Grey clouds, occasional showers of rain in the afternoon. M and D came round to have a bit of discussion about the winter moorings. We all went to see the Chef down at the VNF workshop just below the lock. Found him at work so we had a short chat. The pounds to be drained were from above lock 15 (where we are currently moored) to below lock 10, and no, we couldn’t stay below lock 15 on the river fed section because of the danger of flooding. He suggested contacting the VNF at Corbigny who are in charge of all the Nivernais to find out where we could stay. He said maybe at Braye or at Chitry-les-Mines. We decided to have a run out in the car after lunch as no one was answering the phone at Corbigny. We found a VNF guy at Les Granges who was very helpful; he said they were emptying the pounds either side of the summit and couldn’t guarantee the water level any of the pounds below once they had no feed. He suggested seeing the man who runs the hire base at Baye on the summit, which we did.
He was busy putting wooden posts along the banks so he could moor more boats stern to the bank as he was stacked out with small cruisers and had no room for long boats like ours and The Big Boat. He also said he didn’t take liveaboards as he’d had problems in the past with people ringing him at 2.00 a.m. to tell him the electricity had gone off! He was very nice about it and said to try LeBoat at Decize. D phoned them later, they were fully booked.
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