Bob Adams wrote:
> I'm beginning to believe that visitor moorings away from 'honeypot
> sites' no longer exist. Many times when we attempted to moor 'in the
> middle of nowhere' along the 4 counties ring this year, we were
> thwarted by the lack of dredging.
>
> It appears that BW want to force us to moor only where they dredge,
> whether that suits us or not.
I think you're blaming the wrong people. Many canals were built with
shallow edges, on the assumption that boats wpould oly tie up ay rcognised
wharves. In such cases the edge can't be deepened by simple dredging as
that would cut through the puddled clay and cause the canal to leak.
Mike Stevens
nb Felis Catus III - currently at Three Mills
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
No man is an island. So is Man.
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