Yes we are still boating but since Sept last year I have been awaiting another cardioversion my 3rd and for a small operation on a trigger finger. This getting older lark is a pain in the everything! As I had said that I would come in for the ops whenever required we couldn't go on long trips. So a 2 week trip to the Ashby Canal in September, back home for an appointment and then a trip to the US in October. The US trip was to New England to see the New England autumn colours which were fabulous. I eventually had the trigger finger done in mid December and the cardioversion in Jan 2017.
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| It is 2 1/2 years since BB was painted and she now needed her hull blacked.Coming onto the trolley at Calcutt Boats after we had taken all loose items off the shelves and taped over the heating exhaust. She comes out at a bit of an angle and as we sit low in the water it could enter the heater exhaust pipe. |
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| Safely on the trolley and now on dry land and it clearly shows how the hull has been built to sit in the water |
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The power end not looking too bad but does show the size of the rudder which makes the tiller a little heavy but she does hold a course well
A few photographs of our trip to the Ashby Canal last September. |
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| Whenever you muck up a manoeuvre there is always a large crowed around - never when you do it flawlessly!! |
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| Our very pleasant overnight mooring on the Ashby just before Burton Hastings and the very sharp bend |
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| The new last navigable bridge on the Ashby Canal is now Br 62. The canal finishes at a 50ft winding hole just past this bridge which we didn't use as we had been warned that because of little use its a bit shallow. It was still good to walk along the new length of the canal from its existing terminus and look forward to future possibilities. |
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| This lovely classic tug went past us as we moored up in Rugby for Tesco's |
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| I had a bit of deja vue as we approached nb Yavas , from a distance it looked just like BB- you do not see many black boats on the waterways. |
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How about this for a different bird house
and finally one picture of the colours in New England |
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| The Conway Railroad which goes through part of the White Mountain National Forest towards Mount Washington |
