Narrowboat

Andrew noted in his twitter box at GrannyButtons that CanalPlanAC was down. It was for me too, so I checked with a site-Uptime service and it said the server was down (that is mihalis.net rather than the canalplanac domain). So a bit of digging and I found:
Nick Atty’s Canal Route planner (Canalplan AC) will be [...]

There are tons of canal events and festivals that occur, and whilst large ones such as Crick will always attract 1000’s of visitors, how do you make a less known one a successful event? One way could be to host an unusual competition, such as the Duck Race being held in the Delph Locks for [...]

Granny Buttons posted about the canal boat magazine game, and several bloggers have taken the challenge. So I thought I’d be like a sheep and join in:

What’s your favourite canal?
The one I’m on at the time. Each usually has something I like about, such as Northern Oxford looking at the shortening that occurred. Then again [...]

You’re chugging along on your boat at 3mph when suddenly something gets caught on your propeller, maybe  it just makes a brief noise, so you give a blast in reverse and it clears, or maybe it stops dead and so you engine stalls. Either way its usually just a minor inconvenience, it just slows you [...]

Not many posts recently, I guess because its cold and I’m not on the boat! What I have been doing is adding photo’s on canalplan mainly of the places without photo’s, but some with just the one. So you can go to the gazetteer and browse your planned route, which is quite good. My time [...]