The poor summer weather has taken its toll with flooding again in early July but as usual the team cleaned the place out afterwards and were ready to run on the following Sunday.

In June the pond was drained to puddle a leak near the bypass sluice. The clay was supplied by British Waterways and we undertook the heavy job of puddleling it in on their behalf. While the pond was empty we took the opportunity to clear some of the build up of silt in the bottom, some of our members derive a strange pleasure in this task, to understand this I think you have to try it for yourself. Don’t all rush down though, we will not do it again until next spring!

The Burbage Crane reconstruction is still progressing well, I am impressed with my team’s excellent work cutting and preparing the very large mortise and teneon joints in the oak timbers.

The branch barbeque went ahead in some very dodgy weather, although the rain just about held off for an hour or two and the hardy members that turned up did manage to cook and eat their food outside.
 

Peter Dunn
 

The team work on creating the new joints for the Burbage Crane