On 26, Mar 2007, at 18:03, Adrian Stott wrote: > "Callum M0MCX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Will a 70 footer really be OK for Midlandss and Southern cruising - >> or are >> we a bit daft considering this size? Someone told us that the only >> people to >> have 70 footers are live-aboards. Is this right? > > Your real mistake would be to stick to narrow beam. Get a barge! 3.8 > m beam will give you a cruising range from Knowle (or maybe a bit > less, given the pinch point at the first bridge north of Shrewley > tunnel; but then maybe BW will fix that before too long)
not at my expense, I hope. > that you may find surprisingly large. some might say Leviathan, others may settle for a plain "inappropriate" > And it would be suitable for France, too. > The extra space on board is really worth having. . . . . but you do need a certain enthusiasm for not cruising very many of Britain's waterways. Thank goodness there are still places, though overpopulated with narrow beam craft, where juggernauts are precluded. Beeky, looking fwd to some narrow beam cruising on a broad beam waterway soon. PS - Stratford to Warwick by some new fangled link - forget it, thank goodness
