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5 hours ago, DandV said:

In our upside world winter is a good time for going out for a sail especially after an autumn of lockdown deprivation.

Today's racing.

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Hood sails I see in the first pic. Worked for them in Lymington a long time ago. Sacked for sailing an ancient old gaffer to Falmouth. Well I can see their point, boatload of hippies at the town quay, 'Why don't you come with us?' So I did, Got back, no job. C'est la vie!

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3 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2004

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Classic car nostalgia at Fradley T&M

Bloomin beautiful. That is a lovely example.

My dad used to hire those out many moons ago. Also the Ford Popular, Prefect and Vauxhall Victor.

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9 hours ago, Athy said:

The Ile de la Cité.

Quite big for a small channel, by British standards anyway!

! recall taking the Arthur this way long ago, but I'm not sure if it is allowed anymore. On the other side of the island there is now a one way system, and for craft going upstream the timing can be tight. When the lights turn green you have to go for it

 

There used to be a lock not far downstream in days of yore. I will see if I can find a photo that a French site had on display.

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3 hours ago, Bee said:

Hood sails I see in the first pic. Worked for them in Lymington a long time ago. Sacked for sailing an ancient old gaffer to Falmouth. Well I can see their point, boatload of hippies at the town quay, 'Why don't you come with us?' So I did, Got back, no job. C'est la vie!

Our set of Hood Sails are 26 years old and are up for replacement. But when Waitangi was based in Australia, they did a return Melbourne Sydney passage, maybe 2, and a return Melbourne Hobart passage. She has also been raced for about twenty five days a year since they were made. So they have done remarkably well.

Look great too being made out of material dyed to look like the historic cotton sails she would have started with.

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1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

This day 2018. Damage rumored to have been done by hotel boat but can’t see how. Centre Canal. 

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As hotel barge operators we have two or three times been held responsible (over 40+ years) for damage that could have been caused by anyone. Here the stonework has been caught by something on a boat rising in the lock . The rest of the stonework dosn't look in great order though, so who knows?

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13/06/19.

'Red Wharf' and 'Melaleuca' at Fiskerton.

 

We had arranged to meet at Newark where the word from the lockie was that if we wanted to get above Torksey Lock we'd better leave sooner rather than later.

By the time we got to Lincoln the heavens had opened and we tied up beyond the Glory Hole. The sluices at Stamp End were having a fit and it was a bit like being moored in a log flume so we thought it safer to move down and moor at the lock. By the time we got below the light there was showing red.

We woke in the morning to find the level equal on both sides of the lock!

We'd been told that there was space on the floating pontoon at Fiskerton so off we went to find the pontoon empty and about 12ft higher than it ought to be.

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14/06/19

 

We were heading for Boston and a Wash crossing so set off for Bardney Lock to see if we could get through.

 

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We failed!

So we filled up at the waterpoint.

 

(Some might detect a hint of irony here)

 

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On this day 2018 StourportIMG_7389.JPG.d83a401a5195bd25222946e8c8ebdc78.JPG

 

The unused basin. It was re-excavated when the housing was built and for some reason has never been used!!

 

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The former Tontine Hotel - it is now housing

 

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The clock warehouse

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On this day 2019 Grand Union Canal338487283_BullsBridgejunction.JPG.6ddd8ae89ddadfee1ead186ac6968528.JPG

 

Bulls Bridge junction - turn left for Paddington, straight on for Brentford.

 

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Windmill bridge Hanwell. The GWR branch to Brentford is on the bottom, then canal and finally a road bridge over the top.

 

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Hanwell Lock cottage

 

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Wall to Ealing Mental hospital alongside Hanwell locks. The wall is a grade II listed structure.

 

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No we are not in Birmingham!! This bridge is across the river Brent at Osterley

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22 minutes ago, Richard T said:

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The former Tontine Hotel - it is now housing

 

 

 

 

There's a word I'd forgotten about. When we lived in Sussex in the 1990s the term "tontine" was still in use, but with an altered meaning synonymous with "Christmas club". Our local pub in Uckfield ran one.

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18 minutes ago, Richard T said:

Windmill bridge Hanwell. The GWR branch to Brentford is on the bottom, then canal and finally a road bridge over the top.

Me dad used to love pointing that out whenever we drove over it. 

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17 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

This day 2018. Damage rumored to have been done by hotel boat but can’t see how. Centre Canal. 

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After the 1988 IWA National at Castlefield we hitched a lift back on Large Northwich Ladybank. A week or so later we were ascending Camp Hill locks. Passing through the then recently opened lock which had been built to replace the original lost under Birmingham's ring road, the top guard caught under the line of big blue coping bricks, which had been set in a neat straight line, just overhanging the face of the brickwork below. Before we realised what was happening, the rising boat lifted the front of about 20 of them up, leaving them standing at various odd angles.

I think something similar has happened here.

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