Meeting up with the Friends of the river Nene

We had arranged to meet up with the Friends of the river Nene at their new Pear Tree Farm moorings (upstream from Wadenhoe). On arrival we breasted up in the bywash.

As there were a lot of boats already moored bankside

They had made fantastic progress clearing the riverside mooring

Glenda spotted something large wedged under Freyja's bow and we decided to try to pull it out using the hydraulic crane on out tugdeck.

Apologies for the fuzzy pics, I was pumping the crane at the time!

It involved craning it up a bit and then lashing it to a tree, then getting a fresh bite with the crane

Heave Ho and up she rises!

Safely on the bank at last, this could have ripped the bottom out of a cruiser.

Next we cleared the bywash bank and an area for camping

Time for a breather

By the evening we had these beautiful moorings to ourselves

Idyllic, or what?

FotrN have provided these firepits at all their moorings, handy for burning rubbish, as there are no bins on the river.