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RichardN

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  1. Not this Poppy I guess? and not a mill pond like this day:
  2. I did not even know there had been a Tipton Green Canal till this event! We had that debate about position. Is that photo of the Chemical Arm entrance, no it is the entrance to the Black Country Museum. Hmm looks pretty chemical. Don't we turn before there? Scurry off to re-check maps, no we turn after. Is it two canals after we cross the new main line (sounding our horn appropriately)? Well sort of. Oh what happened there? Bound to be a Capt Ahab video somewhere . . .
  3. Like Scholar Gypsy I would echo other peoples' comments. I think the Team setting this year's challenge has done an exceptional job, thank you. In some ways this was more tiring than the real event as the extra-curricular content was challenging plus there was the w o r k thing to cope with. I loved getting hold of the other 60 miles book, loved learning more about those 60 miles + that Gospel Oak arm extension, I don't do much social media so good to watch some Capt Ahab's videos which were new to me. This was so different to a normal year, we know there are bits we can do faster (eg Walsall or the Crow) but of course we loose that advantage here, choice of route is complex normally but now with different scoring and an extra 61 miles it becomes way more complicated. Fantastic stuff, thank you. Debate about the rules can go on for ever but like in a game of rugby you do not challenge or argue with the referee, you accept the decision and move on or go back 10 locks every time you argue. I don't think we published this so here is Hadfield's hand drawn tube map of the BCN . . .
  4. Sue is talking to her mother so I will take over for a second: Summary by day, total at the bottom: DAY LOCKS MILES 1 32.0 14.0 2 16.0 14.8 3 20.0 15.0 4 14.0 15.0 5 8.0 14.5 6 28.0 11.9 TOTAL 118.0 85.2 I had a minor panic when I looked at those numbers, what were we doing on day 5, looks like we were in the pub most of the time! Of course it was the day with 10minute locking times when we wanted to get up from the Walsall Level to the Wolverhampton level and failed!
  5. Video link is in the picture but in case you can't see it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/163151474@N06/49870435678/play/1080p/97ccc82453/
  6. Oh that's hard. A double penalty point is always tough
  7. I can't see any reason for us to change ours more frequently, ours are now 8 years old and look just about ok, I say just about as we have at times spent time in salty water and I am sure I can see them dissolving . . The Lady at JBJ said that we had seen a few boats pulled out after two years which looked more like tea bags, I can only think mains hook-up and no isolation but if that is what you are seeing I am not surprised they make that recommendation.
  8. Aquaduct have fantastic facilities, I would not recommend them for any work but it may be worth using their facilities. Not many places will allow you to shot blast but for me the way to go is get the boat lifted out and some experts in to do the two pack. Our boat was originally shot blasted, painted with Zinga and then two pack all applied by Wayne and his team at MWT Civil Engineering (https://www.mwtcivilengineeringltd.co.uk/). We get the boat lifted out every 5 years for a bit of TLC, here is the first lift out: https://indigodream.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/boat-blog-a-look-at-indigo-dreams-bottom/ The last lift out was at Aquaduct as that is one of the places that Andy Russell uses, Wayne and Co came in and did the blacking whilst Andy painted the blue bits. The Aquaduct team had not used Zinga so they came in and learnt from Wayne's guys. We have used Wayne three times now and will use him again in 3 years time.
  9. Very well done. Indigo Dream is unlikely to be there, we need to be near Bath the weekend after so should be going under bridge 1 & 2 on the Severn that weekend. But if plans change . . . .
  10. So far we have had 62 different greyhounds ( 8 of ours and 54 guests) on our boat, only two were not keen. Remarkably easy dogs, I can write for days about them but if you want more information get in touch. Or try talking to Graeme Marsh, Greyhound Trust Head Office - he used to live on a narrowboat before he moved south away from the canal network. In order from south to north you can try any of the following rescues: Greyhoundhomer (Essex or Suffolk), Accolade Hounds (Stoke Bruerne), Perry Barr, Greyhound Gap (near Red Bull) or Tia Rescue in Doncaster. Those know about narrowboats but you could just try the nearest rescue to you, if they don't know about boats then just point to any of the dog blogs on indigodream.wordpress.com, navigate there, type dog blog in the search box on the left and a selection should pop up. Suggest not looking at any of the links with dates in the title.
  11. The BCN Challenge is tough: Last one is Henry have a break at Norton Canes whilst I pulled bits of carpet off our prop, same pattern as the carpet we caught last year but this time got two pieces not one! Got to be three next time. I am having slight difficulties in classifying Henry as a 42kg whippet . . . There is an album of random photos here. Random as they are so far from three cameras and I have yet to get round to sorting them into date order, plus photos to add from Sue's phone
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