The Voyages of Magpie the Elder....

[magpie patrick]

Dad recorded nearly all his voyages (mostly with mum, @1st ade and me) on a canal map mounted on pin board in his office ("den" would have been a better term) - each night afloat recorded with a pin - the map is still up, given interest in the history of holiday boating I thought some of you might enjoy it!

After dad died, I realised his last holiday hadn't been recorded - We took him on a Bruce Trust boat on the K&A. So I added that one in white pins

 

Edited add - drawing pins (except those at the corners of the plan!) who some of the places we took our car top dinghy - those were day trips

[Stilllearning]

A wonderful document, and of some historic value, thank you for sharing it.

[David Mack]

Not over the same timescale, but I prepared the attached to show the journeys of Fulbourne since 2014. At present it only goes up to 2019. We haven't done a lot of boating since then due to the pandemic and a few months out of the water being rebottomed, but I really ought to update it. (Click on Legend and you can turn individual years on and off).

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cvgFcylqgCJyUijVgKFNTGdOCAI&usp=sharing

 

[ditchcrawler]

51 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

Dad recorded nearly all his voyages (mostly with mum, @1st ade and me) on a canal map mounted on pin board in his office ("den" would have been a better term) - each night afloat recorded with a pin - the map is still up, given interest in the history of holiday boating I thought some of you might enjoy it!

After dad died, I realised his last holiday hadn't been recorded - We took him on a Bruce Trust boat on the K&A. So I added that one in white pins

 

Edited add - drawing pins (except those at the corners of the plan!) who some of the places we took our car top dinghy - those were day trips

I like that

 

[PaulJ]

37 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Not over the same timescale, but I prepared the attached to show the journeys of Fulbourne since 2014. At present it only goes up to 2019. We haven't done a lot of boating since then due to the pandemic and a few months out of the water being rebottomed, but I really ought to update it. (Click on Legend and you can turn individual years on and off).

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cvgFcylqgCJyUijVgKFNTGdOCAI&usp=sharing

 

Thanks- that's exactly what I have been looking for. Next step working out how to do it!

[1st ade]

1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:

After dad died, I realised his last holiday hadn't been recorded - We took him on a Bruce Trust boat on the K&A. So I added that one in white pins

Did we only have six nights on that trip?

[magpie patrick]

3 hours ago, 1st ade said:

Did we only have six nights on that trip?

No - seven, but we didn't move one day as the locks at Wootton Rivers were closed (and I only had six pins!)

[BuckbyLocks]

You will need a larger map if you include the European trips on the Kingdom Tours boats. Not sure if I did all of the ones Ian and Joan were on, but I remember they missed the Stuttgart year because they were on an 'eclipse' tour in Cornwall. We got a better view of the eclipse in Germany than they did, because of the cloud. Ian complained a bit when we discussed this on the next trip.

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, PaulJ said:

Thanks- that's exactly what I have been looking for. Next step working out how to do it!

Briefly:

1. Set up an account with Google My Maps.

2. Look online for a kml file of the navigable waterway network, then edit it in Google Earth to suit (I deleted the Scottish Waterways for example), and save the edited version as a new kml.

3. Set up your routes in canalplan then export them as kml files.

4. On Google My Maps import the various kml files. Edit things such as title and line colour as required (or maybe I did this in Google Earth earlier - can't remember). You will find they are layered in the order you input them, so after playing with it for a while you will probably have to delete the kml files from My Maps then reimport them in the right order.

5. Select the share options if you want other people to be able to view your map.

 

Give it a go!

 

[PaulJ]

@David Mack

Thanks for that- I have loads of history on Google Maps but its always showed up as either places or cities and doesn't look right.

Don't think I would have worked out your method 😃 so very much appreciated

[Bugsworth Tippler]

Magpie Patrick. I'm sorry to hear of the demise of your father whom I worked for from about 1974 for a few years when I started out on a 'teaching' career. I had no idea just how involved in the waterways he was. As I remember, he was supportive of a staff trip I organised for an evening on the Magic Lantern narrowboat when it was moored in Marple but didn't reveal much about his waterway passion in the workplace. Perhaps I wasn't at the school long enough or perhaps my memory is imperfect. I do know that 50% of all the schools I taught in were knocked down - you can work out the establishment from that.

[Chris Lowe]

David is right you can make some nice maps with google my maps, and makesan online version of the Magpie map.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1ofLdXcYMPj8RQT4Sh51c3-ZAdKU&ll=51.11608545934888%2C-0.5178425000000342&z=11

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1tj_oMEi2Y0zUULgCmrVk2eZUH3eTkkCW&ll=52.273473161751284%2C-2.654629000000006&z=11

 

You can edit the colours.

[1st ade]

13 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

but we didn't move one day as the locks at Wootton Rivers were closed

Thanks - I'd forgotten that bit!

[Athy]

Cor, what a navigator - Magpie or Magellan?