Full moon over Braunston and a very sharp frost .
The following morning this boat broke through the ice , with Paul and Jill from Nb Falcon looking on as he got a bit close to their boat .
The boat hadn't travelled very far and as you can see the ice has taken all the protective paint off the hull and its now back to bare metal.That's not good as the rust will soon start to eat into all that lovely unprotected metal. The owner will have to get some blacking on that as soon as possible.
A rather large volunteer working party doing a good job cutting back the offside near Braunston Marina.
This boat was being worked on in the dry dock at Braunston marina . Its having a full back to metal re-spray including the hull . I'm certainly glad I'm not paying for that.
Picture taken by Carolyn…… ( No comments please )
That's looking better ,all the pounds are now full and Canal and River Trust workers are now clearing up and taking down all the safety fencing ready for the flight to open.
With all the running water which was used to fill the locks it hasn't had time to freeze like the rest of the canal.
We are now getting very itchy feet again, but we are not prepared to move with so much ice still on the cut . I know we have everything we need here but we just love to be on the move. The plan is to cruise down the South Oxford Canal for a few weeks and hopefully pick up some firewood on our travels as we have now just about run out.
Happy Days