Lily Rose

Next year? I thought you and I were both about to sell up? Ho ho ho

On balance, I still think they don't intend to stop navigation for boats already on the summit at the time this comes into force. However, they haven't said that but they have said ""we have made the difficult decision to temporarily close the Leicester Line"

Can of worms well and truly opened!

Did it not do it before Archie and the Greeks?

I followed one of those much of the way towards Braunston the Saturday of the rally recently. It was so slow I had to keep dropping into neutral and it was all over the place including frequently being on the wrong side. When we walked from Wolfamcote to the turn it was moored before Puddlebanks. Later on, as we walked back from the marina to the turn, they were heading towards the marina with parade boats coming the other way. If I'd had the time I'd have stayed to watch what I assumed would be chaos. I felt a bit sorry for them at that point.

Beat ya! Just.

Lloyd's Register ?

It's 25 for some insurance companies. Maybe most of them.

I'd forgotten there was a hire base down there in the basin.

I see you only joined this forum a couple of hours ago so, if you haven't already, I would suggest you spend some time looking at the various recent threads about stoppages and low water levels. Most or all are probably in the Stoppages section. Drought, low reservoir levels and hosepipe bans are currently big news in this country but the impact on the canal network much less so as most people are unaffected by that. I don't know if you already aware of any of this but I very much doubt it will register on the radar of most people in the US so it's possible you are completely unaware. It's important you familiarise yourself with the dituation to some extent before making decisions on a booking location. It's very unlikely things will have improved by 11 August.

Oh dear! We are currently in our most serious drought situation for many years and very large sections of the canal network are either under restrictions, closed or soon to close. I'm mainly familiar with the midlands area where two very popular routes for hire boats (the Oxford Canal South and the Grand Union Leicester line) will be shut down by this time next week. Other sections may follow unless we get a lot of rain soon. Other folk can advise on other parts of the country. As far as I'm aware the two options you mention aren't affected (yet) but I don't receive notifications for those so I wouldn't necessarily be aware if they were.

I would have thought so but the CRT map implies that it is staying open for navigation.

There's nothing in your post to indicate when. I'm assuming it's not this summer but if it is you should be aware of our current drought which is resulting in various sections of the network being shut down one after another by CRT to conserve water. There won't be much left soon at the rate it's going.

Lot of boats up there as well with 3 large marinas. I'm not sure what harm they would do if they went boating on the summit. I know you can wind above Foxton and, I think, above Watford as well. Similar for boats at Fenny Compton marina, as long as they are short enough to wind above Marston Doles top lock. It makes me wonder if CRT are going to tell all the affected marinas to put stop planks in place.

This seems to imply total closure for navigation, not just locks. The latest update for Napton to Cropredy seems to suggest the same. Does this mean boats with home moorings on the Oxford and Leicester line summits will not be permitted to move from their moorings I wonder. If not then it's ambiguous / misleading.

They might consider it's worth doing that if it could get them out of being liable for a huge bill.

Might that not also be the case with fully comp as well? Presumably there will be something in the small print about maintenance, neglect etc.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/01980d2b-78e8-7998-8d7d-5f6009cd0184 To help conserve water, from Tuesday 29th July we will be introducing restrictions at Calcutt Locks. Restriction Details for Calcutt Locks. Daily Operating Hours: Navigation will be open from 10am - 4pm. Last Entry Time: The last boat entry will be permitted at 3:30pm.

I think I made it rain this afternoon by hanging out some washing. Unfortunately I then took it back indoors too soon and the rain stopped. I notice thunderstorms are currently being forecast for the coming weekend.

To be BLUNT, yes it was. If my memory serves me correctly, I haven't checked.

The trouble with that, at least for our local summit, is that the only options for re-stocking with beer are The Wharf Inn at Fenny Compton or the nearby(ish) Co-op. The former would be expensive, the latter would be a 1 mile walk carrying lots of heavy beer. Could get a supermarket delivery whilst moored at Fenny though. Re-filling the water tank outside the pub would be a good idea though, rather than at Cropredy or Napton bottom lock.

Agreed but having had a shower the tank will take in more water so at that point the canal level rises. But it's in the pound where the water point is located rather the pound where the shower water was pumped into the canal. Would this help? 1. Drink lots of beer on the boat. 2. Recycle used beer by putting it in the canal. So far it makes no difference until... 3. Re-stock the fridge with beer. If you drink beer in the pub you need to resist the usual instinct of taking a leak before returning to the boat. That would waste the used beer, it needs to go into the canal to help with water levels.

It does if you then top up the tank at the bottom of the flight. At least for the pound where the water point is situated.

I very much doubt that. She was picked on by one particular member and a number of other members, myself included, leapt to her defence. After that she started posting lots of conspiracy theory nonsense about chem trails and vaccines. She was then on the receiving end of some humorous stick in response to those posts. She disappeared soon after that, probably because she didn't like the ridicule, and total lack of support, her posts were receiving.

Ok but, as they say (well Tesco do anyway), "Every little helps". Or in this case, hinders.