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Gloucester & Sharpness Canal | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. September 14, 2015. In UK Canal Days. Late September morning in Gloucester Docks. The outline of the first of the canal’s lift bridges. Can just be seen on the right. Sun is out, time to go! The first mile or so of canal is industrial then, it is enveloped. By woodland with the occasional farm house until Purton. Where the landscape changes dramatically. Many canals had a distinct house style for the lock keepers. On the b...
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Sleaford Navigation, | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. September 5, 2015. In UK Canal Days. One of our main reasons for going to the Witham so early in the year was. To attend the Sleaford Navigation Society, annual boat rally. And explore the Sleaford Navigation which runs up from the Witham. At Chapel Hill, where it is often known as Kyme Eau. It then runs through the centre of South Kyme but skirts Anwick,. By which time it has become the Slea Navigation. The Old River Slea runs south of and parallel to.
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Livorno, Tuscany, Fosse Reale Canal | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. Livorno, Tuscany, Fosse Reale Canal. August 24, 2015. Venezia Nuove Livorno Canals, something a little different. In the course of our Queen Vic trip round the Med, Sue and I discovered this. Amazing little network of small coastal canals at the Port of Livorno, Tuscany. Nowadays Livorno serves as a cruise port for the hoards visiting Pisa or Florence. Most cruise passengers head off out of the town like lemmings. Explore the Venezia Nuove area. This can...
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Stratford Canal (South) | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. September 20, 2015. In UK Canal Days. At the beginning of September we attended the Bi-Annual UK meeting of the. Australian Canal Society at the Blue Lias (Pub) at Stockton Bridge on the GU Canal. In addition to a great meeting of the UK friends of the ACS we picked up. Our Glorious Leader, Jan Roden, who had flown in from Sydney. For the event and arrived with Jan and John Finch on board nb Fringilla. When the canal was modernised in the 1930’s for.
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Mekong Boating. Saigon to Phnom Penh | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. Mekong Boating. Saigon to Phnom Penh. October 15, 2015. Embarkation at MY THO on the Mekong. Our home for the next 8 days, the RV Mekong Pandaw, she is about a meter. Wider than our Irrawaddy boat, the RV Orient and she was also longer. And had a deeper draft, but like the original Irrawaddy Flotilla steamers. She also had a forward saloon which was located. Where we had spent our open air cocktail hour(s) on the Irrawaddy. The reason for this was a tota...
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The Godalming Navigation | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. September 16, 2016. In UK Canal Days. The Godalming Navigation was opened in 1764 and extended the Wey Navigation. By 4 miles to Godalming. It was also joined by the Wey and Arun Canal in 1816. Strange as it may seem, the Godalming Navigation felt totally different to the Wey Navigation, the locks are 2″ narrower but still take two narrow boats and the draft. At 2′-6″ is 6″ shallower but we did not notice either change. The old Guildford Boat House.
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Welcome | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. April 5, 2015. In UK Canal Days. Welcome to Braggabout Life – an adventure in boating and waterways. The boat is ready to go! After landing at Heathrow we drove up to Bromsgrove in the snow to have a look at our purchase. After a brief look round we got back in the car to find somewhere warm and cosy. Not what one would call a thorough inspection. As it turned out, all was in order, so all we had to do was. Organise our personal possessions and move in.
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Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. Gas Street to Spaghetti Junction - Braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. Winter Adventures off the Boat. Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. Gas Street to Spaghetti Junction. April 2, 2015. March 5, 2016. In the early evening and after a days shopping in Birmingham. We walked back to Braggabout via the Mail Box Centre. The exit from the building is at first floor level and we were mystified. Bright red/orange hue in the night sky and were totally oblivious of what was to come next day. Farmer’s Bridge flight. Of 13 locks (80ft).
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Sleaford Navigation, | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. September 5, 2015. In UK Canal Days. One of our main reasons for going to the Witham so early in the year was. To attend the Sleaford Navigation Society, annual boat rally. And explore the Sleaford Navigation which runs up from the Witham. At Chapel Hill, where it is often known as Kyme Eau. It then runs through the centre of South Kyme but skirts Anwick,. By which time it has become the Slea Navigation. The Old River Slea runs south of and parallel to.
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Cardiff Bay, Penarth Dock & River Ely, | braggaboutlife
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Adventures aboard Braggabout- A 58 ft narrow boat. Cardiff Bay, Penarth Dock and River Ely,. December 11, 2015. In Docks and Ports. Cardiff Bay Barrage, Tidal Locks, Cycle way and Lift Bridges. Cardiff Bay Locks with lift bridge. There are 3 locks in the Barrage two are 8m wide. And 1 is 10.5m wide, all are 40m long. The sector gates are 16m high and give access to the. River Severn 24 hours a day, at all states of the tide. Each lock chamber contains a floating mooring pontoon. The richest family in the...
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