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Tam & Di

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  1. The only thing you say is that you have done a lot of reading. I think the question was do you have practical experience too?
  2. I'm not convinced by that interpretation. It does say 'through' Sharpness Docks, not 'from and to .....' the Docks, and any vessel coming up off the Severn through the lock will in reality pass through the Docks en route. It is simply that the tidal waters below the lock are outside of C&RT jurisdiction. The application form is headed TOWAGE REQUIREMENTS: SHARPNESS PORT; GLOUCESTER AND SHARPNESS CANAL AND RIVER SEVERN which makes it clear that they are regarded as separate - it does not simply apply to a journey from the Dock along the G&S Canal and continuing up the Severn Navigation, but would apply to each of the three waters mentioned individually, e.g. a tow confined entirely to the Severn Navigation. The form talks extensively of commercial towing operation involving multiple tugs, and of a tug and tow with maximum beam 8.5m and maximum airdaft 38m so they're not going to get far with those dimensions. It's an extremely loose bit of wording though, and is applicable right up to where you come onto the river at Diglis and on up to Stourport-on-Severn.
  3. To be fair the original post said only that there was no apparent exemption for small leisure craft - they are simply part of a larger picture. It does talk specifically of craft coming from Sharpness Port so the emphasis is on large commercial craft. The waterways mentioned would include pleasureboats on a voyage from the K&A round towards Gloucester, but I doubt that there are many doing that which involve a tow.
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  15. For me it was when we first started, in the 50s, but given your definition I'd say '62, as the big freeze was the nail in the coffin of what little commercial narrowboat trade still existed to that time. We did still enjoy boating for several years after that, but by 1981 when the barrel boat contract ended there were already beginning to be too many continuous moorers, and too many of them expected you to pass impossibly slowly and shouted loudly if their boat moved even one jot. It was also when there stopped being lock keepers and lengthsmen to deal with local problems. Tam
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