StephenA

Not the best of wordings I'll agree. But saying : "River levels are up but the navigation is still open and you can pass through Ledgard lock, but you will need to operate it rather than just going through the open gates" is a bit wordy.... As flood locks are often used to protect a stretch of canalised river then sometimes the flood locks will not be available to use at all.......

Our first boating holiday was from Anderton. Planned to to go Llangollen.... got to Hurleston and found the canal was closed. Decided to do the Cheshire ring.... got to the top of Bosley and found that the canal was closed.. You just adapted and made things up as you went along. Also no TV on the boat... only a car radio...

We have a standard pin that was bent by a boat going past us on the Oxford once... we weren't on board at the time and didn't realise until we came to pull it out of the rather elongated slot it was sitting in.....

Maybe if we all post to Grayling's Facebook account asking why he's allowing a bypass to destroy a community asset he'll react...though he probably wont... I suspect offers of directorships etc have swayed his decision.

Well it does seem a rather odd, and expensive, thing to do - steal a boat and then lift it and leave it on the bank with apparently no other steps taken to disguise it. Not many places on the Shroppie that have lifting and hard standing....

So that suggests that the data export from BW was incomplete... I will try to ensure I get a complete list from C&RT this year rather than just changes....

All the numbers in the register starting 51039 are all 1 digit longer.... we have 51036 and 51040 but nothing between. Not even got anything with that number in the name (some boats for some reason have name and plate number in the name)

OK so its never been on the register - which is odd if its an old number....(We don't delete stuff, we just update it).

Index number is too short - I think it needs another number at the end of it Not managed to get an update from C&RT for the boat listing - will be chasing them soon.

Some of those moorings seem to be a long way from anything.... there seems to be no car parking by the mooring pontoons so I guess you drive your car there, unload, drive back to the car park (wherever that might be) and then have a long walk back to your mooring.

Does anyone know what they mean by Bedford River? Do they mean Kempston Mill?

Isn't the River Dee Branch derelict?

You are aware its satire?...

You could try emailing Jackie.. I've dealt with her via email on several occasions and she's always been responsive and quite helpful (I know that there will be several people who will doubt this to be true). "undisclosed recipients" is a standard "To" address when using BCC addresses.

This is pretty much standard practice for housing developments. One being developed on the outskirts of Cheltenham basically got approval because they promised to deliver a new link road through the estate to remove a really nasty double mini-roundabout. The plans still show this, the planners and developers still crow about it being there.... but its now a Bus only route with ANPR cameras on it. Why the councils etc never take the planners/developers to court for failing to deliver what they promised I do not know... I imagine brown envelopes of cash (or their digital equivalent) feature highly.

When I reported an oil spill covering over a mile of the Middlewich branch near aqueduct marina C&RT had the canal closed by the time I reached the top of Hurleston.

We're on a C&RT waterside mooring - the people I've dealt with have been excellent. I've been able to get support for problems with a shoreline power point on a Saturday morning, and when we've raised problems via email (sheared mooring stud on the jetty, non working tap) they've responded quickly and kept me updated. It does seem that the OP is posting just to raise peoples hackles.

Silly question I know but how do the boats on the pontoons where there is a boat in the middle get out?

What's going on with the search results ? They now seem to appear in a popup window ordered by relevance with adverts at the top? Also there seem to be no dates shown on the results it returns. I see someone else has already raised this elsewhere. ... I didn't find it because the default search results are worse than useless.

We just tend to use a tethered laptop inside the boat. Steerer tends to just casually glance at a guide book from time to time.

Nick and I were looking at adding "average" timings to canalplan so basically we'd set an average time for each bit of the canal based on actual timings and use those, along with a planners "personal" averages to work out how long bits of canal would take to navigate. I did some work based on tracks I'd recorded but it needs a lot more data... Tom's app, if it recorded that information and allowed people to upload it would give us that base data.... It would also allow us to identify "hot spots" where timings can go out of the window (such at Wheaton Aston Lock)

It would seem the sensible thing to do ...

Drain the crap out and put some bug treatment in. But you'll probably need to replace / clean the fuel filters on both the engine and the eberspacher as they'll be clogged... also make sure that the fuel pulling through is clean. When we got the bug on Mintball we had to bleed off the injector lines....

No approval needed - you login to Canalplan on the home page and then you should be able to go into the forum (its under Changes, Bugs & Ideas) and post ... the forum sees you as a registered user.

You'd need to talk to Nick about that - if you want to do that then its probably worth starting a thread on the little forum we have on Canalplan for discussing things..... I do think that if we're not careful we're going to end up with multiple incompatible data sets which are all out of date.... We did have this "feature request" https://canalplan.eu/bugtrack/view.php?id=31