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Moored at Hawkesbury Junction with the stove alight. Too windy to move anywhere and it be enjoyable!
Things seem to be improving but not sure if its a placebo effect caused by a lovely lunch and beer in the Greyhound???
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In Topic: Hawkesbury Junction Parking
19 May 2013 - 07:00 PM
Excellent thanks. We have actually now called the Greyhound and they're ok with it at our own risk of course 
In Topic: BCN Walkover bridge - a naive question?
17 May 2013 - 01:09 PM
You've misunderstood my point. I don't have any problem with putting railings along that edge. What I object to is the upstand above the handrail level at every post. I seem to recall that before this faux-victorian-bollard style railing was erected some years ago, there used to be a wooden barrier along here, which had the top rail fixed to the top of the posts, and with thin sheet metal nailed over the joints, to provide a continuous flat top surface with nothing for a tow rope to catch on.
Ah, my mistake.
I did think of another example similar to yours but actually looking at them these would be better...
Stonehouse Bridge - Stroudwater Navigation by imulford, on Flickr
However where they are sited is a bit of a pain!
In Topic: BCN Walkover bridge - a naive question?
17 May 2013 - 11:13 AM
Its not a naive question - it was a very sensible one to ask. Its just a pity that some of those responsible for the maintenance of such structures, or the design of new structures along the canal don't ask themselves the same question. Here for example is the towpath on the approach to Shrewley Tunnel. Try bow hauling a boat along there!
To be honest the amount of times a boat needs to be bow hauled along there put against the amount of times someone may walk off the edge in the dark does mean the bow hauling bit loses.
In Topic: livaboard mooring but would be traveling 9 months of year
16 May 2013 - 01:56 PM
i am not intrested in anything to do with other boaters, i was just trying to find what true feelings, i want to do this as MY way of life and want/need to know all the in and outs, i feel it is all been a big mistake, just going with other forums i have looked at and thought i had found a good site but not so sure now, sorry for any upset i have caused you i am not saying anything wrong/bad about you or your fellow boaters.
I think you may be taking all the replies on this thread as a direct reply to your first post. Don't worry, they're not and normally a post at the bottom is in response to the post above it, not your original one. If it isn't, people normally quote the post they're responding to.
Anyway, as others have said, I'm sure you can make do with either a leisure mooring or at least a winter one
