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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 17:30:30 GMT
A single boat channel has been opened at Anderton and it is HOPED to be open next week after checks  Rog |
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Apr 14, 2021 18:49:10 GMT
A single boat channel has been opened at Anderton and it is HOPED to be open next week after checks Rog But as one opens, another closes. Stanthorne lock out, Bridge 80 Shroppie open, Llangollen closed. |
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Post by quaysider on Apr 14, 2021 19:18:05 GMT
Has that actually happened at Anderton then? - That's currently what all my hopes are pinned on... (ignoring stanthorne which just makes it heartbreak hill and a lot longer boating days) to get back on track... I saw the email from crt earlier regarding the LLangollen whhich pretty much covered all bases... If we get stuck on there, I could just about manage - it'd be a pain for the later cruises but worse case, if it went tits up AFTER we got on there, we could overwinter where Tony C did...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 19:23:04 GMT
Has that actually happened at Anderton then? - That's currently what all my hopes are pinned on... (ignoring stanthorne which just makes it heartbreak hill and a lot longer boating days) to get back on track... I saw the email from crt earlier regarding the LLangollen whhich pretty much covered all bases... If we get stuck on there, I could just about manage - it'd be a pain for the later cruises but worse case, if it went tits up AFTER we got on there, we could overwinter where Tony C did... CRT finally managed to work out how to hire 2 blokes with a shovel and a wheelbarrow... |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 20:16:12 GMT
Have seen today that the Llangollen isn't actually closed, boaters have been leaving the canal today..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2021 20:20:18 GMT
Have seen today that the Llangollen isn't actually closed, boaters have been leaving the canal today.. I think CRT decided better to give people a few days to escape the closure as it might be a long one. Open until 8am on Monday provided water levels remain ok. |
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Post by quaysider on Apr 15, 2021 18:55:52 GMT
I saw that latest update today - it doesn't look good for us to get ON to it though... we really need it to be opened up around 1st May to get back on track.... the chancess however are VERY slim...
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Post by TonyDunkley on Apr 15, 2021 20:53:40 GMT
Has that actually happened at Anderton then? - That's currently what all my hopes are pinned on... (ignoring stanthorne which just makes it heartbreak hill and a lot longer boating days) to get back on track... I saw the email from crt earlier regarding the LLangollen whhich pretty much covered all bases... If we get stuck on there, I could just about manage - it'd be a pain for the later cruises but worse case, if it went tits up AFTER we got on there, we could overwinter where Tony C did... CRT finally managed to work out how to hire 2 blokes with a shovel and a wheelbarrow... . . . . . . or, . . Parry's snoopers might just have done something constructive and useful for a change, and made the office chair polishers realize that something could be done to get the cut open to boat traffic again without making too much of a song and dance about it : -
Back in the days when slips such as this one occurred and were stopping the passage of commercial traffic the standard first option for getting the traffic moving again was to get a tug there, preferably on the other side of the slip to the side on which the first pair of loaded boats would arrive from.
After sawing and clearing away any tree branches, working off and with the tug, the motor of the loaded pair would then try to force its way through and past the slip using its own power plus the tug pulling on a long heavy towline, or pushing if the tug was on the same side of the slip as the loaded boats. It usually worked, . . with the tug and the loaded motor literally ploughing a 'boat sized' channel through the material that was blocking the canal. If no tug was available, or the slip was too bad to force the loaded motor through, the alternative was winching the boats through with one or more 'Tirfors' pulling from off the towpath.
You might find that it's possible to force your boat through the Anderton slip in a similar fashion with one or more other pleasure craft pulling yours off a long towline from the clear water on the other side of it, . . or with a Tirfor, . . or with both boats and a Tirfor. With the first boat through, you'll find that the resulting 'boat sized' channel will gradually open up and deepen slightly with the passage of every subsequent boat.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 21:01:01 GMT
Yes but would modern elfin safety risk assessment allow this sort of thing to happen?
Seems a bit of an anachronism to me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 21:24:05 GMT
Have seen today that the Llangollen isn't actually closed, boaters have been leaving the canal today.. I think CRT decided better to give people a few days to escape the closure as it might be a long one. Open until 8am on Monday provided water levels remain ok. That sounds a bit ominous. I was planning on spending another month or maybe two on the Llan, but if its a 6 month closure thats a different story. Its lovely, but its not that big a canal for a 6 months plus stay. How long do these sorts of repairs tend to take? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2021 6:51:54 GMT
I think CRT decided better to give people a few days to escape the closure as it might be a long one. Open until 8am on Monday provided water levels remain ok. That sounds a bit ominous. I was planning on spending another month or maybe two on the Llan, but if its a 6 month closure thats a different story. Its lovely, but its not that big a canal for a 6 months plus stay. How long do these sorts of repairs tend to take? My guess is that they will do a temporary bodge that will take a week or two, if that can't be sorted then probably 2 to 3 months. But I'm far from an expert... |
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Post by JohnV on Apr 16, 2021 7:05:59 GMT
That sounds a bit ominous. I was planning on spending another month or maybe two on the Llan, but if its a 6 month closure thats a different story. Its lovely, but its not that big a canal for a 6 months plus stay. How long do these sorts of repairs tend to take? My guess is that they will do a temporary bodge that will take a week or two, if that can't be sorted then probably 2 to 3 months. But I'm far from an expert... but then it would seem (from recent activities) neither are CRT |
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