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  5. Police appeal for potential boater witnesses at Whaley Bridge

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Derbyshire police are hoping to be able to speak to the owners or occupiers of two boats which were at Whaley Bridge late September.

     

    The boats, called ‘Maggie-Anne’ and ‘Trojan’, were moored at the site where an incident took place.

     

    Link:

     

    http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/News-and-Appeals/News/2016/October/06-Oct-Witness-appeal-after-altercation-between-two-people-near-canal-boats.aspx

     

    Cheers

  6. Wigan to Burnley

    in General Boating

    Posted

    If you do have to moor up in the flight the best place is on rings between 77 and 78. That's 8 locks up, leaving 13 for the next day. If you are solo you can ask CRT for assisted passage,book well in advance for a Tuesday only as I understand.

  7. Encouraging Canoes - Is This A Good Idea?

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Does the same concern you have extend to inexperienced narrow boaters? Why single out canoists who have just as much right to use the waterways as everyone else. :-)

     

    Howard

     

    No, because if an inexperienced narrow boater makes an error and two steel narrowboats collide there is likely to be little damage to the occupants. Same, probably, if two canoeists collide. A collision between a narrowboat and a canoe may have a different outcome!

  8. Encouraging Canoes - Is This A Good Idea?

    in General Boating

    Posted

    I fully accept the comments made relating to canoeists who are club members, school groups, etc., as generally, they know what they are doing and in the case of young adults/children there is normally at least one adult watching/supervising.

     

    But the article suggested to me that they want to encourage families (presumably with younger children) who mostly won't have much idea about anything related to narrow canals and will probably be concentrating on getting the canoe to go where they want.

     

    Quote from the article :

    "Canoeists of all ages and abilities will be able to take to the water at Westport Lake and travel as far as Froghall Wharf."

  9. Encouraging Canoes - Is This A Good Idea?

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Following on from an earlier announcement of plans to "invest £1 million in improving the city's canal network to boost health and tourism", "Stoke-on-Trent City Council and its partners have created a 20-mile route providing paddlers with a unique perspective of the Trent & Mersey and Caldon canals"
    Story at http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/8203-20-mile-canoe-heritage-trail-is-launched-in-stoke-on-trent/story-29705624-detail/story.html

     

    I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand the more people can be encouraged to use the canals and towpaths, the better the chances for the network to survive. However, my experience of inexperienced canoeists over the years is that there is an accident waiting to happen.

     

    Is this fear warranted?

  12. Bridgewater Visitor Licence

    in General Boating

    Posted

    That has been asserted many times. But it is not stated anywhere on the BCC website as far as I can see. So a boater would have fair grounds for arguing that he does not have to pay again to return within 28 days, provided each stay on the Bridgewater is no more than 7 days.

     

    The BCC web site is not very good imho.

    The message about no return within 28 days is at http://www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk/news/amendmentsforagreement

     

    That's a "news" page!

     

    Cheers

  13. Bridgewater Visitor Licence

    in General Boating

    Posted

    The BCC page on licencing (http://www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk/boating/licensing) requires that boats with a CRT licence staying on the Bridgewater beyond the seven day reciprocal licence period have to pay for a short term licence at £40 per 7 days. But nowhere is there a minimum period before return, so it seems you can spend 7 days there, 1 day away and then another 7 days there if you wish without contravening their stated requirements.

     

    Just to remove doubt, there is a minimum of 28 days after leaving the Bridgewater before returning for another "free" (reciprocal) 7 days. If you return earlier you are supposed to pay.

     

    I'm not sure that peel can give boaters much less....maybe if they close the canal to navigation??

     

    Cheers

     

    Gareth.

     

    I'm sure that was intended as a joke but in http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=85793 it is stated that the canal will be closed at bridge 56 Vicars Hall for almost 4 months from 31/10. I can't find this on the bridgewater canal website stoppages at http://www.bridgewatercanal.co.uk/boating/stoppages/default.aspx

     

    Anyone point me to the notice?

     

    Thanks.

  14. Kennet & Avon Canal Fobney Lock Sunken Boat

    in Stoppages

    Posted

    Just received notice.

     

    Extract :

    Notice Alert

    Kennet & Avon Canal
    Starts At: Lock 105, Fobney Lock
    Ends At: Lock 105, Fobney Lock

    Tuesday 9 August 2016 16:15 until further notice

    Type: Navigation Restriction
    Reason: Boat damage

    Original message:

    Fobney lock 105 is closed until further notice due to a sunken craft.

    You can view this notice and its map online here:
    https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/9094/fobney-lock-105

     

    Sad.

     

  15. Residents object to houseboats on their bit of canal

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Here is a story with a slightly different outcome for residential boat moorings in London :http://www.westendextra.com/houseboats-canal

     

    Couple of snippets -

    "Permission has just been granted by Westminster Council for the barges to be set up in a new mooring space in the Grand Union Canal at Admiral Walk in Carlton Gate, Maida Vale."

     

    "Carlton Gate is also a gated secure community which is the reason many of us moved here in the first place."

  16. Are single-handers the pariahs of the system?

    in General Boating

    Posted

     

    What I was wondering is if on wide canals people would be happy to tie up my boat beside theirs and then they get to drive both together and leave me free to help with the locks. If some would then I would be prepared to have some suitable short ropes set up ready.

     

    I have done that a few times - e.g. two occasions going up Braunston. Being single handed I don't like sharing wide locks and not doing any of the lock work. If i meet another single handed boater I will suggest we breast the boats up.

     

    Second time I did this the other boater was Trevor Maggs on Corona, only I didn't know him or his history. I just thought he looked a bit feeble to be doing the locks! Little did I know! It took him about 30 secs to think about it before he agreed. So he steered and I worked the locks, Trevor doing his side once in the lock and me closing up after on both sides.

     

    As someone else has said, it confused some boaters we met who were coming down the flight!

  17. Tracing Family History, Clements

    in History & Heritage

    Posted

    Can anyone point me in the right direction, i've been tracing my family and have found out my Great Great Grandma, lived and worked on the canal, her name was Elizabeth Clements and her husband name was David, in the 1891 census there address was canalside Long Buckby.

    I think they moved coal.

    I tried Stoke Bruerne museum with no luck.

    If anyone could give any information on where to look it would be much appreciated.

     

    Debbie

    Try:

    http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm

     

    http://www.jim-shead.com/waterways/FamilyHistory.htm

     

    https://www.familytreeforum.com/content.php/325-Canals-and-Waterways

    http://hnbc.org.uk/family-history

     

    Most point to other resources including mailinglist purely about boat people.

     

     

    Cheers,

    John

  20. cruising through london - berths

    in New to Boating?

    Posted · Edited by nine9feet

    I'm planning on starting a journey in Roydon and making my way to Uxbridge and possibly Tring on a 48ft narrowboat.

    Am I likely to discover I'll find it tough to get a berth as I travel this route?

     

    Also, any recommendations on best routes? I'll be in no hurry whatsoever

     

    I did Roydon to Bulls Bridge solo in a very easy 4 days last year. Stopped at Enfield on the Lea, Victoria Park above locks on Hertford Union, Alperton on Paddington Arm and Bulls Bridge (outside Tesco). Uxbridge is only a short hop from there.

     

    Cheers

  21. First time buyer 100% new to Narrowboating & I need some advice :)

    in New to Boating?

    Posted

    [snip]........

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    I have looked at a lot of websites/brokers etc in the Birmingham area and don't like the look of some of there options. EG one that I come across wants £1000 deposit but will not refund

    any of the deposit if the sale does not go through, this puts me off in a massive way, paying £1000 deposit before a survey that is non refundable is total madness to me.

    Any boat buying tips would be a big help, also marinas do and don't plus what are the good ones. I have no trouble in traveling to marinas/sales outside of Birmingham as geting the boat back to Birmingham

    would be something good to cut my teeth on in my opinion.

    .........................

    Anyway my first post has been long enough so far but there will be more to come. This looks like a good place to get some advice and look forward to your comments.

    Thank you all in advance & bye for now.

    Rob

     

     

     

    If I have read correctly, you have looked at boats online but not in the flash, so to speak?

     

    If that is the case my advice would be to get out their and actually have a look at some boats. This is easiest done somewhere like Whilton Marina because there you ask to look at whatever boats you have previously identified online and they give you the keys so that you can go looking on your own. It means you can have a really good look and not have a broker/sales person looking over your shoulder all the time.

     

    You may well then recognise that boats in real life are not exactly as you perceive from the sales photos. And you can begin to pin down what you really like, and especially what you don't like!

     

    Cheers

  22. Legal procedure of buying narrowboat

    in New to Boating?

    Posted

     

    You can prove it's yours - enough to claim back a nicked one - by having the CRT license paperwork - no so good if you license on line?

     

    Unless the process has changed since last August, when you licence on line you get access to a couple of pdfs - one is an invoice with all the boat and customer details and the other is a letter addressed to you which has two copies of your licence at the bottom for you to print yourself.

     

    However, they don't prove boat ownership, just add to other evidence available.

     

    Cheers

  23. Fuel Boats Tracking Section

    in General Boating

    Posted

    If I remember I will up date as we pass or call in,depending on the present price.

     

    Can anyone update?

     

    Fuel boat site and diesel prices site both give an email address to submit info.

    Sue's No Problem diesel splits page asks you to complete the comment box at the bottom of the page.

     

    HTH

     

    Cheers

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