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Post by quaysider on Jul 1, 2018 7:40:20 GMT
Well, after CRT cancelled our Liverpool booking we HAD still planned on going up the Rochdale and back... given the fires going on, we're going to delay that for 10 days or so and hatched a plan with another boat last night (admittedly in the pub) to take a jaunt up to Ripon while the rivers are low and calm.
Canal planner says we should do it in 4 days tops - any pointers from those with more experience than us?
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 1, 2018 8:19:48 GMT
Funnily enough we were thinking same, although it will be August (assuming we can get over the Pennines!). Can’t give any advice as last time I did the trip to Ripon I was only 18 and that is a VERY long time ago. I don’t recall any dramas though.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 1, 2018 8:23:38 GMT
Looks like it's going to be "Poof-fest" in Ripon this year then.  |
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Post by quaysider on Jul 1, 2018 8:32:38 GMT
Looks like it's going to be "Poof-fest" in Ripon this year then. are you coming along too then? ;-) |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 1, 2018 8:36:06 GMT
Looks like it's going to be "Poof-fest" in Ripon this year then. are you coming along too then? ;-) Only if I get on the wrong bus. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 8:44:27 GMT
Working on the basis that you two are the 'Jonah's' we'll keep heading south.
Rog
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 1, 2018 8:50:34 GMT
Meanwhile we're here guarding the East-West watershed. You Shall Not Pass!
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 1, 2018 9:50:40 GMT
Well, after CRT cancelled our Liverpool booking we HAD still planned on going up the Rochdale and back... given the fires going on, we're going to delay that for 10 days or so and hatched a plan with another boat last night (admittedly in the pub) to take a jaunt up to Ripon while the rivers are low and calm. Canal planner says we should do it in 4 days tops - any pointers from those with more experience than us? There certainly won't be any 'fresh' in the Calder, Aire or the Ouse this coming week thanks to the recent lack of rain, . . but you won't be finding anything that qualifies as low and calm when you pen out into the Ouse at Goole or Selby to run up to Naburn. We're right on the top of this lot of Springs (tides) this weekend with some even bigger tides predicted for the weekend of the 14th and 15th. Smallest of the next Neaps is weekend of the 7th and 8th. None of these tides will be anything that you won't be able to cope with, . . just don't let it all take you by surprise when you get to either Selby or Goole on the way up. |
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Post by quaysider on Jul 1, 2018 11:34:35 GMT
does anyone know if a 60 footer can make it? - the locks according to the book are wide enough to go diagonally but unlike the calder and hebble where it says a 60 footer can do it, the Nicholson doesn't mention it on this occasion....
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 1, 2018 11:37:59 GMT
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Post by bills on Jul 1, 2018 15:02:16 GMT
are you coming along too then? ;-) Only if I get on the wrong bus. You'll be fine as long as you don't join the conga chain... |
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Post by Jim on Jul 1, 2018 20:14:16 GMT
Done the tidal bit twice in cabin cruisers. It's fun getting back into Selby! Wonderful trip.
We've not had a hint of smoke here, wind is blowing it east over Manchester and its calmed down a bit at Saddleworth for the moment.
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Post by quaysider on Jul 2, 2018 7:34:42 GMT
Only if I get on the wrong bus. You'll be fine as long as you don't join the conga chain... I'm SURE I saw an adult video about that once upon a time... no, that wasn't the title. Looked ok to ME though  |
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 2, 2018 8:30:23 GMT
Manchester is West of Saddleworth Moor. Wake up Jimbo!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 2, 2018 8:34:09 GMT
You'll be fine as long as you don't join the conga chain... I'm SURE I saw an adult video about that once upon a time... no, that wasn't the title. Looked ok to ME though That was BBC Nature Series - Congo and its gorillas. |
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