To enable me to position the dock further out in the canal when the lower winter tides are with us, I haven't driven the two spud poles (3.25" heavy galvanised pipe) into the canal bottom; they just rest there, steadied by some stays made from more light-duty galvanised pipe. So far, it's working quite well. Next is to cobble-up some sort of gangplank.

First step into my new Edon TS515 training scull. Following instructions from Charlotte Hollings' calmwatersrowing videos (great resource). I have one of the training pontoons resting on the dock so the boat is relatively stable. Grabbing hold of both oar handles and expecting to get wet very soon!

In looking at the available video on the internet it seemed that getting into a scull from a regular fixed dock might be somewhat tricky. We live on a canal with a gently shelving "ramp" so we decided to float a 8'x5' Accudock module and construct a simple ramp (I'm actually using a ladder and a bit of plywood right now) to reach it. The spud poles aren't hammered into the bottom, they are just resting on it. I plan to add stabilising bits of tubing so that I can easily re-position the dock further out when the winter lower tides are with us. More later.