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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2018 16:20:56 GMT
I think with the current drought our plans for a double crossing of the Pennines are best put on hold. So Plan B, 7 week trip from Fazeley Mill Marina (B&F) is to go down the Trent. Firstly to "do" the Chesterfield, and thence on perhaps to Ripon. Hoping that by then there might be some water in the trans-Pennine canals!
So two questions if I may: Is the Chesterfield prone to water shortages in times of drought?
Secondly, when we get to the end of the Stainforth and Keadby canal, of course we will be turning right to get to Selby. But should we first turn left to "do" the upper reaches of the SSYN? Is it nice, or is it all a bit industrial / bleak / big wide expanses of boring waterway?
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Post by JohnV on Jul 4, 2018 16:23:40 GMT
don't know about water shortages but the Chesterfield had (a well deserved) reputation for heavy weed (It is a nice canal although I had to give up in Shapfell because of the weed)
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Post by JohnV on Jul 4, 2018 16:25:47 GMT
think on t'other place Cheshire Rose is something to do with the Chesterfield Trust
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Post by pearley on Jul 4, 2018 16:26:36 GMT
If you have the time then turn left and head towards Sheffield. From Doncaster through Sprotbrough to Mexborough Low Lock is lovely.
Then having gog that far you might as well go right up to Sheffield Victoria Basin.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 4, 2018 16:27:58 GMT
stay away from the SSY ...... its big quiet and terribly quiet and you'll hate it because it's terribly quiet and and and
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 4, 2018 16:28:47 GMT
I recommend the North Oxford canal.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2018 16:47:39 GMT
I recommend the North Oxford canal. Dull Dull Dull...
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 4, 2018 16:52:27 GMT
I recommend the North Oxford canal. Dull Dull Dull... Yes, but navigation is quite difficult at the moment because CRT cannot keep up with the growth of Summer vegetation so I thought that if you were to have a cruise down here, that enormous head of yours might knock off a few branches.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 16:55:15 GMT
Telemachus I suggest you take advice from Tony Dunkley if you wish to navigate the river Trent. He has a lot of local knowledge and as you know he is Always Right so if you follow his instructions you will be fine.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 4, 2018 17:25:49 GMT
Telemachus I suggest you take advice from Tony Dunkley if you wish to navigate the river Trent. He has a lot of local knowledge and as you know he is Always Right so if you follow his instructions you will be fine. Yes I know. He has provided good help and information in the past. However I suspect he is too sulky at the moment to offer any help. We have previously been down the Trent to Torksey - which is of course pretty easy. Hopefully I can manage the turns into W Stockwith and Keady - what could possibly go wrong!?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 17:30:26 GMT
I don't see why he would be sulky when the actions he suggested sorted andyberg's problem. That seems to me like a Good Thing.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 4, 2018 19:12:20 GMT
I recommend the North Oxford canal. For hugs and kisses.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2018 19:24:17 GMT
Mrs tabby and telemakus?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 5, 2018 5:50:11 GMT
Telemachus I suggest you take advice from Tony Dunkley if you wish to navigate the river Trent. He has a lot of local knowledge and as you know he is Always Right so if you follow his instructions you will be fine. Yes I know. He has provided good help and information in the past. However I suspect he is too sulky at the moment to offer any help. We have previously been down the Trent to Torksey - which is of course pretty easy. Hopefully I can manage the turns into W Stockwith and Keady - what could possibly go wrong!? With only a few days to go before the 5th anniversary of the last barge loads of sand and gravel leaving Besthorpe Wharf (just downriver from Cromwell Lock) on the Trent, it may well be that the complete absence of daily, deep-draughted (up to 8 feet) commercial traffic will have resulted in some significant changes to the deep water/navigable channel, and the depths available in that channel, from Besthorpe to Gainsborough and a few spots even further down, . . . possibly even as far down as Keady
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 5, 2018 10:12:45 GMT
Yes I know. He has provided good help and information in the past. However I suspect he is too sulky at the moment to offer any help. We have previously been down the Trent to Torksey - which is of course pretty easy. Hopefully I can manage the turns into W Stockwith and Keady - what could possibly go wrong!? With only a few days to go before the 5th anniversary of the last barge loads of sand and gravel leaving Besthorpe Wharf (just downriver from Cromwell Lock) on the Trent, it may well be that the complete absence of daily, deep-draughted (up to 8 feet) commercial traffic will have resulted in some significant changes to the deep water/navigable channel, and the depths available in that channel, from Besthorpe to Gainsborough and a few spots even further down, . . . possibly even as far down as Keady Yes ok Keadby, a slip of the b! I seem to recall you used to say that it was best to go down towards the end of the ebb so as to get to keadby at slack low water, as opposed to the more normal advice to leave just as the ebb started or even before? But with presumably virtually no fresh coming down is that still a good idea - no fresh = possibly insufficient water at low tide and less current to fight turning into the lock at mid-tide?
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