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YOUR FREE W PATH TA L COPY O K T Sharing V iews PLEASE TAKE ONE NUMBER 11 The FREE paper for all TOWPATH users OCTOBER 2004 INSIDE THIS EDITION ANGLERS B OATERS C YCLISTS WALKERS WILDLIFE Nottingham Riverside Festival gets bigger than ever! Page 3 Towpath Crossword - Page 6 New Visitor Facilities at Torksey - Page 7 THE FESTIVAL held alongside the River Trent on the Victoria embankment is tradi- tionally one of the most popular events in the East Midlands’ summer diary. A wide variety of free attractions during the week- end included street theatre acts, stalls sell- ing crafts, collectables and continental and Ashton Canal ethnic markets, a street fair, fairground - The 70s rides plus outstanding examples of traction engines and a variety of visiting boats. Reopening - Paul Morgan of Nottingham City Council, a Page 18 member of the organising team, said, “Riverside Festival is all about discovering something new, whether it be something new to eat or drink, a new kind of music you’ve never heard before or a street artist that took you by surprise and made you Nick Greaves and James Waters from the WWII Re-enactment Society laugh! It’s such a fantastic weekend for everyone and this year it was bigger and better than ever.” More views on AgainstAgainst allall thethe odds.....odds..... page 10 Against all he torrential downpours of August threatened to the odds - scupper the Festival at Burton-on-Trent during a Festival 2004 Tfrustrating two weeks leading up to the Bank Holiday weekend. The organisers began to run out of time and one or views - NARROWBOATS two even wondered if the Festival would happen. Pages 22 & 23 A good early start to building leave only an interesting WANTED FOR BROKERAGE OR the Festival - and some drier springiness underfoot. The weather - provided a few days camp-site was full, two miles of CASH SALE grace allowing the ground to boats lay at their moorings Spotted dry out enough to give access to along the towpath, and a fleet of Flycatchers - smaller vehicles. Slowly the site buses waited at the hard stand- Halting the SEE OUR MAIN ADVERT ON PAGE 8 began to build - the race against ing car park organised to time was on again! replace the waterlogged one. decline - Saturday 28 August, the first Against all the odds, the IWA TEL: 0115 947 2696 day of the Festival dawned Festival, an annual event for Page 24 bright and clear at Shobnall more than 50 years, was ready E-Mail [email protected] Fields . The ground was rolled to welcome visitors once more. flat, the mud had disappeared to 2 TOWPATH TALK OCTOBER 2004 We want to hear from you about any towpath related topic, however unusual. Write to us at the address below. If you are sending any photographs, please tell us if you want them to Gone be returned to you. Fishing! Please write to: The Editor Towpath Talk Whisby Lodge Hill Croft Business Park Whisby Road Lincoln LN6 3FE Telephone 01522 697100 Fax: 01522 691010 COMING NEXT Email: [email protected] MONTH.... www.towpathtalk.co.uk Towpath Talk will be distributed in the first week of each month. If your contribution features a special event, please ensure it reaches us in plenty of time for inclusion. CONDITIONS Editorial is accepted subject to avail- ability of space and editorial policy on con- tent, and insertion cannot be guaran- teed. The publishers retain the right to edit material submitted for publication to render it suitable for our readership. Every effort is made to ensure accura- cy, but this may only be achieved through accurate and clear copy, and therefore the publishers cannot be held liable for errors or omissions in this publication. Design and layout by Bellcourt Limited, May House, 50 Lombard Street, Newark, Notts NG24 1XP Telephone 01636 613341 DUE TO THE PHENOMENAL SUCCESS OF THEIR NEW BROKERAGE SALES TRINITY MARINAS Views from REQUIRE BOATS TO SELL URGENTLY. TRINITY MARINA The Ellesmere Festival THE PLACE TO BASE FOR DETAILS TELEPHONE CHRISTINE DALLAS ON 01455 896820 NARROW BOAT NARROW BOAT “MY SANITY” “ANDANTE” 70FT AWKRIGHT HULL ASHBY 55FT WOLVERHAMPTON NARROW BOAT COMPANY FIT BOAT CO. 6 BERTH CRUISER BACK 1998 £48,000 £89,950 (TRINITY MOORING AVAILABLE (TRINITY MOORING WITH THIS BOAT) AVAILABLE WITH THIS BOAT) NARROWBOAT NARROW BOAT “TALLY HO” “DOUBLE DUTCH” 40FT TRAD-BACK 2+2 BERTH 1984 58FT BRIDGWATER BOATS 2002 4 £35,000 BERTH TRAD (TRINITY MOORING AVAILABLE £88,500 WITH THIS BOAT) (TRINITY MOORING AVAILABLE WITH THIS BOAT) NARROWBOAT “JOSIAH CLOWES” NARROWBOAT 36FT SEMI-TRAD, 2 BERTH BUILT “ALBION” 1972-3 60FT TRAD LIVABOARD FULLY £18,495 EQUIPPED AND READY TO (TRINITY LINEAR MOORING CRUISE AVAILABLE IF REQUIRED) £72,000 (A TRINITY MOORING AVAILABLE NARROW BOAT “HALFLING” WITH THIS BOAT) 1991 23FT SPRINGER 3 BERTH £10,000 NARROWBOAT “SMART MOVE” CRUISER 57FT TRAD BUILT 1991 “ANGEL” (LYING AT STOKE GOLDING) 1977 DAWNCRAFT 3 BERTH WITH SFS £61,500 £6,500 For further details on all the above boats contact CHRISTINE DALLAS ON 01455 896820 NOW Or call at Trinity Marinas, Coventry Road, Hinckley Leicester Riverside Festival TOWPATH TALK OCTOBER 2004 3 CANAL LIFESTYLE By David Scowcroft to base your boat. These boaters will have a you will have other people around the 2,000 miles of Otherwise the maximum winter mooring where they to endure/enjoy but it may canals and navigable rive- you can stay in one spot is leave the boat whilst they be noisy if the boatyard is rs. The majority of canals fourteen days. The only return to their home or building boats. A marina and rivers are adminis- exception to obtaining a take a long winter holiday. may not allow you to live tered by British Water- mooring is to ‘Continually We moor in the winter and aboard your boat; that is to ways. You are allowed to Cruise’. Continually Cruis- work - with a small pension be ‘Residential’. An inner moor for fourteen days on ing requires you to be con- we can afford to cruise the city mooring will be expen- the towpath side of the stantly on the move, you ‘season’, but in winter we sive, noisy and may suffer canal provided there is no pay for a mooring in a city are basically required to from vandalism. All these restriction posted and that move your boat at least 10 and then find work. There mooring areas may have you are not causing an kms a day and not return to are masses of office jobs waiting lists, the more obstruction. You cannot a past mooring for 14 days. available and we have desirable the area the moor on a lock landing In order to fulfil this you never been short of work longer the waiting list. will normally find it impos- for more than a week, the stage or water point - hire sible to have work at a stat- jobs just don’t pay very Another lifestyle is to use boaters please note. ic location or to have chil- much! your boat and to move Continued on page 9 dren who attend school. You have a choice of ou have hired a canal begging even demanding You will also experience lifestyles. One way is to boat and now you food. The boating communi- problems with registering treat the boat as a coun- Ywant to buy a boat to ty is one of the last polite, for a doctor or dentist and try/city cottage where you cruise the inland water- old-fashioned groups left in you may have trouble use the boat merely as a ways. Whilst hiring your the country; most boaters obtaining letters. temporary home enjoying narrowboat you will have talk, help each other and Most people who continual- the location but not moving seen that the canals have guard each others boats. ly cruise are those who the boat. This is fine pro- been restored and the bank There is something about the have a trade which can be vided you can find your sides renovated. No longer waterside which encourages completed on the canal ideal location, one you are canals smelly, oily rub- people to smile to acknowl- whilst moving location each enjoy; it can be at the end of bish strewn lengths of stag- edge each other and to day or so, such as engineer, a field, in a rural boat- nant water. The water in speak. carpenter, artist. The other yard/marina or an inner many canals is now crystal How do you join this commu- main segment cruising are clear, wildlife is flourishing nity? You need a boat but the retired who are doing city mooring. At the end of and breeding; swans now more importantly you will ‘The season’ which is basi- a field you may be remote come to peck at your boat need a mooring - somewhere cally April to October. and isolated, in a boatyard Getting away from it all Area stockists for: Stockists of: • Blakes • Blue Sea Systems • Comastic • Dri-Dek • Anodes • AC & DC Panels • Basins • Batteries • Bilge • Epifanes • Flojet Pumps • International • Jabsco Pumps, Pumps • Books • Cable • Calorifiers • Clocks • Control Impellors and Spares • Johnson Pumps and Impellors Panels • Cookers • Exhaust Systems • Fenders • Fire • Joton • Lee Sanitation • Masons • Maxview Extinguishers • Gas Detectors • Gas Systems • HEP 2o • Mobitronic/Waeco • Odorloss Toilet Fluid • Protecta- Water Systems • Lace Plates • Life Jackets • Lights • Maps Kote • Rylard • Shoreline Refrigeration • Shurflo Pumps • Mushroom Vents • Safety Ladders • Sea Searcher • Seats • Status Antennas • Sterling Power Products • Studer • Shower Trays and Fittings • Sinks • Toilets & Fluids Inverters • Vetus • Victron Energy • Webasto Heating • Water Heaters • Windows • Whale Pumps …and much more! FREEVIEW DIGITAL BOX & SHARP FLAT SCREEN TVs GIFT VOUCHERS - Ideal present for the boater in your life! Web: www.millarmarine.com Call Norman or Christine at Dobson’s Boatyard 01332 793358 Dobson’s Boatyard Chandlery • The Wharf • Shardlow • Derby • DE72 2GH Fax: 01332 799167 • E-mail: [email protected] 4 TOWPATH TALK OCTOBER 2004 Fax: 01522 691010 Email: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [email protected] us your views about any towpath related topic today.
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