On 18 Aug 2008, at 09:12, David Cragg wrote: > Sorry no idea about the moorings. What is obvious is that to make > the moorings for the show boats (eco) BW have cut down all the > treees/bushes on the offside which were the nesting sites of lots > of Moorhens. One assumes it was done in the non nesting season.We > have seen water voles along there too. > > --- On Sun, 8/17/08, Ann Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Ann Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [canals-list] Re: IWA National site > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 10:16 PM > > > > > > > --- In canals-list@ yahoogroups. com, Malcolm <mnmailing1@ ...> wrote: >> >> >> There's not been much chatter about the National this year - maybe >> few >> people here are going ?. >> >> Does anyone know anything about the moorings - specifically where S12 >> may be please ? >> >> Malcolm >> -- > We are setting off in the morning to tow Gamebird down to Venetian > Marine on the Middlewich branch where we will launch her. We will > cruise down to the National (mooring is D11B) before returning via the > Trent and Mersey. Sorry, I don't know where S12 is (our "envelope" is > packed away) but I think the IWA site has a map of the site somewhere > which might show the moorings. > I have now gone "no mail" > S12 is on the offside of the Shroppie, by the main site, between the workers boat moorings and the exhbition boats.
Not sure when the trees were cut back, but quite recently, I think. I've continued (with some effort) blogging about the National set up, and am about to do another. Site is presently very wet, but we're building on the St Ives experience to cope with it. All the best Bruce Napier www.nbsanity.me.uk http://nbsanity.blogspot.com Living In Sanity [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
