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20 minutes ago, Big Bob W said:
Isn't it the other way round?
Red Paddle empties the upper pound directly to the lower pound.
White paddle is to the side pond.
No. The paddles connect the locks direct to the side pound. The red paddle connects to lower lock to the side pound, the white one the upper lock to the side pound.
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Looks like someone got their junctions mixed up!
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1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:
Handy for the elsan
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11 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:
I can't help wondering why simply phoning them up isn't the primary contact method. After all, we do all have phones.
That works well for some types of contact where it is personal to you, say a licensing issue.
For contact about a navigation issue that has more general impact, say a tree down, then using something like Twitter as well as informing CRT, also informs all the other boaters that follow that CRT account. It also keeps customer service on their toes, it is I think we’ll established that you get better results with Twitter as organisations don’t like to look to fail to respond in “public”.
In a boating context think about using Twitter like using VHF to contact a lock, it is informing others what is happening as well, where if you contact the lock by phone then the lock knows you are coming but no other boats do.
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It does seem to be a retrograde step, having one point of contact that could forward to the relevant region as necessary was a good way of it working. Harder to figure out what region the issue is in, and what the Twitter handle of that region is. If would have thought the way of saving money would be to concentrate on the single Twitter contact, and not have the regional ones.
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1 hour ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Nicholson 2 (Severn, Avon & Birmingham) covers Brum and district much better than Nicholson 3 (Birmingham & Heart of England), even though they both have Birmingham in the name and book 3 puts Birmingham first.
Yes I specifically said 2, as it’s not obvious which one covers the whole BCN. Guide 3 only covers the Main Line basically, but guide 2 has the whole on the BCN.
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A good map is http://www.heronmaps.com/bcn.htm. The only down side is that it is printed on both sides, which is why we have two copies. There are lots of “guides” online, and it is well covered by Nicholsons Guide 2.
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3 hours ago, davem399 said:
I don’t get it as I’m not the designated licence holder for our shared owners boat.
Doesn’t the licence holder share all the emails with you, that is for you to organise is it not? Relying on a random person posting links on Facebook does not seem like a good way of getting your information.
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45 minutes ago, haggis said:
Anne from NABO has just put up a link on FB showing the results of the consultation at https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/original/48477-appendix-b-boat-licence-consultation-summary-report-board.pdf?v=a355c2&fbclid=IwAR0iSIYteo3im_l1nkBhQL3ycFta0rS4930edH4195yRfgk-Xt8Ewa0J8xQ
Sorry don't know how to make a short link 🙂
The link to the consultation is in the email that everyone already has, what am I missing?
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We are at home tonight, central heating going like the clappers. Back to the boat tomorrow, perhaps an hour of central heating, but not going to light the fire.
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15 minutes ago, cj1234 said:
How is travelling on it? As I am picking a boat up from nottingham and me and my partner are scared to go on it🤣
Perhaps think about moving the boat by road initially until you have more confidence
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1 minute ago, Clanky said:
well i cant find it, im logged in but can't see a BOATS option??
Are you in the licensing site, not tgg HR e general CRT site. It is the same Omar’s you licence the boat and book bookable stuff etc
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That’s interesting. In our case not anything like the number of sightings I would have expected; this year twice in the marina, and then four at various points on the system.
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2 hours ago, MtB said:
We picked a week when there strong winds and a fair bit of fresh on. My memory is battling upstream through endless bends with vast banks of very high reeds at the sides. One could never straighten up, steer striaght and relax, made worse by the occasional hire boat hurtling down on the fast stream round the bends on my side and half out of control. One of them drove us into the massive banks of reeds at the side where we remained stuck for the rest of the day. Trapped by the strong and continuous cross wind blowing us hard onshore, and unable to pole off because we were in the reeds and nowhere near the bank. We eventually got off several hours later in the evening when the wind dropped.
Also like most rivers there is no towpath which means you can't stop and just get off anywhere you like, as you can on a canal. I find it give me a feeling of being trapped which I don't like. Perhaps a bit like claustrophobia. All in all a memorable trip, in that we shall remember never to do it again!
It is really only like that for the last hour or so on the approach to St Johns lock. Before that the river is much straighter and the bank in many places allow informal mooring on a field. The Thames seems different to other rivers in that unless it says otherwise or is obviously someone’s garden you can stop.
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8 hours ago, Frankgh said:
Due to the encouragement I have received here I have now added the Black Country Ring as a possibility. I would love to see the Trent and Mersey
I think the Avon Ring is still our first choice but I am warming to the idea of some urban cruising. However, I think I have my heart set on the Avon Ring.
However, I had overlooked a planned route Cafwin offers: Down the Worcester Bham to Tewkesbury, on to the Severn to the Gloucester Sharpness to Patch Bridge and back up the Severn to Hawford then the entire Droitwich canal back to the marina. This would provide very short cruising days and only 41 locks!
I am usually more of a "spur of the moment" guy. This is what happens when you give me too much time to plan!
For context we are currently in the process of doing basically the Avon ring with a side venture into Birmingham. We have done it all many times before and we live in the area, and are needing to stay near home at the moment.
When people ask about the (Warwickshire) Avon I would always say it is fabulous, and I am certainly reminded by that fact at the moment. Even more so than other places at the moment it is very quiet and there has been no problems mooring anywhere that we want.
One big issue of the Avon ring is the number of locks, but one thing I noticed talking to a couple of hire boaters last month out of ABC in Worcester is that a good option is perhaps not to do the whole ring, but to concentrate on the “bottom” (in elevation) half of it.
So from Droitwich what you could do is down the W&B to Worcester which will give a good taste of narrow canals, and then down the Severn to Tewkesbury. The Severn is a little boring, but is a good way of getting from A to B as it is fast. You could stop at Upton if there is space, but it is only a half day from Worcester to Tewkesbury so you do not need to stop on the Severn at all really. You can then enjoy the Avon, although you will at this point be going up the Avon which is hard work as the locks, particularly on the upper Avon above Evesham are very fierce going up.
At this point you can treat Stratford as you destination and you could have 2 nights there, one on the river and one in the canal basin. Depending on timing you could go up the South Stratford canal part way. Then you retrace your route down the Avon to Tewkesbury to then up the Severn past Worcester and through one more river lock and onto the Droitwich canal, and back to base.
You could obviously deviate from Tewkesbury down to Gloucester, but with the time you have available it don’t think if is a good use of time, and just more Severn, which could be very show coming back up if there is a good flow on at that time of year.
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The mooring is easy, lots on ends of fields to moor on, but the car is a lot harder I would think (not that I have tried it). The obvious thing to do it look for where there is road access, and then see if you can both park and moor near there.
places that come to mind
Bablock Hythe, by Ferryman Inn, pub and caravan park so will need permission to park, 24 hour public mooring adjacent
New Bridge, pub mooring, or pay for field moorings, either pub on on road, if anywhere, to park
Tadpole Bridge, The Trout at Tadpole Bridge, bookable pub mooring, pub for parking, do a good Sunday lunch but of course not cheap!
Radcot Bridge, pub or road for mooring, and lots of free field moorings
Lechlade, pub is pay and display for parking, look for street parking in the village possibly, lots of payable field moorings
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4 hours ago, J R ALSOP said:
The two sanitary stations down the Montgomery are they best I have seen for many a long year.
Yes they are quite good, and the one on the arm has a visitors book if I remember correctly, but in my opinion Ripon beats them for the ambiance 😀
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That is what Biffa claim to do, but with what level of success I guess is the question. But then again how much of what you put in normal household waste recycling actually gets recycled anyway.
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4 hours ago, Lily Rose said:
My admittedly limited experience of the system suggests that the elsan at Foxton (been there once) was way above average but that Snarestone (been there about 6 times), at the top of the Ashby, was the best.
Sutton Wharf was pretty good too.
If we are doing best elsan on the system, then Ripon gets my vote, immaculate and complete with visitors book and tourist info.
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We were at Foxton earlier in the year, July I think, there were a good few boats about, but that was the start of the Leicester Line/River Soar being closed at one point or other for much of the summer, we were intending to head for Birmingham via Fazeley and Fradley, but turned round at the bottom of Foxton and went back to Braunston, Napton (where we had started), and Kingswood to get to Birmingham.
Personally Unless you only want to go as far as Foxton I would avoid the area for the moment and it is one lock failure after another, and I think there is one closed at the moment.
As to the pub, a “posh eating pub” it certainly is not, we ate there and the food and service was rubbish. If the sun is shining it’s good for a drink in the garden, but that’s about it!
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For me Shroppie every time, we have made that choice twice this year (there and back). The lock count is lower, as the T&M has that annoying situation of going up locks just to come straight back down.
If you have not done Harecastle tunnel, that that is probably a reason to go that way though, but on the other and the Shroppie has the long lines of offside moorings.
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Other than if being slow going in the narrow channel against the flow, I doubt you will have any issues. Just watch for running aground if you have to pass another boat, you don’t need a deep draft to do that!
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There is also a short piece at the end on the BBC midlands local news, which is on iPlayer now.
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Just now, Goliath said:
I saw the boats gather in the morning and disperse after midday.
Impressive sight.
But missed the speeches.
Were they (the speeches) any good?Great to see Nuneaton and Brighton attending.
Watched the pair go down the the first lock while sipping a pint of Trooper on the balcony of the Flapper with a very knowledgeable/informative Brummie.
The speeches were on a zoom webinar, and I understand Facebook live, so the Facebook one should be available.
The ITV Central news that has just been on had a good piece, well I would say that as the second interview was me! If you missed it ITV+1 at 7:45 or ITVX when it’s made available.
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“Structural failure” Lock 7 Lapworth Flight
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I guess you have seen the stoppage update, now open!