DHARL2

Looks like it was a grand day out and a first rate chnace to pass your love of the canals to the office staff at CaRT. Am really glad that they enjoyed the day out (they will soon be hooked and become boaters themselves!!) as well as providing you with a copy of the feedback that they passed up the line! The Cuthound Clan did good! :-) BZ

Great photos by the OP, many thanks for sharing, brings back memories of when I started out on coastal ships going to all these intresting and small ports. Deep sea world on tankers gives you much less photo opportunities for one reason or another! My very very first Ship ( an ex BP coaster which was a launched the year after I was born) had a high lift Becker as well CP prop which coupled with a unreliable bow thrust meant that the” old man” could literally make her spin in circles and berth with little fuss. A few years later I went Mate on her sister Ship in the same company and first got a chance at bringing her on and off the wall, when you knew her tricks they where a joy to handle. Many moons away from the high tech ships I go on these days, however Aframax tankers need about 3 or 4 tugs to berth and the ship handeling, is in a different scale.

yes I would say this is the only negative feature about mooring at Wigrams Turn. Otherwise found it a nice place to be and very handy for several routes in the area!

Agree i think that sounds a good idea. We all have our favourite "out in the sticks" moorings that we dont necessarry wont the whole world knowing about, however being split into Perminate moorings, Live Aboard Moorings and also offcial Visitor Moorings would go down well and people would be more than happy to contribute. Another suggesiton would be to add where good to stop for the shops etc, as on last summer crusie we did find some by accident however would have ben nice to know in advance to "moor by Br 239 for easy access to the Tesco Express (otehr shops are available)" as an example.

I wish they would ring their bell! Normally all you here is a thurming of the tyres on the towpath and then I have the chance to jump into the bush, grab the dog as they wizz by! Occasionly they do ring a bell and then I have a chance to safely step to one side. I dont mind doing that as those cyclists are usually the ones that remember that they are sharing the towpath with other usesers (are so arnt going as fast as others anyway) and not on a cycle path which seems to have childeren, dogs, boaters, fishermen etc gettign in their way!

looks like a putting green....

many moons ago we played cricket on the heli deck of a cable layer I was navigator on. To be fair was more of a game of french cricket using rolled up rags as a ball. You hit a six by going over the sides of the deck, however as it usually ended up in the drink the batsman was also automatically out! different ship, different sport ; a crazy golf course was set up in the bridge of one of my ships, a very good game of skill in timing the shot with the roll of the ship so that the ball ran accross the chart table, port to stbd, into a waste bin which was the 4th hole.

Course Sailing by Michael Green...? noted that BruceinSanity beat me to the quote. Still a great read and makes me chuckle out loud! I learnt to sail in those reaches many years ago so even more funny as can picture it only too well!

Thank you, yes it was me who bought your share. We came down the Coventry end of June before heading up the Ashby as part of doing the Warwickshire Ring. Boat still going well, though on going through Brum had to go down the weedhatch 5 times in one day.....doubled my total time down the hatch since I bought our share!

..sounds like catching the morning tide out of Weymouth! Done that a couple of times :-)

Always good to find ex owners! Think she was up at Leicester beginig of June, last week of June and first of July, Mrs Dharl and self took her around the Warwiickshire Ring and up the Ashby canal which was fantastic.

Hello all, some might remember me as Dharl. Well I lost the email address to that account and so I am back now with the really immingative name of Dharl2! Picture is of N/B Honeystreet. a 57ft Semi-Trad, reverse layout ex Ownerships built by Andrew Milburn in 2002. She is now managed by BCBM and is currently based at Wigrams Turn, named after the hamlet on the K&A.