THE CANAL IS A LONG VILLAGE …
We have found this saying to be so very true. Once you own a barge, you are embraced within a wonderful, helpful and fascinating international community. For example, when we were just about to moor in Genelard, one of our leeboards dropped. We were fortunate that this didn’t happen in a lock as we would have been stuck and have caused a real nuisance! Raising a leeboard is no laughing matter as each one weighs about one ton. Help was at hand as the barge ‘Butskop’ - with a charming French couple from our homeport - were moored across the way and a former French policeman and his wife were moored right beside us. They spent the whole afternoon working with us to raise the leeboard and re-attach it. What a feat! But we’ve learned that’s what the barge community does – just like all sailing communities – we go to great lengths to help one another.
Later, another French couple who owned a cognac distillery moored beside us and just happened to have some cognac on board for anyone who wanted to participate in an inpromptu degustation! Of course we all did and Marc is now the proud owner of an amazing sixty year old cognac and memories of a wonderful evening.
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