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Not today but yesterday.

A shakedown sail, and picnic  for some of the veteran restored classic yachts of the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust of Auckland.

Vessels included the four 19thC Logan designed and built yachts in age order. Gloriana, Waitangi, Ethyl and Thelma.

Details can be found here  https://www.classicyachtcharitabletrust.org.nz/

Picnics on Waitangi have a long history. included A photo from 1914.

The yawl is Ethyl and the big sloop Thelma

 

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4 hours ago, DandV said:

Not today but yesterday.

A shakedown sail, and picnic  for some of the veteran restored classic yachts of the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust of Auckland.

Vessels included the four 19thC Logan designed and built yachts in age order. Gloriana, Waitangi, Ethyl and Thelma.

Details can be found here  https://www.classicyachtcharitabletrust.org.nz/

Picnics on Waitangi have a long history. included A photo from 1914.

The yawl is Ethyl and the big sloop Thelma

 

scan waitangi attire A cropped.jpg

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Sunshine and blue seas 

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On this day in 2021

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Ventiford Basin, Stover Canal ...

South Devon, west of Kingsteignton: the canal is 2 miles long, from north of Teigngrace to the outskirts of Newton Abbot.

Photos © Derek Harper  through Geograph   (#2)   (#3)

 

Second picture is the remains of a 200-year-old crane mast recovered from a crane pit.  The crane was used to transfer granite blocks from tramway wagons to  barges that took them down the Stover Canal. Video shows the recovery work. Its interpretation-sign offers alternatives "an early experimental rocket powered by gunpowder and intended to be used for aerial surveying to find further clay deposits in the Bovey Basin. Or an alien rocket that crash landed in the canal 200 years ago"

And from the Stover Canal website:

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On this day in 2009

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Ladybower reservoir.

The plughole .

And the River Derwent below the dam.

 

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Interpretation board and aerial view of the reservoir layout of by JoelVardy through Wiki: (date??)

 

 

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Ladybower from above

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On this day in 2008

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Rickmansworth side lock (Batchworth No 81A) and  Basin 

Compare 15Sep1980 21Oct1994 24Jan2008 (#2) (posted this day 2021) 3Feb2009 (#230Apr2009 2Sep2010

 

 

 

 

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On this day in 2015

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Driffield Canal.

Town Lock No1

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4 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2015

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Driffield Canal.

Town Lock No1

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Did the Driffield Canal use handspike gear originally, or has this been copied from the Calder & Hebble?

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15 hours ago, David Mack said:

Did the Driffield Canal use handspike gear originally, or has this been copied from the Calder & Hebble?

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Driffield Navigation  Whinhill Lock gear 24Jan2015

 

 

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Driffield Navigation  Wansford Lock 4Jul2009

 

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Salterhebble Locks C+H 26Jun2021 and Tom with the handspike 20Jan2016

 

Yes, a fascinating question - which neither my bookshelf nor some skirmishes with t'internet can find a straightforward answer.  The mechanisms are slightly different: C+H has paddle gearing directly attached to the handspike hub, and the Driffield has an intervening rod with fancier, smaller, handspike-holes.

 

Bradshaw (1904 Henry de Salis) mentions "In a few localities, gear which requires the use of a handspike is still in existence" and this is updated in Inland Waterways of Great Britain (1950 Lewis Edwards) "there are still surviving examples of the old ratchet and crowbar system on the Calder and Hebble and elsewhere" but neither have any references in their detailed sections on individual waterways. Shell Book of Inland Waterways (1975 Hugh McKnight) omits handspike references in the general description of locks, and mentions them under the detail of the Calder and Hebble. On the Driffield, as an aside HMcK entertainingly observes "As the navigation authority is a body of commissioners whose numbers have fallen to one, and he lives in South Africa, a quorum is impossible, and consequently no maintenance or reconstruction work can be authorised" CharlesHadfield's books, through their indexes at least, do not help ...

 

spacer.pngDriffield Navigation Trust doesn't specifically mention retaining original paddle gear. Pennine Waterways recognises the similarites without any historical analysis. Wikipedia claims Struncheon Hill Lock originally had oak gates wit h handspike paddlegear, without any definitive sources for the information. As another aside, MikeAskin mentions Driffield's handspikes on CWDF here.

 

A local expert from this heavily-loaded boat at the Wansford opening (4Jul2009) might be along shortly (?) ...

 

 

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On this day in 2019

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Chester: Dee Branch Shropshire Union Canal and Telford's Warehouse across the Basin 

Compare 31Oct1991   22Aug1998   23Apr2004   26May2004  15Apr2008  28Oct2014 29Oct2014

Photos  ©David Dixon via Geograph (#2) (#3)

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