In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Bob Wood wrote... >>I was doing a bit of a Google search on this last night. There are >>several posts on this very forum where Bruce Peckett refers to the "15 >>mile pound below Buckby". Any doubt about whether this is merely a >>description, rather than him giving it its name seems to dispelled by >>a post copied to canals.com (Google-archived but I can't find it on >>the current version of the site) where he wrote: "Our boat has always >>been kept on the 15 mile pound ie Stoke Bruern to Whilton". >> >>I would fully expect Bruce to be using the old boaters' name for the >>pound and I am sure it is the one you are looking for. >> >I said it was that pound yesterday but no-one picked it up.
If it is I cancertainly imagine arisk of sinking. Anyone who's boated that length with a galeblowing andsnow coming at themhorizontallywillknow how exposed it is! Guy -- Guy Morgan nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton GU Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
