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I failed to find time to add a further update when we completed our cruise on Tuesday. From #Neatishead we passed The Ice House, one of the impressive #houses at #Irstead Shoals.

We moored at #HowHill where we spent an hour walking around the #gardens. We then proceeded to #LudhamBridge where we moored for the night, eating at The Dog where a couple of guys turned up and entertained us for half an hour. It was possibly the best impromptu #entertainment I've ever experienced. The photograph does not indicate how much #laughter there was and how we enjoyed #singing along.

We left our #mooring just before 06:45 as we needed to be back in #Stalham for a meeting at 10:00 and needed to pick up some stuff from home before that.

#boatsthattoot #norfolkbroads #uk #boat #cruising

The Ice House, one of the impressive properties on the River Ant south of Barton Broad

Singing the Blues, our boat, on the Broads Authority moorings at How Hill.

Peter (guitar) and Ian (bodhran) entertaining at The Dog, near Ludham Bridge.

Looking back towards the mooring we spent the night at just above Ludham Bridge.

The plan this morning is to call at #Neatishead Staithe,walk into the #village and buy a few provisions at the #volunteer run #community #shop, then make our way back down #LimekilnDyke and down the #River Ant to #LudhamBridge where we'll overnight after an evening #meal at The Dog.

We'll have to be up early as it's a couple of hours back to our #mooring and we both have meetings in #Stalham at 10:00 on Tuesday.

As predicted, the wind has veered 180° since arrival here yesterday afternoon.

The ever narrowing channel to Limekiln Dyke at Nearishead

Sometimes a picture says 1,000 words, so here's a photo of last night's mooring.

This is where the boat was tied up overnight, to a ring in the brick wall. The steel ring, which was immense, about 8 inches (20 cm) in diameter, had been cemented into the brick wall when originally built.

The ring was so large, it could be spotted from afar.

This is the first time the boat's been moored in the water along a wall with no way off.

#CanalLife #canal #mooring #ring #boating #bost #narrowboat

A very long, vertical, red brick wall fills the left side of the photo. The wall goes straight down into the water of the canal – no ledge, no steps, no towpath, nothing to stand or walk on.

The boat's midline is looped through the ring (out of view below the boat's roofline) and then tied to the boat.

On the far side of this rather broad canal is the towpath. This urban canal continues under a bridge in the distance. There are various industrial-age ruins and some newer, residential buildings alongside the canal. This canal is part of Birmingham Canal Network, or BCN. There are some green deciduous trees and bushes on the towpath side.

I misread my map. I saw 12 locks, but—oops—followed by another 12 locks that I'd assumed were the same ones.

No getting away. This urban area is covered in #graffiti, with addicts loitering on the towpath. The opposite bank? No towpath, just an endless, vertical cliff of bricks, plunging straight into the water. It has a single steel ring, cemented in 150 years ago.

The boat is tied to that ring.

As the photo shows, I can't step off the boat, but it's safe.

#CanalLife #canal #mooring #safety

The view outside the boat window is … a solid, brick wall. The wall is only a few inches (10 centimeters) outside the window.

Inside, the window frame is brassy. The wall is painted white and the curtains are a dull red tint with faint, thin stripes.

While driving a mooring pin into the ground, the mallet's head separated from the handle. This bank is quite hard — no chance of pounding in a pin just by holding the head in my hand. Those would be love taps.

When I went to a nearby boat to ask to borrow their mallet, I noticed they were tied to rings, with more rings ahead of them.

So I moved the boat up to the rings, of course.

But I do need a new mallet.

#CanalLife #canal #mooring #pin #MooringPin #boating #boat #narrowboat #mallet #tool

Speed demons!

Today, the boat's tied on pins that I hammered into the bank by using a mallet. The ground is quite soft, though.

When boaters speed past at 3 miles per hour (5 kmh), it displaces many tonnes (tons) of water with such force that, after a dozen or so boats, the mooring pins pull out of the ground.

There's no point yelling 🗯️ at boaters like these.

The photo shows the divot where my first pin came out.

#CanalLife #canal #boatimg #boat #narrowboat #mooring #pins #mallet #etiquette

A grassy canal towpath into which a pin has been hammered. A rope loops through the pin and returns to a moored boat (not shown) floating in the canal.

The grass is spring green. The canal water is moderately dark and cloudy with sediment from passing boats (so not clear or transparent) and has a few reflections of light on the surface.

Mooring. Mediterranean Sea.
#silentsunday #sea #port #mooring #water #colour #almeria #urban #streetphotography #photography #canon

The image shows, in the foreground, a large mooring structure for ships in the port of Almería (Spain). The photo is divided into two parts: on one side, the solid concrete of the port, and on the other, the sea, a dark blue, still and placid on a sunny Sunday morning.
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La imagen muestra en primer término un gran amarre para buques en el puerto de Almería. La foto está dividida en dos partes: por un lado, el hormigón macizo del puerto, y por otro, el mar, de un azul oscuro, quieto y plácido en una soleada mañana de domingo.

It's been a while since I visited our #boat (built in 1977). When we were last aboard the second hinge on the toilet seat disintegrated.

Given the way parts of both had gone brittle I wonder if they were the originals. True or not I was surprised that spares were available. It's just that I hadn't found time to fit the #seat till today.

On arrival there was a surprise, an intriguing #craft on a nearby #mooring, a 38 seat #escape pod from a now dismantled #NorthSea #oil #rig

Once on the boat I stowed away the heaters that had been left on board but no longer plugged in and refitted the #toilet seat.

#NorfolkBroads #boatsthattoot

The newly refitted toilet seat on Singing the Blues.

A 38 seat escape pod salvaged from the Northern Producer oil rig.

Singing the Blues. Two boats away is the bright orange oil rig escape pod on its mooring.

****Norfolk Broad lovers***
Help required!!!
Please recommend some really good places to moor, eat at and visit.
Planning a trip, and would appreciate your advice & input :)

Many thanks
#Norfolk #NorfolkBroads
#Boating #Mooring
#PlacesToVisit #cruising #Boats #Ships

"Moored."

Cam: #AgfaOptima II '/ #ColorApotar 45mm
Film: very expired #FujicolorC200 35mm film
Scan: #Epson #V370 photo, #VueScan Pro on Linux

#ropes #mooring #shipphotography #analogphotography #analogphotography #35mm #filmphotography #Fujicolor200 #expiredfilm #AgfaOptimaII #AgfaOptima2 #grainisgood #filmisnotdead #shotonfilm #maritimephotography #shipsdetail #hafenliebe #maritime #photography
#believeinfilm

Stationary vagabond.
Kildare, Ireland
Zeiss Ikonta 521, Tessar 75mm f3.5, Ektar 100
#FilmPhotography #Ektar100 #Ireland #Kildare #Canal #Mooring #Boat #Water

Boats aglow. #boats #yachts #harbour #mooring #boatyard #marina #night #smartphone

Oh, I hadn't realised the weather was this bad. The news:

"UK travellers urged to allow more time for journeys amid ‘perfect storm’ of festive season and bad weather.
"Some flights and ferries were cancelled on Saturday amid a 'perfect storm' of the Christmas getaway and bad weather."

Inevitably, tomorrow there'll be train tracks and canals blocked because of downed trees. (They're often side by side.)

Tomorrow, I'll check the ropes.

#Christmas #weather #wind #boat #canal #mooring #rope

The storm last week caused surprising damage to the dock where I'm moored.

Both sides of the dock have pontoons along its entire length. Each pontoon accommodates two boats.

In the photo, note the large gap. The white bar shows where an entire steel-framed pontoon used to be. It broke off during the storm. The force of the wind against its boats pushed, bent and snapped the pontoon off the dock.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #dock #mooring #pontoon #UK #storm #weather #damage

Photo of a dock with moored boats. On one side, there are two boats and a very large gap. There's an annotation on the photo – a white bar with the word "missing" on it – where there used to be a pontoon attached to the main dock by steel frame. It is gone.

Ohio Street dock, Intermediate River, Bellaire, Michigan. October 2024
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#Calm #autumn #board #boardwalk #boating #branches #cleat #colors #dock #forest #infrastructure #landscape #leaves #mooring #nature #pentax_fa31limited #pentaxk3mkiii #reflection #river #sky #transportation #tree #trunk #water #wood #nowherediary #subjectivelyobjective #thisisnthappiness #banalmag

A photograph of an L-shaped dock with weathered wooden planks and white mooring cleats. The dock extends from the lower left of the frame into water that reflects the trunks and colorful leaves of an autumn forest. The water has slight ripples on its surface, which makes the forest look a little distorted or impressionistic.

Annisquam, MA - September 2024.

#mooring #dinghy #struggle #photography #blackAndWhite

Black and white photo of a man kneeling awkwardly in a dinghy, making his way out to a mooring in a harbor using a single paddle. The view is from above and behind him.

The canal's water level has dropped further, but I hear via towpath gossip that the breach has been dammed.

I still see water slowly flowing in that direction. It's not just duckweed blowing that way in the wind. Deeper particles show all the water is flowing.

Judging from the vegetation, the water is just over 6 in. or 16 cm below usual. (See the photo's ALT description for details.)

#CanalLife #canal #water #WaterLevel #boat #boating #narrowboating #mooring