As I said - it doesn't by a good bit according to the 'height bar' at the previous lock. Yet my boat is low by modern standards (with nowt more above rail height - even the vents on the roof). Mine is not wider than most other boats at roof level - I must admit to looking round and comparing after BW claimed (somewhere) that most boats would get though the tunnel now. From this I reckon the majority (4 of 5) from our marina would not fit. I would say boats in the marina are a good cross section of boats everywhere. That's what annoys about that tunnel - in it's present form it will reduce dramatically the potential numbers of boats using any future restored canal beyond. On this subject I was chatting, at the tunnel, to a boating chap who had a small firm that undertook such work as increasing height/width in tunnels. He reckoned they could have raised headroom to over 7' and width to the norm for narrow tunnels for about the same as he understood the BW works had cost.
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] The Caldon is beautiful. To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 11:54 AM Phil Rushton wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> > To: <canals-list@ yahoogroups. com> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:50 AM > Subject: Re: [canals-list] The Caldon is beautiful. > > >> Ours won't and looking at boats in our Marina most of them wouldn't given >> the cabin width at roof level. > > I agree. Most modern boats have cabins which are too slab-sided. > My own boat was built in 1980 and has loads of tumblehome, but even then it > was very tight when we > last went through. I do agree that a number of boats won't get through but at the moment we have almost no evidence that we can use to do anything about it. If your boat doesn't fit please let us know (not least so that my boat doesn't look like the only one not able to make it!) Steve Communications Officer Caldon & Uttoxeter Canals Trust [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
