ChimneyChain
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Took our boat up to Kings Langley over the weekend for a little festival at the Kings head pub. Our boat, a large woolwich, didn't really suffer from the lack of dredging; apart from when we got stuck on the bottom cill whilst entering the one of Cassio park locks. The problem we encounted was the lack of over hanging & fallen tree management. This is a most basic requirement to keep the canal channel clear and silt free. Some of these branches/tree stumps stick out some 10 to 20 feet and more into the channel.
Whilst we haven't taken the boat up to these parts for a while we generally walk along the tow path so know that these trees have been down for quite some time. With this sudden influx of wide boats on the southern GU it makes passing in various places quite challenging. If and when crt do get the act together and start chopping back somehow I think it will be too late as there is now so much silt gathering under trees / branches that no boats will be able to get close enough to enjoy the now wider canal channel.
Darren
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Weathers not Looking too good, don't think it will be as hot and sunny as last year.
Darren
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Well for what it's worth we're going. Will be at 3c.
Darren
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The bilges have been concreted, so it's at about 3'6" draft.
Ah right, are you taking up to Ricky for the tug of war.
Darren
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Is that mean't to be so low in the water as I've not seen others quite that low.
Darren
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As your opposite DYS (just walked past and thought that's a nice boat) I would give Jason a quick shout. He generally does most things and to a good standard.
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Umea
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And what bolinder has the colonel got in it? ........ just checked it's a 15 hp
Darren
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This picture of my great nan & grandad tied up at Paddington basin around 1913. Great to think that my nan was in the cabin as a 1yr old baby.
Darren
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Used to swim in Grand Union too. Young and silly.
So did I, outside John guest jumping of the pipe bridge.
Darren
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Laurence these postcards are for sale on eBay at the moment. What are the fundamental differences if any of these boats to the southern wide boats. Thanks
Darren
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OMG soooo close a wine bottle holder
( how did you guess that
, unless you cheated and researched in another thread )I've read everything you've done to this boat, and what a great job you've done so far. Keep the updates coming.
Darren
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theer is in busy places and folk who dont pay the small sum for an EA rod licence deserve to be fined and tackle confiscated.
And putting a rod down when the EA bailiff is there does not work, been there and seen it happen to a few chaps. Police intervened in the end.
Police called!!! well times must have change. When I was fishing as a kid it was a 60 year old man on a bike with his sandwiches in a napsack riding along the towpath
Darren
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Beer can holder....... YES WHAT DO I WIN
Darren
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Somebody went pass our boat the other week with a small 2 man boat built out of plastic waste pipe and gaffer tape.
Darren
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Roger alsop wondering why everyone's gone to the pub and left him all alone on his boat!!!
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Is there still such a thing as a fishing bailiff man?? When I was a kid around the yiewsley area we always saw them but since being on the boat I've never seen or heard of a fisherman being asked to show a rod licence. In my opinion I wouldn't bother I'd just fish and in the unlikely event of anyone asking I'll simply put the rod inside.
Darren
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Yes every boat had a steerer, the first boat behind the tug on a 70ft snubber and the others a 40ft or so line. These answers are relation to the sabey boats.
Darren
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Thanks for that information, seven or eight boats in a train must have taken some skilled handling. Would every boat have had a steerer on board, or just the motor and the last in line, or what?
Yes every boat had a steerer, in relation to the sabey boats.
Darren
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Regarding that photo Athy the carrying company was Sabeys and they are on there way out of London carrying rubbish to stockley pits. Then they would have gone a couple of miles further to reach the Slough arm to reload with gravel back into London. My great granddad steered one of the tugs "Fastnet" pulling 7 or 8 wide boatsWhat a superb photo, thank you Jeannette for posting it. I had no ideas that U.K. canal boats operated in trains rather than a motor towing just one butty (with the exception of the "Tom Puddings" in the North-East).
Darren
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With my Nan's aunt Harriet in her best hat on the first boat.
Darren
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Has anyone seen the photos on the virtual waterway archive of the boats at Harefield ?? I would say without a doubt the wooden boats are lost forever. I've dug around the stern of an iron boat though and that was quite solid. I'll be walking the dog up there later today. Even with the boats that are under foot, what with fully grown trees / roots, a mountain of rubble it would be a major operation to even get a foot hold. But saying that if anyone wanted a pair of strong arms and a keen heart to shift things I would be more than happy to give it a go..
On another note nearly all of the Sabeys wide boats where holed and buried when they filled in Sabeys arm.
Darren
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Laurence Is that the same arm as what this photo was taken from.Pioneer was the FMC wide boat which was sold to Harefield lime Co I believe. The third (almost unknown ) one was John Dickensons "Progress" which could accommodate news print rolls athwart the hold. I think this was derelict in a arm in West Drayton early 1970's. Can anyone confirm?
Darren
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whilst we are on the subject of barge poles,where is a good place to buy one from and what length do you recommend.
many thanks
Don't know about anyone else but all of my boats have had them but I've never had to use them ever.
Darren
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Keel Black - Is it any good
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£140 good god
We use this stuff and it has worked a treat, 25ltrs for £45
Just cause it doesn't say marine on it doesn't mean it won't work