----- Original Message ----- From: "David Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] The Caldon is beautiful.
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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If it is of any help to anyone I have just taken a few measurements of *Why Worry* Max height of cabin edge from waterline - 62" Max width of cabin top - 60" Handrails are fixed 5" in from the cabin edge and are 2½" high. Hatches, roof vents etc on the centre line of the cabin are not a problem. That profile will go through Froghall tunnel with 2" to spare either side. The odds are that most people will scrape some paint off the cabin edge :-( so I would recommend tying some sackcloth or similar material to the front of the cabin edge and handrails. Phil
