{"id":320,"date":"2010-04-07T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:18:29","slug":"falling-foul-of-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.waveneytales.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Falling Foul of the River!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 7th April<\/span><\/p>\n

What a day! The sooner we get off this river and on to the canals the better! <\/span>You may remember a few months ago I mentioned a couple who got their boat wedged across the river in a strong flow at Birstall? Well, today that was us – at Sileby!<\/span><\/p>\n

The day started quietly enough. Quite pleasant weather and the river was now well in the amber. We needed to stop at Sileby Mill for coal and discussed the options. What we would have liked to\u00a0have done\u00a0was moor up\u00a0on the diesel barge at the boat yard and just collect the coal. However, when we arrived at the lock there was, of course,\u00a0someone already moored at the barge! Our plan B was already thwarted by the prescence of another boat at the lock approach so we couldn’t stay there and\u00a0barrow the coal round because we would be too close to the lock\u00a0blocking the approach. The water was really flowing fast over the weir and past the boat yard.\u00a0We thought\u00a0mooring up\u00a0opposite the boat yard\u00a0would mean not being able to get off the bank again, so we decided to lock through and moor\u00a0further down\u00a0the moorings where, we thought (wrongly as it turned out!) the flow wouldn’t be so much of a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

Had we have left\u00a0the boat\u00a0there and\u00a0barrowed the coal round to the boat in stages\u00a0we would have been ok but, as we were talking to the boat yard lady the moored boat left the barge and she suggested we bring our boat over. BIG mistake! After Ken began his manouvre another boat came along and moored on the barge! There was a gap between 2 boats moored along the bank and it was suggested Ken try to moor up there instead.\u00a0Cutting a long story short, as\u00a0he tried to come across to it\u00a0he got caught by the flow, the back swung round\u00a0and he ended up wedged across the river!\u00a0Talk about embarrassing!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0On top of this it started raining, deep joy! It took a lot of people, a lot of effort and quite a long time to eventually get ‘Waveney’ unstuck.\u00a0I kept apologising but\u00a0no one seemed bothered. I think they were secretly glad it was us and not them!\u00a0\u00a0I have to say, all that rope pulling has done wonders for my tennis elbow (not)! Anyway we got the coal and various other bits and pieces and after some minor problems unberthing managed to continue down to Mountsorrel where we had to stop\u00a0for Ken to go to the fishing tackle shop!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u00a0moored up near the ‘Waterside Inn’ and felt it would be churlish not to take George for a pint! He was pleased, especially when the landlord produced a chew for him. \u00a0After this we went\u00a0to Budgen’s and the fishing tackle shop. When we got back\u00a0we couldn’t be bothered\u00a0to move on\u00a0any further so we decided to stay the night. It isn’t a race after all. We saw Terry who is moored up here at the moment and he said the red light was on at Barrow still\u00a0so the level will have a chance to go down a bit more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully tomorrow won’t be quite so eventful!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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