When the boat's out of the water, and I can see the propeller clearly, I am always surprised at how that small thing can propel 15 tonnes of steel forward.

#CanalLife #canal #waterways #boating #narrowboat #boat #propeller #propulsion

I am used to the floor moving as I walk around the boat. I have no trouble.

I also have no trouble on land.

Currently, the boat is on land, getting its hull blacked. As I move around the boat, I find my body automatically adjusting for floor movement that isn't happening—which is slightly unbalancing.

Aren't bodies amazingly adaptable?

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #maintenance #narrowboat #balance

FotoVorschlag 'Der Weg ist das Ziel'
#PhotoSuggestion 'The journey is the reward'

#canallife #boating #spring

The boat's out of the water, getting its hull blacked. I'm allowed to stay in my boat for the week.

The wharf worker's words and actions are in tension:
• "The hull's in good shape"
• He is now grinding the rust off.

On a steel narrowboat, there is nowhere Nowhere NOWHERE that the sound of a grinder on a steel hull doesn't reach. Think of a dentist's drill but LOUDER.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #maintenance #hull #blacking #AntiRust #paint #noise #transmit #grinder #tool #UK

Hey #Boativerse ! Looking for a welder around E5 on the Lea for a small but critical job overplating the chimney hole in my roof, which is oversized, corroded, and preventing the install of a new wood burner. Thanks for any leads 🙌

#BoatLife #Boatstodon #CanalLife #Boating #theBoatyard #leaBoaters

Call me the spider wrangler. I just put out two.

The inside of a boat is no place for spiders, this early in the season. There's simply not enough to eat in spring.

Spiders need to eat themselves big and fat while out in the bushes. Then they can climb or drop aboard a boat once the flying insects are out in force.

A mushroom vent makes an ideal home for a fat spider.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #spider #insect #vent #MushroomVent

I'm at a CRT bin for garbage and recycling, so I've emptied a ⅔-full bin bag rather than risk having an extra bag kicking around for days, before the next CRT bin.

Since I'm boating alone. Everything is 3× the effort, once mooring and unmooring are factored in.

I'm down to the last of the last rolls of Wilco bin bags. (I may have slightly overbought, since Wilco went bust a few years ago.)

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #bin #recycling #garbage #waste

@ukwaterways
We often visit our granddaughter who lives with her Mum in Sale and stay for a few days in a cottage that was probably built in the 1770s and sits on the towpath of the Bridgewater Canal at Preston Brook. The building of the Bridgewater Canal kick-started the Industrial Revolution and the cottage was built at what was to become its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal. There's a whole lot of history there which I'm beginning uncover in this article.

https://gregchapman.uk/sundry/canalsidecottages

#canallife #towpath #cottage #prestonbrook #bridgewater #canal #brickwork #history #industrialrevolution