Stroudwater1

One thing worth mentioning , Rurality exists alongside canals almost everywhere. Funnily I find modern housing developments and huge warehouses being built now have a more urban feel than say the Worcester and Birmingham through Edgbaston and on past the University. It catches us out approaching Gas Street basin as it is tree lined and quiet till you suddenly get to high rise flats with exciting wind eddies. Tony’s suggestion of the Thames is a good one, or you could get a narrowboat from Lower Heyford and travel down to Oxford onto the Thames briefly perhaps. Note don’t go too near to Cropredy as there are closures from water shortages but the canal should be Ok from Aynho down past Lower Heyford to the Thames.

Just had this from GJW insurance (name changed now) . It’s good that a survey from up to 10 years ago is acceptable for them. IMPORTANT NOTE - It is condition of our insurance that if your vessel is 30 years or older you must have in your possession an out of water condition including ultrasonic readings of no less than 4mm below the waterline and valuation survey, carried out and completed within the last ten years by an independent qualified marine surveyor and all ongoing recommendations made must be complied with. A hull only report is not acceptable.

To answer the question who pays for the welding if the survey shows up issues. Ours was paid for by the vendor. There was a recent thread on here where there was rust in a storage locker and again the vendor paid for rectifying this. The downside with the above is you don’t completely know what’s been done (ie have things been skimped) but the upside is if more issues turn up during the prep then you don’t end up paying more than has been knocked off.

But from the same newsletter? It’s rather confusing. One things for sure it’s not going to be a Pontcysyllte. Must say I’ve seen the brook in a flooded state, I do hope the pipes pictured don’t get clogged.

You had better have a word with the New Civil engineer Tim https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/designs-underway-on-aqueduct-to-fill-stroudwater-navigation-canals-missing-mile-14-11-2024/ Or perhaps the heritage fund application? https://docs.planning.org.uk/20240703/130/SFY35LPN0FY00/eeie5xnv1j1uznh6.pdf 🤷‍♀️

It’s going to be tough for ABNB to be selling boats when there’s no where to go other than one pound for a long time by the looks of things.

There’s one being built over Oldends stream, Stroudwater navigation just before the John Robertson lock.

Probably too late. The Russians may admire the red painted chinook engines though perhaps?

Thanks for this. I’m a bit confused though as if the Coventry level is OK the Ashby has to be the same or are you meaning the whole pound from Atherstone through to Hawkesbury is down? You can’t be 5-6 inches down on the Ashby and fine on the Coventry?

Could the K&A prices could be driven partly by widebeams? Friend assures me the CRT moorings are very cheap for a widebeam compared to a marina on the G&S?

For a trip to the pub and back in a weekend type you could try a GRP boat, there was one advertised on here for such good value. Won’t rust, much cheaper, much faster, sallower so can moor easily most places.

Second pic was worrying me as well. The poor chap sinking and no one around to even offer a bucket to help him

I think you’d have gone crazy buying a 36’ boat to fit out let alone 45’ TBH.

It states in contradiction to the other notice that the navigation is closed due to lack of water when the other one says it’s open due to sufficient water. I’m not sure which fingers from the right or left hand did the typing but the left doesn’t seem to know the rights function. In fairness it’s a problem with linking issues on websites.