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I'm torn, my wife (Fi) wants me to get a hull survey on our first boat and I'm not convinced! My thinking is to get the boat out of the water, investigate with hammer/screwdriver looking for pitting etc and if nothing too ominious then buy boat. Am I being rash?
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Has anyone any information, please, about Henry Bradford, credited with surveying a line from Coventry to Tamworth in 1766, supposedly a fore-runner to the Coventry Canal? Is he, for instance, the Quaker timber merchant (b.1698) from whom, apparently, Birmingham's 'Bradford Street' is named? I ask, because the Coventry promoters seem to have taken things ahead with their canal very fast. Although Jim Shead's website claims that Brindley surveyed for them in January 1767, Josiah Wedgwood - rather closer to the action - notes in March 1767 that when the Coventry men asked James Brindley for a survey, he had told them they were 'too precipitate' but that he would 'look over the country in a year or two if he could.' In the event, by November 1767 the Coventry contingent were petitioning Parliament for a Bill on the basis that they had ' a survey lately taken.' So might it have been Henry Bradford's line that they meant? Of course, this question may be one to which there's just no clear answer.
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We (CWDF) have many threads related to safety that are posted under 'General Boating'. I believe that safety demands its own category. We all want to enjoy boating on canals, rivers and estuaries, often with our families and loved ones, but we must understand and minimise the risks. Like many other pastimes (e.g. climbing, skiiing, flying, walking etc.) boating does involve risks that can easily be minimised. The BSS Certificate provides some re-assurance but there are many other 'best practice' procedures that may provide a happy ending to a cruise. Alan