Yesterday when I woke up and stumbled off to the loo something felt wrong, I wasn't walking straight and I was sober, nothing to cause a hangover, the boat was definitely not sitting level in the water, so I had a quick look out of the window and I was still moored where I was the night before so after breakfast I went outside and the water level had dropped about three inches, no real problem, but I was sitting slightly on the bottom.
I am painting the area at the rear so I carried on with that but by 2 o'clock the boat was tilting rather alarmingly, the water level had dropped about a foot and I along with many others was now sitting well on the bottom, making moving around the boat quite a chore, the boat was listing probably 10-15 degrees, the topic of conversation along the tow path was the lack of water, to work on the lock causing the current closure meant draining the lock and obviously stopping any further water coming down, someone apparently had left a paddle open on the next lock down the canal, rapidly draining the section we were all moored in, I along with many others had to loosen my mooring lines and push the boat about a metre away from the bank back into deeper water, which took quite some effort but everyone mucked in and helped each other, fortunately someone took action and either opened a paddle on the sealed gates or got the workman to pump some water through but by 9pm we were back to normal.
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| New gates fitted |
Fingers X'd as I want to get moving.
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