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I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 
Most are these poxy imitation ones built in the 80’s and 90’s, they are not even real working boats. They are mostly shortarsed wannabes. Living on narrowboats should be banned, it makes people very narrow minded. Just look at some of them on here. I’m going to suggest to crt that they set up a voluntary ethuanasia scheme for boaters. Some of them are so miserable it’s the kindest thing to do to euthanise them. Put them out of their misery. Anyway widecanals for wideboats, keep the narrowboats on the narrow canals. 

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1 hour ago, kris88 said:

I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 
Most are these poxy imitation ones built in the 80’s and 90’s, they are not even real working boats. They are mostly shortarsed wannabes. Living on narrowboats should be banned, it makes people very narrow minded. Just look at some of them on here. I’m going to suggest to crt that they set up a voluntary ethuanasia scheme for boaters. Some of them are so miserable it’s the kindest thing to do to euthanise them. Put them out of their misery. Anyway widecanals for wideboats, keep the narrowboats on the narrow canals. 

 

More self entitlement. I want what I want and stuff everyone else, even if they are not causing any problems.

 

I wonder if the OP has a boat that was actually built for commercial work on whatever waterway he is on, or does he have some modern thing of similar dimensions - but probably shorter.

 

If he is where @Stroudwater1 thinks he may be, then the canal was MODIFIED to accept breasted up narrowboats and the experiments with commercial wide boats did not seem to come to much, so built for narrowboats pairs.

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

More self entitlement. I want what I want and stuff everyone else, even if they are not causing any problems.

 

I wonder if the OP has a boat that was actually built for commercial work on whatever waterway he is on, or does he have some modern thing of similar dimensions - but probably shorter.

 

If he is where @Stroudwater1 thinks he may be, then the canal was MODIFIED to accept breasted up narrowboats and the experiments with commercial wide boats did not seem to come to much, so built for narrowboats pairs.

 

 

Never mind the width -- surely to take this to its logical conclusion, only horse-drawn wooden boats with a boatman's cabin and no other living space should be allowed? 😉 

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1 hour ago, kris88 said:

I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

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7 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

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See a plague I tell you, a plague on the waterways. 

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1 hour ago, David Mack said:

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

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Identical, mass produced clonecraft. All at their identikit marina moorings. No individuality at all.

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I don’t think the opening premise necessarily holds true.
 

In terms of canals the 7’ beam was established in the earliest canals built in the canal age and it’s surely no coincidence that the main wide beam canals (GU and L&L) have 14’ wide locks to enable both pairs of narrow boats and wider beam boats?

 

Some river navigations have locks far too big for any form of canal craft in isolation so are either intended for small ships, multiple boats, or either.


Then there’s the case of the Bridgewater. A wide canal unrestricted by locks but for other reasons had a form of very narrow craft.

 

Ultimately all canals were built simply for boats.

 

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8 minutes ago, Jonny P said:

I don’t think the opening premise necessarily holds true.
 

In terms of canals the 7’ beam was established in the earliest canals built in the canal age and it’s surely no coincidence that the main wide beam canals (GU and L&L) have 14’ wide locks to enable both pairs of narrow boats and wider beam boats?

 

Some river navigations have locks far too big for any form of canal craft in isolation so are either intended for small ships, multiple boats, or either.


Then there’s the case of the Bridgewater. A wide canal unrestricted by locks but for other reasons had a form of very narrow craft.

 

Ultimately all canals were built simply for boats.

 

The Chesterfield Canal had 14' wide locks to Retford, but was only ever worked by their narrowboats beyond the Stockwith Basin. The wide locks were built to speed narrowboat through in pairs. Not for wide beam boats.

Today, a narrow bridge hole still restricts it to narrowboats.

 

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12 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

The Chesterfield Canal had 14' wide locks to Retford, but was only ever worked by their narrowboats beyond the Stockwith Basin. The wide locks were built to speed narrowboat through in pairs. Not for wide beam boats.

Today, a narrow bridge hole still restricts it to narrowboats.

 

Don't feed the troll.

 

My bold.

 

Computer trolling, also known as online trolling, involves posting deliberately provocative, offensive or inappropriate content online with the aim of upsetting or disturbing others.   Trolls often seek to elicit reactions, disrupt conversations, or cause chaos rather than engage in meaningful discussions. 

 

Surely nobody can think the original post was anything other than provocative.

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2 hours ago, kris88 said:

It’s actually factual for where I’m moored at the moment. So narrowboats go home. Narrow canals for narrow boats. 

Yawn! 🥱

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