From: "John and Ann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We will need a wheelchair to use if he is ever to go much further than 100 yards from the boat and we don't have room to take one with us in the car and it will be a Saturday afternoon arrival when the local Red Cross is likely to be closed. We have found a hire centre that can help but at £50+ for hire and delivery it seems a little steep. Anyone from the Hilperton, Trowbridge areas got any ideas?
Could the boatyard collect and return the wheelchair for you if the Red Cross will be closed when you are collecting and returning the boat? When I went boating with a broken leg a few years ago on Copperkins, the local OwnerShips manager collected and returned the chair for me. I had contacted the Red Cross in that area and had arranged everything . I seem to remember that the hire of the wheel chair was either free or very modest and I was glad to send them a donation. Having the wheelchair meant that I wasn't confined to the boat for the whole holiday. Re access at Bristol, I seem to recall that access to the mooring pontoons is via a set of steps but there may be wheelchair access at some other moorings. The harbour masters there are very helpful and will be able to tell you. 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
