Narrowboat

Tomorrow is our annual owners meeting, which is usually a great time to catch up with others you normally see through the on-board diary.. Its been a few weeks since my last posting here, mainly the the next day’s video-diary of my September outing is half complete. Must finish it soon.

My video diaries are done using a Ricoh Caplio R6 on a suction tripod mount set to take photos at 5 second intervals. As you can appreciate that could mean a lot of photos. So how many? Well having now got all the photos from my trip down the GUC earlier this month onto my [...]

I read somewhere a list of “little known facts” that included a duck’s quack has no echo, and no one knows why.
Surely that can’t be true? Well I took five minutes out to have a search and found an article by the University of Salford Acoustics Dept .

“A duck’s quack doesn’t echo” is a much [...]

Just how low would a tunnel ceiling need to be before you’d really avoid going through? My first trip when I got back into canal holidays was on the Mont & Brec, that’s quite a low tunnel, and then when I bought into Silhouette it was based near the Harecastle and so I frequented that [...]

I reported previously that a fellow Ownerships boat had been caught in the July ‘07 floods. It had been swept up off its moorings (having already being secured to withstand any water level rise of several feet) and unceremoniously deposited on a weir.

It even featured in the news clips throughout the day on BBC news.
Well, [...]