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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · 5d ago
The boat is at a high point of the canal network. From here, all the locks descend. All the water from up here flows away — 100,000 litres (22,000 gallons) each time a lock cycles. Next to the boat, a pipe steadily feeds water into the canal. I don't know which reservoir feeds it — could it be the Knypersley wildlife refuge? — or whether it's being pumped back up from below. #CanalLife #canal #WaterLevel #BoatingLife #boating #BoatLife #boat #narrowboat #water #reservoir #wildlife #UK #drought
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Aug 04, 2026
A lower water level of 2 inches (5cm) made a difference in the middle of the Harecastle tunnel. Even keeping my head down in the dark, I still scraped my raincoat hood on the ceiling. It was 40 minutes in the dark, with that pinpoint of light getting gradually larger. It's hard to estimate the distance. When it looks like 30 seconds to the exit, it's actually still four minutes. Toward the end I took this photo. #CanalLife #canal #BoatLife #boat #BoatingLife #boating #narrowboat #tunnel #CRT
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 31, 2026
How will this end? Three coot chicks, still in the black fluffy stage, have lost their parents. They were panic-peeping, tightly grouped and paddling away from a lock. Other boaters heard from pedestrians that the adults are above the lock with a fourth chick. After a half hour, the three chicks eventually settled on some reeds (see photo). They have food, but without an adult to protect them they're too young to make it. #CanalLife #canal #waterfowl #coot #bird #wildlife #UK #boat #boating
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 31, 2026
Tomorrow another guest arrives for an overnight stay. Two weeks ago our guest took a famous person on a semi-private tour, and we're hoping for a full report of how that went. And if not, it's always good to have extra hands on board. We'll have some locks to do, and there's the water tank to fill. Of course, a lovely stretch of waterway to boat through, and some meals to share. #CanalLife #canal #BoatLife #boat #BoatingLife #boating #narrowboat #BoatHands
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 27, 2026
Replying to @aegir@toot.wales
@aegir@toot.wales Damp, yes. Cooler, yes. In the much deeper cuts, 20 minutes before this photo, much of the towpath was muddy. The walls of the cut are stone, there. Given the drought, where was that water coming from, I wonder? Was it being released by the earth, after 1½ months of dry weather? Or was it leaking from a river, up above? #SUC #CRT #UK #boating #boaty #narrowboat #canal #water #shortage #WaterShortage
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 25, 2026
From the bow, I clipped a bouquet from a stand of staghorn sumac that's growing on the offside of the canal, only accessible by water. These plants are native to southeastern Canada, so were obviously brought to the UK for their ornamental appeal to gardeners. These ones are growing wild, gradually spreading alongside a short stretch of canal in Shropshire. #bloomscroll #CanalLife #canal #BoatLife #boat #BoatingLife #boating #narrowboat #flower #bloom #tree #plant #vegetation #garden
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 21, 2026
This ground paddle has been raised, as shown by the straight, toothed rack: it is all the way up. (A paddle is a door that holds back tons of water.) The shiny black parts are greased. Grease helps the gears move smoothly. Sticking out on the left is a steel rod, or spindle. A boater puts a tool on the spindle to wind the mechanism up or down. The tool is a windlass. #CanalLife #canal #BoatingLife #boating #BoatLife #boat #narrowboat #lock #GroundPaddle #paddle #spindle #gear #rack #windlass
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 20, 2026
Decoded to turn right and take the 5×-as-long route because the direct route is closed due to water shortages. Even the Canal and River Trust's own volunteers say CRT is "too reactive" —not even tactical — about managing canal water levels. #CanalLife #BoatLife #BoatingLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #CRT #water #shortage #drought #climate #management
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 19, 2026
Replying to @PKYo@poweredbygay.social
🧵 cont'd … friend on the Peak Forest Canal that the status of the stoppage up there flipped between Closed and Assisted passage, 3× in 2 days, as CRT tries to manage the water levels. A thankless job, no doubt. 💦 The CRT website says water levels are better now than this time last year. I'm ready when you are, CRT. I need 5 minutes to put on my shoes and hat. #CanalRiverTrust #CRT #CanalLife #canal #BoatingLife #boating #BoatLife #boat #narrowboat #water #shortage #drought #climate 🧵/end.
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 13, 2026
Windlass in hand for winding lock paddles, I hopped off the boat on the way to a lock. On the 50 meters (about 50 yards) of towpath, I passed under an apple tree, from which I picked three medium apples. Arriving at the lock, another boater said, "I thought you brought tennis balls." Nope, just apples and a windlass. The apples, with the addition of flour, butter, sugar, and spice, will later become tarts. #CanalLife #canal #BoatingLife #boating #BoatLife #narrowboat #apple #baking #cooking
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gregc
NorfolkGreg @gregc@mastodonapp.uk · Jul 04, 2026
Replying to @PKYo@poweredbygay.social
@PKYo@poweredbygay.social That reminds me, I should be writing to various MPs about cottages like those sold off by the #Bridgewater #Canal #Company at #PrestonBrook. The terrace, built in the late 1700s, was sold off one house at a time in the 1950s. They all had brick built privies clustered together in a #communal #yard. Because the remaining #tenants all needed access to the yard the canal company retained ownership and provided an annual licence to each purchaser permitting access to the communal area. There's no #lease. No #contract on #fees to be charged. The canal company can, it seems, charge what they like both to issue a #licence to a new #buyer of a #cottage and any #annual renewal #fee. We ought to be able to add some appropriate clauses onto any upcoming #legislation that gives owners of #leasehold #property the #righttobuy such communal ground. The attached map from 1894 shows the terrace and their privies and how two of the cottages don't even have space to hang out washing to dry.
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 04, 2026
I just wrote (emailed) Baroness Bakewell, who introduced the Rights of Boat Dwellers bill, aimed at closing a legal gap for 100,000+ people in the UK who live on boats. I asked her to include a clause that bans financial services (banks and credit agencies) from lowering the credit rating of boat dwellers based solely on the fact that their home floats. https://members.parliament.uk › member › 4285 › contact #CanalLife #canal #BoatLife #boat #BoatingLife #boating #law #BoatDwellers #NoFixedAddress
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RickGaehl
Rick Gaehl @RickGaehl@mstdn.social · Jul 04, 2026
This is a souvenir from my trip to Rotterdam a few weeks ago. The city turned out to be much nicer to look at, and built on a more human scale, than I'd imagined. #Photography #Netherlands #Canal #Boat #Cityscape #Psychogeography
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 04, 2026
Canals and navigable rivers in England are falling apart at a faster rate. Inland Waterways Association reports a 40% increase in indefinite stoppages—an outage or closure of more than 30 days without a set re-opening date. (Imagine the uproar if road repairs were managed that way.) Here's a photo of a creative, low-cost repair. The solid oak beam that levered the gate open and closed had rotted. It's been replaced with a series of planks, bolted together. #canal #maintenance #repair #funding
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jul 02, 2026
A half-day of nonstop locks is a workout for my glutes and shoulders. Glutes must get a workout when I use my legs to push open a lock gate that doesn't really want to budge yet. I could wait a bit longer for the lock to fill, but when you have 20+ locks to do, I apply "let's get this over with" tactics. Shoulders must get a workout when I wind paddles up and down. #CanalLife #canal #lock #exercise #BoatingLife #boating #BoatLife #boat #narrowboat #UK
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Jun 29, 2026
A cast-iron milestone in traditional black-and-white paint, along the New Mainline of the Birmingham Canal Network or BCN. The letters are raised, so can still be read up close, despite the black paint having flaked off. Heading left, or southeast: • Northbrook Street. • Rotton Park Junction. • Gas Street Basin. Heading right, or northwest: • Winson Green Junction. • Rabone Lane. • Galton Valley. #CanalLife #canal #BoatLife #boat #BoatingLife #boating #narrowboat #CRT #UK #milestone #history
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · May 30, 2026
Along the canal there were wild roses. It was on the off side, not the towpath side, in an stretch that nobody can reach on foot. Have boat, will flower. With the bow nosed in close, ot was possible to clip a small bouquet. These roses are in full blat but there are also some buds tucked in below. #CanalLife #canal #vegetation #plant #rose #flower #bloom #boating #narrowboat #boat
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · May 30, 2026
Where a weeping willow hung low over the canal, the only option was to slowly boat through the hanging curtain of leaves. Then: an enormous TWANGGGG. Something caught the solar panel brackets. Amidst the twigs and leaves was a hidden limb with a diameter of 5 inches (12½ centimeters). Out comes the electric chainsaw. That tree got a trim. #CanalLife #canal #willow #tree #vegetation #pruning #maintenance #boating #narrowboat #boat #solar #SolarPanel #CRT #CanalRiverTrust #CanalAndRiverTrust
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PKYo
Bobbing Boat @PKYo@poweredbygay.social · Apr 30, 2026
When the boat is in the water, the stern deck is about a foot (30 centimeters) above the water level. When it's on land, it takes a substantial stepladder to board the boat. #CanalLife #canal #board #boarding #boating #narrowboat #boat #maintenance #ladder #stepladder
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