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Neil TNC

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Neil TNC last won the day on June 5 2013

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    Here and not there.
  • Interests
    Canals and waterways of Europe.
    Tidal narrowboating.
    Boat maintenance.
    Waterways photography.
    High end Hi-Fi.
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    Boating
  • Boat Name
    NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (sold)
  • Boat Location
    Hinckley

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  1. This was during the TNC NB Beatty years, from Harefield Marina. There was an Easter Lee and Stort.The main lads summer trip was a bit of a blur, I can't remember any stoppages or restrictions if there were it did not really slow us down. There was (in no particular order) a L&L, Sheffield, Erewash, Chesterfield, MSC, Weaver (from MSC as lift shut, went all around the flash, did not get stuck) and Thames. ISTR the L&L took 4 days, Leeds to Wigan, there were 2 blokes lock wheeling on mountain bikes. Beatty log book at home, I never really wrote this up on TNC website as not many pictures as It was all videoed. This was Sony Hi8, so not bad quality, now all transferred to HD.
  2. To do MSC from Ellesmere Port to Pomona, all the details are here in the MSC Induction Pack The recommended surveyors for your Certificate Of Seaworthiness are Mike Carter and John Pope, both difficult to pin down, we used Mike, 75 quid. New notice to Mariners from MSC, they are only allowing Up passages on Thursdays and Down passages on Tuesdays, both start at 08.00. You will have to book CaRT and Council separately to get out of Ellesmere Port, though Whitby Lock and overbridge. 6The Bridgewater Dept most difficult to deal with, best by email, they will want to see copy of your BSS and insurance, allow a week to deal with them. They will Lock you up on the Friday at 08.00, so you will have to overnight at Salford Quays. Cost for Pomona is still 30 quid. mli01-pleasure-craft-induction-pack-2025.pdf
  3. A couple of decades ago? 😃
  4. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/flooding-and-subsequent-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-from-use-of-a-portable-petrol-driven-pump-on-dredger-panurgic-ii-river-trent-england-with-2-people-affected-by-fumes MV Panurgic II made a handy mooring pontoon for us in 2002
  5. Earnest's front pool being removed
  6. David Bowie played here.
  7. The Facebook rumour mill says snapped collar.
  8. A true star. In the early years Jim always did our bss, once he found a teeny gas leak actually in the hob, gas valve loose on the rail! He persuaded us get on the Ship Canal, doing a few free "Certificates of Seaworthiness" for us, MSCC could not argue with Jim's qualifications!
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  10. https://www.liverpoolresidential.com/property/3144/?propInd=S&page=2&pageSize=12&orderBy=PriceSearchAmount&orderDirection=ASC&propInd=S&businessCategoryId=1&searchType=list We passed this going in / out Liverpool, about 200ft nice deep piled moorings, with bollards. 60ft boat on it at that time.
  11. Yes, reported it, but did not pursue it further as will probably never attempt to go there again as Mrs TNC does not do grief.
  12. The Lancaster Canal has two Silver Propeller points, these are easy to get once there, the difficult place to get to on the Lancaster Canal is Glasson Basin. 2 narrowboats have got down the locks and back this year, with great difficulty, 2 locks are patched up with plastic, take eternity to fill and weed unmanaged. It is now shut, unlikely to reopen this year, or at all. The locals never go down there, it is usually the visiting narrowboats that attempt the passage.
  13. Yes, it would have made it easier. We tried to do Black Sluice a couple of years ago, but that was after Sam the Waterways Patroller left, just a lot of talk by John at Northampton Marina, but he never got out to do it for us (overulled?). Still shown as stoppage, debris in chamber, but think the real reason was that Sam was never replaced. We also tried to do Foss again last year, but IWA said impossible as not enough water in river beyond the lock.
  14. Makes sad reading. Do you know how many other boats made it through Welches Dam lock, between our passage in 2001 and when it was stanked off?
  15. Yes, the "new" marina at at Fossdyke makes it much easier to do. Back in 2001 when we did it, the only place to moor up was on the barge moored at the "stone quay"....only when we arrived the bloody barge was out! Interesting and strangely magical night tied to a couple of rusty hawsers, wondering if we would bottom out. As a matter of interest did the EA lads let you through Fulney on a rising tide, I assume there was no attempt to use it as as a lock and you went through on a level? Back then we did the Coronation Channel, we weren't meant to, ISTR they have buoyed off the entrance???
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