Maybe a cradle, cable and a boater-worked treadmill to move the boat up and down an inclined plain between water levels. Of course the treadmill could be worked by donkeys - or BW directors.
--- On Mon, 10/13/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: BW Annual Meeting To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 8:14 PM In a message dated 13/10/2008 19:31:07 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] fsnet.co. uk writes: Now what might his present be from the current Icelandic implosion? A 1930s-GU-style blitz on the Cotswold canals?? The MK link? As BW want something innovative and radical for the MK Link, couldn't Santa bring some of the ice from the North Pole (while it's still there!) and create a boat slide - a sheet of ice to slide the boat down the hill. By attaching a rope and winch, it should be relatively easy to attach a hawser to pull a boat upwards - apart from the distance involved of course! Or resurrect the vacuum railway that Brunell 'invented' - fit a piston to the boat and insert the piston into a vacuum tube alongside the slide to suck it up the hill. I'm sure an Icelandic finance company would see the sense in the concept and back it. DaveD . . . and I thought claustrophobia was fear of Father Christmas. ;-) ************ ** [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
