Steve Haywood wrote: > On 27/03/07, Roger Millin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Steve gasped: >>> Gulp! I'd have thought even 59' was tight on the Calder and Hebble. >>> I >> know >>> you can go in crossways but those lock 'platforms' must get in the >> way, no? >> Friends of ours had a 59.5ft boat from the same builder and got >> everywhere (that was then open) inluding the C&H. It did involve >> taking >> fenders up and, IIRC, backing down one lock. I'm not saying that it's >> easy, but it's not as if I intend to do the C&H daily. I believe that >> young (I use the word advisedly ;-)) Mr Arlidge would argue that 60ft >> is possible without backing down........but we'll wait for him to >> come >> along and confirm/deny that ;-) > > > > Of course, you're right; he's been everywhere. But didn't it involve > you > taking off your tiller at one stage, Neil? Or am I inventing that? > > Steve
Not intentionally!... here is it being welded back :-( http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T03_Imag/03.23.06/Pict0047.jpg If you have a rudder that can park at 90 degrees, then we recon that a 60ft narrowboat, without fenders, can get everywhere* (and without having to go down locks backwards) everywhere* You won't get through Brandon Lock on the Little Ouse (48ft narrowboat), or get through Welches Dam Lock on the 40ft, and thus the Old Bedford (54ft narrowboat). There are also a few places that we have turned round, that would not be possible with 60ft. -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - The Wilderness years... Follow the truly independent TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk Visit this site and help save our waterways from the DEFRA cuts http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
