Have been out several times this year on the lake but just wanted to document my latest trip with my grandson Jake.
We launched from Park foot at Pooley bridge, you can see from the photo they have built a nice new shiny jetty. Have mixed feelings about this as it takes up a lot of the narrow beach and your not allowed to moor your boat to it (so the point is ?) however, the franchise of paddle boats and water bikes that used to operate off that beach seems to have gone, it was a big problem last year where they would fill the beach with their boats and you were in constant competition with them to launch and recover your boat. No sign of them this year so all's good.
The mods I've done to the boat this year include a new pedestal seat for the front passenger, I did this as my daughter complained of lower back pain after prolonged sitting on the old bench seat. The pedestals have sprung suspension but unfortunately only have limited travel so in a really big wave the boat can be still be a bit slammy. The seats can be unlocked which lets them spin round to face any direction which is really convenient when in a small boat and in anything but the biggest chop on Ullswater they are very comfortable. The speed limit on Ullswater tends to mean the suspension doesn't get a good workout anyway.
I had a problem with my fish finder as it was mounted to the old bench seat, with that gone where to put it ? I tried mounting it on the tube which was ok but it used to bounce back and forth when at a reasonable speed which it made it hard to read, so in the end I made a bracket so it could be attached to my seat, this worked well. There is plenty of cable length so the chair can rotate without straining the cable.
We had a fantastic day, the weather was kind, Sunny with next to no wind.
Picnic at Glenridding then a slow fish back to our start point where we recovered the boat and home.
That's what summers are all about.
