majorminor

Well, going by the "coming next week" bit at the end of the prog, Tuel Lane and a tunnel through the pennines must now be in North Wales

A lovely programme. A little note for the scriptwriters: The Caen flight is NOT a staircase lock. Next week - the Rochdale!! Whoo Whoo

As I said - https://hola.org I guess you folks just read the last post, rather than the whole thread. Ah well

He died in 1983. So hopefully he saw some of the changes.

There are FREE programmes, such as Hola, that will change your transmitted DNS settings. Install it, and you will be able to watch Iplayer. https://hola.org

Is he gonna keep walking? To Leeds??????

Hi Michael. A word in your ear. You need to realise that there are three types of folks who hang around canals. 1. The expert boaters. These are all regular posters on here, and they know everything there is to know about boats and boating. Most of them have done it since before Noah was a boy. There's nowt they don't have an opinion on.... 2. Gongoozlers. These are the rest of humanity, who haven't yet ascended to the dizzy heights of group 1. They don't wear silly hats, and don't refer to their colleagues as "crew". And are certainly not worthy of the attention of group 1. 3. CRT. The lowest of the low. Spend all their time in an office, and know absolutely NOTHING about anything to do with water. They just stare aimlessly out of their office windows wondering why the canal network continues to function. Members of group 1 look upon this group more with pity than anything else. Such a shame that anyone would sink as low as CRT.... So, as this site tends to be a gathering point for group 1's ( a few exceptions, of course) I really think you would be best served by sticking to the face to face stuff

What? On this site? I find that very hard to believe......

FWIW, a "fishplate" in shipbuilding terms, refers to an angled section, as often seen edging a deck. They are also used at any number of places within the ship. Here is a quote from a ship's spec sheet: To avoid cargo flowing around the accommodation/poop deck, a transverse fishplate shall be arranged at the aft end of the cargo area. At the outer end the transverse fishplate shall have the same height as and be connected to the aft end of the gutter plate. So it doesn't necessarily have a railway connotation, and someone other than the salesman just might be "talking b*ll*cks"

I'd contact CRT. The last message they posted said they were all closed until today

Yes, that seems to have fixed the quote issue. Thanks for your help

Nice cards, and good luck with them, but you would sell more if we could see a reasonable sized image on the web site

Well done!

Probably this one Here's the size and shape:

Unfortunately, this thread is about two entirely separate issues. 1. How the French lockkeepers operate their uniquely constructed locks. 2. Some idiots treating a UK two lock staircase as if it were a single lock. On 1., I can fully understand that French stubbornness has led to their rather "bullish" treatment of boats in their charge, We do, after all, have the stubbornness of Napoleon to thank for the fact that half of the world drives on the opposite side of the road to the other half. Good luck to anyone who crosses those guys - and whatever you do, don't mention Agincourt...... On 2. , all we are looking at is a boater who is too lazy to go up a staircase properly. He obviously came across both locks empty (no way to easily open the middle gates otherwise), and rather than take the time to fill the top lock whilst he waited in the bottom one, he simply treated it as one big lock. The Engineers/Navvies of old could have built a single 13ft drop lock, but chose instead to build two 6ft6ins as a staircase - to make it safer, and perhaps a little more comfortable. But hey, let's not do that! And to argue that is is "OK" and not wasteful of water is typical of the "we know better" attitude displayed by some on here. Yes, there are no bywashes on that lock, but there is a great big weir (the old lock) on one side, and I guarantee that a few thousand gallons found their way down there. And over the bottom gates too. And the fool is so smug about it, he puts it on Youtube. Yeah, a good advert for boaters...........