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!
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.
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?
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.
Arch said:I imagine, once you get it moving, a barge is a fairly efficient thing to keep moving, energy wise?
yenrod said:I once heard that women who ride neds have big pigeons tongues..anyone confirm this at all