Terry Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BARRY HOLLAND wrote:
> Listen very carefully--I'll say this only once,
> A narrow boat has a maximum width of 7 feet.
> A barge has a minimum width of 14 feet.
> *Anything* between those dimensions is a *wide* boat.
Careful Barry, you're beginning to sound a bit like Adrian with this
wide beam / broad beam definitions business.
Anyway, I'm not certain, but think you may be wrong with 7ft as the
*maximum* width of a narrowboat. I have a vague recollection of reading
somewhere that some working narrowboats were built to 7'0.5" gauge?
Terry Streeter
NB Arun - Stockton
I *knew* that a bald statement like that couldn't be resisted!
It's not worth being pedantic, Terry over ½ inch!
Please don't compare me to Adrian, & accept that the three perameters above
cover all eventualities. To quote one of the top ten annoying phrases recently
published in the media:-It ain't rocket science! :-))
Barry
Nb correspondenceonthissubjectisnowclosed
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