Winter Cruise with Pics

[Mashby]

Hi all,

Well we wrapped up warm and put the heater on and headed out on Saturday.
Wasn't to cold. We went from Walton to Richmond took some photos along the way. We pretty much had the river to ourselves probaly encounted around five other boats the entire day. Amazingly one was the EA patrol boat.
All Lockies were on good form but its a shame "Teddington Lock" wasnt on duty.

One minor hicup our prop hit something round the back of Eal Pie Island only slightly dendted but annoying none the less. Still is could have been worse.

Thats about it oh in the pictures below, the last one who makes the boat I forgot to write it down.Began with A i think memory is not to good these days.

Cheers all
Matt

 

[byron]

You certainly managed to capture the gloominess of the river in winter. Makes me glad I'm sitting here in the warm with a nice cuppa.

 

[Zagato]

Never seen it so quiet

 

[oldgit]

A poem by a Mr Shellfish ?

Ode to the West Wind

O WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being—
Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes!—O thou 5
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed
The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill 10
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill—
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere—
Destroyer and Preserver—hear, O hear!

Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion, 15
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,
Angels of rain and lightning! they are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head 20
Of some fierce Mænad, ev'n from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height—
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge
Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, 25
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst:—O hear!

Thou who didst waken from his summer-dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, 30
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss, and flowers 35
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers
Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know 40
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear
And tremble and despoil themselves:—O hear!

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share 45
The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O uncontrollable!—if even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be
The comrade of thy wanderings over heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed 50
Scarce seem'd a vision,—I would ne'er have striven
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd 55
One too like thee—tameless, and swift, and proud.

Make me thy lyre, ev'n as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies
Will take from both a deep autumnal tone, 60
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! be thou me, impetuous one!
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse, 65
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

 

[teddington_lock]

I was on duty on Saturday !!! 1400 to 2200 !! Adrian told me that you had come through though.

I had a boat come through yesterday , heading upstream to Walton , who had also damaged their prop around Richmond .....they were going to get it lifted at Shepperton marina.

I asked them if they wanted to turn the boat across the lock and have a prod underneath with the boat hook ?

 

[miket]

Apremare?

Thats about it oh in the pictures below, the last one who makes the boat I forgot to write it down.Began with A i think memory is not to good these days.

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[Mashby]

I was on duty on Saturday !!! 1400 to 2200 !! Adrian told me that you had come through though.

Sods law well I least you know I was thinking of you when I went through your lock

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Thanks Miket but a quick name search courtsey of Jim's website revealed she is an Antaris although even going to their website I'm not sure which model. Might have stopped making them.

 

[dmmbruce]

Thanks Miket but a quick name search courtsey of Jim's website revealed she is an Antaris although even going to their website I'm not sure which model. Might have stopped making them.

I have seen reference to a website that colates names and boats previously on threads here.

Please can you tell me what the site is, provided it is available others like me?

Thanks Mike

 

[teddington_lock]

http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/boats.htm

It's not quite as up to date as our NLS , but it's fine for everyday use for people.

 

[Dave70]

winter cruise

Good for you! I was on my boat Saturday,[locked in at Harleyford at the moment] missing our winter cruises.Great pictures,as i spent my boyhood in Richmond it was good to see some familiar sights.sorry to hear about the prop,hope its not too serious.by the way,could you tell me how you attach pictures? not quite sure how to do that.cheers Dave

 

[Mashby]

Hi Dave

Pm sent re pics

Cheers
Matt

 

[bradtarga34]

Great being out on the river regardless of the weather I reckon. A pity ours is frozen in, and the Ebersplutter has spluttered its last... Hopefully will be sorted next week, about to buy another tube heater to stick in the engine bay now.