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Sam

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  11. Aquapacs are certainly very very good. We use them on the beach for VHF radios... But also I use a camera aquapac.... and so far my camera has survived the great barrier reef and the sea off Florida... although it is always a bit worrying jumping into water with your camera....
  12. Hi. If it is your first holiday.. in a way i would say go for it as you will not have expectations. What I forgot to say that we took this holiday after having boated for many years.. including with private share boats.. so maybe our expectations were higher? - although this does not excuse the engine problems - there again these are probs. very rare!! Although on the flip side of the coin... if you can... I would suggest going with someone like Viking Afloat or Alvechurch Boat Hire (run by same company).... as I only have good things to say about these companies.... they are perfect... and their fleet is very nice! (we moved one of their boats for them last summer - brand new fleet that they are introducing.. which is very nice indeed) Can't remember the name of the base... but it is close by to the Ashby Canal. One other very bad point about this base was that they had left everyones credit card details over the seats in the 'hut' where you check in and where the staff 'hang out' - a bit worrying seeing as everyone (especially staff) had access to all your details.
  13. Have not heard of it flooding.
  14. yes they are CanalTime boats. You will turn up to a CanalTime base and take a CanalTime branded boat. We did (on the cheap... never again) last year and I think it broke down at least 5 times... and had to keep meeting the mechanics along the way for various things.... mainly oil! It was getting through it like mad.... (LOTS AND LOTS!) then on the last day the engine basically ran out.. as it was just running straight through into the bilge... We ended up walking the boat back quite a way to a boat yard where we could be picked up by the CT people. We were not impressed... and the runners of the base couldn't give a dam. To summarise.. Not good experience with CanalTime / TillerMan for me i'm afraid.. although I'm sure some people have had great trips with them. ps. (I am used to a private share boat too...) Sam
  15. Seems quite a lot to pay a band in a pub for a night...... Would be suprised if it is that much IMHO
  16. I agree with the man above
  17. Still worth contacting BW. Quite often we have planned our last drop of water to be used by waterpoint X... Which just so happens to be out of action due to construction works or something equally fun... So they will be able to tell you about stuff like that
  18. Sam

    best time

    The best is getting up at about 6am when it is still cold and chilly.... setting off and eat your breakfast whilst your cruising Happy times.
  19. Sam

    best time

    Prefer October myself. I love it when it rains... and it's cold... and your chugging alone.. then the relief crew come up from inside and you can go and warm yourself by the stove
  20. I went when it first started at Excel.. I won tickets from WaterScrape Very interesting to go and look at the things on display. Made many plans for buying a rib that day I heard that they have gotten rid of the indoor water sports arena thing?? Sam
  21. Contact the areas BW office. I know that the Brum officer certainly gives out a couple of pages which have all the facilities listed (by canal) for the area that the office covers... Very useful. Sam
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  23. Our ex share boat was in Waterways World. We were well chuffed... My site was also in Clicking On Canals twice.. once being site of the month.. if anyone wanted to know
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