To moor, yesterday, I hammered 2-foot pins (60 centimeters) into the ground—a soft bank covered in wildflowers.

The first few boats this morning passed at speed, which pulled the stern pin out of the ground. [Insert curmudgeonly grumbling about hire-boaters being wankers, here.]

Irony: just after the next bridge there was a hardened bank with a rail that boaters clip onto.

This evening there was a hard bank with mooring rings.🎉

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #mooring #pin #ring

Im Mittelmeer macht man oft an einer Mooring fest. Dabei entscheidet die Pilotleine über Erfolg oder Stress. Wir zeigen die stressfreie Variante.
#In2theblue #Mooring #Segelschule

https://floatmagazin.de/leute/mooring-anlegen-ohne-malheur-in2theblue/

It's been a while since I reported on our own #boat. Before coming to Cheshire I did manage to call in on the #mooring and remove the #heaters from her as, with any luck, there won't be any more #cold snaps that justify trying to stop the boat from #freezing.

She really is beginning to look as if she needs a really good #clean. We had promised ourselves she'd be lifted out last #winter = but the house move got in the way and it was never arranged.

#boatsthattoot #norfolk #norfolkbroads

I was looking at the invoice for my mooring fees.

It's a price per foot per day.

Sometimes it makes sense that boats pay by the foot, like for blacking (painting) the hull. Or for insurance, … maybe.

But in other cases it doesn't make sense to me.

I'm not entirely sure that licensing a boat should be priced by the foot.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #boat #license #mooring #fee #CRT #UK

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the MV Hjaltland arrives in Lerwick

#shetland #lerwick #dockside #mooring