Over the last few years, the members here and on urw have been very helpful when we had a problem with Bluebells restoration. We have another problem and we need more ideas!.
The stone canal edges where we operate on the Union canal are not very boat friendly as they are made out of uneven large stones which sometimes have sharp edges. This together with a wind problem (it tends to swirl around) at Port Buchan where we run our trips from has resulted in a fair amount of contact between the bows and the stones and the paint on the bows is losing!. We have no need of a "normal" bow fender as that bit of the boat never comes into contact with anything but the front edge (don't know the technical term) about a foot of so above the water line is needing protection. This is our problem! How (apart from more driver training and we are working on that) can we protect this bit of the bows? We have so far come up with the following ideas 1. A traditional rope fender hung very low 2. A rubber horse shoe fender as found on sea going boats (not very carnally though) 3 A strip of something like car tyre attached vertically to the bows - but how would we attach it? Bluebell is going into the dry dock in a couple of weeks so that we can black her bottom and we would like to be able to protect the bows when she comes out.Also being in the dry dock is an opportunity to work on the bows. I feel sure that others will have found a solution to this type of problem or if not, that there will be a lot of good ideas out there. Thanks for reading this far, Ann Ann and Iain Street NB Gamebird; One tenth NB Copperkins11 Web site http://www.nbgamebird.co.uk Scottish Inland Waterways Association - http://www.siwa.org.uk Bridge 19-40 Canal Society - http://www.bridge19-40.org.uk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
