Time and Tide

It had almost looked as though our first trip onto the tidal Trent for this year in a couple of weeks would be thwarted by lock opening hours. As is often the case during winter opening hours the lockies only work for one tide of the day, in some cases this means one lock working the early tide and another working the late tide.

It looked as though we would have to call off our West Stockwith run as while both locks were working the later tide on the Saturday, Torksey would be working the early tide on Sunday with West Stockwith working the late tide meaning we wouldn't be able to get back onto the Fossdyke and home again and we didn't fancy leaving nine boats on the lock cut pontoon all week!

A quick phone call to the lockies has however sorted this out and they have changed the opening hours for Torksey Lock for the Sunday so that we can get home again. Well done CRT.