Widebeam stuck, Union Canal, Edinburgh

[AllanD]

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/brand-new-edinburgh-canal-boat-26262999?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

[Up-Side-Down]

Just beat me to it! I look forward to the comments and am only grateful it happened yesterday as I was through there on Monday afternoon!

[AllanD]

Couldn't quite work out where it is. 

[Athy]

Oh dear, it's not a good advert for the standard opf local paper reporting.

But worth it for the word "shuggle".

[matty40s]

Looks like a Collingwood, probably has the banana sides.

[Adam]

I see the max dimensions for that waterway are 11'6. LOL

[George and Dragon]

I was cycling home from walk on Thursday. 

 

Great reporting. Not even read by human to check it makes sense.

[Athy]

10 minutes ago, George and Dragon said:

I was cycling home from walk on Thursday. 

 

Great reporting. Not even read by human to check it makes sense.

Yes, that's one of the bits to which I was alluding, and it's not the only one. Apart from anything else, did the paper have to rely on a third-person report? Did they not have the wit to send a reporter along to the bridge to have a look and to talk to the boat's owner?

 

It looks as if either the boat or the bridge is not "fit for purpose" - and the bridge has been there for quite a wee while, which narrows (if you get my drift) it down a bit.

 

   Perhaps the authorities could blow the boat up, thereby achieving the dual results of improving its appearance and clearing the obstruction.

[George and Dragon]

13 minutes ago, Athy said:

Did they not have the wit to send a reporter along to the bridge to have a look and to talk to the boat's owner?

 

 

They don't do that any more. Just trawl social media for local stories.

[Hudds Lad]

46 minutes ago, Athy said:

Oh dear, it's not a good advert for the standard opf local paper reporting.

But worth it for the word "shuggle".

Reach group “newspaper”, they trawl local Facebook groups for stories, employ monkeys (no offence @tree monkey) as “reporters”, never use spellcheck or read through their work, and their pages are so ad-heavy they will stop a mobile browser in it’s tracks.

In fact whilst getting the below screenshot it completely froze Chrome on my iPad to the point i had to soft restart it  

 

[Athy]

3 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

 “reporters”, never use spellcheck or read through their work, and their pages are so ad-heavy they will stop a mobile browser in it’s tracks.

 

 

 

Are you a reporter?

[Hudds Lad]

5 minutes ago, Athy said:

Are you a reporter?

No?

 

But then i'm not being paid to publish my writings

Edited February 17, 2023 by Hudds Lad

[haggis]

That bridge is one of the new ones in Wester Hailes which was built as part of the millennium link 

[AllanD]

Thanks for the info, I thought is was but it is almost 5 years since we sold our narrowboat. 

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, George and Dragon said:

I was cycling home from walk on Thursday. 

 

Great reporting. Not even read by human to check it makes sense.

 

Work with a strong Glaswegian accent easily becomes 'walk'.

[Athy]

4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Work with a strong Glaswegian accent easily becomes 'walk'.

I did think of that...although they are in Edinburgh.

[Alan de Enfield]

Just now, Athy said:

I did think of that...although they are in Edinburgh.

 

I believe 'some of them' are quite mobile.

[Athy]

8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

I believe 'some of them' are quite mobile.

...though not, evidently, on boats.

[alan_fincher]

 

Whatever the issue with overall width, another "interesting" feature is that bizarre forward end of the cabin which actually looks like kit has "tumble-out" rather than tumblehome.

 

Even if they can navigate this bridge, (which looks unlikely?), it can surely only be a matter of time before one of those cabin corners collides with something very solid.

[Up-Side-Down]

It's rather looking as though this took everyone by surprise ....... including the navigation authority. But for this incident they would almost certainly have got away with it as there's little or no joined up thinking where moorings are concerned.

[IanD]

1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

 

Whatever the issue with overall width, another "interesting" feature is that bizarre forward end of the cabin which actually looks like kit has "tumble-out" rather than tumblehome.

 

Even if they can navigate this bridge, (which looks unlikely?), it can surely only be a matter of time before one of those cabin corners collides with something very solid.

 

A lot of them around -- like this one, seen near me. And then there's the chimney... 😞

 

Edited February 18, 2023 by IanD

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, IanD said:

A lot of them around -- like this one, seen near me...

 

 

And if those pointy-outy cabin sides don't hit something solid, that chimney abomination sticking out the port side certainly will! 

 

 

[Cheshire cat]

Almost comical. Presumably they won't be continuous cruisers.

 

It reminds me of a colleague who had a new house built. Rather than have the standard inbuilt wardrobes he made the mistake of ordering fitted bedroom furniture for the master bedroom based on the builder's plans. They were too big. The developer insisted that the brickies were working to a tolerance of 3 inches and he was unlucky. 

[David Mack]

1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:

 

Whatever the issue with overall width, another "interesting" feature is that bizarre forward end of the cabin which actually looks like kit has "tumble-out" rather than tumblehome.

 

Even if they can navigate this bridge, (which looks unlikely?), it can surely only be a matter of time before one of those cabin corners collides with something very solid.

Laziness on the part of the fabricator. Use a standard rectangular sheet for the cabin roof then just pull in the bottom corners of the cabin sides to meet the line of the hull.

 

One could argue such craft are not fit for the waterway and so should not be licenceable, unless restricted to sections with no arched bridges (or drawbridges).

[IanD]

31 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Laziness on the part of the fabricator. Use a standard rectangular sheet for the cabin roof then just pull in the bottom corners of the cabin sides to meet the line of the hull.

 

One could argue such craft are not fit for the waterway and so should not be licenceable, unless restricted to sections with no arched bridges (or drawbridges).

 

What's the excuse for the abomination I posted then? Never mind the chimney... 😞

Edited February 18, 2023 by IanD