[email protected] wrote: > > On 18 Jul 2010, at 10:31, Brian on Harnser wrote: > > > I don't know of anyone who has done it in the past 12 months but I > > think Draco did it a few years back and when the gig was at The Swan a > > load of us went up and winded.. > > It could be iffy at the moment if the water levels are right down. > > > Thanks, Brian. Plenty of water in the river here at Pangbourne, but > don't know what it's like above Oxford.
I haven't been there by boat for a few years (when we did, we turned Fulbourne fairly easily - and on another occasion we turned about a mile further up where a stream comes in on the south side) but I was up at the roundhouse (now owned by one of my canal restoration buddies) a few weeks ago and noticed that the shoal on the left (when facing upstream) just by the turning point is quite bad these days. Some really quite small children were wading quite a way out into the river. How deep is Sanity Again, and is there much difference between the bow and stern? If I was trying to turn Fulbourne, I'd probably put the much deeper stern into the Colne and leave the relatively shallow bows on the side where the shoal is. Martin L
