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Post by NigelMoore on Aug 3, 2018 20:30:22 GMT
Thanks for that Nigel I won't ask you what the statutory ban on pleasure boats mooring to the towpath is as I'm sure you have explained it but my memory is getting more and more porous. Not a problem. It wasn’t just that they couldn’t moor to the towpath – they couldn’t use it for towing the boat at all, whether by man or horse. By the turn of the century the newly opened Grand Junction Canal was proving so popular with pleasure boats that they interfered with commercial toll-paying boats. The company therefore brought in a clause, in a subsequent Act of 1801, forbidding pleasure boats from using the towpath or sailing (one can imagine the sight of boats tacking to and from within the confines of the canal and getting in the way of ‘serious’ boats – bad enough on the Thames betimes).
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