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Coventry canal blocked by sunken barge

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frangar Veteran II

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15 minutes ago, Chris Lowe said:

BBC News Item.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d57d0q02yo

That looks a fairly tidy boat from the picture....not the usual boat to go down. Going to be be a bit of job to get pumps and the like to it mind you...

1 minute ago, alan_fincher said:

So is it the Coventry or is it the Oxford?

I think it looks like the Oxford around Brinklow way.....but could be wrong....Dont expect the BBC to have the facts right!!

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2 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

So is it the Coventry or is it the Oxford?

Alan do you expect a BBC reporter to actually know that?

2 minutes ago, frangar said:

That looks a fairly tidy boat from the picture....not the usual boat to go down. Going to be be a bit of job to get pumps and the like to it mind you...

I wonder if RCR can get there with their team.

frangar Veteran II

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3 minutes ago, booke23 said:

Sigh.....must they refer to a narrowboat as a barge. 🙄

They cant even decide where it is.....so dont expect anything else to be right...it's a long time since the BBC actually did any factual reporting.

ditchcrawler Veteran II

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CRT are aware but haven't issued a stoppage notice so I guess there is room to get round it, but it looks tight .

Its by the Coventry Cruising Club

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alan_fincher Veteran II

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4 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

CRT are aware but haven't issued a stoppage notice so I guess there is room to get round it, but it looks tight .

 

Unless the picture is misleading it looks more than a challenge.  Even if there is sufficient gap width-wise, I can be very certain that boats with draughts like or pair couldn't possibly float whichever of the gaps they tried.

ditchcrawler Veteran II

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7 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

 

Unless the picture is misleading it looks more than a challenge.  Even if there is sufficient gap width-wise, I can be very certain that boats with draughts like or pair couldn't possibly float whichever of the gaps they tried.

CRT said they have looked at it ???

MtB Veteran II

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1 hour ago, hoopdriver said:

Does anyone know why or how it sank?

 

Its a bit weird isn't it? Narrowboats don't normally sink mid-canal-channel whilst cruising along. It's usually in a lock, or when long term moored up or in rough river conditions I'd have thought. 

frangar Veteran II

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3 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

It’s a bit weird isn't it? Narrowboats don't normally sink mid-canal-channel whilst cruising along. It's usually in a lock, or when long term moored up or in rough river conditions I'd have thought. 

My money is on it pulling loose from a mooring as it took on water then slipping into mid channel. From the pic it looks like a boat that all closed up rather than one that was going along. 
 

Of course why it took on water is another issue….but maybe rain water ingress….failed skin fitting below waterline…frost damage….etc. 

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16 hours ago, booke23 said:

Sigh.....must they refer to a narrowboat as a barge. 🙄

The article refers to it as 'a boat' and 'a narrowboat'. It's only the title of this thread that refers to it as 'a barge'!

alan_fincher Veteran II

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2 hours ago, hoopdriver said:

Does anyone know why or how it sank?

 

1 hour ago, MtB said:

 

Its a bit weird isn't it? Narrowboats don't normally sink mid-canal-channel whilst cruising along. It's usually in a lock, or when long term moored up or in rough river conditions I'd have thought. 

 

Failure to replace  weed hatch, (either properly or at all) is one of the possible causes of a sinking mid channel.  Not that common, but we have personally encountered at least two sinkings where this was the case.

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b00ke23 Experienced

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29 minutes ago, Kendorr said:

The article refers to it as 'a boat' and 'a narrowboat'. It's only the title of this thread that refers to it as 'a barge'!

 

It's been corrected, yesterday the article said barge. 

 

Somebody obviously contacted them to correct their terminology. 

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David Mack Veteran II

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32 minutes ago, Kendorr said:

It's only the title of this thread that refers to it as 'a barge'!

Or to the Coventry Canal.

Perhaps the BBC article has been corrected.

ditchcrawler Veteran II

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Someone reported they passed it the day before and the door had been boarded up because it had been broken, but otherwise it was fine at that point .
There was a case  on the Leicester line I thing, where a boat was pinched and then sunk, but that was very deep waters . May have been Red Hill

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