Berkhamsted to Bulbourne yesterday. Extremely shallow, so struggled, and even had to use a plank to get off the boat at one of the lock landings ffs.
No maintenance or checks being done in the South East, it’s a mess.
Bulbourne junction has almost finished it’s transformation to flats and houses. No doubt mooring restrictions will be implemented opposite, and in force by April 2022.
Canal and River Trust doing its utmost best to remove boats from the waterways.
Boxmoor to Berkhamsted today. Not busy, only saw three boats. Difficult getting onto the lock landings, no depth owing to build up of silt. Had to use the plank twice, which is pretty ridiculous. Can only see it getting worse. Out of 8 locks, all had a problem of some sort, and all leaked ferociously.
Turned around today, decided to head back North. Mooring anywhere between Tring and Uxbridge is difficult. The *territorial* boat owners, and CRT’s
It’s all very well plonking in 48hr moorings at the wave of a wand, but the sheer ignorance of the need to maintain 14 day moorings in order to not put pressure on those 48’s is ridiculous.
“Who are these people”, and where are they, hiding behind computer screens?
Bad start to the day. Woke up to the sound of metal hitting metal. Went out to look, and saw the boat behind had left, and being replaced by Lady M which was much longer, and struggling to fit in the gap. Approached him and pointed out he had hit my stern gear quite hard twice, to which he replied I should have moved forward. I pointed out it may have been sensible and polite to knock on the boat and ask me if I could drop forward a little, prior to his attempts in damaging my stern gear.
This seemed to infuriate him further and led to a stream of abuse about piss takers and ccers? I’ve no idea why he came out with that reply, but can only assume he has issues with other boat users.
