Boats are too risky during winter

[Guest]

5hrs from my mooring of choice; 31 mins by London Midland.

 

Go figure!

 

I bet you can get a seat on the boat though....

[Pretty Funked Up]

Do you think using boats is a risk factor to UK canals during winter due to some places where there is dense fog? Please have your say on this and help me finish my course work on this topic.

 

Many Thanks

WD

 

No I dont.

[bottle]

Given a choice of various ways of transport, do you prefer to go to work using a canal boat?

 

I do not work but you could walk and get there a lot quicker.

 

Here is another question for your studies:

 

How many people on this forum go to work using a canal boat?

 

Answer: None

 

Now I have said that there will be at least one.

[carlt]

 

Given a choice of various ways of transport, do you prefer to go to work using a canal boat?

Tangerine!

 

Its interesting to see how people think in so many different ways.

Innit.

[ditchcrawler]

Dear All,

 

Many thanks for all your replies.

One more question would be to ask about the preference.

 

Given a choice of various ways of transport, do you prefer to go to work using a canal boat?

 

Thanks for all your contribution on this. Its interesting to see how people think in so many different ways.

 

Thanks

WD

What's work apart from a 4 letter word

[cotswoldsman]

Dear All,

 

Many thanks for all your replies.

One more question would be to ask about the preference.

 

Given a choice of various ways of transport, do you prefer to go to work using a canal boat?

 

Thanks for all your contribution on this. Its interesting to see how people think in so many different ways.

 

Thanks

WD

 

WORK now no need for bad language, youth of today typical......bring back Corporal Punishment.

[Bob18]

Yes,

 

 

 

 

or maybe

 

 

 

 

 

or maybe no

 

 

 

 

 

or no

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure, of that in positive, I think....

[muddywaters]

Yes I used to travel to work all the time on a canal boat - the problem was that by the time I got there it was time to come home again...

At the end of the week

[mrsmelly]

I do not work but you could walk and get there a lot quicker.

 

Here is another question for your studies:

 

How many people on this forum go to work using a canal boat?

 

Answer: None

 

Now I have said that there will be at least one.

 

Actualy old bean when I worked at Oxfordshire narrowboats I often used to nip down from the cleeves to lower heyford to work and park my boat in the narrows then spin it in the yard and move off on an evening so I reckons you may find several people either do or have gone to work by their canal boat

[sociable_hermit]

I'd love to go to work by boat, and indeed (as a Consultant) it would sometimes be possible to move closer to wherever I'm going to work. But only if the client is willing to wait a couple of weeks while I do it. Daily commuting just isn't an option - you're generally quicker on foot.

[Tam & Di]

I do not work but you could walk and get there a lot quicker.

 

Here is another question for your studies:

 

How many people on this forum go to work using a canal boat?

 

Answer: None

 

Now I have said that there will be at least one.

 

Unless you include those who work WITH a canal boat? (and therefore do not have to go anywhere to their work in that sense.)

[Dominic M]

You mean you don't all use the Acme Random Post Generator, then?

Indeed. Which is why I always flip the donkey before eating out with Liam Fox.

[wrigglefingers]

Good grief, you are using CBM Version 5 !!!! Time you upgraded to V12.

 

Can I download it from the iFog?

[carlt]

Can I download it from the iFog?

Yes but make sure you have a sturdy box and plenty of straw, for when it hibernates.

[MtB]

Dear webdebate,

 

Are you the same person as Smudge38? You both seem to be asking the same style of weird questions.

 

Just wonderin'

 

Mike

[webdebate]

Dear webdebate,

 

Are you the same person as Smudge38? You both seem to be asking the same style of weird questions.

 

Just wonderin'

 

Mike

 

Dear Mike,

 

Just to answer to your question. I do not know who Smudge38 is. I believe sometimes weird questions help a lot of ignorant people just like many forums helped me in knowing many things.

 

Cheers

WD

[The Bagdad Boatman (waits)]

Years ago in heavy fog and on a rising tide, a Hargreaves tanker barge, loaded with petrol, trying to race another barge on the Severn to be first through the lock, missed the canal entrance at Sharpness and struck the railway bridge, burst into flames killing some of the crew and bringing the bridge down( either then or it had to be demolished due to the damage). There is a book about this disaster.

[webdebate]

Years ago in heavy fog and on a rising tide, a Hargreaves tanker barge, loaded with petrol, trying to race another barge on the Severn to be first through the lock, missed the canal entrance at Sharpness and struck the railway bridge, burst into flames killing some of the crew and bringing the bridge down( either then or it had to be demolished due to the damage). There is a book about this disaster.

 

Many thanks for all of you for taking time to reply to my topic. I would ask all of you to kindly offer a helping hand in leaving some feed back on my Wiki space at

 

http://immigrantsuk.wikispaces.com/message/list/home

 

 

Thank you all,

 

WD

[Micky]

This is a question that i would be interested in knowing

 

Narrow boats being basically flat bottom vessels i would presume are very unsuitable for use on very wide and fast moving rivers and estuaries although i believe i have a 'vague recollection' from many years ago of a narrow boat making it across the English channel on it's own to France!

 

My question is was this a "one off" crossing or do narrow boats go backwards and forwards across the English channel to France fairly regularly on there own??

 

I would presume that if a narrow boat does cross the English channel on there own it must be a bit of a 'hairy journey' in the open sea even on a relatively calm day??

Edited October 18, 2011 by Micky

[Chris Pink]

Years ago in heavy fog and on a rising tide, a Hargreaves tanker barge, loaded with petrol, trying to race another barge on the Severn to be first through the lock, missed the canal entrance at Sharpness and struck the railway bridge, burst into flames killing some of the crew and bringing the bridge down( either then or it had to be demolished due to the damage). There is a book about this disaster.

 

They weren't racing, they were two experienced barge skippers in dense and unexpected fog trying to avoid a collision with a tug and tow in the mouth of the lock and so got swept up on the tide onto the bridge.

 

http://www.severntales.co.uk/severn-bridge-disaster.html

[Tam & Di]

Dear Mike,

 

Just to answer to your question. I do not know who Smudge38 is. I believe sometimes weird questions help a lot of ignorant people just like many forums helped me in knowing many things.

 

Cheers

WD

 

 

But why do you want to know? What use are you going to put the information to? Having now looked at your site I think you are probably just wasting our time.

[carlt]

My question is was this a "one off" crossing or do narrow boats go backwards and forwards across the English channel to France fairly regularly on there own??

 

Not a "one off", several boats have made the crossing, with an escort boat and in dead calm conditions, but not a regular occurrence either.

Edited October 18, 2011 by carlt

[US Marines]

Meteorologically, fog is defined as follows:

 

Mist = visibility restricted to less than 2 kilometres

Fog = visibility restricted to less than 1 kilometre

Thick Fog = visibility restricted to less than 200 metres

Dense Fog = visibility restricted to less than 40 metres

 

Inland in the UK, Dense Fog is very rare.

 

1 mph = 0.447 metres per second, so a typical narrowboat travels at around 1 to 2 metres per second. At these speeds, fog won't typically pose a hazard.

 

At typical road speeds, thick fog can - and does - pose a hazard.

 

I've investigated lots of fog related road crashes and I sometimes have had to explain to witnesses that the fog didn't get less dense immediately following the collision, it is just that it appeared to be less dense when they were walking around the collision site compared to when they were driving to it (200 metres is quite a long way when you are walking around but not so far when you are travelling at 70 mph (31 metres per second)).

 

Similarly, I've read loads of Police statements referring to 'torrential rain' when they were blue-lighting it to an incident which 'eased off' as soon as they arrived !

[Micky]

Not a "one off", several boats have made the crossing, with an escort boat and in dead calm conditions, but not a regular occurrence either.

 

Thank you

 

My old dad (who died in 1970) and who once worked for FELLOWS MORTON & CLAYTON as a delivery driver back in the 1930s told me over 40 years ago that he once saw a narrow boat (in London i believe?) 'turn over' while being loaded so it just goes to show how unstable they can be so what they must be like on the open sea is easy to imagine?

[WotEver]

I would ask all of you to kindly offer a helping hand in leaving some feed back on my Wiki space...

Why?

 

Tony