Taking of Ice I reckon as the coldest canal in the Midlands the Ashby wins by a street. Its the only one where, even in mask,goggles and masses of gear we have turned round as the wind cut us in half. This has happened more than once here but no-where else. As for ice I understand that once in the 70s/80s the Ashby was unusable for months.
--- On Fri, 1/9/09, Steve Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: From: Steve Haywood <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: ice To: [email protected] Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 2:46 PM It's so interesting to hear all these recollections about cruising in the ice. It occurs to me that the reason for that might be that baring those who've cruised in the far north, this is the first real icing of the canals we've had for.. what?.. 7 or 8 years. There's a whole new generation of boaters who haven't experienced this before. Steve 2009/1/9 Bruce Napier <br...@nbsanity. me.uk> > > On 9 Jan 2009, at 13:11, Adrian Stott wrote: > > > The hull blacking > > along the waterline near the bow was scraped off, but the steel > > (nominally 6 mm thick) appeared to be unaffected. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
