Tales from today's commute....

[cyberknight]

Going to die on the way home unless this wind drops. Flew into work. Ran out of gears on the MTB... OK 44x13 and 26" isn't much.
Turned the corner near work and almost stopped.

I was the opposite,I was being blown to a standstill on the way to work.

 

[Mazz]

I would guess it moored with tight ines while the river was in full flood, and as the water level ha=s dropped it is now held up by the lines.

Ah understood. Seems like a simple and avoidable mistake.

 

[Mazz]

Very very wet riding in this morning. So much so that for the first time ever on my commute I wore those binmen-style hi-viz over-trousers with reflective hoops on the legs. Glad I did - It did a decent job of keeping my legs dry.

 

[wafter]

I wonder what happened to that boat. Has it been like that for a while?

Me too. It's probably only been like that for a week or two; sadly there always seem to be one or two disasters on the canal and river.

While this one's arguably not so bad as it's evidently a leisure craft, it's horrible to think that some of them were potentially someone's home.

I remember one on the canal last year that someone with evidently zero practical skills was trying to "improve", but their pitiful efforts only ever seemed to make it worse until the point that one day it'd clearly had enough and sank.

There's also a burnt-out canal boat at a similar place on the river (opposite Christchurch college) and what looks like a pontoon submerged a bit further up. There also appeared to be a bit of a lashed-up houseboat partially capsized; although I think that got re-floated fairly quickly and I don't recall seeing it recently.

Living on the water looks tough and I think for many it's a last resort.

I would guess it moored with tight ines while the river was in full flood, and as the water level ha=s dropped it is now held up by the lines.

A reasonable assumption although currently it looks like the water's still rising..

 

[fossyant]

That was hard work. At least it didn't rain or snow.

 

[ianrauk]

Yet I had rain this morning and this evening. Looking for the same tomorrow.