PeterF

No, not real enquiries as listed here, I am not meaning those, I did not specify them in any way, I just make the general thought that they may have in general recieved a lot of email, some of it perhaps not welcome, but I agree with you that it has got them noticed and may have some positive benefit.

Perhaps they have had a glut of trolling emails as a result of the QSS saga and are just fed up with the electronic equivalent of rubber necking.

From Waterscape At last, I can now get away after 2 months delay.

From Waterscape Thats a thought, as the level builds back up there will be very little water flowing downstream for a period - guess thats not a problem.

Thanks for that, water had been down last year by 1ft, so could well have been getting ready to sort that out when it gave way totally.

For anybody interested, some photos after going to have a look. As the collapse was on the far side they are building a "road" over from the right hand bank in the pictures. Sheet piles are being driven in about 12ft upstream of the weir and large rocks tipped into the space to provide the road. This is repeated to get over to the collapse. The road is about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way accross the river at the moment. Because of the way of working, the water levels are still right down with hadly a trace of water in Cooper Bridge cut. Cooper Bridge visitor mooring still completely empty View of the whole weir with the acess road coming down from the right hand side. Close up of the access road showing the method of construction Close up of the end of the access road approaching the collapse. Peterf.

Get the picture open in Acrobat, press the prtscn button (print screen which is normally near the top right of the keyboard near F12) which pastes the screen image into the clipboard. Open an image program such as Microsoft photo editor and paste the image into the program (ctrl-V) and then you can save as a new jpeg file and post in the normal way by uploading to photo bucket or what ever you use. In Photo editor you could also select only the area of interest and cut and paste this into yet another new image. PeterF.

If the water flow past Grindley Brrok is 11 million gallons a day, with a head of 12.2m (40ft) I calcualte that as producing at 100% efficiency 69kW, enough to power 27 average houses at 2.5kW each. Hence hardly worth it. This is why it needs to be on rivers with large flows over weirs. PeterF.

Same source as the table quotes 20ft (6m) of chain is the minimum but that is in a section quoting for rivers up to 20ft deep. Not sure how deep trent, Severn etc are.

Glad to be of help, I have 3 keys on mine so it was worth a shot. Peter.

Work started about 1 week ago, expectation to have it completed by end March. Hoping at some point that there might be enough water depth before end March to get a modern narrowboat through similar to what was managed when ledgard weir was repaired last year. Might have a cruise up this weekend to have a look.

No, I have 2 RCDs, one for the inverter, one for the shorepower and the switch is downsream of both of the RCDs. The power to the charger comes from the output of the shorepower RCD. I can run the charger from shorepower and the rest of the 240V from the inverter if I felt so inclined but can not see the point of this.

From "The Inland Boat Owner's Book" Boat length ....... Anchor Weight ........ Chain / rope diameter ft .................... kg ......................... mm / mm 30 ................... 7 - 10 .................... 8 / 12 45 ................... 8 - 12 .................... 8 / 14 60 ................... 12 - 16 .................. 10 / 18 70 ................... 14 - 18 .................. 10 / 20 The length of chain and rope should be 6-7 times the depth of the canal. When we bought ours we were recommended a 15kg anchor for a 55ft narrowboat. The rope was octoplait type (hope I have the name right) which has better shock absorption than standard mooring rope. I think I got something like 5m of 10mm chain and 15m of 18mm rope as travel on River Aire a lot which is good for about 3m depth. I can not confirm the table is correct but as you asked this question twice I finally recalled where I had seen a table and thought you deserved some form of answer. As others have stated, a 20kg anchor is no good if you can not lift it and use it. PeterF

Do you have an inverter, sometimes these have their own isolation switch in the 12V DC feed rather than being taken from the 12V distribution panel / bus bar thingy. Just a thought.

I have my charger connected to the shorepower feed upstream of the selector switch but after the RCD / MCB so it is still protected ratehr than to the output side of the switch. Therefore, I can only power the battery charger when hooked up to shore power and it turns off as soon as I disconnect the shore power.

Saved the day for me on the trent upstream of Nottingham many years ago on my father in law's boat when one of the coolant pipes burst.

Reading the blurb from BW, you will get some short breaks as the BW chaperone needs to get off at each of the cross adit's to report back to base on their progress as they only have communications equipment at the cross adit's. You could also of course ask the BW chaperone to play dodgems with steer your boat whilst you take a rest.

Latest from Waterscape stoppages page is that Ganny lock will now be shut until the 20th March as they have found problems in the lock structure, making the stoppage 1 week longer. Also noticed that the Salterhebble guilotine gate is no longer on the list of stoppages - but based on Mac's comment it appears to still be BW operated with reduced opening hours. PeterF.

Same here - stuck at Shepley Bridge after some work on the boat, plan was to go upstream start of Feb and looks like its now going to be another 3 weeks. Such is life.

Brian at Shepley Bridge has as far as I am aware closed his hire business as he has been getting fewer and fewer hires over the last years and slowly selling off his boats.

I believe that another useful learning is to moor stern in beause the mooring points tend to be lower down on the rear of the boat and closer to the sides of the boat compared to the bow hence this would limit the heeling over more. Additionally there are normally 2 mooring points at the rear so you may have some chance, depending on location of cleats on the pontoon to have both sides attached which would further restrict the amount of heel. It may not solve the problem completely but I believe on short pontoons you are better rear in with a line to the top of the boat compared to bow in with a line to the top of the boat. If you have to spend a lot of time on shorter pontoons would cutting a notch into the gunwhale half way along with a heavy bar welded in for a middle rope be a good idea. I do not know of the practicalities of this, someone else may have a more informed view. PeterF

At one point my engine would not turn over but the solenoid did make a click sound, the starter motor did not turn or make any signs of duress. When I stripped the unit down, there was some rust on a spindle in the solenoid which prevented it from moving fully, so it did not close the contacts for the power to the starter motor. some wet and dry on the shaft cleaned it up and allowed full movement of the solenoid. No truble in 18 months since then. Like yours, the engine had not been turned over for some time before I bought it and even had a lot of water in the bilges from leaking cruiser decks, hence the rust. PeterF.

The original post has a link to maximum craft dimensions for the tunnel - length given as 70ft.

Shire Cruisers in Sowerby bridge. Shire Cruisers Bronte boats in Hebden Bridge. Bronte Boats Snaygill boats in SKipton. Snaygill Boats Pennine Cruisers also in Skipton. Pennine Cruisers List is probably not exhaustive. have a look at Pennine Waterways which includes a mamoth amount of information on the waterways in this region. Pennine Waterways Also look at Waterscape.com as they have stuff on general boating hire, does & dont's links to hire companies etc. Waterscape canal holidays

Hi, From your timings you should probably miss the 24hr closure of the Calder & Hebble Navigation at Cooper bridge on the 18th. The river above Cooper bridge is also running very low at the moment as the weir has collapsed but that hopefully will be sorted by mid March. 18 - 18 Mar 2009 Stoppage: Cooper Bridge to Battyeford Flood Gates Associated Regional Office: BW Yorkshire Closure of Navigation and Towpath. From 00.00 hrs on 18 March for 24 Hours. Installation of a third party overhead pipe crossing over the River Calder approx 100m downstream of Cooper Bridge Lock, Cooper Bridge, Huddersfield. Please follow any signage at adjacent locks or instructions from Contractors on site. (Enquiries: 0113 281 6860) The towpath is also closed Suggest you check Waterscape stoppages page for any other possible impediments. I apologise if I am teaching granny to suck eggs and all that. Stoppages information page Peter.