Nige wrote:
> EMB wrote:
>> Nige wrote:
>>
>>> I was only kidding matey, it is a long & winding 'road' though!!
>> For some reason I'm having visions of someone jumping canals on the
>> KTM.
>
> Could easy do it too! But thta's anti-social!
>

Nicking your KTM is anti-social, jumping canals and suchlike is just
good old-fashioned fun although the PC ****ers running the place would
rather we thought otherwise.

--
EMB
 
EMB wrote:
> Nige wrote:
>> EMB wrote:
>>> Nige wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was only kidding matey, it is a long & winding 'road' though!!
>>> For some reason I'm having visions of someone jumping canals on
>>> the KTM.
>>
>> Could easy do it too! But thta's anti-social!
>>
>
> Nicking your KTM is anti-social, jumping canals and suchlike is just
> good old-fashioned fun although the PC ****ers running the place
> would rather we thought otherwise.

I know, but what you gonna do, apart from what I did to get it back............................

--
Ta!

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Turbo Diesel 110 (G)
KTM 520 SX (2001)
Kawasaki ZZR 1100 (1995)


 
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:59:45 +0100, Austin Shackles
<austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:

>now, anyone know if you can hire a motor-and-butty? That'd be fun...

I have a mental image of Austin driving a very large crusty baguette
with a motor on the back! :)

(what is a butty in the boating context?)
 
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:16:39 +0100, "Nige"
<nigel.inceBUGGEROFF@btinternet.com> wrote:

>I know, but what you gonna do, apart from what I did to get it back............................

I think you mean, "What SOMEONE ELSE did to get it back" don't you?

 
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:19:20 +0100, Tom Woods
<news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:

>I have a mental image of Austin driving a very large crusty baguette
>with a motor on the back! :)

More like a hot-dog?

>(what is a butty in the boating context?)

A trailer.

 
Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:16:39 +0100, "Nige"
> <nigel.inceBUGGEROFF@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> I know, but what you gonna do, apart from what I did to get it
>> back............................
>
> I think you mean, "What SOMEONE ELSE did to get it back" don't you?

Of course!

--
Ta!

Nige

Subaru WRX (54)
Land Rover Turbo Diesel 110 (G)
KTM 520 SX (2001)
Kawasaki ZZR 1100 (1995)


 

"Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
news:7vfcj29gdi77r8k0jp92hsnd39g1jkgk4u@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:59:45 +0100, Austin Shackles
> <austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>
>>Way I see it, wigan-leeds-wigan in 2 weeks would be a nice pace. 1 week
>>should be do-able, but then it's a bit like a challenge, and less like a
>>holiday.
>
> Wigan to Skipton = 63 Miles 56 Locks
> Skipton to Leeds = 29 Miles 29 Locks
>
> Total: 92 Miles 84 Locks EACH WAY,
> Trip = 184 Miles 168 Locks.
>
> Average cruising speed = ~2MPH - Therefore 92 Hours
> Average Lock = 15 minutes - therefore 42 hours
> Total trip hours = 134 Hours
>
>>liverpool-leeds-liverpool in a week would eb a *real* challenge.
>
> Liverpool to Wigan is a mere 36 Miles and 6 Locks :)
>
>>now, anyone know if you can hire a motor-and-butty? That'd be fun...
>
> Almost nobody will ever rent you a boat and butty (I'm not sure you'd
> cope with a butty actually - they do nasty things when you're not
> looking!).

Do you not fancy Ashton -Huddersfield- Rochdale ( I never did it as the
Huddersfield still terminated at Ashton when I was boating) fabulous
scenery!
Derek


 
On 2006-10-18, Tom Woods <news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a mental image of Austin driving a very large crusty baguette
> with a motor on the back! :)

I was thinking more along the lines of a chip buttie with brown sauce,
in fact I suspect I'll be thinking of that for the rest of the night
now...

> (what is a butty in the boating context?)

Glad it's not just me ;-)

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:54:06 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:19:20 +0100, Tom Woods
><news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I have a mental image of Austin driving a very large crusty baguette
>>with a motor on the back! :)
>
>More like a hot-dog?

I was thinking crustier so that the hull had some strength! :)

>>(what is a butty in the boating context?)
>
>A trailer.

hmm. never thought that a (residential/recreational) barge would need
a trailer!
 
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:12:19 GMT, "Derek"
<del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Do you not fancy Ashton -Huddersfield- Rochdale ( I never did it as the
>Huddersfield still terminated at Ashton when I was boating) fabulous
>scenery!

We're bringing the good ship "MUSN Grumble" back to Sheffield next
year and have a dilemma as to the route from its current mooring near
Rugby.

We could go via Grand Union and Braunston Tunnel (2,042 yards) then up
the Leicester section toward the Trent etc...

Or, go via Coventry canal, up the Trent and Mersey to Stoke, then
through Harecastle Tunnel (2,926 yards), up the Macclesfield Canal to
Aston, then Huddersfields Narrow, through the recently re-opened
Standedge Tunnel (5,698 yards) etc.

Prolly the latter methinks.

 
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:33:44 +0100, Tom Woods
<news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:

>>>(what is a butty in the boating context?)
>>
>>A trailer.
>
>hmm. never thought that a (residential/recreational) barge would need
>a trailer!

Have you ever seen the contents of a womans' handbag???

Actually, the butty is more generally associated with working boats.

 
On or around Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:33:44 +0100, Tom Woods
<news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> enlightened us thusly:

>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:54:06 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:19:20 +0100, Tom Woods
>><news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>I have a mental image of Austin driving a very large crusty baguette
>>>with a motor on the back! :)
>>
>>More like a hot-dog?
>
>I was thinking crustier so that the hull had some strength! :)
>
>>>(what is a butty in the boating context?)
>>
>>A trailer.
>
>hmm. never thought that a (residential/recreational) barge would need
>a trailer!

once they fitted working boats with engines, someone worked out that they
could tow another unpowered boat (same as they used to use when they were
horse-drawn, more or less) and haul more cargo. The butty would haul more
cargo than the motor, on account of not carrying an engine, and losing space
to the engine room.

while visiting some friends in Cheshire, on the way to a handy pub, we went
to see this:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=357820&y=359020&z=3st=4&ar=Y

and found a middle-aged couple with a very nice boat just approaching. took
the opportunity to educate the various small people we had along about how
locks worked, and got them opening and shutting gates. several of the big
kids also played...

the boat was a cracker, with a lovely-sounding engine which I think the chap
said was 80 years old, sounded like a single-cylinder 4-stroke running at
about 150 rpm or so. I was tempted to ask for a look at it, but thought
that was a bit cheeky. His missus did a much better job than I reckon I
would have at getting into the lock through one gate, too, with no sign of
cheats like bow thrusters.

it's rather a short staircase, mind. only 2 locks, but a genuine staircase
even so, with just 3 sets of gates.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards
too" Sir Francis Drake (1540? - 1596) Attr. saying when the Armarda was
sighted, 20th July 1588
 
On or around Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:28:50 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:12:19 GMT, "Derek"
><del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>Do you not fancy Ashton -Huddersfield- Rochdale ( I never did it as the
>>Huddersfield still terminated at Ashton when I was boating) fabulous
>>scenery!
>
>We're bringing the good ship "MUSN Grumble" back to Sheffield next
>year and have a dilemma as to the route from its current mooring near
>Rugby.
>
>We could go via Grand Union and Braunston Tunnel (2,042 yards) then up
>the Leicester section toward the Trent etc...
>
>Or, go via Coventry canal, up the Trent and Mersey to Stoke, then
>through Harecastle Tunnel (2,926 yards), up the Macclesfield Canal to
>Aston, then Huddersfields Narrow, through the recently re-opened
>Standedge Tunnel (5,698 yards) etc.
>
>Prolly the latter methinks.

definitely. I can see I'll have to get a new map. The one we have here is
not visible ATM - just found "Stanford's Canoeing Map of England and Wales",
showing canals and rivers suitable for navigation by canoes and other light
craft.

somewhere, we've got the equivalent for bigger boats, but it's at least 30
years out of date.

Question is, are you going to leg the boat through the tunnel(s)? That's
something I want to do, soemtime, just for the sake of being able to say
that I've done it.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"
John Donne (1571? - 1631) Devotions, XVII
 
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:35:51 +0100, Austin Shackles
<austinNOSPAM@ddol-las.net> wrote:

>somewhere, we've got the equivalent for bigger boats, but it's at least 30
>years out of date.

Get the Nicholson Inland Waterways map - about a fiver or so ISTR.

>Question is, are you going to leg the boat through the tunnel(s)? That's
>something I want to do, soemtime, just for the sake of being able to say
>that I've done it.

It's actually frowned upon to do this in many tunnels. Standedge has
to be booked and they tow you through with a leccie boat. I'm not
sure I'd want to leg it through some of the tunnels anyway - as
they're pretty grim what with the water leaking through the roof and
the exhaust residue from motor boats that wouldn't have been around in
the days of the professional leggers :-(

 
On or around Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:56:56 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:
>
>It's actually frowned upon to do this in many tunnels. Standedge has
>to be booked and they tow you through with a leccie boat. I'm not
>sure I'd want to leg it through some of the tunnels anyway - as
>they're pretty grim what with the water leaking through the roof and
>the exhaust residue from motor boats that wouldn't have been around in
>the days of the professional leggers :-(

with boots? bootleggers?
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by;
Or any other reason why. - Henry Aldrich (1647 - 1710)
 
Nige wrote:

|| i only live walking distance from it & 15 minutes drive from 5
|| rise locks at Bingley!

Ah, the five rise locks at Bingley! I spent hours there when the kids were
little, getting out of the ex-in-laws house for a "little walk" with the
push-chair. Lovely spot.

--
Rich
==============================

Take out the obvious to email me.


 
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:28:50 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:12:19 GMT, "Derek"
><del.wattsnospambaby@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>Do you not fancy Ashton -Huddersfield- Rochdale ( I never did it as the
>>Huddersfield still terminated at Ashton when I was boating) fabulous
>>scenery!
>
>We're bringing the good ship "MUSN Grumble" back to Sheffield next
>year and have a dilemma as to the route from its current mooring near
>Rugby.

I presume you named it? that name cant have been a coincidence :)
 
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:35:51 +0100, Tom Woods
<news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:

>I presume you named it? that name cant have been a coincidence :)

It was the obvious choice really :)

 
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:09:04 +0100, Mother <nospam@nominet.name>
wrote:

>On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:35:51 +0100, Tom Woods
><news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I presume you named it? that name cant have been a coincidence :)
>
>It was the obvious choice really :)

its a good one! definitely a narrowboat name!
 
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