Float like a battleship...

I hitched a lift on nb Good Times down to Mill Hill for a bit of a carnival they were having.

Part of this was some mad guy who had built a boat out of the rubbish collected out of the canal

 I must say that it did look like rubbish fished out of the canal

 and it needed CRT volunteers to tow it back out of the canal

I called in at Lincoln to sort out some wiring problems on a narrowboat.

 

 This is what happens when things get added at random over the years

and this is what wiring should look like!

Back at Botany Boatyard, Kiers boat was going back in the water

 This is a 100 year old boat, with a 100 year old engine, a genuine Dutch Barge

 I takes two cranes working in tandem to lift the boat in

and then it is floating

The bows look huge when side by side with a standard narrowboat,

 So, once the engine is started, we have to take it for a sail

 Happiness is getting your 100 year old boat back in the water!

 

 We stopped at Cowling bridge for a pint

 and what goes with a pint? Backsticks Cheese!

 There is plenty of room on the roof for passengers

 And then back to Botany

Back at the pub, somebody brought in some wildlife!