CRT getting rid of more of the national waterways museum collection.

[Graham Davis]

3 hours ago, frangar said:

What sort of argument is that?? Bizarre!! Surely they should be encouraging people to try out what canals were built for...show someone on a dayboat/water taxi/hire boat etc. Really not difficult. 

Not bizarre at all.
There are more walkers and worm drowners using the canals than there are boaters.

That is a fact some members here fail to recognise.
 

[frangar]

8 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

Not bizarre at all.
There are more walkers and worm drowners using the canals than there are boaters.

That is a fact some members here fail to recognise.
 

So why is that a reason for any advertising not to encourage boating? If I ran a boat hire business I’d be pretty peeved that CRT has ignored my user group in their expensive TV ad campaign. 

[matty40s]

3 hours ago, jradley said:

It's ok, Whaley Bridge will have fixed that

They are getting rid of Whaley Bridge as part of this disposal!!

[Alan de Enfield]

31 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

Not bizarre at all.
There are more walkers and worm drowners using the canals than there are boaters.

That is a fact some members here fail to recognise.
 

I wonder how the income from 'worm drowners' and 'walkers' compares with that from boaters ?

 

In light of C&RTs precarious financial position they should be doing their utmost to increase income.

[matty40s]

33 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

Not bizarre at all.
There are more walkers and worm drowners using the canals than there are boaters.

That is a fact some members here fail to recognise.
 

....but very few wouldn't be here if there were no boaters Graham. You don't get many fishermen on filled in canals and I wouldnt have thought Foxton would be a big draw with no boats moving. 

 

[Ray T]

21 minutes ago, matty40s said:

....but very few wouldn't be here if there were no boaters Graham. You don't get many fishermen on filled in canals and I wouldnt have thought Foxton would be a big draw with no boats moving. 

 

 

"We do actually need the boats."

[frangar]

3 minutes ago, Ray T said:

 

"We do actually need the boats."

So it’s a CRT video and he’s fishing opposite moored boats in contradiction of the waterways code....brilliant! ? 

[ditchcrawler]

2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

I'm not convinced that "Come visit the canals, get razor bladed" is a message that is going to help.

 

Jen ?

 

The museum at Goole has gone and its collection dispersed.

The sell Peaky Blinders beer at the Gloucester museum 

[TheBiscuits]

7 hours ago, frangar said:

Whilst the museum has a shocking record of caring for its exhibits I’m not sure this is the answer.

Which ones are you putting in for then?  They are offering them free to good homes ...

[frangar]

Just now, TheBiscuits said:

Which ones are you putting in for then?  They are offering them free to good homes ...

That would be telling!!