StephenA

Oddly enough although I do pay by DD they've sent me a form to fill in for another year......

Looks way too narrow for a canal and that rock outcrop looks like its not ever been cut for a navigation channel. The bit by the hand rail almost like an overflow or something like that. Could it be a stream that's been channelled for industrial purposes like driving a water wheel? Not that any of this helps identify where it is.

Ah but is that the same as Max Governed speed ? I don't think I've ever pushed our BMC 1.5 up to 4400 rpm......

Its 8pm isn't it?

We've now split the canal into two on Canalplan and marked part of it as closed.....

Thanks - we'll do some work on Canalplan to basically split the canal up.

So is Pudding Green to Ryders Green still navigable?

Someone on Canalplan has posted a note on the page for the Wednesbury Old Canal stating: Does anyone know if this is true, and if so where has the information come from? Cheers Steve

Its not like its a huge heavy bridge: http://canalplan.org.uk/gazetteer/ergu

Which is what makes the collection of photos on Canalplan so interesting....

My mother kept detailed logs of all our canal trips (after I did the first one back in the mid 1970s). Each night after mooring up she'd dig out the boat's copy of Edwards and work out the locks and the distance. "Mintball" even has a couple of small samplers celebrating her 10th and 20th anniversaries which include the total miles and locks done. We've not calculated the distance for the 30th anniversary. I'm going to be scanning / OCRing all the typed up logs and putting them on line with photos taken on the trips...

And then there is the one at Appley Bridge

Boat was going up - so stern would be stuck down Even with a fender I've always put the tiller hard over when we've been in a lock - we did get the fender stuck on a bent metal plate in one lock on the S&W but the split link did its job and the chain sheared.

It just seems silly to cut a hole in the hull and fill in a hole in the roof if the hole in the roof can be used instead.....

Can these have their exhaust routed through a chimney or do they need to go sideways through the hull? We've got a broken Optimus Alde which has a nice balanced flue in the roof and if I could route the Webasto inlet and exhaust through that hole it would be great.

No - that's what comes over from CRT... I'm still chasing them for the data from this year

Our "spanner shaped device" is a genuine Calor spanner.....

I noticed the pub was closed the other week when we were passing through - couldn't see the water point as the whole area seemed to be full of boats.

We celebrated the L&L being 200, me being 50 and the boat being 30 by taking it back to the waters where it was launched and where it used to live, revisited the Rufford Branch and did the Liverpool Link.

I dont know - how much head does it need on the fuel or can it be at a level with the bottom of the fuel tank? I was assuming the tank was a fuel tank and not a hot water header tank...

What sort of height do you need on the header tank? Also do people do a kit to pump from the main tanks to the header or is that usually a manual task? Our Optimus has died and its 600 squid for a new burner/control assembly so we're looking at alternatives....

You mean the one at Yardley Wood? http://canalplan.org.uk/gazetteer/6h37 Photo comment says : Not sure if it's an official winding hole, but it's certainly wide enough to turn most boats here. Steve

So do we know what happened at the meeting? I know NABO are trying to get details of boaters experiences. We luckily didn't have the misfortune to meet Sonny on our trips through over the past couple of weeks. All the C&RT licence holders seemed to be trying to get through as fast as possible which is a shame

According to the Environment Agency it was dumped into a watercourse which feeds into the canal. So someone had dumped a couple of barrels of sump oil trying to dispose of it.

It was pretty bad - I phoned CRT about it as we came through - it was like this, or worse, for the entire length between bridges 16 and 13 at 10am on Friday morning