The boating season

[wandering snail]

Have just seen the updated stoppage news about the Macc and Peak now they've had more rain. Can anyone tell me what 'the boating season' is referring to? To be able to cc the canals have to be open to navigation for a 'boating season' of 12 months of the year surely? 

Edited July 27, 2020 by wandering snail

[Tom Morgan]

I would have thought that CCers have the same chances as everyone else, "boating season" or not - significantly, that you can continuously cruise on any part of the system that's open to navigation at the time.  Unforeseen circumstances are always going to lead to some closures, regardless of the time of year.

[Naughty Cal]

Boating season 1st January to 31st December.

[TheBiscuits]

CRT try - not always successfully - to not schedule major works from April to October.  They also try to keep a couple of weeks clear around Christmas.

 

This only applies to planned stoppages obviously, emergency stoppages can happen at any time.

 

This covers the usage patterns of the vast majority of their customers, so they refer to it as the boating season.

 

They also publish draft plans for Winter maintenance in June and a revised second draft in July for comments and information from boaters.

 

Boats without a home mooring (CCers) get up 4 months notice of planned works to help them plan overwintering areas.

 

With the water stoppages on the Peak Forest, the Macclesfield and the L&L they were trying to ensure the canals were open in July and August, the peak holiday months when most boats are in use.

[matty40s]

Last year, volunteers and chuggers in the Midlands and Brum were officially briefed that Oct-Feb was the closed season. I took great pleasure in correcting one chap and asking him to go back to his CRT co-ordinator so it was explained better this year.

[wandering snail]

Just hoping that this terminology is not the thin end of the wedge.

[Arthur Marshall]

32 minutes ago, wandering snail said:

Just hoping that this terminology is not the thin end of the wedge.

Don't think so - it's been around a while. It's just shorthand for the main hire boat and holiday season, when CRT and BW before them tried to keep the system as open as possible.

[ditchcrawler]

36 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

Don't think so - it's been around a while. It's just shorthand for the main hire boat and holiday season, when CRT and BW before them tried to keep the system as open as possible.

and you get the locks to yourself with no volockie

 

[wandering snail]

2 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

and you get the locks to yourself with no volockie

 

Thank goodness. Was a tad worried for a moment.