Jerra
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I'm sure many boaters are quite happy with the way things are though.......
I am sure they are but that isn't the problem the problem is how things are going to be when boaters are a minority consideration. When the low levels you mention never fill up/get dredged, when the swing bridges cease to swing etc.
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Never having been aware of these meetings,
TuT Tut you aren't following the forum closely enough they have all been well publicised and discussed here.
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Is it safe to assume that some of you who have met and hosted the "man at the top" have/will be letting him know your/our feelings?
On the other hand would it be better if we were pointed to his email address and filled it with our outrage?
I was once told by a politician that one letter was assumed to represent the views of up to 100 people who hadn't bothered to write would the same be true for email?
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Actually, we probably only lack a label. The social and meetings that Cotswoldman and Jenlyn has organised have been between us and CRT. But we are not 'official' even though we may represent a lot of people
Richard
I was thinking along those lines too. Financed by not paying CRT money as friends because I don't see how any boater can possibly be a friend of CRT now.
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Also I think they should be banned from wearing Lycra.
If they would only cycle sensibly I don't care what they wear - chain mail, sackcloth and ashes or even nude (at least that would make not cutting back the nettles on the verge a good idea).
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Indeed the speed limit on the towpath should be the same as the canal (4mph) and should be enforced even more strictly as the towpaths are usually a lot lot narrower than the canal. This limit should also apply to those looney thudding joggers as well. I believe that brisk walking is better excercise than that jogging lark anyway.
My daughter lives near the Union Canal in Edinburgh and there is a speed limit there - 6 mph. However many cyclists see the signs and think it says minimum speed.
Seriously a speed limit is only as good as the enforcement which appears to be non existent.
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I'm a cyclist but I think the problem is not cyclists. It's the lack of good quality cycle paths on roads. It can seem frustratingly much safer to use any alternative available. Still no excuse for bad manners and swearing at fellow path users.
Or cycling at speeds dangerous to other users.
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No I'll alter that to Uni-cycles only.
Good idea! I was just thinking that with the diameter of the front wheel on a penny farthing (I believe more correctly called an "ordinary") they might be able to get up quite a high speed.
BW got rid of many of them because they block the way for people using wheelchairs and pushchairs. (is my understanding).
Then I am afraid they aren't trying! As a regular wheel chair pusher I am sure I could design something which could be navigated by a wheel chair but would require a cyclist to seriously slowdown if not stop.
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This summer the whole thing with cyclists on heavy duty mountain bikes riding at speed seems to have got a lot worse. There certainly needs to be some serious education if they are to be allowed to continue to use the towpaths, it is not safe the way things are.
While I agree with education I feel a few obstacles which require a serious slow down or even dismount would have more effect.
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The problem I see with petitions (any petition) is numbers. 35,000 is often quoted as the number of CRT boat licenses so if we say 50,000 boats effected by the change (to include others not on CRT water and allowing for a proportion being petrol or not on the internet) then it would need every single owner plus one crew to sign before the government would be even vaguely interested.
Personally I feel letters to MPs and MEPs will have much more effect as each individual only knows they are getting "flak" for a reasonable number of there constituents.
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I think that is an excellent plan!
As Pappa lives in the same street as me he knows what a relatively short distance it is for me to get to the area he speaks of I would dearly love to drive down to the area and spend an early morning by the water watching. While I am not all that informed where birdwatching goes (having picked up most of my limited knowledge from growing up in a family of birdwatchers) I do have a reasonable, if basic, pair of binoculars and a reasonable camera with a telephoto lens. It is certainly a lot closer than The Cairngorms!
I dearly want to spend some time exploring Scotland some time and will message you before I go Jerra thanks
I hope no one objects if I share a few of the photo's I took of Great Crested Grebes while on my travels a couple of weeks ago?
These were taken on the reservoir above the dam at Lymm
This is one of the juveniles practising its take off and landing manouvres
While this is a very poor quality photo it was taken in early morning with low light levels and these birds were a long distance away in the centre of the lake at Westport Lakes on The Trent & Mersey
There were some very young grebes around this pair too
What great photos. I wish I could do as well, thanks for sharing.
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They was there fifteen years ago whence I had my first narrowboat, and still there today, some experts !!!!
Have you done as I asked in my PM and notified the BTO? If not can you please do it soon. As I said in the PM the whole of the country has been surveyed over the last few years (2007 -11) each place being visited a number of times. Slavs weren't present in England when the first Atlas was produced in 76. They haven't been found in any of the subsequent atlases so that is a great number of survey hours by a great number of different people who have missed them.
You really have a special sighting there so please send the details of how many you think you saw and roughly when e.g. summer 2000 to the BTO
As I said in my PM I would really like to be proved to be talking tosh. I look forward to hearing of the report from the BTO
PS for the benefit of Ditchcrawler who didn't reply to my query as to why he thought the BTO "would say that" the BTO are not an organisation who protect birds (well not in the way the RSPB does) their existence revolves round study and data gathering.
EDIT: Perhaps you could give Cheshire -Rose some detailed description of the areas you saw them in she will probably be more likely to be on the canals than roaming round the Cairgorms which is their only other known summer stronghold in the UK
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I would love to see the Slavonian Grebe. ... maybe one day
If you are ever heading towards the Cairngorms in summer I could give you some hints.
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What a smart bird, I love the Crested Grebes as well. My favourite water birds
In breeding plumage the males are absolutely stunning - but only about half the size of the Great Crested.
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One more question....I am going to order maggots ( live ) in the post. How long can I store & temperature.
Ta
I am no fisherman but I think I heard somewhere keep them in the fridge. The cold temp slows down the metabolism and prevents them pupating and turning into insects (I think).
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It's been a long time since I did any elasticity, however, from this: http://www.worldpanel.com/plywoodcomparison.htm
it looks like 18mm Ecosheet has a flexural modulus of 700 Mpa, and 18mm plywood a flexural modulus of 4800 Mpa
Now, there's a good chance I am misreading this, or getting my moduli or units mixed up. If I'm right, the Ecosheet is a lot bendier than the plywood - which is exactly what I would expect
Is there a stress analyst in the house?
Richard
Not an analyst of any kind let alone stress
However from my experience with Stokbord I would think deck boards would need some form of stiffening underneath the boards or be in smallish panels with supports at the edges.
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For glass personally I don't think you can beat a good old fashioned leather and plain water. Works for me anyway.
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Fatal error again this evening. Why out of memory?
I have just had the same, used the back button and then tried again and it worked.
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I have no experience of Eco sheet but I have handled stokbord which sounds to be a very similar product. The one observation I would make is that thickness for thickness Stokbord is considerably more pliable than Plywood.
This is the product I have seen.
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Jerra talks tosh, there are Slavonian Grebes all the year round on the Trent at Shardlow.
Interesting if you nare sureof your identification please inform the British Trust for Ornithology at
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The Nunnery
Thetford
Norfolk IP24 2PU
Tel: 01842 750050
Fax: 01842 750030
Email: info@bto.org
as they aren't aware of that.
They do look like this don't they.
http://www.stevenround-birdphotography.com/source/image/slavonian-grebe-13.jpg
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When this was suggested at our Birmingham meeting it was poo-pood on the basis of H&S (maybe understandable) but also on the basis that it is not a great idea just to allow boaters to hack down trees/branches on the basis that one single boater happens to think it should not be there (understandable)
I would suspect that boaters hacking down branches was also of doubtful legality.
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Very common on the Gt Ouse and other Fenland waterways
Thanks I don't get over that side of the country. I note Dabchicks are much scarcer than I remember from the 60/70s
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Hmmm....
I don't think that Guy Fawkes supported that rationale!
Yes and look where it got him!
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Assumptions I have made is that the available mooring between the Museum Green and tunnel mouth is about 3,000' - not my strong subject so if you think it is more or less please shout.
I am not familiar with the area but having attempted to measure from the tunnel to the lock using one of these measure your walk type sites that distance seems to be in the region of 2000 - 2100 feet.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: To remove the graph.
CRT No Longer Wish To Meet With Boaters
in General Boating
Posted · Edited by Jerra
That is exactly what worries me. If/when the priority becomes towpath users and the only need for boats is because the towpath users like to see them, then some of the big jobs can be left.
Towpath users won't care that the L & L isn't navigable from end to end so lets save a bit of money and stop maintaining some of the swing bridges in the middle. Oh and that will give us the added advantage that locks X & Y don't need to work.
EDIT: Dog House beat me by a short head!