Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 18, 2017 20:00:47 GMT
I arrived home from Indonesia on Monday, after a great 2 month surfing trip. I always have a little niggling worry or two, will the boat still be floating, will my motor bike start, etc. etc.
What transpired though, I would never have guessed in a thousand years:
First I heard was Monday morning, when I arrived at my parents' place. My Dad told me there had been a problem with my boat, CRT had rung to tell them that my boat was loose on the canal, and was blocking navigation. They attended the next day but found my boat where I'd moored it.
I arrived at my boat in the afternoon. All looked to be in order, apart from the front mooring rope, which was different. I made a brew, started the engine, checked the water system etc., started having a good clean. After a couple of hours there was a knock on my boat. It was Jim, a liveaboard and good friend of mine. His story:
Last Saturday he was walking his dog and saw my boat 2 bridges north of where I left it, moored with a single centre line. My boat was facing north, I'd left it facing south. Although my boat is only 35 feet there's nowhere between where I'd moored it and where Jim found it that's wide enough to turn it round. So, the boat must have been taken to the winding hole one bridge south of where I'd moored it, turned around, then taken back north. The boat had not been broken into and the engine wasn't started; I'd removed the isolator. The only thing that was different to when I left it was that the front rope was missing, the new one was Jim's.
I really don't know what to make of this. Had someone towed the boat to this quiet new spot, intending to break into it later? Was it due for a repaint then an ad. on Apolloduck?
Has anyone come across anything like this before?
By the way the boat was moored on a winter mooring at Whiteley Green, on the Macc.
What transpired though, I would never have guessed in a thousand years:
First I heard was Monday morning, when I arrived at my parents' place. My Dad told me there had been a problem with my boat, CRT had rung to tell them that my boat was loose on the canal, and was blocking navigation. They attended the next day but found my boat where I'd moored it.
I arrived at my boat in the afternoon. All looked to be in order, apart from the front mooring rope, which was different. I made a brew, started the engine, checked the water system etc., started having a good clean. After a couple of hours there was a knock on my boat. It was Jim, a liveaboard and good friend of mine. His story:
Last Saturday he was walking his dog and saw my boat 2 bridges north of where I left it, moored with a single centre line. My boat was facing north, I'd left it facing south. Although my boat is only 35 feet there's nowhere between where I'd moored it and where Jim found it that's wide enough to turn it round. So, the boat must have been taken to the winding hole one bridge south of where I'd moored it, turned around, then taken back north. The boat had not been broken into and the engine wasn't started; I'd removed the isolator. The only thing that was different to when I left it was that the front rope was missing, the new one was Jim's.
I really don't know what to make of this. Had someone towed the boat to this quiet new spot, intending to break into it later? Was it due for a repaint then an ad. on Apolloduck?
Has anyone come across anything like this before?
By the way the boat was moored on a winter mooring at Whiteley Green, on the Macc.
