was seven days after Floyd's dental operation and they were happy with his progress, gums still somewhat 'pink' but healing nicely. We hit the Co-Op after the Vet appointment and then drove back to Pillings through Leicester happy the the 'Little Man' was Ok.</div>
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Early Start</div>
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The wind was gentle, every lock was against me, the sun was shining but it was so good to be back at this boating marlarkey!</div>
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The boys were straight back into the routine too</div>
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Two and a hour hours later the wind had picked up as forecast and we were quietly mooring up behind the slumbering Nb. Clarence.</div>
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We sat it out throughout the day until 5pm when conditions had moderated yet again before setting off together toward Leicester. We had persuaded Derek and Sheila that Leicester was indeed a safe mooring and then crossed fingers and prayed that there was no incident about to happen that would make us out liars.</div>
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The last lock before Leicester and the rain had just started</div>
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Off they go, Yarwood leading the way to our overnight mooring</div>
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We moored up in Leicester on the 'line', Sheila and I dashing to Tesco for a few essentials, before settling in for the evening. No surprises, we had an uneventful night..Yes a little noisy because we were in a City but nothing to stop you mooring in this vibrant and interesting place. This will have been the fifth time of mooring here and we have never had any problems at all.</div>
Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-26514997009380952302015-05-05T17:37:00.003+01:002015-05-05T17:37:40.730+01:00The cruising starts!No more hanging around now, well until this morning that is when wind and rain stopped play again. Joe didn't fancy steering a narrowboat in 27mph winds with gusts of 40mph so we wimped out and stayed put on last night's mooring.<br />
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Yesterday we had been up bright and early to get into position to meet the crew of Nb. Clarence, Derek and Sheila, who were due to come down the Foxton flight. They started down at 9.45 and Sheila and I made short work of the ten locks. After a cuppa and a quick look at the guide we decided to head for Kilby Bridge, stopping at Newton Harcourt for a spot of lunch and a visit to the weed hatch for Derek.<br />
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Derek bringing Nb. Clarence out of the fifth lock on the Foxton flight....the one where many boats smack the entrance to lock six.....he didn't.</div>
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Nb. Clarence making the turn towards Leicester ( Nb Yarwood in the background) after descending the flight and mooring up for refreshment and a 'planning meeting' in Bridge 61</div>
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Back to normality, the two dogs and I tramping the towpaths</div>
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Post Saddington tunnel where the dogs and I rejoined Yarwood for the trip through and we approach our eleventh lock of what would be twenty-two lock day.</div>
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Sheila my loony lock buddy of the day</div>
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Narrowboats Yarwood and Clarence</div>
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We arrived at Kilby Bridge at 6.30pm, knackered but satisfied with a good day's cruising. Every lock had been against us and a number of gates left open and when we got to Kilby there was only one mooring left. After a lovely HOT showers we found ourselves in The Navigation where conversation was primarily politics and the men downed pints of Pedigree and the ladies sampled the <em>mothers ruin</em>. Dinner was a packet of crisps.Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-91070246887296954002015-05-03T20:18:00.001+01:002015-05-03T20:18:40.208+01:00Sunday lunch at the Black Horse FoxtonWhat an awful day, rain much of the night, wind and rain much of the day. I was up at 5am, Floyd's appetite has returned and he wanted to share this piece of important progress with me....<br />
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At 7am I as out walking the dogs in full wet weather gear, me not the dogs, and we wended our way through Foxton Village and out across country to Debdale Wharf and then back to the boat. I have spent some of today cleaning brass and sorting paperwork but the highlight was lunch at <a href="http://www.theblackhorsefoxton.co.uk/">The Black Horse Foxton.</a> The landlord and landlady, Darren and Kim, had very kindly allowed us to park our car in their car park for a few days before it was put it back into storage. We had a super traditional Sunday Roast and left the pub with a supply of freshly cooked vegetables for the dogs - they had expected us to bring Fletcher and Floyd with us so had set a table up in the bar where dogs are allowed, how thoughtful is that? </div>
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So if you are in Foxton give the Black Horse a try, they keep good beer and pub food are really very fine hosts.</div>
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Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-70900596059716064512015-05-02T07:49:00.000+01:002015-05-02T07:49:17.164+01:00Dog updateFloyd went into the Vet yesterday morning for his dental operation. I walked with both dogs from Foxton where we are currently moored, into Market Harborough this partly to exercise dogs and self and partly to occupy/distract the dogs who had not had their breakfast. Floyd was forbidden food and it seemed mightily unfair to feed Fletcher and starve Floyd...well he thought so anyway.<br />
Joe met us at the Vet's where we completed the paperwork and left Floyd in their care... Back at the boat we all broke our fast, much to Fletcher's relief and then started a few hours of frenetic activity where I waxed and polished Yarwood and Joe re routed external aerials for the WiFi. At three the phone rang; Floyd was out of the theatre and had come round we could pick him up at four thirty and see the nurse about aftercare etc.<br />
The upshot is that Floyd had six teeth removed. The little guy was a bit wobbly but happy to back with his pack for the drive back to the boat, a bit of light food and his warm bed. He has been fine all night, has just eaten some scrambled egg and boiled rice laced with antibiotic and is now fast asleep again. I will give him a gentle walk today and then he and Fletcher can supervise me while I attempt to restore order to a few cupboards here on Yarwood. We are on the move again on Monday heading towards Nottingham in the company of Nb. Clarence so we have arranged car hire for next Friday when Floyds needs to return to the Vet for a post op check. Hopefully all will be well and he heals quickly.<br />
<br />Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5490581806872830289.post-35428710127287259932015-04-30T07:05:00.004+01:002015-04-30T07:05:43.177+01:00Visit to the VetTuesday morning we set off to retrieve the dogs, Fletcher and Floyd, from Norfolk where they have been staying with family while Yarwood was blacked. Our two dogs had been great company for Riley, my brother's young Labrador and he is surely going to miss his canine 'cousins' now they are gone.<br />
Tuesday evening I noticed Floyd mouthing something and then discard it and on closer examination I found it was a tooth or part of a tooth. Returning to the boat on Wednesday we swung into to Market Harborough and a Vet to get Floyd looked at and the upshot is that he is booked in for a dental operation on Friday....at least four rear teeth had shattered and need removal! We think that the most likely candidate for causing the damage is walnuts. Floyd developed a taste for them in Spain and was inclined to rummage under any Walnut tree he came across for the nuts.<br />
I gave him a dose of Metacam, an animal pain killer, last night just in case he was suffering. So tomorrow morning early we have to take our 'little man' into Market Harborough and leave him in the tender hands of the Vet. Poor little man.Nb Yarwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14806115768980012184noreply@blogger.com4