Trinty Marinas

We’ve not been able to move our boats for quite a while now due to the icy weather.  The ice on the canal has been at least 5″ thick in places.  This has been causing a few problems on the water supply and sanitary waste front, as points for both have been frozen solid and boats with pump out toilets cant move them to the pump out point.  Boaters are ever resourceful in adverse conditions and have been helping each other out by linking hoses from the laundry room tap and filling all the boats on the pontoons.

To get water to the linear moorings on the canal side, we threw linked hoses across the marina from the end of one of the pontoons, through the bushes and along the towpath.  I had bought a couple of collapsable water containers, which only hold 15Ltr each so was very grateful for the hoses, as it would have taken quite a long time to fill my 150Ltr tank.

The shop is doing a roaring (excuse pun) trade in coal and gas.  Most visitors to the shop are well wrapped up to the hilt to keep warm, fashion goes out of the window in times like these.

We’ve just had a couple of days of warmer weather and the canal and marina have been thawing, but when leaning out of the side hatch on my boat yesterday evening, there was a very strange noise, rather like the crackle & pop of a well known breakfast cereal, it was the canal freezing over again.  What was also strange during the slight thaw was the movement of the boat when walking about, something not experienced for a while.

Today is lovely and sunny this morning and the model boaters, who are a very hardy bunch, are again out in force, not with their usual assortment of boats but with a couple of hovercraft, for obvious reasons.  Luckily none have sunk, as I can’t imagine anyone volunteering to jump in and rescue a frozen craft !

Pam

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