Caledonian Canal warning!

[cherod]

But it isn't "sensible safety", it's uncontrolled panic. The median age of people who died from coronavirus is 80+, the virus poses little threat to most of the population. More people died in the last month from common flu than from coronavirus, but nobody panics about that.

but to be fair , apart from the age bracket there are other at risk groupings , like the obese , , smokers , drinkers etc ,, if it was just a case of shutting society down for the sake of our old folk then that could i am sure be acceptable , but when it comes to putting everyone else lifes in turmoil to save those whose chosen life styles have put themselves at risk then that is a different situation .

 

[Sharky34]

But it isn't "sensible safety", it's uncontrolled panic. The median age of people who died from coronavirus is 80+, the virus poses little threat to most of the population. More people died in the last month from common flu than from coronavirus, but nobody panics about that.

If you believe it.

 

[Sharky34]

but what , after all these months and endless discussion , do you not understand ? ,, what some people see as " sensible safety " others see as paranoid hysteria which seems to be causing more problems than it is solving .

You obviously don't understand either.

 

[Sharky34]

but to be fair , apart from the age bracket there are other at risk groupings , like the obese , , smokers , drinkers etc ,, if it was just a case of shutting society down for the sake of our old folk then that could i am sure be acceptable , but when it comes to putting everyone else lifes in turmoil to save those whose chosen life styles have put themselves at risk then that is a different situation .

You seem to be out of touch with the realities, young people are catching & suffering, not the 80+.

 

[pvb]

If you believe it.

I think there's a dedicated forum for people who want to argue about coronavirus...

 

[Sharky34]

I think there's a dedicated forum for people who want to argue about coronavirus...

You started it.

 

[cherod]

You obviously don't understand either.

 

[srm]

You started it.

Oh dear children, back to primary school playground behavior is it.

 

[cherod]

are there any cases in the Caledonian Canal ?

 

[Quandary]

It is easy to get help on the Crinan, in fact Scottish Canals publish a list of people like me who will do it, it is very slow doing it on your own particularly if you obey the rules and go back to close down each time you leave a lock, but the Cally is 60 miles with three major flights many miles apart,the practicality of assisting a boat through is a lot less. Strangely Scottish Canals regard the handling of boat lines by 'pilots' as no problem, but then they do not have any reponsibility for our welfare. On the long flights in the Cally small boats were normally either tied along side another or walked through by the crew, in fact the hire cruisers are directed to drag their boats from lock to lock so it would seem that they may be over reacting, but have you ever tried telling anybody that?

 

[Sharky34]

Oh dear children, back to primary school playground behavior is it.

He's been a covid denier since it started.

 

[Sharky34]

are there any cases in the Caledonian Canal ?

Shopping trollies even.

 

[cherod]

Shopping trollies even.

and at tthis time of year usually a few nut cases

 

[Biggles Wader]

Whatever happened to the Scot 2 tug/floating pub at Laggan?

 

[pvb]

He's been a covid denier since it started.

Flu and pneumonia killing six times more people as Covid-19

 

[AntarcticPilot]

It is easy to get help on the Crinan, in fact Scottish Canals publish a list of people like me who will do it, it is very slow doing it on your own particularly if you obey the rules and go back to close down each time you leave a lock, but the Cally is 60 miles with three major flights many miles apart,the practicality of assisting a boat through is a lot less. Strangely Scottish Canals regard the handling of boat lines by 'pilots' as no problem, but then they do not have any reponsibility for our welfare. On the long flights in the Cally small boats were normally either tied along side another or walked through by the crew, in fact the hire cruisers are directed to drag their boats from lock to lock so it would seem that they may be over reacting, but have you ever tried telling anybody that?

When I did it a few years back, we were asked to turn the engine off in the flights of locks and to warp Capricious through. As that was actually easier than motoring forward, that's what we did!

 

[Sharky34]

Flu and pneumonia killing six times more people as Covid-19

Worldwide?
Also, who said only the dead were casualties?

 

[pvb]

Worldwide?
Also, who said only the dead were casualties?

You're so predictable!

Go and argue with the mob in the Covid forum - you know you want to.

 

[Sharky34]

You're so predictable!

Go and argue with the mob in the Covid forum - you know you want to.

Your so boring, same old, same old.

 

[Toodle-oo!]

We just came through the canal last week. They've got a skeleton crew operating so it's not really possible to assist anyone. Should they have more staff? Tough one - the traffic is much lighter than we expected (previously transited in 2014) - so they'd be losing even more if they put on the full complement!
Once again the staff on the canal were really helpful and it was a generally very good experience - though opportunities ashore were somewhat restricted due to C-19.
I agree that it would be very likely that the singlehander would be able to get temporary crew at each set of locks - not sure whether that would really satisfy the guy at Corpach sufficiently to let him enter though...