Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Adrian Stott wrote: > >> Can you think of any other organisation that would hold a "national" >> event that 40% of the "nation" cannot attend? > >There is not a single location in country that every boat can get to. >Are you suggestion we should cancel the National..? ;-) > >Steve
Yes. I've said and written so several times. I think it is an idea the time for which is long past. However, if we have to have one, then I feel it should be on a waterway which isn't limited to narrow craft. Only about 1/4 of the waterways (by length) in Britain is narrow gauge, so that shouldn't be too difficult should it? Except, of course, for those people and organisations which think that narrow boats are the only legitimate inland craft. Of course there is no location that every boat can get to. But eliminating 40% is surely too much for a "national" event. "Mike Stevens" >Apart from the broad/wide canals (apologies, Adrian, I can never remember >the pedantic distinction between the two terms), Or "distinction", as we call it ... C'mon, Mike! "Broad" is a gauge with a beam greater than that of one narrow boat but not more than that of two narrow boats abreast (i.e. 2.2 m to 4.3 m) "Wide" is wider than that. "Narrow" is narrower than that. A memory guide? "W" is a wider letter than "B". Easy to remember. If you want to remember, that is. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
