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Tam & Di

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Mooring lines? it looks to me like it is crocheted to the ring.
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  7. If you are breasting up a short boat with an unpowered longer vessel you need to have the sterns level. Otherwise you will go round a bend on the side towards the powered craft, but putting the elum over to go the other way the thrust simply hits the breasted boat and you get very little turning motion at all (unless the powered vessel is significantly deeper drafted than the unpowered one).
  8. Pairs of narrow boats travelling empty with the butty on cross straps mostly didn't need anyone to steer the butty on long pounds. You put the tiller on strings to hold it central or simply remove it. Obviousy if you are in a heavily locked section you'd not do that.
  9. The stern dollies on a working narrowboat are a shape such that the straps don't pull off, and on some boats one of the pair would be a hook. It would be unusual to tow an empty butty with a loaded motor, but unless you got a backload from the place you've just unloaded you would be travelling as an empty pair to another wharf - not at all unusual.
  10. I assume there are no low bridges between there and a dry dock
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  12. 100045E depicts sign reading UKW22//UKW78. UKW are the Dutch or German versions of VHF and it indicates which VHF channel you are to use for communication with Port control (Locks etc) in either direction. It seems to be among several photos of the Rhine but I can't identify where. The signs are common, but it would be possible to check in which pound(s) there are a lock with ch.22 at one end and ch.78 at the other.
  13. As you would be changing the use of the land planning consent might become involved.
  14. I've had a quick look, and the best is the link https://londoncanals.uk/historical/the-croydon-canal-20-route-maps/ of maps and photos of the route. I see it was opened 1809 at the same time as the Grand Surrey, and was originally planned as the Croydon & Rotherhythe Canal. The Grand Surrey was supposed to get to Portsmouth, but rail development put paid to both of them. It closed in 1836 and was the first canal to be abandoned by Act of Parliament
  15. Somewhere I have reference to research done probably by a canal enthusiast society which gives a lot of photos of what traces they have found. It should be on my computer so I'll see if I can locate it.
  16. The Croydon canal joined the Grand Surrey at New Cross, but only lasted for about 30 years in the early 1800s. It was just over 9 miles long with 28 locks, and South Norwood Lake remains as one of the two reservoirs that fed it.
  17. We made a variety of wines in the 60s when we lived on Progress; elderberry and rose petal come particularly to mind. The elderberry was disgusting and I shoved it under a bench and forgot about it. Several years later I stumbled on it and tried it again, and it had really come good. Now we spend a lot of time in Burgundy it's not worth the bother. 😃
  18. It very much depends upon how elaborate a structure you want. Matty40s' concept would be far cheaper - it would just be a matter of finding someone to do the job. The most basic would be the sort of rainshed that several working boatmen used - 4 squares of ply, one for each side, one with a viewing slot at the front, and one for the top. all held together with hooks and eyes. It could easily be worked up into something a bit smarter and more permanent 😀
  19. In that case I apologise. People do appear on here and take exception to the replies, and are then never heard of again. I did feel that you were a she but with modern mores it does get problematic and writing (s)he too cumbersome.
  20. The OP hasn't been back since midnight Saturday. I've a feeling he thinks we aren't regarding him seriously. Their reading hadn't told them about narrow canals, nor that they would not be able to move 1-2 miles every two weeks on the upper Thames, but they may well get away with that interpretation of Continuous Cruising on the K&A - George Ward seems to have.
  21. Most of ours were too. And one possibly of interest to the historically minded - it is the Gravesend end of the Thames and Medway canal. Bernard Sickert is the brother of the famous Walter, and his pictures don't fetch much 😀 (not that we could have afforded it if it was by Walter)
  22. We got this limited edition print in the 80s when Julian Trevelyan's workshops were being cleared out. He was one of the painters commissioned to paint scenes at the beginning of WW2 in order to preserve the memories. We have one by Grace Golden, another of this group, of the Regents Canal
  23. We have a fair number too, but none of scenes within the docks. This is the closest geographically, though we have others more stylistically similar to yours:
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