Forth Clyde canal

[chrisclin]

I opened my new copy of PBO today and was fascinated by the Regional News entry for Scotland showing a fully rigged Nauticat 331 in the newly opened Carron Sealock.
I wonder how she got there! The Carron Sealock is the old one, reached after going under the M9 and a pipeline.
I rather think they mean the Helix Sealock. Even so, having traversed the canal in my Hunter Pilot I doubt that a Nauticat would get more than a couple of hundred yards before hitting the M9 motorway bridge - and that's with the masts down. The canal guide gives a maximum air draft of 3 metres.
This is either sloppy journalism or Scottish Canals issuing a misleading press release.

 

[Bilgediver]

I opened my new copy of PBO today and was fascinated by the Regional News entry for Scotland showing a fully rigged Nauticat 331 in the newly opened Carron Sealock.
I wonder how she got there! The Carron Sealock is the old one, reached after going under the M9 and a pipeline.
I rather think they mean the Helix Sealock. Even so, having traversed the canal in my Hunter Pilot I doubt that a Nauticat would get more than a couple of hundred yards before hitting the M9 motorway bridge - and that's with the masts down. The canal guide gives a maximum air draft of 3 metres.
This is either sloppy journalism or Scottish Canals issuing a misleading press release.

She would have been down at the new sealock awaiting the mast crane in order to head up the new canal to the Horses.

 

[Quandary]

This is either sloppy journalism or Scottish Canals issuing a misleading press release.

I would give you really good odds that it is the latter. SC decided on a summer compromise on their crazy decision not to operate the Crinan on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, it has been operating for more than a month but they have yet to get round to telling their customers about it. PR is not their strong point, but then what is?

 

[ctva]

I would give you really good odds that it is the latter. SC decided on a summer compromise on their crazy decision not to operate the Crinan on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, it has been operating for more than a month but they have yet to get round to telling their customers about it. PR is not their strong point, but then what is?

Or even their latest change… ?

 

[WGWarburton]

@ctva & @Quandary: in the absence of any information from SC, can you let us know what's changed please?

 

[ctva]

@WGWarburton ,here direct from SC…

 

[WGWarburton]

@WGWarburton ,here direct from SC…

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Aha! Thanks very much.

Can you let me know how this was disseminated, please? I didn't find it on their website, nor on their social media feed and haven't seen it in an email from them... maybe I missed it. We reorganised holiday dates because of the sea lock being closed midweek, so it would be good to be in the loop!

Cheers,
W.

 

[ctva]

Aha! Thanks very much.

Can you let me know how this was disseminated, please? I didn't find it on their website, nor on their social media feed and haven't seen it in an email from them... maybe I missed it. We reorganised holiday dates because of the sea lock being closed midweek, so it would be good to be in the loop!

Cheers,
W.

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Sorry, couldn’t help that.

 

[Quandary]

Additionally, I had welcomed the new extended transit pontoon installed at Ardrishaig back in the spring after they dredged the harbour. You will be impressed to learn that three months later the ramp linking them to the shore is still fenced off so that it is not possible to get ashore unless you use your dinghy and scramble up the sea wall. There were steps but they dumped a truck full of rock armour over them.
They really care about their customers you know and are really determined to build their business back to what it was when British Waterways ran it.