[Towpath Teams what do boaters think?]

When the towpath was guote Improved unquote on the Caldon recently there were sections where the hard surface extended up to the stone coping stones. A lot of unhappy boaters, that was until CRT put in mooring rings. Sorted

[what do you call the main living area on the boat?]

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[Turnhurst]

Turn hurst has been a BW/CRT boat for many years and to be honest I thought they had sold it ages ago..obviously not.

[Safe moorings L & L after melling]

Passage beyond bridge 9 is strictly controlled by CRT as it involves two swing bridges that intersect busy roads. So John's question is relevant

[Mobile Fuel Tank Cleaning Service]

try John Cobham 07505626016

Thanks Alan, sorted.

[1 week afloat]

A good weekend trip to get some handling experience would be to head up the Macclesfield canal. Harecastle tunnel will present no problems and then you have the stop lock at Hall Green (only one foot rise/fall) then a decent lock less run up to Bosley flight which, if you don't fancy doing you can turn around and head back. Good mooring spots all the way but remember to get back to Harecastle before three o'clock to guarantee passage.

[Mobile Fuel Tank Cleaning Service]

Does anyone know of a mobile fuel tank cleaning/fuel polishing service that covers North Staffordshire please?

[Ivy House Road Bridge, Caldon canal - single handed]

The 'hinge side' is in the off side. The control box is on the right hand side of the bridge, standing in the middle of the road and looking uphill (not recommended as a place to stand for too long)

[Ivy House Road Bridge, Caldon canal - single handed]

There are a full set of controls on the towpath side. This has been the case for the best part of a year. The two lift bridges between engine lock and the Stockton Brook flight pose a bit more of a problem

[Middlewich to Albert Dock]

Never used it but there is Scarisbrick Marina on the Leeds Liverpool.

Did not need to go down the weed hatch once when we went into Liverpool in June this year, much cleaner than it was a few years ago

[Gt heywood for one week, any advise gratefully received]

Great Haywood is smack bang on the Four Counties Ring. Vary varied with some stretch free locks. Harecastle tunnel is a few miles up from the the Junction too. Easily doable in 8hr days. We did it last year and had a great time

The Four Counties is doable in 8hr days but much of what the ring has to offer is just off the canal and so can be better appreciated over a greater time scale than one week

[Mooring opposite winding holes]

Having a shorter boat, and therefore able to wind even if some idiot chooses to block the 'hole, it gives me great pleasure in such circumstances to use the maximum possible revs to achieve winding. I find the consequent blast of water in the general direction of the miscreants boat serves to remind them of the error of their ways.

[venetian marina?]

Do any brokers clean nboats that they are selling?

Ian.

ABNB for one and I am sure there are lots more

[Grumpy Boaters]

There is no need to move over until you are a few feet from the approaching boat though. It needn't be a game of chicken!

 

It is the responsibility of both steers to avoid a collision and both should make their manoeuvre both in good time and such that they are clear to the oncoming boat .............. At least that is what the rules say

[Buying a boat from a surveyor]

Too many horror stories out there.....definitely get an independent survey

[Just how important is upgrading towpaths for "Cyclists"?]

I guess whoever foots the major portion of the bill for the upgrade decides what the (previously known as) towpath is designated and therefore used for. Certainly in North Staffordshire it is a combination of the county council and Sustrans

 

Edited to correct auto correct

[Tunnel Tunes]

Or to put it another way 3.24 miles

[Tunnel Tunes]

Slightly off topic, whats the longest tunnel in the uk?

Standedge on the Huddersfield Narrow at 5210 metres

Blisworth is seventh on the list

[What time...]

Now if it is that loud.

[Imperial or Metric]

Try going to sea

1 statute mile (the sort landlubbers use) = 5280 feet

1 nautical mile (the sort Mariners use) = 6080 feet

1 data mile ( the sort radar systems work in before conversion) = 6000 feet

[Minimum distance? The enforcement officers have it in black and white.]

Forgive me but.........is it possible that the map was nothing more that a normal OS map on which the vol. enforcement officer was able to measure the distance between two points.......just a thought

[So What To Do Now?]

At this moment there are five hire boats moored next to me. So how much of the towpath(not visitor moorings) do you suggest is kept aside solely for hire boats to use?

Regards kris

 

But I am willing to bet that they will not be there tomorrow night let alone in nine months time.

[So What To Do Now?]

Kriss you managed to move your boat into a dry dock and on exiting the dock managed to move it again to a position of your choosing. Therefore in my book (and I suspect a lot of others books too) you chose to move to where you are.

[So What To Do Now?]

The thread started with Kriss asking for some advice/guidance as to what to do following a letter from CRT. A great deal of both were forthcoming and it would appear that Kriss has elected to reject both advice and even offers of help. Dare I ask if it is now time to lock the thread, it is after all going nowhere?

[So What To Do Now?]

I think that kriss's stand is made all the weaker (if that were possible) by the fact that at some stage the boat moved into a dry dock and some time later moved to it's current position. Therefore it would seem reasonable to assume that the boat is capable of moving and thus capable of complying with CRT's conditions, or have I missed something?