{"id":59,"date":"2008-06-10T05:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-06-10T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T19:07:44","slug":"fresh-in-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Fresh in the river"},"content":{"rendered":"

7 knots according to a trawler skipper. The river was running fast and carrying lots of sticks and clumps of weed and rubbish. Every few minutes there’d be a unnerving scraping along the hull as a pile of flotsam bumps along the waterline. What’s it doing to that fresh antifouling paint?<\/p>\n

I’m worried that a large log will come floating along and not be able to fit between the hulls. I decide to stay on watch just in case. High tide is about 10 pm, and the riving is peaking about the same time.<\/p>\n

Moonlight turns the river to a mercurial flow that reaches out across the cow paddock. By 4am the tide is now low, and the river flow is decreased a little, and the cow paddock has appeared again. The current is not as strong and I’m not so worried about logs doing any damage – so I sleep.<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of the river the next day at slack tide. There’s a small pile of flotsam nearby and the nearby sailing boat was anchored further upstream and got dragged down to here. In this position she can swing on Current Sunshine so I want to get it moved to a better position.<\/p>\n

\"Caboolture<\/a><\/p>\n

A few days later and the river is now back to normal and I’m working on the fairing for the motor. It will be done in a few days. I took a some more photos on my phone but dropped in the river and so the photos are gone too. I have a new phone with the same number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7 knots according to a trawler skipper. The river was running fast and carrying lots of sticks and clumps of weed and rubbish. Every few minutes there’d be a unnerving scraping along the hull as a pile of flotsam bumps along the waterline. What’s it doing to that fresh antifouling paint? I’m worried that a … <\/p>\n

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