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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 10:58:42 GMT
When I first registered on this site somebody asked for some memories of what the canal was like then. Well, this is probably not what you were imagining but here's a detail...
There's a hire-boat place at almost the very end of the Oxford canal, I expect some of you know it, called College Cruisers. At one time the hire-fleet was painted in some very unique colours, light-blue with a red stripe near the top of the cabin. It used to bother me that it was very familiar but I could never put my finger on it. And one day, years later and after I no longer lived on a boat, it dawned on me - the then-owner had painted the entire fleet to resemble a shuttle-craft from the original Star Trek series...go boldly. I spent ages looking for a picture but to no avail.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 11:18:48 GMT
My first narrow lock was dukes lock going onto the oxford from thames. April 1994 just before my 20th birthday. 32ft Hancock and Lane Marlin with SR2 power unit. I had done Thames and wey previously but that was the first of many many narrow locks. And the last as well actually as all my motor boats are over 7ft wide now and the last time I took a narrow boat through narrow locks was coming back off the Oxford via dukes cut in 2009.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 13:35:58 GMT
Our first locks were the Bunbury staircase, having hired from the hire firm just Chester side (was Hoseasons back then). Staff worked us up, explaining very little, and at the top jumped off said "leave it with you". All was well until we arrived at Hurleston with not a clue what to do ! Luckily a lock keeper talked Jane through the operation, whilst I did my best to hit every brick in both walls of all the locks  Rog |
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Post by patty on Jun 6, 2019 14:07:48 GMT
My first solo lock on my own was Braunston and I forgot how to do them...we tried to ring Stuart who had fitted my boat out and taught me all I then forgot about boating... but there was no signal so we(little sis n i) hung about waiting for someone to arrive...
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 6, 2019 20:46:33 GMT
Oxford should be dark blue, surely? Cambridge is a lighter blue.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2019 20:54:47 GMT
I got the "which college?" Question at Henley one year when I wore my Dulwich College blazer during a boating event. Black with darkish blue stripes .
I had to admit it was Dulwich not Oxford and that it was an eBay item. This swiftly ended the verbal interaction allowing me to get back to the boating.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 0:02:39 GMT
Oxford should be dark blue, surely? Cambridge is a lighter blue. The choice of colour had nothing to do with Oxbridge tradition! |
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