The technique is known as white water narrowboating, I believe.Rhythm Thief said:When I lived on a 52' narrowboat, I once did all 21 of the Wolverhampton locks single handed in two hours. Beat that, tourist boats!![]()
Yep, seems like a good way to get a dangerous extremist off the streets!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7188168.stm
Here you go Arch. Borrow a horse and get paid to meander around the countryside.
It's been calculated that a human can make a large warship move in the water just by pushing hard...Arch said:Saw this on the One Show a while back, and they showed the 'barges' going up the Manchester Ship canal, or Liverpool, or somewhere. Not a flowery painted tea kettle in sight, I was disappointed, I think all barges, no matter how huge and modern, need a flower painted tea kettle.
A good idea, like RT says, for anything that's not in a hurry. Only trouble with using horses would be, clashing with tow path cyclists. There's always going to be one who can;t see why they should slow down for a bridge in case there's half a tonne of heavy horse coming through the other way... Still. I bet the cyclist wold end up in the canal, not the horse...
I imagine, once you get it moving, a barge is a fairly efficient thing to keep moving, energy wise?
Oh, yes, I saw it in a book, if you leaned over the rail of a ship and grabbed the rail of a ship parked, sorry, moored next to it, you could pull them together or push them apart...User482 said:It's been calculated that a human can make a large warship move in the water just by pushing hard...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7188168.stm
Here you go Arch. Borrow a horse and get paid to meander around the countryside.
Yes, but it's stopping them that's the hard bit. The technique I used for singlehanding locks was to aim the boat at the lock entrance, jump off while it was moving while holding the centre mooring rope and run to the lock gate to try and open it in time for the boat to drift in. Didn't always work, but it was fun when it did! Stopping it once it was in the lock could be tricky though.Arch said:I imagine, once you get it moving, a barge is a fairly efficient thing to keep moving, energy wise?
If I knew what a pigeons tongue was (I'm assuming this is not a literal thing), I might be able to tell you.yenrod said:I once heard that women who ride neds have big pigeons tongues..anyone confirm this at all![]()
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