Date - 17 /08/08 Day - Sunday Start - 0845 Longwood Boat Club End - 1500 Ridge Acre Arm, Top of Ryders Green flight
Harnser's present position http://tinyurl.com/Harnser-s-route We had a good night last night in the Longwood Boat Club club house with an interesting talk about the history of RN engines by Brian followed by some very tasty fish and chips. During the night we had very heavy rain but it had cleared up by this morning. We were woken early by some of the first boats leaving at about 6 am. We were booked out at 8-50 am but pushed off in a gap at about quarter to. We had a good run down the Rushall flight but we started to bunch up at the bottom of the Ryders Green flight, It turned out that the first boats up found part of the flight dry and spent an hour letting water down to give enough depth to get up. Once the first boats reached the top and moored up they started helping the other boats up the flight. We reached the top and backed into the Ridge Acre Arm commonly known as the Chemical Arm at 3 pm. and after helping other boats to moor did some work on the top lock. The last boats arrived a little after 5-30pm Both groups are together now so there are over 30 boats moored up here now blocking the line and the arm. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Join SOW and help save our waterways http://www.saveourwaterways.org
