I Am Sailing

My Stepfather had an old lifeboat named Kingfisher. I loved that boat, but he sold it. I used to go at weekends to stay aboard to pump out the bilges. Mainly to get me out of the house, but it was freedom, and I loved it.
I used to open the back of the boat and watch the ducks, coots, moorhens, and swans swim past. The rocking sensation was inducing to a good night’s sleep.

Boats were my passion, and the sea.

But some boats have funny names. Perhaps you can add some to the discussion.

Thats how my love of boats began.

Later I made a film on the Grand Union canal, a sort of travelogue and true story it was about three guys delivering a barge from Buckby bottom lock N of England to the Regents canal. It appeared on Spanish tv.

A narrow boat typical of a barge on the Grand union.They traveled in pairs,the family lived on one and they transported coal and heavy goods.

The barges were originaly horse drawn,but men were strapped to the side of the boat to walk pushing boats through tunnels,they were called leggers.going up or down hill were flights of locks,one particular hill jad thirty locks against us and I had to run with a lock key to open for the barge.

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Lian