Adrian,
I actually find your comments fail to grasp a simple concept. Use it or lose it, It is very simple if more boaters feel the same as yourself then is there little point to the canals and rivers to try and save them. I believe this is a measure of a proper boater and not a person that has a boat or just lives on it for cheap housing. If people the continous cruises and the genuine people going and trying the C & R's even if it is a converted ditch, a dead end, can the C &R's be saved? It might be a surprise to you that I had been trying to get a I*A campaign boat rally on the Slough Arm for 2011 I failed to achieve due to time. Before you say that live on a boat and don't do much cruising , Im afraid is true, but I do go out and do the restoration side, I help to bring the pubic to understand that they have C&R's on the door step (Little Venice, the National Festival, trail boat and Campaign rallies that appen around the system). Moose To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:33:29 +0100 Subject: [canals-list] Re: Slough Arm .. On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:04:41 +0100, "Neil Arlidge" <[email protected]> wrote: >Adrian Stott wrote wistfully about the Slough Arm: >> No, I've never tried to get my barge along it. > >Go on Adrain, you know you want to! ;-) Actually, I don't. I once drove to the terminus to see what, if anything, was there. I was underwhelmed. <heresy alert> I'm afraid not all waterways are worth the effort of navigating. Especially almost dead straight ones, to nowhere particularly interesting, in unattractive surroundings, with the bottom too near the top. I think that unless it becomes part of a short cut to the upper Thames, I may continue to avoid it. Adrian Stott Tel. UK (0)7956-299966 _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
