There are fairly new pontoon moorings at Gainsborough, which make it posssible to visit Gainsborough and even to moor overnight.
The North East Waterways cruising guide is published by the Ripon Motor Boat Club and does get revised, although comparing my old copy with a recent version, most of the pages are unchanged. David @boatmoving.org.uk --- In [email protected], "Terry Waldron" <talwald...@...> wrote: > > > > Andrew wrote > > >June 27th > > >We left at 6.45am to avoid the yobs and we are now on deep wide water. > > In about 20 trips from Castleford going towards Ferrybridge we only > encountered yobs and stone throwing twice, once at the railway bridge just > after Bulholme Lock and the other time at Fairburn Railway Bridge - on this > latter occasion they were throwing rail ballast and one piece bounced on the > cabin roof narrowly missing me. This used to be a reasonably popular > swimming spot for some of the local youth - not sure if it still is. > > > > >At 12.20pm as we are well ahead of schedule we moored up > > >before Bramwith lock on the Stainforth and Keadby canal. > > A lovely quiet mooring with excellent fishing. Although not shown in > Nicholsons as 'A Mooring' it is a regular mooring spot for boats that moor > not too distance from here. A popular spot to hear the Cuckoo, many times > heard but not seen even though we could figure out where he was. > > > > > > >Out at 7.03 in overcast but warm weather. By 9.10am > > >we had reached Gainsborough and 2 narrowboats pull out from the pontoon > > >moorings. > > Although these moorings look pretty good I would not like to moor there due > to the rise and fall of the tide, out of preference I would go on to Torksey > as it is much safer mooring even if you go onto the pontoons outside the > lock. > > > > >We Overtake the narrowboats and just past Sturton pumping > > >station on starboard bank side, we do a pirouette after encountering a > > >sandbank in the low water. > > On both the Ouse and Trent it is common to hit 'mud huts', these are raised > portions of river bed which come and go, and would be too difficult to > accurately report position, and are more prominent at low tides. The only > people who really know this river are the gravel barges that go from > Besthorpe to Goole and Castleford area. > > There is a very useful, but now fairly old (unless they have re-issued it) > Book published by Ripon Motor Boat Club, or is it Ripon Cruising Club, not > sure, that gives much better information than all the other Canal Maps for > both Ouse and Trent. > > There is one notorious area of sandbank, well more like a small island, but > that has a Warning Board and as far as I can remember that is on Dunham > Rack, or close to. > > > > You made extremely good time to Cromwell, I have taken longer than that to > get to Torksey. > > > > Terry > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
