Ooh now that’s a suprise

What a surprise, a Black Swan at Rodley!

Lady Teal in Leeds

Lovely time in Leeds, down the river to Thwaites mill a great water mill then overnight in a lovely quiet spot. Great city

Skippers Night

New season started well, wonderful weather. Last night was our inaugural Skippers Night, 7 courses and a choice of menus. Seemed to go down well and adds another feature to our cruises. Well done Gina on making it all work .

Spa Showers

Exciting, just commissioned our spa showers with water filtered through a variety of stones filtering the calcium and chlorine out of the water.

Season About to Start

Well the new season is about to start, we are off tomorrow! Great year planned with  some fab new trips, particularly into Liverpool. Heres to some good weather!

Blacking Done

All done with the blacking, looking good. All aok now lets fill up the dock.

What Blacking to use & Bank Hall Dry Dock

After a lot of thought, do we soda blast, bead blast, slurry blast, two pack, bituman, comastic? We finally decided to clean back as much as possible fo the two pack, then use comastic. It seems a bit less brittle and adheres well. The two pack…

Blacking Complete

Blacking is done, just a few twiddly bits left to do. The ice has cleared so its back into the water tomorrow. I have taken some pictures so will upload them shortly.

Dry Dock

Well, what an eventful day! We started blacking with Comastic, had intended to use two pack but the underlying surface had not been prepped suitably for that. But then we have got a guy who can Soda blast it, bicarb rather than sand, which should…

Blacking

Well we set off with the canal all iced up, a good half inch or more! An interesting trip to the dry dock crashing through the ice! We are now in the dock and being cleaned off.  A small hiccup with the way it was originally blacked has led…