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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 13:17:40 GMT
When I first bought a twelve month licence (2004) the link had only just opened (2002) so access to the Lancaster without hiring road transport was a very new thing.
To be able to take ones boat onto the Lancaster during six months of the year was seen as a huge improvement to the network.
I suppose it comes down to whether your view is half full or half empty.
C&RT make themselves very easy targets for accusations of mismanagement.
I simply don't see the winter closure of the link as a valid criticism.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 13:28:11 GMT
I suppose it comes down to whether your view is half full or half empty. Rog Also partly related to how much one actually uses ones boat for moving around on. It's easy to moan about CRT when you never go anywhere on the canals and I am guilty of doing that at times as I only go boating on the Thames these days. It's important to recognise this sort of thing. I believe if you understand yourself and your own weaknesses you can in theory have a better time. Anyone doing heavy duty criticism of CRT while not also doing expensive boating around the network is not credible at the end of the day. It is a fairly big network and quite a lot of it still works. A lot of it is deteriorating that is true but then you get what you pay for don't you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 13:39:02 GMT
Not like you to make sense @a As I've previously said, I'm unlikely to ever do the Ribble link , but I'll certainly not do it in winter. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 13:47:21 GMT
Noddy boaters. pah!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 13:48:27 GMT
Noddy boaters are the porn of the devil.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 12, 2021 14:12:11 GMT
Not like you to make sense @a As I've previously said, I'm unlikely to ever do the Ribble link , but I'll certainly not do it in winter. Rog I should dig out my rant about not being allowed through the Standedge tunnel but still being charged as much licence fee as everybody who is !!!
They will allow a wooden boat through ..... no checks on how sound it is ..... it might be built with 3mm Wickes plywood ..... but it complies but my 50 year old GRP boat that's built like the proverbial BSH doesn't ...... arseholes the lot of them !!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 14:16:42 GMT
Why cant you take that boat through?
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Post by JohnV on Oct 12, 2021 14:26:07 GMT
Why cant you take that boat through? They don't allow GRP boats through irrespective of what type or how well constructed ......
but as I said they will let wooden boats through (although I would love to know what idiot decided that a plywood cruiser would take more of a beating than a GRP one)
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 12, 2021 14:27:25 GMT
Why cant you take that boat through? Plastic Fantastics not permitted to use Standedge Tunnel.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 12, 2021 14:29:11 GMT
but they'll let coffin outfitted potato boats through
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 12, 2021 14:33:23 GMT
Steel boats are superior vessels owned by superior people whereas yoghurt pots are owned by peasants.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Oct 12, 2021 14:54:37 GMT
As I've previously said, I'm unlikely to ever do the Ribble link , but I'll certainly not do it in winter. Rog What's the big hang-up about crossing over from Tarleton onto the Lancaster Canal, or up to Preston, and back again in Wintertime ? If the prevailing weather and river conditions are OK for the boat and the crew, then it doesn't make one jot of difference what time of year it is. Fact is that the likely extra fresh there'll be in Winter, especially if there's more of it in the Douglas than there is in the Ribble, makes the trip, on the first of the Flood, from Tarleton to Preston a bit quicker and easier with a slowish or slightly underpowered boat. Reading your previous post, which was -- " When I first bought a twelve month licence (2004) the link had only just opened (2002) so access to the Lancaster without hiring road transport was a very new thing. - To be able to take ones boat onto the Lancaster during six months of the year was seen as a huge improvement to the network. - I simply don't see the winter closure of the link as a valid criticism." -- your attitude to the yearly 6-month illegal obstruction of the public right of way (and navigation) that gives access to the Lancaster Canal appears to be that you couldn't careless about it because it doesn't affect you personally.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 15:03:41 GMT
As I've previously said, I'm unlikely to ever do the Ribble link , but I'll certainly not do it in winter. Rog What's the big hang-up about crossing over from Tarleton onto the Lancaster Canal, or up to Preston, and back again in Wintertime ? It's closed Rog
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2021 15:17:00 GMT
As I've previously said, I'm unlikely to ever do the Ribble link , but I'll certainly not do it in winter. Rog What's the big hang-up about crossing over from Tarleton onto the Lancaster Canal, or up to Preston, and back again in Wintertime ? If the prevailing weather and river conditions are OK for the boat and the crew, then it doesn't make one jot of difference what time of year it is. Fact is that the likely extra fresh there'll be in Winter, especially if there's more of it in the Douglas than there is in the Ribble, makes the trip, on the first of the Flood, from Tarleton to Preston a bit quicker and easier with a slowish or slightly underpowered boat. Reading your previous post, which was -- " When I first bought a twelve month licence (2004) the link had only just opened (2002) so access to the Lancaster without hiring road transport was a very new thing. - To be able to take ones boat onto the Lancaster during six months of the year was seen as a huge improvement to the network. - I simply don't see the winter closure of the link as a valid criticism." -- your attitude to the yearly 6-month illegal obstruction of the public right of way (and navigation) that gives access to the Lancaster Canal appears to be that you couldn't careless about it because it doesn't affect you personally. The 'half tide lock' is left lowered during winter, so no obstruction to the public right of way/navigation. You can enter the first lock as a refuge, you can't go further though, so no failure to provide a suitable refuge either...
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Post by TonyDunkley on Oct 12, 2021 15:30:08 GMT
What's the big hang-up about crossing over from Tarleton onto the Lancaster Canal, or up to Preston, and back again in Wintertime ? It's closed Rog NO it isn't, . . if any boat wants to pass through that half-tide gate on Savick Brook, . . C&RT have an obligation under common law to open it up to allow free passage on the tide.
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