john6767

That works, and on the gate too. Other than that just go in slower and it will open less, such that you don't actually need to shut it manually and you can open the paddles a bit and let the water shut it.

I guess I would agree with you that he does not have any right to ask your names. What he should be reporting back is the boat index number and name, and from that CRT can contact the registered owner if they feel fit.

I think the water in that section is always clear, it has been when we have been on it. However, there is one spot at least where there is ominous bubbling of the water in an area at the offside, don't like that! I actually like the New Main Line best, it has such a sense of history.

If you go Stockton way you will do Hatton at the end and will really have to come down the day before assuming you need to be back at Kate 9:00/9:30 on the last day. I don't think the direction would help with you deciding if you have time for Coventry or not. I would suggest you use the North Stratford from Birmingham to Lapworth. The North Stratford route lets you go into the centre of Birmingham, where if you stick to the true Warwickshire ring (GU all the way to Salford Junction) you don't actually go into the centre. However NickF makes a good point about the days not being so long in March, and it takes longer going that way, but you should be OK.

The quote was referring to "proper users" not "proper use". Clearly "proper use" would apply to all.

Assuming the set is licensed and the operator qualified, surly use on a canal is perfectly valid and legal. So what would make them "lunatics" and what is a "proper" user?

If you have access to get the ballast out, you can do any harm, take some out and see what the effect is, you cna always put it back. Don't forget the state of the water and diesel tanks will probably have a significant impact on how the boat sits.

A similar question. On the top out our stove I an not happy with the seal between the flange where the chimney connects and the stove top. Visually there is perhaps a 2mm gap part way round the flange. It is probably going to be quite hard to take it all apart and bed it on fire cement or high temp silicon, so I wondered what other suggestions there would be. Working fire cement into the gap with a knife certainly seems possible, particularly the "softer" stuff above, but I was wondering it there is such a thing as thing are fireproof "string" that could be pushed into the gap before fire cement. Or any other suggestions?

You don't have to go to the extreme of that though. This is ours (from the sales literature when we bought it), and it gives plenty of room for 2 people inside the hatch (the non-steerer can sit on a stool if they want as well). The main disadvantage is the weight of the hatch, and there is some space at the side of you when it is raining and the hatch is pulled back and the doors closed. So if you are concerned about a trad not being suitable as there is only space of one comfortably, this makes an alternative choice to going for a semi-trad.

A trad stern with a larger than normal hatch; gives the nearest to the best of all worlds that I have seen, but I would say that as that is what we have.

Only one boat shows up as being built by "Admiral Narrow Boats"

Dudley Tunnel.

I may be wrong but I think it property sits within Pelsall Common Nature Reserve, so unlikely you would get vehicle access to Fishley Lane across the nature reserve.

That is at least something then. Is it clear the you would have regular vehicular access to least to the other side of the canal? None of this stops it being workable, but I do believe it will constrain the price, which if you only want access by boat is a good thing, although you will need to do a serious amount of dredging I suspect to find the offside edge.

Whilst GPS on the face of it is not really accurate enough for position deltas at low speeds, as long as you have an app that damps and averages the results, I believe you can get a very good indication when travelling at a constant speed for a few mins (to let it get a good running average). I feel comfortable that one decimal place (in MPH) accuracy at constant speed is believable, but perhaps that it is just me that believes that. From the BCN Challenge, my speeds indicated by GPS have tied in well against the time measurements between junctions, with the distance between junctions measured from Google Earth (I don't think the canalplan distances are that accurate sometimes).

Whilst you could physically get a vehicle over the bridge; based on what the details say I would think that you do not have the rights to do so, it is basically a footpath. I don't think it is necessarily automatic either that you have right of access to the track that leads to the other 2 properties and the area by the corner of the canal. Securing legal access would I think be very important to any value of this property and being sold without that I think makes it risky to anyone unless it is very cheap, other than the occupiers of the 2 properties opposite who may to want to buy this to prevent development.

you got me on that one!

Yes they are annoyingly spaced out, but I would not be going that way. Stourbridge, Lapworth, Hatton, Stockton etc would be the way I would go.

With your settings for speed and locks canalplan will give you the time for each route. It is also about how may locks do you want to do, you your style of cruising. Personally if I were doing that I would go through Birmingham, as all the locks are in flights, which we do quickly and prefer to spaced out locks.