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Your talking 2015, not up to date info as @IanD is after. Yes Sorry, but you know what he’s like. You have a few month to go, anything I pick up to get down the flight or anything you should know that’s relevant, I’ll let you know👍

Yes Bulholme lock with a little gravel barge, as I said they stopped running years ago. The info your giving is from 2015, not current just highlighted with the little gravel barge, when did they stop running? He’s asking about getting to Sprotborough and the S&SY so generally not the area your talking about. If @IanD wants to take advice from 8 years ago and from someone who never got past Sprotborough so be it, but I doubt he will, as he wants to know what’s happening today on the canal he’s travelling on, not what it was like 8 year ago.

Your not talking in general the locks @IanD will be passing through with regards to sharing locks, because most of them he cannot share, I’m talking Tanker size, the little gravel barges stopped running years ago.

Your information as you say is from 2015, so not really up to date, as I say you can’t share with the Humber Pride on the S&SY. You don’t need to book anything with the locks past the Tinsley flight, the volunteer lock keepers are normally around, all depends on the day and if they want to volunteer. If there’s a boat going down on the same day you will be sharing, as the water is back pumped to keep the length watered, so you share up and down. You’ll be better off opposite the pub, as your getting the Chav “Too fast Too furious” going down to the car park at night, playing the boom music out of their cars, so better off opposite👍🚗

Once your down, in most cases the top sluices are set automatically to open after a minute or so, so filling the lock. The locks are normally set for you when going from Sheffield. The following locks may have volunteers on. Aldwick, Mexborough top, Mexborough low, Long Sandel and Syke house, but obviously this is down to the volunteers, but these are the volunteer operated ones. You can make good time going down to Doncaster, especially if there are two boats as you can “pepper pot” alternative locks. You can’t share as the commercial’s take the whole lock, the only one you can share Is Pollington when the lock keeper uses the full length chamber. Photo taken from the lock gates, absolutely no chance of sharing, especially when she powers out.

Day 2: Steam Packet Knottingly I stop at both, but prefer this one, very friendly owner and great high street for food after a pint. Chinese, fish’n’chip shop, Indian, pizza place and the star Ibby’s Kebab shop, the whole selection, Ibby’s kebabs, best I’ve ever had. Moorings just outside, never had and trouble there. https://steampacket-inn-wakefield.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral

Not by 2027, the Norwood tunnel problem will take the time, locks, boat lift, how’s it going to work? That will be the interesting bit.

The bit in the article that says the Trust will be responsible for dredging and graffiti removal made me laugh. Obviously CCT and not CaRT as they don’t do it now on their waterways as you hint at, never mind doing it on a council owned one. Looks like this section will be taking a big slice of future CCT donations with the dredging and graffiti removal. And Pigs will fly 🐷🐷

He’ll have his first scratch within the first few hours, Very little offside tree pruning getting done, one from last July, who knows what this year will be like?

@IanD Looking at what’s been happening with Pennine routes over the last couple of years, I wouldn’t bother and I’d plan for the Trent route, that’s the way everyone goes South from Sheffield. Bigger waterways, electric locks, bigger Marina’s should you need to leave the boat, better resources than the North. I would just concentrate on getting my boat to my Home mooring and do the HNC/Roch/L&L as holidays at a more relaxed pace once the boat is tried and tested.

Not that hard. You can easily do Doncaster in a day, especially with crew, The slowest bit is from Sheffield to Rotherham (the flight and manual old locks) once past there all big electric, all normally self filling so ready for you. Wide canals and rivers so no crawling past Cmoorers on tickover for hours at a time, you can be at Doncaster for 5pm if all goes to plan and you start down the flight normal time 9am. Light nights and warm weather I would be moving, as once on the HNC and that way, who knows what delays you might have with stoppages/water levels???

@IanD Day 1: you can get to Doncaster no problem should be there @6pm, City centre mooring, couple of minutes walk to City centre. Or push on to Barmby Dunn, good food, fish’n’chips, Chinese, Pizza/Kebab. Day 2: Doncaster to Stanley Ferry. Obviously all depends how much you want to do in a day, with your 11 day plan, you might be better doing longer days on the big canals with electric locks, as your more likely to hit delays/issues once your further west past Stanley Ferry. Remember your C&H spike.

No, the one about a factory having to employ their first coloured person and what happens in the factory canteen, when he asks for a Bacon sandwich and ends up with a can of Fosters between two slices of bread.

Maybe more batteries, bigger heavier batteries added, maybe originally ballasted with little diesel in tank and full water tank???????

Reminds me of the one about Bacon🐷 and Beer Can🍺 If you know the joke👨🏿👨🏿