The M5 was busy yesterday, so much so that when we came back from town, we were glad we weren’t on it, as traffic was at a standstill.
Later, we saw the motorway from another perspective, and although traffic was flowing, well, so were we…………….. underneath!
It was a bit windy out on the water, and so we were zig-zagging a bit holding her steady, but saying that, we had the river to ourselves again.
To be honest, it was such a lovely day and as we needed to run the engine, we thought it would be nice to go out rather than stay in the marina and churn up the mud here.
Coming back in though was tricky, as the wind caught us and Hubby had a bit of a game docking. Unfortunately, we nudged another narrow boat, and the owner came out to give us a hand with the ropes, knowing full well how difficult it can be sometimes.
Our boat is 41 feet long, so turning it and reversing isn’t exactly like driving a car.
(No, we haven’t got funnels, those are the posts for the pontoons to rise with the water level)
Weighing in at 8 tonnes, she’s no lightweight either, but narrow boats are built to withstand the occasional nudge, not like the fibre glass cruisers which tend to crumple if they get in the way or try to take us on.
He’s refurbishing his, and Hubby was invited to go in and see how they were getting on.
Now if we’d ‘kissed’ somebody’s car, they would have been up in arms shouting abuse and demanding compensation!
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You live in a total different world, no road rage…hehe.
We do indeed, and on hot sunny days it’s idyllic. Sadly not so much when it’s raining or grey and cold, but the people are the same whatever the weather. It’s one of the things we like here.
Yeah, the odd bad situations makes you just appreciate the good times even more, if not for those, we would not recognize or appreciate the real wonders in our lives.
What a lifestyle! Love the pic which targets the intricacies of a deck brush! 🙂
I’ve got more of that deck brush…. it’s going to be famous one day! haha
Loving the photos – the brush on the roof of our boat lined up with the truck going over the bridge, the “funnels” on your boat. 🙂
Sounds like a great tome was had ‘messing about on the river’ 🙂
it was lovely!
Oh, how cool to be out on the water! And people with boats do tend to be understanding about little nudges and the like – it’s a lot harder to deal with something both that large and on which both water and wind are acting to make it seem like it has a mind of its own!