mykaskin

Richard Horne - a member of the Commercial Boat Owner Association CBOA - does his best to get commercial contracts for the boat, and has had a few one off loads over the last few years. As you said however, it's usually a publicity stunt but at least hopefully it will make people think about water transport. More than you'd give credit for in London at the moment - though mostly maintenance/building type loads plus the Camden Market rubbish traffic to Powerdays.

So long as the front doors are raised above the well deck, I think you would be really unlucky to ship enough water that the scuppers can't clear. Usually they are in a place where the bow wave is at it's lowest any way if you're lucky. Mike

Hi everybody! For those that like these things, I've put together a playlist of the tug of war pulls I filmed at Rickmansworth Festival last weekend, here: Youtube Playlist Clicky Cheers, Mike

Long Lining is almost a forgotten art. It's difficult, dangerous, and usually only any real use on close lock flights with a loaded butty. Here The Narrow Boat Trust practice the art on the Wolverhampton 21: Youtube Clicky Enjoy, Myk

I've been to nearly all but the Basingstoke Canal on the list, on several boats over many years however. I'm quite disappointed that both the Foss and Driffield Navigation aren't on the list - both I've visited with Victoria so can be done in any narrowboat. I've also done the first part of the Dudley tunnel, but because the gauge is too pessimistic at the museum end I ballasted down too much and ran across on the shallows on the start of the main bore. Next time I'll start from the south end. Snakeholme Lock, Driffield Navigation And the River Foss: As far as we got on the River Foss. Mike

I’ve got a few ‘slow tv’ videos on my channel most at least over an hour long.

Yeah that’s fair enough. I normally put music to things like this so it covers the edits and makes a montage. However I get slated for putting music on, so you could try adding your own. if I didn’t edit tight then it would be over two hours long and quite boring too! Myk

We set off once the water was back in the river and not flowing too fast - we know our boat well. We were at Pershore as you can see when the floods came. We managed to clear debris on the locks where it was small stuff shown on the video. Apparently the Avon Navigation Trust did an amazing job of clearing the Narrowboat stuck on the balance beam at Evesham so they could get their own boats through but luckily the rest of the locks was just small stuff, some moved sand which we flushed out of the way and trees felled which we squeezed past.

Hi guys and gals, I've just finally got around to editing a video I shot in 2007! It involves taking my Dad's boat Kismet on lots of flooded rivers, and then getting trapped in one of the biggest floods on the Avon. It's an hour long, so best to get comfy, but please enjoy: YouTube Clicky Cheers, Mike

I assume so long as you don't fall into the main channel of the canal you can moor as many as you like - and since it's private water one wonders if you could expand it to a marina and not need a connection charge...

I assume - though don't actually know this site in particular - that like most of the wharves on the Shroppie, that the expansion of the canal was down to the landowner. These wharf sites that look like winding holes, are primarily private moorings but to allow boats to turn were made wider so boats could wind after unloading. Mike

Wow - that must still be under the embankments! I didn't realize just how big it all was.

The beauty of this one is that the wharf should be private water - so you shouldn't have to pay CRT anything to moor a boat.

If you want to virtually follow it - this website is good: http://www.ruisliponline.com/lido/feeder.htm Myk

Hi everybody, I've released a little video flying around the so called Brinklow Arches - an embankment and river crossing at Brinklow on the North Oxford Canal. Enjoy: You Tube Clicky Thing Cheers, Myk

Hi, I made a video about Cowley Lock while it was empty, and explained what you asked. I knew I'd got the information from somewhere - must have been from this book. Basically, any boats bringing the companies water with them as they descend, took the water into the Paddington Arm. It was known where the boats came from when the toll ticket was inspected at this spot. Any boats not having come from above probably Berkhampstead but I can't find any information about it would have been using river water which would have normally ended up in the Colne had a boat not used it, so at this point it was returned to the river. Why it was important to keep the water in the river at this point can only have been a mill or mills downstream of this point objecting to loss of water. Of by the water - was the photo taken at normal water levels - It looks a little low from the tide mark, but I can see from your photo the bottom of the paddle surround is just spot on the right level. The video: Cheers, Mike

Are you talking about these layby piles?

Not far from Southend I believe....

Doesn't half go though!

Hi Folks, While not the best example of pair boating, I've recorded part of a trip up the GU we had last weekend. Enjoy: YouTube Clicky to 2 hours of real time video in HD

IA Recordings/Sight Seen have several DVD's available documenting historic canal techniques. It's not directly CRT/BW that were involved, but I believe they helped ensure it was possible to do the recordings, for example re-instating canal furniture, or giving access to their buildings. https://www.iarecordings.org/friends/sightseen/sight_seen_index.html All good stuff. Mike

It gets quite tight in there, especially when unloaded...

In Summer 2007 we had a good amount of water in the Trent: Youtube Playlist Clicky Not for the inexperienced... Mike

Here is a drone video of NB Alton breaking the ice on the embankment at Bollington during the cold snap earlier this year. Enjoy: Youtube clicky Mike

It was plenty deep enough in 2011 for fully loaded boats on the offside, probably better now that the gravel barges aren't pushing it all up the side. Mike