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Tuesday 14 May 2013

Updates - May 2013 (2)

Narrowboat on the Trent
 
Pages 13, 38.  VHF Radio
 
Experience last week has shown that mobile-phone network access on the tidal Trent is still patchy, and the situation differs with various network providers.  Therefore, we still recommend that communicating by VHF radio remains the safest option for boat crews, and it is worthwhile gaining the required training and qualifications to do so (page 38).  Most people enjoy the challenge and feel more in control on the tidal Trent when they can hear, and communicate with, lock-keepers and other vessels in the vicinity.
 
Page 20. Cranfleet to Beeston
 
Delete the words "...are limited visitor moorings on the floating pontoon and..."  CRT has now placed "no mooring" signs on the pontoon.
 
Page 21.  Gunthorpe
 
To gain access to the "deluxe sanitary station with palatial showers" a door-opening code has to be obtained from the lock-keeper.
 

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Updates - May 2013

 
Chesterfield Canal  -  A Richlow Guide
 
Pages 16 and 18.  Seth Ellis Trip-boat (Retford).
 
The trip-boat Seth Ellis (of the Chesterfield Canal Trust) now operates from the Hop Pole pub, near bridge 59.
   
Page 24.  Navigation Notes.  Shireoaks Marina.
 
Longer vessels travelling up the canal may find it easier to reverse into the basin.  The water-points are in some of the lighting columns on the visitor moorings.
 
Page 24.  Shireoaks.
 
Laura's Coffee Shop is now open near bridge 38.  (Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, other than Bank Holidays).  Some may remember it as Nona's cafe, closed when Dawn Siddons moved to run the coffee shop at Hollingwood Hub (map 12).
New owner Laura Elliott was Dawn's assistant at Hollingwood Hub and has now moved to Shireoaks to run her own business.  See page 40 edit below.



Page 36.  Supplies, Retford.
 
Calor Gas is also available from the canalside Jewsons builders merchants, near bridge 56 in Retford.
 
Page 40.  Pub and Cafe List.
 
Changed Telephone Numbers.  The Boat Inn (bridge 66) is now 01777 703273, and they now offer accommodation.  The Hop Pole pub (bridge 59) is now 01777 704438.
The new Laura's Coffee Shop (bridge 38) at Shireoaks is 07946 042362.