Post by quaysider on Mar 31, 2018 11:49:44 GMT
Ok - so we're planning to go over the Huddersfield in Early October and I was just on the website checking max boat heights...
Having made a Heath Robinson measuring device
and measuring the boat's hightest fixed point (ignoring the Ariel as that's easily un-doable) it transpires we are 1.90m above the water... the max for the tunnel according to the crt guide canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/original/30632-standedge-online-guidelines.pdf?v=c74c97
is 1.88m
Does anyone know if the chaps at the tunnel can provide containers of water or something to lower the bow a bit? - THIS was measured with the water tank full AND the poo tank about half full ... I know we can top the tank up easily enough before going through.
LAST resort is going to be taking the angle grinder to the top of the brackets (I rounded the heads of the screws when I fitted them) and cut a couple of inches off... I've half a mind to do that anyway, as the little bit extra you get by tilting them, doesn't outweigh the annoyance of them banging on the roof in strong winds... 'should have fixed them down in the first place.
Having made a Heath Robinson measuring device
and measuring the boat's hightest fixed point (ignoring the Ariel as that's easily un-doable) it transpires we are 1.90m above the water... the max for the tunnel according to the crt guide canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/original/30632-standedge-online-guidelines.pdf?v=c74c97
is 1.88m
Does anyone know if the chaps at the tunnel can provide containers of water or something to lower the bow a bit? - THIS was measured with the water tank full AND the poo tank about half full ... I know we can top the tank up easily enough before going through.
LAST resort is going to be taking the angle grinder to the top of the brackets (I rounded the heads of the screws when I fitted them) and cut a couple of inches off... I've half a mind to do that anyway, as the little bit extra you get by tilting them, doesn't outweigh the annoyance of them banging on the roof in strong winds... 'should have fixed them down in the first place.
