On 10/2/07, Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering about the original notion when the GU was configured > with 14' locks. Do you think it was so that a pair of nbs could pass > the lock more quickly and conveniently or was it to allow for craft of > double the nb width to pass ?
I'm sure someone will be along in a moment who knows the details better than I, but I understand the idea was to have a barge route all the way to Birmingham. This didn't work out to well, as the cost of widening the Warwick Canal to full width was deemed too expensive and so was never made wider than 12 foot?. Wide (or is that broad?) boats were tried, but they weren't very sucessful, but some improve designed narrowboats were, and so the Grand Union fleet was built as narrow boats. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
