Welcome to Scotland?

[ylop]

Could it be meeting you every day that makes them this way? I suggest you go and read the last paragraph of your OP though where you both imply that the staff are unhelpful and attribute the issue to "since the change to SC"...

As for the F&C taking masts down probably means it is actually more viable for someone to offer a road transit service from Port Edgar (avoiding the drudge up to Grangemouth) and going wherever you want - e.g. To Dumstaffnage missing out the Crinan too. Save canal fees, save time, reduce risk of damage in the canals, go somewhere different each year, not the same size restrictions as the F&C.

Kelpies is heaving all the time. I don't understand it, but in terms of return for ordinary tax payer rather than yachties, it is clearly not a bad Project.

 

[awol]

As for the F&C taking masts down probably means it is actually more viable for someone to offer a road transit service from Port Edgar (avoiding the drudge up to Grangemouth) and going wherever you want - e.g. To Dumstaffnage missing out the Crinan too. Save canal fees, save time, reduce risk of damage in the canals, go somewhere different each year, not the same size restrictions as the F&C.

Just did a quick google ~£760 to lift a 10m boat at Port E and get it back in the water at Dunstaffnage and then there is the road transport cost on top so probably well over £1k. This compares to £151 through the F/C ditch - mast up and down is included - though it has to be a pretty shallow draft 10m boat to do it.
Not that I am recommending the F/C ditch - my preferred route has always been round the top but I have never actually managed it, ending up cruising up/down the Great Glen each time instead (a mere £360 for a return journey).

 

[Quandary]

Could it be meeting you every day that makes them this way? I suggest you go and read the last paragraph of your OP though where you both imply that the staff are unhelpful and attribute the issue to "since the change to SC"...

Good one! I am suitably chastened. but not enough to resist countering by expressing my satisfaction that I never have to meet you.

 

[ylop]

If you are a crinan live aboard / regular I suspect we have at least exchange polite nods.

 

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It's a fact that older people become more grumpy and less flexible. They also find change difficult to deal with. Britain's aging population proves the point. I imagine having to hold all that shit in all day until one gets home from work doesn't help either.