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Journey to Sawbridgeworth

Summary

This is a trip of 1 mile, 3 furlongs and 2 locks from Harlow Lock No 8 to Sawbridgeworth Visitor Moorings travelling northeast on the Lee and Stort Navigation (River Stort – Main Line).

This will take 57 minutes.

Route

Lee and Stort Navigation (River Stort – Main Line)
From Harlow Lock No 8 (Also known as Harlow Mill Lock) to:
Sawbridgeworth Visitor Moorings

14 day moorings<BR>There are more Visitor Moorings above Sawbridgeworth Lock
 1 mile, 3 furlongs, 2 locks

Totals

Total distance is 1 mile, 3 furlongs and 2 locks (not counting Harlow Lock No 8).

This is made up of 1 mile, 3 furlongs of small rivers; 2 broad locks.

This will take 57 minutes. For initial calculation purposes (before adjusting for such things as overnight stops) this is taken as 1 day of 57 minutes.

 

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6 July 2015 – Simona R.I.P

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6 July 2015 was HH Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday,

Buddhists around the world celebrated peacefully this day.

It was also the day, our dear friend Simona passed away.

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I will not forget you, sister!

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Summer time, River Stort time!

It’s almost end of June and we cruised out into nature. The initial journey from Broxbourne up to Harlow Town was, to put simply, sublime. It’s boaters paradise, now the bargee life started to make sense, even to me. River Stort is a natural river, no concrete slabs lining it or anything the like. Even though the water is considered ‘grey water’, meaning the shower & washing up water from boats is going into the river, River Stort’s water is very clean.

Some photos from the cruise and the mooring place we found in Harlow.

 

Some short film recordings of this magic cruise:

Just one remark regarding grey water: We’ve been very strict and use only biodegradable washing up, cleaning and hygiene products. This unfortunately is not always the case with fellow boaters. We’ve seen many Fairy Ultra’s on window sills, who knows what else is put down the drain. You can see straight away when the ‘Fairy Ultra’ boaters do their washing up, it bubbles much longer than the biodegradable one. Frankly, it’s a mystery why the Canal and River Trust (CRT) doesn’t hand out guidelines in that regard and encourage boaters to use biodegradable products. It should be a high priority, I think, it would be only beneficial for nature and future boaters!

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Log

Journey to Harlow

Summary

This is a trip of 9 miles, 3½ furlongs and 10 locks from Broxbourne Rowing Club to Harlow Lock No 8.

This will take 5 hours and 39 minutes.

From Broxbourne Rowing Club travel northeast on the Lee and Stort Navigation (River Lee) for 2 miles, 5¼ furlongs and 3 locks to Rye House Junction, then travel northeast on the Lee and Stort Navigation (River Stort – Main Line) for 6 miles, 6½ furlongs and 7 locks to Harlow Lock No 8.

Route

Lee and Stort Navigation (River Lee)
From Broxbourne Rowing Club to:
Rye House Junction

Junction of Rivers Stort and Lee
 2 miles, 5¼ furlongs, 3 locks
Lee and Stort Navigation (River Stort – Main Line)
From Rye House Junction (Junction of Rivers Stort and Lee) to:
Roydon Road Bridge No 6

High Street (B181)
 1 mile, 3½ furlongs, 2 locks
Harlow Lock No 8

Also known as Harlow Mill Lock
 5 miles, 3 furlongs, 5 locks

Totals

Total distance is 9 miles, 3½ furlongs and 10 locks (not counting Harlow Lock No 8).

This is made up of 9 miles, 3½ furlongs of small rivers; 10 broad locks.

This will take 5 hours and 39 minutes. For initial calculation purposes (before adjusting for such things as overnight stops) this is taken as 1 day of 5 hours and 39 minutes.

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Research

Boattr Bridge Update

The next stage after the cat5 bridge is to add P82B96 buffers on the i2c lines and a level converter. This will add some more resilience and make possible longer runs of i2c cables.

references

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/p82b96.pdf

https://pidome.wordpress.com/manual-howtos/pidome-hardware/i%C2%B2c-bus-extender-for-the-raspberry-pi/

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Broxbourne without Blue Morn in tow

This journey to Broxbourne we did without Anton, he and his boat were still in the Marina as next to the paint job he also needed to sort out his engine. It was a happy trip, Natascha didn’t even mind working the locks by herself. We also both like to be moored up in Broxbourne.

We moored opposite the local Rowing Club and whilst their training the boat was rocking quite heavily.

It’s a really lovely spot on the river Lee Navigation, surrounded by beautiful nature, yet we can easily reach London with the train. This also meant friends could easily visit us for a weekend in nature. Patrizia & Andrea came around for a two day visit when Adnan was away, this way we managed to fit in the boat.

We went for a long walk, we thought, it started raining like crazy and we had to return back despite the heavy down pour. Soaking wet as we were, we had to put the stove on even though it was June. The visual aftermath of the deluge was stunning though.

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Journey to Broxbourne

Summary

This is a trip of 4 miles, 2½ furlongs and 3 locks from Stanstead Marina to Broxbourne Rowing Club travelling south on the Lee and Stort Navigation (River Lee).

This will take 1 hour and 49 minutes.

Route

Lee and Stort Navigation (River Lee)
From Stanstead Marina (Also known as Lee Valley Marina Stanstead Abbots) to:
Rye House Bridge No 58

With Pipe Bridge alongside
 1 mile, 1¼ furlongs, 0 locks
Rye House Junction

Junction of Rivers Stort and Lee
 4 furlongs, 0 locks
Broxbourne Rowing Club 2 miles, 5¼ furlongs, 3 locks

Totals

Total distance is 4 miles, 2½ furlongs and 3 locks.

This is made up of 4 miles, 2½ furlongs of small rivers; 3 broad locks.

This will take 1 hour and 49 minutes. For initial calculation purposes (before adjusting for such things as overnight stops) this is taken as 1 day of 1 hour and 49 minutes.

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