{"id":1015,"date":"2008-02-25T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/02\/25\/high-and-dry-on-the-cam\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:09:02","slug":"high-and-dry-on-the-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"High and dry on The Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting walk to Grantchester this morning to The Orchard tea rooms with <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\">Sally<\/a>. The river was about 6 feet lower than normal due to work being carried out on the sluice gates at the Kings Mill weir on the mill pond (18th Feb until 3rd March). Here is a picture of  the upper river punts left high and dry, more pictures on flickr.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffjones\/2292188238\/\" title=\"Punts left high and dry by geofones, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2039\/2292188238_2fd62508b8.jpg\" alt=\"Punts left high and dry\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lets hope the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2008\/02\/17\/npunt117.xml\">proposed electric punts<\/a> on the upper river Cam will also be left high and dry for the future. See the proposals on <a href=\"http:\/\/thekingfisher08.googlepages.com\/home\">their website<\/a>. Please write before 31st March and voice your opinion too:-<\/p>\n<p><em>The Conservators have received a preliminary proposal for a water bus to operate on the \u2018Upper River\u2019 Cam between King\u2019s Mill Weir and Grantchester. The Conservators have requested more information from the applicants prior to a decision being taken at their next meeting at the Guildhall on 10th April.<br \/>\nAt present, motorised vessels are only allowed on the Upper River with the permission of the Conservators\u2019 \u2018Control Officer\u2019 (River Manager) under the terms of Byelaw 5.1.<br \/>\nThe proposal put forward to date is for two wide-beam (\u2018ferry\u2019) punts to be fitted with silent electric motors. They will be capable of travelling at a maximum of 4 mph. A regular shuttle service is envisaged between the City and Grantchester between 9am and 7pm, 7 days a week. There may be pick-up and set-down points along the route. Each punt could carry a maximum of 12 passengers with a competent skipper. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Conservators would welcome views on this proposal, in writing, <strong>before 31st March 2008<\/strong>. Written submissions should be sent to the Conservators\u2019 office at Baits Bite Lock, Fen Road , Milton , Cambridge CB24 6AF, marked for the attention of the River Manager.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting walk to Grantchester this morning to The Orchard tea rooms with Sally. The river was about 6 feet lower than normal due to work being carried out on the sluice gates at the Kings Mill weir on the mill pond (18th Feb until 3rd March). Here is a picture of the upper river punts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}