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A Cruise on Mel's Wide Beam Boat 'Castaway'

13th September, 2008 - Please Scroll Down for Pictures

The boat Log

Left 'Blue Water Marina' for a short cruise on wide beam boat 'Castaway'

Wykewell Lift Bridge - a bit heavy .......... can Reece managed to lift it ?

Reece at Wykewell lift bridge control panel
(note that the road barriers are dropping)

Reece at Wykewell lift bridge control panel
(note that the road barriers are down & the bridge is lifting)

Reece at Wykewell lift bridge control panel (out of sight in this picture)
(note that Mel has brought 'Castaway' through the bridge)

Wykewell Lift Bridge - a bit heavy but ...... Reece managed to lift it !
Reece returning to boat (Mel is not going to mention that he left the keys in the control panel !)

New 57' x 11' wide beam boat - for sale !

Blue Pearl

Harry's boat 'Woody'

Reece operating Thorne footbridge (saves a long walk over the main road bridge)

Thorne footbridge control panel
(it doesn't always work as expected but ..... there is an emergency telephone number !)

Reece at Thorne footbridge control panel
(it doesn't always work as expected but ..... there is an emergency telephone number !)

Reece at 'Thorne Lock' control panel - note that he has hold of the (spare) keys this time !

Thorne Lock head gates, sluices and swing bridge

Reece opens Thorne Lock swing bridge

Reece 'at the tiller' of Castaway

The M18 Road bridge (vehicles travel far faster than our 4 m.p.h. !)

Winded here (that means we turned to head back downstream)

Stanilands Marina

Reece back at 'Thorne Lock' control panel

Reece opens Thorne Lock swing bridge (again !)

Reece operating Thorne footbridge (again) - he's out of sight - behind the control panel !

Now back at 'Blue Water Marina' with 'Castaway'

The B.W. 'watermate' key was recovered from Wykewell bridge by Kevin
(proprietor - Blue Water Marina) - so all went well in the end !