Tam & Di

We did a couple of retail coal trips to Cadbury's Wharf in Frampton early '70s, loading at Gopsall on the Moira. Coal boats to Cadburys were still in people's memories and we had no problem selling some 15-18 tonnes to locals as I recall. The hulks at Purton were still relatively intact at that point. We did continue on to Bath once, long before the K&A was reopened, and someone subsequently sent us postcard showing Towcester moored below Pulteney Bridge.

The lettering is very amateur as well. Lots of boatmen painted their own and they would generally have that sort of appearance, but 50 years old only takes it back to mid-seventies and there were not a lot of working boatment left at that time.

I see from previous posts I noted the dimensions as 74' x 12' 6". That may be the case now, I don't know, but published dimensions certainly used to be determined by the infrastructure. Despite Progress being built for the GUCCC I've never seen published dimension of the GU listed as 74' length. Use of the canal was certainly a factor at the point several were being classed as 'remainder waterways', and the K&A could not be closed as a canoist was able to prove he had used it in the previous 12 months.

75' is right as I recall. We did cruise several times to Braunston and once to Sampson Road Birmingtham with no great trouble.

Chrome did connect me to CanalWorld OK, but it wasn't via the link in a mail so it wasn't really the solution. It does mean I can more readily connect to CWDF and select 'new content' that way, but that is boring.

I don't use Chrome, but I've just tried Safari and that seems to work

And FireFox still refuses to connect me via the link in mail telling me that there is a relevant post. I have to go a long way round and click on "recent entries". I know it has been mentioned before. Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to url7653.canalworld.net because this web site requires a secure connection. What can you do about it? url7653.canalworld.net has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator about the problem.

This?? - won't need a hole then (from Dave Moore about a year ago)

As already said, it's a very odd question. Are you asking because you are planning to become a broker? Or do you want to know so you can sell your boat on more easily when you get fed up or find the life unsuitable?

Not necessarily. You might have the tender spot in front, on your 'nose' by the terminology used by Crewcut. 😃

George & Helen Smith on Petrel and Moon on the retail coal trade for Ashby Canal Transport (you might have seen us too, with Towcester & Bude and Stamford - here we'd loaded Towcester and Bude and are loading Stamford for 15 year old son Jason to follow us down)

Not a term I've come across, but in continuation of the bird theme they could perhaps be called nuthatch holes. 🤯

From what you say I can see why you are concerned. Have you looked at insurers used by hire boat companies? I'd imagine their cover should suit your circumstance - it would pretty certainly include recovery of wreck.

Sorry for the omission. I have a MacBook Pro with OS High Sierra v10.13.6. CWDF send notifications to my address on the Apple Mail program. I generally use Firefox 115.3.1esr, but I get the same effect with Safari too. I just received the CWDF advice re RichM's post and couldn't get to CWDF via the 'Go to this post" link, but I'd kept a connection open on my desktop so I read it and sent this reply via that.

Sunk/stuck - no great difference surely.? 😃 Just needs a couple of guys with a big bucket to help him sort the problem.

"My boat is stuck at Chertsey weir" is a very laid-back way to describe the situation. The sort of help necessary is rather specialised too.

I've not said it was incorrect - simply that to pose a converted butty without towline in a picture supposedly of an ethnic canal scene is jarring to my eyes. If he wished to avoid incorrectness the engine house would not be there.

It seems odd to me to simplify the setting and reposition the engine house to suggest an 'ethnic' canal scene, but then not to at least pretend that Nebulae was a butty under tow. I find it an irritating contradiction.

I don't know if the issue has been resolved in any way, but I am now getting much the same message if I click on an eMail link from the address no-reply@canalworld.net advising that a member has posted on a topic I am following. I got in now via my Firefox history which showed a connection I made a month ago: Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to url7653.canalworld.net because this web site requires a secure connection. What can you do about it? url7653.canalworld.net has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site. The issue is most likely with the web site, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the web site’s administrator about the problem.

Mooring lines? it looks to me like it is crocheted to the ring.