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Book 18 |
Canal Cruising 2022
An e-Book and website by Cyril J Wood
The title photograph is of Gnosall on the Shropshire Union Canal
Click here for the latest entries or on the required section below to follow links
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Chapter 1 - Canalmanac 2022 Part 1
As what seemed to be a long winter drew to an end and the 2022 boating season looms, we were hoping that after nearly two years of disruption, the COVID-19 pandemic is finally coming to an end and our normal boating activities can resume. My first weather photograph for the Granada Reports Weather Forecast was of Liverpool's skyline at dawn, taken from Egremont Ferry in Wallasey. A screenshot of the forecast and the original photograph are shown below for your appreciation...
A screenshot of the Granada Reports Weather Forecast...
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... and the original un-cropped photograph
At the end of February COVID-19 restrictions were being eased and the weekend before the first Lymm CC Committee and Monthly Club Meetings there was a work party at our Agden Moorings to clear over-hanging plant growth and burn the rubbish afterwards. After taking part in the work party we started to empty the stuff stored beneath the boat's aft cabin bunks in preparation for Paul and I converting the two single bunks into a fixed double bed. When we had completed all we could do we had our tea, turned the central heating up and stayed the night, returning home the following morning.
The Agden work party in full swing...
... and the cuttings being burnt afterwards
The following week one of my photographs of Castlefield Junction in 1986 was used in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Winner's Film. I was a little disappointed with the quality of the image transmitted as I sent them a full size, uncompressed scan from the original 5 x 4 inch, large format transparency.
The Castlefield Junction photograph screenshot...
... and the original 5 x 4 large format transparency scan...
... and the programme's photographic contributors' credits
Next on my "To Do List" was to remove the aft cabin bunk frames. Paul and I started with the port side frame which we removed, lowered and refitted. The floor covering was removed and the partial stripping down of the steps that gave access to the aft deck. Whilst we had lunch I started filling the boat's fresh water tank. After I was satisfied that there were no water leaks and the tank was partially filled we continued with the bed conversion. With the lowered frame reinstalled we were ready for the same exercise on the starboard side and the fitting of the bed base sourced from Ikea the next weekend.
The port side bunk frame removed...
... part of the frame lowered and ready for re-fitting...
... and the lowered frame in place ready for the same exercise with the starboard frame
For the next phase the following weekend, I moved the boat to the water point as some of the power tools such as the chop-saw borrowed from Paul's son Ollie were too heavy and bulky to transport down the moorings. We had a great deal of difficulty removing the room divider that separates the aft cabin from the corridor and after removing the starboard bunk frame it was removed using a jigsaw. Not the way we would have preferred but due to the order the boat was lined out originally, this was the only way of doing it. Next, the framework was shortened in the same way as the previous bunk frame was and the steps removed. When the frame was in position the bed base purchased from Ikea was modified, assembled and placed on the now completed framework.
The Ikea bed frame in position
Workmate and chop-saw on the water point
Steps removed and the second phase of the double bed installation completed
We then had accomplished all that we had set out to do this weekend. With the boat's water tank filled and the tools put away the boat was returned to its mooring. We had planned to continue the following weekend but Paul and Wendy tested positive for Covid-19 the work was put on pause. A couple of weeks later it was Paul's turn to go onto the water point at Agden where he was having new aft deck boards fitted by his eldest son Martin so we took the boat down to Lymm, topped-up the fresh water tank and emptied the toilet whilst Ange did some Quartermaster chores. On the way back to Agden, at Oughtrington we passed a swan sitting on her nest... no doubt she was sitting on a clutch of eggs.
Martin fitting Paul and Wendy's new aft deck boards on nb Adreva...
...and the power tools used
The swan at Oughtrington sitting on her nest
Instead of returning to our mooring we breasted-up on the side of Paul and as Paul finished off his deck boards I started to refit the floor covering but could only fit a few pieces. The bed frame end piece/top step support was cut to size and fitted, the top step (an off-cut from Paul's deck boards) was cut to size and fitted then the bed frame front fascia was fitted.
The new top step and bed end piece/step support in place
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Chapter 2 - Easter Cruise 2022
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Canal Cruising 2023
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| Our Boats | |
| Ruby | |
| nb Squirrel | |
| Adeline | |
| Canals on Screen | |
| Canals Through the Ages (Coming soon) | |
| Photography Introduction | |
| Photographic Experiences | |
| Camerascape | |
| Photoscape | |
| Canalscape Gallery | |
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Shroppie - The Shropshire Union Canal System (In Preparation) |
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| The Manchester and Salford Junction Canal | |
| Mersey Connections (In Preparation) | |
| Canis Canalus | |
| Shannon | |
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