Neil TNC

David Bowie played here.

The Facebook rumour mill says snapped collar.

A true star. In the early years Jim always did our bss, once he found a teeny gas leak actually in the hob, gas valve loose on the rail! He persuaded us get on the Ship Canal, doing a few free "Certificates of Seaworthiness" for us, MSCC could not argue with Jim's qualifications!

https://www.liverpoolresidential.com/property/3144/?propInd=S&page=2&pageSize=12&orderBy=PriceSearchAmount&orderDirection=ASC&propInd=S&businessCategoryId=1&searchType=list We passed this going in / out Liverpool, about 200ft nice deep piled moorings, with bollards. 60ft boat on it at that time.

Yes, reported it, but did not pursue it further as will probably never attempt to go there again as Mrs TNC does not do grief.

The Lancaster Canal has two Silver Propeller points, these are easy to get once there, the difficult place to get to on the Lancaster Canal is Glasson Basin. 2 narrowboats have got down the locks and back this year, with great difficulty, 2 locks are patched up with plastic, take eternity to fill and weed unmanaged. It is now shut, unlikely to reopen this year, or at all. The locals never go down there, it is usually the visiting narrowboats that attempt the passage.

Yes, it would have made it easier. We tried to do Black Sluice a couple of years ago, but that was after Sam the Waterways Patroller left, just a lot of talk by John at Northampton Marina, but he never got out to do it for us (overulled?). Still shown as stoppage, debris in chamber, but think the real reason was that Sam was never replaced. We also tried to do Foss again last year, but IWA said impossible as not enough water in river beyond the lock.

Makes sad reading. Do you know how many other boats made it through Welches Dam lock, between our passage in 2001 and when it was stanked off?

Yes, the "new" marina at at Fossdyke makes it much easier to do. Back in 2001 when we did it, the only place to moor up was on the barge moored at the "stone quay"....only when we arrived the bloody barge was out! Interesting and strangely magical night tied to a couple of rusty hawsers, wondering if we would bottom out. As a matter of interest did the EA lads let you through Fulney on a rising tide, I assume there was no attempt to use it as as a lock and you went through on a level? Back then we did the Coronation Channel, we weren't meant to, ISTR they have buoyed off the entrance???

Old Bedford Sluice at Salters Lode. I don't remember the bridge being so narrow, should have, as on an explo a few days before I hung over the edge with the long shaft, testing the water depth. I think Paul still remembers the hairy time we had getting through!

The old Four Mile Bar footbridge on the River Welland? I thought that EA have put in a new single span curvey footbridge of a more navigable height?

NB Earnest really is 24" draught plus skeg. We have never had trouble depth wise anywhere. We have just come over the Leeds and Liverpool, with Adlington pound down 8" inches (some of the locals where moaning it was a foot down) and had no trouble at all, even mooring up. Likewise with the Huddersfield Narrow, we got through the pound above Lock 1E with it down well over a foot.