Ray Butler wrote: > "Adrian Stott" wrote Thu Jan 1, 2009 7:00 am (PST) > > I've seen the cut below Hertford lock freeze only once in the >15 > years I have moored downstream of it. However, I've never seen a > flowing section of the Lea freeze. > > In January 1981 I was moored on "Lupin" at the bottom of Ware lock on > the Lea, and on getting up to open a window because the stove + 2 > Aladdin paraffin lamps were making it too hot in the cabin (!) I > noticed that the river was freezing as it came over the weir there. > > The flowing section was about 4 inches deep in ice during that frost. > > I have in my youth broken ice 3 inches thick on the canal section > above Waltham Common Lock (With someone else's boat!)
Yes, it is always much more fun to go ice breaking in someone else's boat ;-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Jannock - chief blacking remover
