mikeyboy1966

I presume you have a hot water cylinder? id go for a normal domestic mixer shower,then you won’t be reliant on shore power. your boat seems to be set up to be quite reliant on a 240 v supply . there are no power supplies outside of the marinas on the Ouse. our broom 30 is all geared for basic mooring and it works quite well but one can get a bit paranoid about battery charge levels😆

Hi Daniel, Where abouts in the marina did you get a berth in the end? EA have move to caution from SSA but I’m not 100% certain that st ives lock has been reopened, I think the upstream locks are open now. I’ll be down Friday to do some jobs,then back on Sunday for a cruise up to hemingford meadows ,if all goes well we will carry on upto godmanchester on Monday,back to Jones on Tuesday. have you made plans yet?

Hi Daniel, hope you got your jobs done ready for getting it wet again next week.👍 my jobs were less glamorous, cleaning ,cleaning. both heads nice and clean. hope to bump into you on the river😆

I had a wander over to your boat today but obviously you we not around, I’ll come and find you tomorrow. 👍

Coming down tomorrow,maybe a cruise on Sunday if things are ok. I’ve not seen the boat since December so a good clean is the 1st priority

I’ve not been to Jones since before Christmas 🎄 everytime I’ve made plans the weather has scuppered me😕🤬

As you probably know, the old west has no real flow from the Ouse,only what comes through the lock,and runoff obv. as to the marinas you’ve mentioned,I’d go and take a good look at them and speak to some boat owners berthed at them before committing. at least with Jones you know that should conditions become poor they will do their utmost to look after your boat.

Pretty sure sweep is ok, the lads at Jones moved it to a floating pontoon a couple of weeks back. I can’t see it on the webcams but someone posted some drone footage on Facebook yesterday,(that’s where I pinched the shot of st ives) all was ok then.

Jones Marina, your boat is ok at the mo.

St ives ,yesterday.

I prefer an oil filled rad, #1 it’s silent #2 it doesn’t dry the air like a blown air heater.(just my opinion)

My normal berth is the other side of the two big trees. iirc,that’s the 3rd time since Easter that the spit of land has been submerged. the 1st time,just after the boats were lifted back in,the water was so high that the cruiser next to mine lifted its stern mooring line off the pontoon and was sideways on resting against the big willow tree,actually floating above the normally dry land. big shout out to the staff at Jones though because it was soon sorted (this was a Saturday evening. the following week the pontoon was modified. the web cams did go off though whilst it was recovered

I’ve no idea where my boat is, it was hopefully moved last weekend to a floating pontoon, either that or it’s sunk/floated away/ been nicked. was going to go down today but the weather was just nasty and I didn’t fancy driving down

Jones underwater again.

Presumably they have slackers or sluices? they could open them? would be better than nowt?

I was wondering why they don’t let some out at that end? it would seem to make perfect sense to me

I think the difference on the gt Ouse is the levels can be managed better. At Denver complex there were boats sat on the bottom as the EA dumped a vast amount of water at low tide,and also into the relief channel. also the washes were flooded at Earith. this at least ,gave the flood water somewhere to go. the river has been underSSA for a month so I assume the EA have been attempting to remove excess water at low tides.

Out of interest,how much would the tolls be on a broom 30

Ha,definitely not, im a bit concerned over the amount of use we get versus the cost on the Ouse , i love the river and area,but the river was unnavigable until after Easter. been under SSA since October,it seems like godmanchester lock is broken. the upstream locks (can’t remember which) will be closed from January till Easter next year. £4K for 4/ 5 months of use unlucky year I guess but,,,, might move it up to the Trent but the nicest marina is owned by someone I’m not fond of🤬

I’m considering moving the boat to the broads, can we visit 7 days for a nosey or do we need to make an appointment?

What’s the 1st Wallet emptying exercise then?

Hoping to get out on the boat this weekend, I guess the EA boss got back off holiday and kicked things into touch.

My mistake on this one,£39.99 one off. £34.99 as a monthly sign up. bit more reasonable.

It’s a shame the SSA was still in place and the lock out of action over this weekend ! quite a few people unable to relocate boats for the coming Crane out. id seen on Facebook that a rental cruiser from Ely has been stuck at Jones since October the 13th,also a narrow boat moored downstream of the lock. I must admit ,it’s been a bit of a disappointing season for us this year, we had more than one conversation about relocating the boat to another waterway with us weighing up pros and cons. we may get lucky and have a dry mild winter so we can have some days out.

I was probably walking the hounds. I was planning to pop over and say hello but I ran out of time and had to dash. I’ll no doubt catch up with you soon.