Waterways

Send us Fan MailAs the weather gets increasingly wintery and frosts burn the air, we look at the waterways and the practicalities of boating. How do you turn a 58ft boat in a narrow canal? Can you boat through the night? What happens to the canals during the winter?Journal entry:“27th November, Friday.It would have been Mum’s birthday today.And there’s a November moon sailing in November skies.My breath is silver fire.    My fingers burn deep in the my pockets.The rooks are no longer visible among the branches.So I follow the stars homeward        Always tracking slightly westward.Thank God for the sunrise.          And November buds.”Episode InformationThis episode featured the lovely poem ‘Boatlife in Autumn’ by Julia Pearson onboard NB Omega. You can read her poem on her Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/boaty7/ I also mentioned the wonderful photographs of night-time boating taken by the working coal boat NB Alton. You can see their photographs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coalboat_alton/   General DetailsIn the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org. Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. Piano interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.All other audio recorded on site. ContactFor pictures of Erica and images related to the podcasts follow me on:Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoswPodI would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected]   Support the showBecome a 'Lock-Wheeler'Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.ContactFacebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw  I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon. For more information about Nighttime on Still WatersYou can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.