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3 hours ago, pomkitanner said:
Thanks . If I choose the Caldon, is it best to head to Froghall or Leek . which is the more scenic ?
Alternatively , if I decide on Chester, where is best to moor up that is central to the old town ?
Thanks for your responses .
The trip to Froghall is much longer, and the moorings before the Black Lion really feel remote. The narrow bit past the railway station is well worth doing. You are unlikely to get through the tunnel, so don't miss the winding hole before it. The moorings there are nothing special at all. If the steam train is running, it's a nice trip.
The Leek Arm is from memory only an hour or so each way, so while you're there you might as well go and have a look down there too. There's a nice mooring in the pool before the tunnel. The tunnel is also worth a trip through, and you can moor at the end and walk into Leek.
In Chester, there are moorings close to the city above the staircase locks, or you can go down and there are moorings below which are less built up.
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The Caldon is a favourite of mine, so I'd tend to gravitate towards that. Chester is also a good place to visit (in fact you can go right along to the Museum at Ellesmere Port if you have time).
A lot depends on where you're starting. I'd prefer to do the extra bit towards the end of the trip, so you know you've definitely got enough time. Having said that, some hirers manage to get round the four counties in a week...
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These plans would certainly make redundant my favourite quote about the end of the Slough Arm, which is that when you get there, there’s no there there.
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Also, they're apparently moored on the lock landing -- but clearly not going anywhere.
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84 pages of them here.
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12 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
I have hired cruiser stern, had a share in a semi trad and now own a trad.
Same here -- and I'd have a trad every time.
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When you have completed the survey you are directed to the CRT boating web page — where the photo is of Stoke Bruerne, but back to front. Looking towards the top lock, the museum, the cottages, and the Spice of Bruerne are actually on the left not the right.
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1 hour ago, john6767 said:
Call me cynical, but I think there are a lot of boats on the Thames that are not licenced/registered. I would suggest that some probably don’t have a BSS or insurance either. Similar to the incessant speeding, which needs cracking down on, I don’t think the EA are really interested in enforcement.
We’ve just been on the Thames until a few days ago. We bought a week’s licence at Eynsham Lock having come off the Oxford; the lock keeper there was quite happy to sell us one (the website no longer says anything about doing it by phone). When our week ran out, we tried to buy another day (which of course is actually two days), but failed to find any lock keeper who wanted to take our money. One just shrugged, one directed us to the website, one said they weren’t doing them at the moment... So it seems that right now, it’s almost impossible to give the EA money even if you want to.
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Give Lockgate themselves a ring — you often have to leave a message, but they do call back.
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2 minutes ago, frangar said:
Gone to that London! But for once not to be a liveaboard....they are being restored and added to an already existing operators fleet of rather well turned out boats....
That’s good to hear.
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I’ve been meaning to ask this for months, but as we’re moored at Nether Heyford tonight I was reminded. The boats (I can’t remember their names) that had their own mooring here, by the house, that were looking more and more neglected are no longer here. Anyone who what’s happened to them? I’m sure Alan mentioned a few hundred pages back that the owner had always declined to sell them.
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2 hours ago, Rob-M said:
The problem with slowing early is the boater doesn't hear the change in engine noise so just assumes you haven't slowed down and shouts at you anyway as I have found out on a couple of occasions as I always slow at least two boat lengths away, further if they are moored just beyond a bridge or anything else that I might have slowed down for.
Hence the advice to slow down early enough to make a difference, and late enough so they can hear you do it!
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34 minutes ago, Rob-M said:
Because when you leave the lock and the fender gets caught and rips off you leave a submerged fender with a piece of rope long enough to get caught round someone else's prop.
And on the Trent and Mersey locks caught fenders have been known to lift gates right off as a boat leaves.
46 minutes ago, ivan&alice said:I bumped the sides a number of times and would have lost a fair bit of blacking if I'd taken my fenders off.
Instead you get a semi-circle of blacking rubbed off by the fenders, so I can't really see that you're ahead.
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The main problem at Lapworth is meeting a boat coming the other way in those really short pounds (especially the ones on a bend) -- and figuring out how you're going to get past each other.
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From the Press Association:
TWO TREATED FOR BURNS AFTER RIVER BOAT BLAST
By Richard Vernalls, PA
A man and a woman are being treated for burns after an explosion on board a river boat.
The blast happened near the Sandy Lane industrial estate in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, at about 6.40pm on Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) said.
The air ambulance was among medical support sent to the scene.
A WMAS spokesman said: "On arrival, crews found the man and woman who had been on board doing exactly the right thing - they were using lukewarm water to cool the burns.
"The woman was suspected of being the slightly more serious (casualty) of the two.
"After assessment and treatment at the scene, she was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham by ambulance."
The man was also treated at the scene and later taken to hospital. 041413 AUG 20< -
17 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:
The clippers have been running for decades, all that is changing is the sponsor/advertiser, until recently it has been MDMA, there will be no change of ownership.
The clippers are a timetabled multi stop waterbus service not designed as trip boats but many tourists still use them. If you want a commentary get a tourist trip boat.
You can pay using oyster and debit/credit cards
You mean MBNA, the bank. had it been MDMA they would probably go even faster than they do already.
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14 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
Actually if you want to get off the boat I think a BW key will give you access from the services area to the towpath beside the top lock.
I think so too -- it's a while since we were there, but I'm fairly certain there's a gate to the lockside, and you can cross the lock to the towpath.
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6 minutes ago, matty40s said:
In actual fact, you are correct in this instance, points awarded...?
It had to happen eventually.
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6 minutes ago, matty40s said:
That's lock 10, it's probably attached to the rear of Aber......
Lock 11 isn't it?
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1 hour ago, Big Bob W said:
Amazing really.
This after a wetter winter than we have had for a while along with 3 months or so of lockdown.
But April and May had less than half the average rainfall.
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1 hour ago, WotEver said:
I thought (but could well be wrong) that if the retailer had heated the food (regardless of whether that be warming a sausage roll, or cooking some chips) then it incurred VAT, whereas if it was sold cold (even though it might have been cooked beforehand) then it was exempt.
Back in 2012 there was a shambolic budget which attempted to put vat on takeaway hot foot (which was dubbed the pasty tax) which the government was then forced to reverse. Story here.
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10 minutes ago, matty40s said:
I wasnt going to name but yes, that's what the large poster on the side said.
We passed it on Sunday near Heyford Fields, and they were going quite slowly there with a procession of boats behind. The first follower said they’d been stuck behind it since Blisworth.
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9 hours ago, Rob-M said:
I found this two weeks ago, arrived at Hillmorton top lock and found three boats waiting all queuing for the nearside lock. I got off the boat and operated the offside lock, helped the boats through both locks and moved everyone along in a timely manner rather than sit around watching the world go by and moan about queues.
At Woodend Lock yesterday to go down, we were lending a hand to a boat coming up, with two more waiting below. One of their crew came up to check that we were going down, and then went to stand by her boat along with the rest of the queue.
Do people not realise that if open the odd gate things progress quicker, rather than waiting for one person to do it all?
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Some shell builders have prices on their websites:
Aintree Boats: http://www.aintreeboats.co.uk/prices/
Tyler Wilson: http://www.tylerwilsonboats.com/index#/traditional-narrowboat-1
Canal Boat Diaries - Robbie Cummings
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It’s a regional slot, and HD can’t (yet) show different programmes in regions. Regions will only get the episode that relates to their region, which is why the NW got Ep4 and the SW didn’t get one at all. But then it’s a BBC4 production, so any slot on BBC1 will be seen as a bonus (and BBC4 will be hoping it inspires people to look out the rest).