On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:58 AM, roger_millin <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike wrote: >> Somewhere around here I guess: >> >> http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=53.36216125157998~-0.7755761593580246&lvl=15&sty=s&eo=0 >> > Yes that's the spot. You pass the Sturton pumping station and are doing the > right turn into Knaith Reach. The Trent guide advises sticking to the right > here but that was where it was wrong in this case. By the time I had > pirouetted, the narrow boats that I had overtaken before were just coming > into sight past the earlier pump house at the left hand bend. However, we > kept an eye open for them all the way down the straight Knaith Reach and they > never came into sight so I can only surmise that they ran into trouble on the > same bend that I did. > In fairness, this bend was the only one where my old chart got it wrong so it > is possible that a later edition might have a correction for that bend.
All the really sharp corners on the Trent are quite shallow on the outside, and while I know the course on some bends are shown properly on the chart it seems others are not. I wonder about the legalities of producing such a publication with errors in it which could cause expensive damage to more fragile craft. It seems that some of these problems aren't being corrected in the newer editions (the one I have compared it against was about 15 years old!) hence I didn't buy one. Of course the real trick is to learn to read the river, and while I did manage to find the bottom last year just upstream of Laneham, them shallows weren't shown on the TBA map either! http://tinyurl.com/34crk64 Glad you enjoyed the Trent it's one of my favourite waterways. Mike -- Michael Askin http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
