canal
Canal Bridge Magdeburg
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2007-04-09 20:56This has floated around the net a few times, usually as various spoof emails, etc.
Still an incredible feat of engineering, and I would love to ride a boat over it sometime.
Dillinger Hutte GTS - lots of facts and figures from the company that built it
Office Spam has an article, as does About.
Nicholson Guide to the Waterways
Submitted by cac on Mon, 2007-04-09 11:40Since we're on a U.K. canal theme here...
Another good pointer from Jason King over on the Bristol Fashion: life aboard site concerns the Nicholson Guide books... he has found them very helpful and accurate.
Missing boat/person
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2007-04-03 19:44The Canal World forum sent out this note... if you know anything, please help them out!
Nb Holly, a 47ft hire boat from Middlewich Narrowboats was collected by a single
male hirer on 9th March 2007 and due to return to base on the 23rd March. The boat
did not return and there is now very serious concern for the welfare of the hirer.
There has been 1 unconfirmed sighting of the boat heading from Wolverhampton locks
towards Birmingham (20th March) and nothing has been seen of the boat or hirer
since.
This does not appear to be a normal theft of a narrowboat as the hirer has left a
car at the boat yard, paid by a credit card registered to his home address, and it
appears that no-one has been inside his home address since the 9th of March.
I would be very grateful if all members could keep an eye out for this boat. If see
/ have seen it please contact Middlewich Narowboats on 01606 832460 or contact
Cheshire Police on 01606 480000 quoting incident 421 24/03/2007.
A picture of the boat can be seen in this thread:
http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8050.
Many thanks for your help,
Jon Belcher
Site Host
U.K. Canal Protests
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2006-11-28 21:18Canalboats (with snow)
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2010-04-13 22:39Nice little blog showing some canal boats in weather you don't see often. The icebreaker picture is a bit of a funny idea, although I'm sure it wasn't fun at all to the guy out there that day.
Narrowboat Blog
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2010-03-23 22:16Chris Houston owns a 70' narrowboat named Sirius. His blog covers and boat and "anything related to Narrowboats."
Looks to be a nice site if you are into narrowboats and canals!
Welland Canal
Submitted by cac on Sun, 2010-02-28 22:59Between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario lies the Welland Canal. With eight locks that bypass the 326-foot Niagara Escarpment across a distance of 24 nautical miles, the canal has an elevation change of 241 feet, greater than that of the Panama Canal.
This article gives a nice overview of the canal, with information on the lock procedures and challenges.
A free publication from The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation has all the details.
Holland Flying Bridge
Submitted by cac on Thu, 2009-12-17 22:56We've had other interesting bridges, but this is a slick design. I think I would do a double-take when I ask the tender to raise the bridge and it opened like this:
Lots pics at the link.
Selling off the British Canals?
Submitted by cac on Tue, 2009-12-15 22:08Apparently some of Britain's finest have thought of selling the canals to private firms to raise funds for the government. The British Marine Federation is speaking out against this move. Sign the petition if this fits your ideas and you're a British citizen.
