A couple of weeks ago, half a dozen Dutch sailing boats were locked out onto the River at Heybridge Basin. It was just as well, because the lockkeeper need the space for about 10 Dutch sailing boats that were immediately locked into the Basin. As it was, three of the new boats had to moor in the lock overnight as they were all going back to the Netherlands the next day - and there was no space in the Basin itself. I'm not sure I would have sailed across the North Sea just for a day out in Essex!
DaveD -----Original Message----- From: Neil Arlidge <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:21 Subject: [canals-list] Re: Failing canals Adrian Stott wrote: >> So where are all these pleasure boats coming from? Netherlands, from the look of it. As ever. am getting sick about Brit bargees moaning about the Dutch, whizzing bout, they do get about and good for them. s is the way, we were befriended by crew from a couple of Tjalks (one motor nd the other retaining sailing stuff) on the Scarpe Superior. They told of heir travels, alomst TNC like! - eil Arlidge arge Maurice A / NB Earnest NC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
