[Going on a long cruise - Yippee!]

In my experience the Huddersfield Narrow has some maintenance issues- it is very shallow in places - with fewer places to moor on the eastern side. You need to ensure that your boat will fit through the Standedge Tunnel, there are details on the CRT website. However I do enjoy travelling this canal. The Rochdale canal is beautiful, cutting as it does through the Pennines. It’s less pleasant sections lie at the Manchester end, it is hard work getting into Manchester, though I believe that there are volunteer lockies available at times. I always recommend turning around on the outskirts of Manchester and doing the eastern part again! Having said that, it is all quite do-able, even as a single hander. I hope that you enjoy your trip.

 

[Is anyone maintaining the canals?]

This is my worst example, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal

 

The sand on the left hand side breached the retaining wall, covered the footpath and entered the canal. Note that the  footpath has been cleared

 

 

There is a 'navigable channel' - if you are psychic - over by the far bank

 

 

 

and a gang plank is needed at the next lock landing:

 

 

[Do not use Mobile Phone HotSpots for Internet.]

If it were dangerous, it would be banned

[hair dryer]

A new mrs? ?

[Two pack hull hull in cheshire]

How do you remove blacking?

[Sailing the seas of Confusing Portable Generators]

A 2kw Hyundai does the job for me. 

[Ex Life Boat]

On 04/01/2021 at 10:23, matty40s said:

Theres been one moored around Milton Keynes for a good few years now, so far, they have managed to cut the back end off, leaving a gaping hole with tarp over....its now near Grafton Regis, and looks awful.

The one plus they have is that the engines are usually low hours and serviced regularly.

I was going to say that they are unlikely to sink, but might have to retract that now ...

[Aire & Calder Breach]

On 22/12/2020 at 10:10, Mike Todd said:

 

 

BTW, can so0meone remind me of just when was the golden age when the canals were maintained so well that they never failed?

Hold on, I'll just fetch my rose tinted glasses to look that up...

[Removing Alde heater]

Hi all,

 

does anyone have an idea of what I might have to pay for an Alde central heating boiler removed from my boat? By a gas certified engineer of course!

 

many thanks in advance

 

Paul

[searching info on Linslade]

On 01/11/2011 at 19:59, pete harrison said:

 

I also have this information, but beware as inspections are notoriously unreliable. For example LINFORD is recorded above as being health registered as Port of London 373 whereas it was actually health registered as Port of London 372. I have seen inspections where the health registration number recorded is actually a fleet number, a gauge number or the number of a completely different boat !

I too have a copy of these records. at the time of this entry the records are very erratic. the previous year Daventry had no boat inspector. The entries for 1904 are very different in nature, so much so that I suspect that some, if not all, of the entries have been made up. The entry in the register on 31 Oct 1904 says " Hope to see more work done when a proper inspector comes". I was surprised to find so much information on the Linslade.

 

Also, Sophia Brace is recorded on a narrowboat in the 1901 census at Simpson, nr Fenny Stratford (about 1 mile from where I am writing this!) with her husband John (44) son John (19) daughter Ada (16) and son Albert (10), son Horace (or daughter Florence) aged 8. All listed as born Worcester, Son Benjamin (6), daughter Beatrice (4), daughter Olive (6months)

[Huddersfield Narrow Mooring]

On 30/03/2019 at 14:45, Kendorr said:

In 2015 going from West to East.

First stop Micklehurst

2nd stop Wool Road lock where I left boat for 4 days as I needed to be home

3rd stop Marsden after going through the tunnel.

 

East of the tunnel

First stop Slaithwaite and finally

Huddersfield.

 

From memory, there are several suitable places on the west as the locks are further apart, but on the East, it's 22 locks to Slaithwaite, which is about 2 1/2 miles and a further 20 to Huddersfield, which is about 4 1/2 miles, this means the pounds are very close together and often very low.

 

Have fun, it's well worth doing.

 

I also did the route single handed.

 

Kevin

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

[Huddersfield Narrow Mooring]

Hi All, I am planning to do the Huddersfield Narrow later this year. I can’t seem to see many mooring spots on any of the maps I have looked at. I think I may need a break or two rather than try to do all the locks in one day. What is it like for mooring up? Thanks. Paul