Bugsworth Tippler

The name Red Jacket immediately reminded me of a couple of song entries in my well hidden website "Songs of the Inland Waterways" https://www.waterwaysongs.info/index.htm so I'll cheekily use this thread to give it a plug. The songs are : The Neath and Swansea Canal (A Song in Praise of the Opening) by Elizabeth Davies. There are 19 verses of which I have tracked down 9 so there are 10 still to be found. Any help finding the others much appreciated. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/N/neath_and_swansea.htm The Red Jacket Stream, a more modern song by Chris Hastings and Huw Pudner. Any help finding a recording of this, again, would be much appreciated. https://www.waterwaysongs.info/Songs/R/the_red_jacket_stream.htm

The UK press always seem to quote people's ages. It can be relevant in providing context and does influence the opinion of the reader. This is human nature. My primary opinion on reading the age (as a 70+ male) was that the lady did exceptionally well in extricating herself from a horrendous situation.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/woman-70s-miraculously-escapes-after-29499790 Apparently it was a lady in her 70s.

If an EV boat sank the owners would be faced with either electrocution or being eaten by sharks. That will make no sense at all to those who don't follow the insane meanderings of one D J Trump.

"Looks like there's room to get around?" - The CRT chap said they were worried about a boat striking the car and causing a fuel leak.

Oh dear. Moving anywhere on the Upper Macc is problematic these days. Whatever next? I assume they will need someone (a diver?) to get into the canal to puts strops underneath the car before a crane can lift it. Let's hope there's no fuel leakage when they do so.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/28858-navigation-closure-between-bridge-3-and-4-macclesfield-canal Apparently a lady tried to do a three point turn on the raised unfenced single roadway beside the mill. Apparently she got out of the car and was taken to hospital. Apparently the car was floating yesterday evening until local 'yooves' took to dancing on it. All info second-hand. CRT are on-site stopping traffic and awaiting contractors to remove it 'hopefully later today'.

The web address for the radio recordings is now : https://www.waterwaysongs.info/ref_canal_songs.htm and the 'Songs of the Inland Waterways' website front page is : https://www.waterwaysongs.info/index.htm

This is very useful. I have two 750w electric heaters (the marina supply won't cope with more than 2kW) which I can control remotely. They haven't been on in the recent cold spell as I think my Webasto system with froststat is coming on. I have the batteries linked to a battery charger so they should be OK but I'm slightly reluctant to rely on the Webasto (not sure why!). I'm about to remove the Webasto froststat fuse so I can see (remotely) when the electric heaters come into action (Envirotxt and Powertxt both send messages to my mobile phone). Opinions would be welcome on whether to rely on the Webasto or the electric heaters.

I used an Envirotxt device from this company (no longer produced) for many years to find out the temperature on my boat and recently purchased a Powertxt to control two 750watt electric heaters. It didn't initially work but I had wonderful assistance from tekview-solutions via e-mail and phone calls and am now pleased to say it does what I wanted. It keeps me informed of power cuts, temperatures and switches power to the heaters on and off. I am sure the reason it didn't work was down to a failure on my part, perhaps over confidence and failure to read instructions properly. You do need a 2G sim and I ended up buying one from tekview which was very reasonably priced. My other SMS devices work well on GiffGaff sims which are also quite cheap to use.

Thanks for the info. If there were some urgency and heavy machinery access was available (it appears not), I'm sure this could be done in less than "several weeks". With limited resources C&RT obviously have more urgent jobs and so, yet again, the end of the Peak Forest Canal is cut off from the rest of the network and local businesses and boaters adversely affected.