Tam & Di
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11 hours ago, Tam & Di said:
75' is right as I recall. We did cruise several times to Braunston and once to Sampson Road Birmingtham with no great trouble.
I see from previous posts I noted the dimensions as 74' x 12' 6".
2 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:It’s worth remembering that the published maximum craft dimensions have their origins in the size of boats recorded using the waterway at a specific point in time and not in the actual size of the infrastructure.
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.
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75' is right as I recall. We did cruise several times to Braunston and once to Sampson Road Birmingtham with no great trouble.
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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.
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I don't use Chrome, but I've just tried Safari and that seems to work
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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.
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14 hours ago, magnetman said:
I've been considering putting a small sink in the shopping launch due to occasionally having dirty hands.
The general idea seems to be to get a ss dog bowl or similar for this as it is going to need to be smaller than standard products and cut a hole in it for the drain but I am wondering what tool to use for the cutting..
This?? - won't need a hole then (from Dave Moore about a year ago)
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On 05/02/2024 at 21:41, Lincoby said:
After many years coastal sailing I’ve been researching buying a Narrowboat and wondered what a broker would ideally choose to sell based on popular queries.
I am guessing a semi trad reverse layout but could be surprised !
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?
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13 hours ago, MtB said:
Would that give me a tender behind?
Not necessarily. You might have the tender spot in front, on your 'nose' by the terminology used by Crewcut. 😃
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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)
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38 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Duck hatches are really side doors, unless you use them for egress then its duck or grouse when you bang your head. Heard swan hatch before but not duck.
Not a term I've come across, but in continuation of the bird theme they could perhaps be called nuthatch holes. 🤯
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1 hour ago, jpatrick101 said:
Thanks. I've got third party insurance which specifically excludes wreck recovery. And they won't quote for fully comp insurance for a boat on Airbnb.
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.
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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.
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Sunk/stuck - no great difference surely.? 😃 Just needs a couple of guys with a big bucket to help him sort the problem.
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"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.
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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.
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11 hours ago, John Brightley said:
Nebulae was at the 1984 Hawkesbury National Rally and I believe the conversion/ refurbishment had just been completed.
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.
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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:
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2 hours ago, MtB said:
.. five mooring lines come undone?
Mooring lines? it looks to me like it is crocheted to the ring.
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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).
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10 hours ago, David Mack said:
With both of you steering, she'll be er outdoors!
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.
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47 minutes ago, Richard Carter said:
BTW, the technique with cross straps was developed specifically for the case of an empty butty. I have no idea why the straps don't pull upwards off the dollies, but they absolutely don't. Having them as short as you can allows the motor steerer more control over the butty, but needs nifty work and good timing when picking up the butty from being breasted up - longer straps are more tolerant of lazy steering or adverse conditions of any sort.
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.
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I assume there are no low bridges between there and a dry dock
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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.