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3 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2015

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GU Leicester Section Foxton locks

A gongoozlers stand-off, maybe?

They could be arguing over the social distancing one way system, we've had a few moments on crossing the lock in portishead where many people don't follow the one way system.

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On 19/05/2020 at 17:34, robtheplod said:

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On 20/05/2020 at 09:34, David Mack said:

On this day in 2017

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GUSouth Bridge 65 Ornamental Bridge Cosgrove

 

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On 04/06/2020 at 16:39, PeterScott said:

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Soulbury GUSouth

 

 

 

On 04/06/2020 at 16:54, ditchcrawler said:

Why are you both trying to steer?

On this day in 2017

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Stoke Bruerne Bottom Lock GUSouth

Only the one steerer here ?

 

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Again not in date sequence but interesting. The St Peters Canal on Cape Breton Island in Canada is only 800m long with one lock which 91m long 14.45m wide and draft of 4.9m. It was built across an isthmus from the Atalantice to Bras D'Or which is a large inland sea in the centre of the island. Thelock is unusual as it has 4 sets of gates - two at each end pointing in opposite directions as the high tides on the ocean and the inland sea are not at the same time. The canal was built as a ship canal but is now primarily used by pleasure craft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peters_Canal

 

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The bridge in the picture swings for tall craft.

 

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L2646_20170617_0217a.jpg.042cab30320ae75eaa2b8263b99d9911.jpgOn this day in 2017 by the canal at Cosgrove GUSouth

 

Modern priorities on a sunny summer morning:

a) phone messages

b) the coffee

c) the whisky

d) the foot

 

Of course the a) may have been to the d)

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June 15th 2013. Tanlay Burgundy canal. Very good mooring and nice village with Château. Turn round for hotel boats, the green one is Elizabeth which was then run by an English couple who I believe has since sold. The other is one of a big companies fleet. This part of the canal is very shallow and poorly maintained with the result that other hotel and hire boats companies have moved away.

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42 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

June 15th 2013. Tanlay Burgundy canal. Very good mooring and nice village with Château. Turn round for hotel boats, the green one is Elizabeth which was then run by an English couple who I believe has since sold. The other is one of a big companies fleet. This part of the canal is very shallow and poorly maintained with the result that other hotel and hire boats companies have moved away.

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Our barge Luciole has operated on this route often over the years, and very agreeable it is. There was freight for some time from various silos farther on, but the silting made it marginal and it went.

 

The other hotel barges you speak of operate on the other side of the hill in such quantity it works out not far from a hotel-barge in every lock. The reason is the attraction of the words 'Beaune' and 'Dijon', which seem to ring the right bells when promoting. It's all too busy for me. Since many of those boats are deep-draughted (as well as high) they keep that section of the canal reasonably dredged. They could not, in any event, visit the Canal du Nivernais, because of bridge clearances and, in particular, the depth.

 

The 'Belle Epoque', the other hotel-barge illustrated here does visit the Nivernais sometimes, but with increasing difficulty, such is the tendency for silting there also. The boat was , previously, one of a pair of Dutch-operated vessels that used to come to the Nivernais for oak logs each year, with loading high up the canal, south of Dirol.

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17/06/19

 

We cruised on from our canoe based fun at Bardney to moor on the pontoon at Dogdyke, next to the 'KET INN'. It looked like the letters P, A and C had fallen off the wall. I have to say it was the most unwelcoming looking pub I have ever come across in all my travels.

The water level went up overnight.

Our pilot for the Wash crossing, Daryl Hill, phoned in the morning to say the weather was looking good for crossing the next day so we high tailed it for Boston. Scholar Gypsy, of this parish, was there to welcome us together with the boats of the St. Pancras Cruising club's convoy. They were due to cross the Wash the previous Saturday but were bowled out by the weather.

Mrs Tawny Owl and RLWP, also of this parish, came to join us for the crossing.

 

It was a 'red sky at night' evening.

 

 

 

 

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We moored in a place called St job in t goor near Antwerp. This canal is the Schoten-Turnhout-Dessel which for many years had no commercial traffic until a big concrete works started taking sand and gravel by barge. This barge Ibis is an old style Kempenaar with wheelhouse right at the stern. It was run by an elderly couple who did 3 loads a week of sea dredged sand from Antwerp to Brecht. 10 locks each way. To watch them work reminded me of seeing Arthur Bray and Ernie working their pair.

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On this day in 2018

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Buckby Locks GUSouth

 

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