Home mooring

We woke this morning to find the boat surrounded by ice yet again so we were more than happy to hear Nb Minnow, Monarch, Comet and another boat breaking their way through the ice towards us. I gave Dunchurch pools Marina a ring to make sure they were open for diesel, I thought they may have been frozen over. When we arrived there was no a single piece of ice to be seen on the water and unlike the boat, no snow. 160lts of diesel later and we on our way back to our moorings, I gave them a ring to make sure the pumpout station was operational with the frost, answer, yes all good. So I reversed into the marina and onto the service and we pumped out the loo tank, then through the bridge and on to our moorings.  After packing up with the exception of the cold water tank the domestic water system was drained down and after de-icing the car we set off for home. Diner was taken at the Wheatsheaf in Crick before an easy  drive home.

Today’s Journey

2 Miles with no locks in 1½ hours

Dunchurch pool marina

Apart from the fireworks last night was surprisingly quiet. I went out about 8pm and there was ice on  the top of the boats and the ropes were stiff, but as the evening progressed the temperature kept slowly rising and was about 3°C this morning. As we were rather late to bed last night and not far to go today we were a bit late getting away.
It actually felt much cooler than yesterday and we were soon passing the Waterside Pub and this sign always amuses me, there have been boats permanently moored her for at least a year.

We chugged straight past the entrance to our marina to moor just before the entrance to Dunchurch Pool Marina for the night.By now the temperature was pushing 6°C and by 3PM it was raining, well after we had moored up.

As its the end of year a few statistics, our lowest ever excluding Covid.
Miles 888   Locks 301    Nights on board 121
Lts of Diesel 971   Engine Hours 439

Today’s Journey

3½ miles with no locks in 1¼ hours.