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  1. Chris Williams
    Actually it was his wife and daughters...…..I think. My wife was with me.
  2. Chris Williams
    You might be surprised, but there ain't much room on a coal boat.
  3. Chris Williams
    Things were different on the Thames, I had my coal boat moored outside a pub I was delivering to. Along came a huge white cruiser, whose captain very politely asked if he could tie up to my boat. He and his ladies were quite happy to use the planks that I put over the coal.
  4. Chris Williams
    Be different and get it all chrome plated. Start a new fashion.
  5. Chris Williams
    I suspect the bad ones are wannabe boaters, who have never handled a boat in their lives, and have no idea of the effect on a boat of incorrect actions. Perhaps you could use one as a bow fender.
  6. Chris Williams
    I was helping a tug and barge one time, at Autherley. Getting the speed right, we managed to get them both through with top and bottom gates open at the same time. No stopping. No idea how it worked, but it did. Don't you try this! They knew what they were doing.
  7. Chris Williams
    Or the vultures lined up on the weirs, waiting for you to get it wrong.
  8. Chris Williams
    I would have been very happy to have read this forum, before I first tackled the Severn and Canal, downstream in a 70ft boat. It was a steep learning curve, having been used to the Thames.
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  11. Chris Williams
    On the Upper Thames, it is so narrow that you ain't got no choice. I found out the hard way that it is less than 70ft wide.
  12. Chris Williams
    We did not have mobiles in 1974. You called ahead on your hooter. My hooter wasn't very good, but at Sharpness I 'acquired' a Windtone horn off a scrap lorry. The result was much better. No, nor lifting bridges. Just keep a'going.
  13. Chris Williams
    I am looking forward to that boat trip with Charon, across the River Styx.
  14. Chris Williams
    So how do you get up that wall ? I had to in the days before mobile phones and VHF to contact the lock. As for the bridges, you just blew your horn.
  15. Chris Williams
    Why ? What are they for then ?
  16. Chris Williams
    Err - there is like a 15 foot wall for you to 'step off' onto. Grab one of the chains. There are ladders to climb.
  17. Chris Williams
    Whether the vegetation was a problem or not, it should not have been there. Or passed inspection. How big does a bush have to get before someone does something about it? The same applies to lock walls, gates, etc. The lengthsman at Oxford stood on the bows of my boat, pulling weeds out of the bottom gate of Wolvercote lock. Long time ago. .
  18. Chris Williams
    I think you have hit the nail on the head.
  19. Chris Williams
    I did not suggest a private company. BWB seemed to handle maintenance, including the old boy mentioned previously.
  20. Chris Williams
    Perhaps there should be a separate body to look after reservoirs and such like. Entrusting it to a 'Charity' with all its other problems does not make sense. I would not trust CaRT to look after the local duckpond.
  21. Chris Williams
    Some parts of Concorde were produced on this 1912 steam hammer.
  22. Chris Williams
    Often the first thing when a new business is started, is to have a new van expensively signwritten. Not to mention the posh headed notepaper.
  23. Chris Williams
    Can anyone come up with an improvement on the standard boat cabin, in the same space and for the same number of people? And no fancy lekky gadgets.
  24. Chris Williams
    One wonders whether the hirers asked for all these 'luxurys', or did the hire firms offer more and more to bring in the Punters. I suspect the latter. Many hirers wanted a 'get away from it all' holiday.
  25. Chris Williams
    Many Oxford Canal boat families regarded St. Barnabas Church in Jericho as 'their' church. Maybe the records there would help.
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