MogM
New Member
Hello
I am new to boating and have a problem that I feel should be fairly easy to resolve but which I cannot seem to find the answer. I wish to buy a boat and have exhausted all the adverts and boatyards local to me and now looking further afield. When I eventually find the boat that I want I will have to get it home, now I do not want to have to get it loaded onto a transporter but would want to sail it home. So I come to my problem, how do I plan the route home ? I cannot find anywhere a map showing all the rivers and canals in the UK and how they link together. I appreciate that not all rivers and canals will connect with all others so there will be places where, to sail all the way home may be impossible but until I find a comprehensive map or atlas I cannot know. I have asked this question of both British Waterways and Environment Agency and drawn blanks, no answers to emails and when I telephone I am just referred to their websites which do not give me the info I need..
So please can anybody tell me of any book or books or publication that has the comprehensive information that I need together with heights of bridges, width of locks, depths of rivers etc as the boat I am hoping to get will have a wide beam and I know will not be able to navigate all waterways but I need to know which it will and which it won’t. I will also want to plan journeys round the UK perhaps taking weeks or even months to complete, travelling for a period and then leaving the boat at a marina or mooring for a couple of weeks while I go home and then return and continue the journey I am aware that sometimes I may need to go down a river to where it meets the sea and then follow the coast and then up another river to continue.
Any assistance in this will be greatly appreciated.
Mog.
I am new to boating and have a problem that I feel should be fairly easy to resolve but which I cannot seem to find the answer. I wish to buy a boat and have exhausted all the adverts and boatyards local to me and now looking further afield. When I eventually find the boat that I want I will have to get it home, now I do not want to have to get it loaded onto a transporter but would want to sail it home. So I come to my problem, how do I plan the route home ? I cannot find anywhere a map showing all the rivers and canals in the UK and how they link together. I appreciate that not all rivers and canals will connect with all others so there will be places where, to sail all the way home may be impossible but until I find a comprehensive map or atlas I cannot know. I have asked this question of both British Waterways and Environment Agency and drawn blanks, no answers to emails and when I telephone I am just referred to their websites which do not give me the info I need..
So please can anybody tell me of any book or books or publication that has the comprehensive information that I need together with heights of bridges, width of locks, depths of rivers etc as the boat I am hoping to get will have a wide beam and I know will not be able to navigate all waterways but I need to know which it will and which it won’t. I will also want to plan journeys round the UK perhaps taking weeks or even months to complete, travelling for a period and then leaving the boat at a marina or mooring for a couple of weeks while I go home and then return and continue the journey I am aware that sometimes I may need to go down a river to where it meets the sea and then follow the coast and then up another river to continue.
Any assistance in this will be greatly appreciated.
Mog.
