Embarkation at MY THO on the Mekong. Our home for the next 8 days, the RV Mekong Pandaw, she is about a meter wider than our Irrawaddy boat, the RV Orient and she was also longer and had a deeper draft,…
At the beginning of September we attended the Bi-Annual UK meeting of the Australian Canal Society at the Blue Lias (Pub) at Stockton Bridge on the GU Canal. In addition to a great meeting of the UK friends of the…
Late September morning in Gloucester Docks. The outline of the first of the canal’s lift bridges can just be seen on the right. Sun is out, time to go! The first mile or so of canal is industrial then, it is enveloped…
Lincoln still has a good Market Hall which is where Sue spent the morning, I went to the Lincolnshire Archives to check out a few facts about our destination Bellingham Skirth, so we did not leave our Glory Hole mooring and enter…
Lincoln Cathedral from the navigation. The waterway from Saxilby to Lincoln was very much, more of the same, but with the misty outline of Lincoln’s Cathedral and Castle visible for most of the way. Then suddenly the Cathedral views vanish as the CRT long…
Maud Foster and Frith Bank Drains were probably the first of the Modern Drainage projects to be cut north of Boston. (Monastic drainage works had been taking place as early as the 11th Century) First attempts were cut in 1568 but proved inadequate due…
Well the adventure boating starts here, well that is what it was supposed to be, according to all the horror stories I had read on travelling the tidal Trent. But then we did have the benefit of a local guide,…
As the river had dropped, we donned our specially purchased life jackets and set of on our third attempt to traverse the dreaded confluence of the River Derwent with the canal. The Derwent enters from the left, and is almost opposite the…
Anton’s Gowt Lock the entrance to The Drains Head room about 8′-0″, at Summer Level. Sir Anthony Thomas was one of the financiers of the land drainage project which created this waterway system in the 1650s. The Malcolm Alms on…
The original entry to the Derby Canal from its present termination, the first bridge. The old toll house is now the home of the Swarkestone boat club. The remainder of the Trent and Mersey Canal to Shardlow is relatively uninteresting.…