Mull of Kintyre

Hope the OP had a good trip - presumably through the canal based upon the last post.

One thing I had not realised / forgotten - it appears that this Canal, which relies almost entirely on leisure boaters doing through trips, is CLOSED ON SUNDAYS, and stops locking at 1600 every day including Saturday, even in the current "Spring" operating hours.
Hence just when people might be wanting to do trips back out from winter berths in the Clyde the possibility of a weekend transit seems near impossible. A 6 day operating week seems fair enough, but surely the closed day should be mid week if they want any customers.
 
dunedin said:
Hope the OP had a good trip - presumably through the canal based upon the last post.

One thing I had not realised / forgotten - it appears that this Canal, which relies almost entirely on leisure boaters doing through trips, is CLOSED ON SUNDAYS, and stops locking at 1600 every day including Saturday, even in the current "Spring" operating hours.
Hence just when people might be wanting to do trips back out from winter berths in the Clyde the possibility of a weekend transit seems near impossible. A 6 day operating week seems fair enough, but surely the closed day should be mid week if they want any customers.
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You're havering Alan. Frae https://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/winter-operating-hours/
When the canal re-opens to through traffic on Monday 20th March 2017, normal winter operating hours of Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm will apply for that week. From Monday 27th March the canal’s spring operating hours of 8.30am – 5.30pm 7 days per week will come into effect.
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Anyway all leisure boaters are retired old farts who have forgotten what weekends were.
 
Hah. Kids today. In ye olde days the Crinan Canal was only open on one Sunday per year (I'll leave working out which as an exercise for the reader) and the sealocks were operational until 8.30pm and until 10pm in the summer.
 
My guess is the first Sunday of the Glasgow fair? You must be older than you look?
The concept that these days the Crinan Canal is run for people in boats is a common fallacy, boats are tolerated because the visitors in their camper vans need entertainment and what is more entertaining than a wee wummin sexily dressed in Dubs and Mustos scrabbling in the wet mud trying to push a four ton gate while her fat hubby gets steadily more impatient as he struggles with the twin helms of his farty futter?
 
JumbleDuck said:
Hah. Kids today. In ye olde days the Crinan Canal was only open on one Sunday per year (I'll leave working out which as an exercise for the reader) and the sealocks were operational until 8.30pm and until 10pm in the summer.
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That would be fine, The MOK is not restricted by time, just tides and weather... :)
 
Quandary said:
My guess is the first Sunday of the Glasgow fair? You must be older than you look?
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Why thank you. You are of course quite right about the Sunday. The sea locks operated late in the 90s - I had a sabbatical to fly gliders and sail in the Solway and when I came back the current shorter hours were in place.
 
JumbleDuck said:
Hah. Kids today. In ye olde days the Crinan Canal was only open on one Sunday per year (I'll leave working out which as an exercise for the reader) and the sealocks were operational until 8.30pm and until 10pm in the summer.
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i remember getting through 2 of the three bridges on a Sunday by donating a bottle of whisky to each bridge keeper as we went (i was a kid at the time). my introduction to that alternative scottish currency... and we did all the locks ourselves except the sea locks obviously
 
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