Well, I hope not too many of you are planning an autumn cruise between now and the 8th October, because you will not be able to pass much further than the Fox & Hounds at Fleet. Boats longer than 43' beware! (we can turn Merlin at NEHWACA)
The canal is to be closed just the Fleet side of the swing bridge at Zebon Copse. There is a culvert being bored under the canal bed. Unfortunately it appears that most of us did not receive any notification.

River Wey
Triggs lock will be closed from dusk on Sunday 10th November until 8am on Monday 28th November.

Edited by author 10-09-2002 09:00 AM
The Fox and Hounds rally will be held on 21/09/02 help would be appreciated, on the Friday afternoon to set up the site, the Saturday when we are running the Bar-B-Q Cake Stall and the site

Edited by author 03-09-2002 04:00 PM
The Basingstoke Canal Authority have today (3rd September) annonced that:

The Canal will be CLOSED at North Warnborough between Swan Bridge and Lodge Bridge:

October 1st to 8th Inclusive.

The towpath will be open but the canal will be dammed to enamble a culvert to be laid beneath.

Keith Williamson Hon Sec BCBC

Yes Lesley, it was a lovely weekend and many thanks to Dave and all who worked so hard to organise it. Several years ago I wrote a letter about the lift bridge pointing out that it was a health and safety issue and the engineer went to look at it and improvements were made so complaints do work. The difficulty with phone calls is to ensure they get to the right person but if there are enough some of them should be acted on.

We had a really enjoyable weekend at Odiham, but it was marred a little when we heard how hard it is to drop the lift bridge, so decided to try it for ourselves. Nigel said that it went up easily enough but bringing it down was ridiculously difficult and he doubted that any member of the fairer sex would be able to even move the windlass.
So here is the number you need to ring to make your complaint: Area Surveyor North Tel: 01256 764444. I left name and address but could not be promised a reply as there are a lot of staff on leave, so will probably be ringing again next week! Please take the time to get the message across.

I have received 2 items of correspondance of interest to members (14th May):

National IWA Rally at Huddersfield: www.waterways.org.uk/festivals
IWA member boat entry of £28 includes 6 crew.
IWA affiliated club members £28 includes 2 crew.
Site entry only Adults £7.50 Senior Citizens and IWA members £4

Reading College Boat Maintenance Courses.
There are now 3 courses.
Marine Diesel and Boat Maintenance.
Boat Painting.
Boat Welding.

Further details at www.reading-college.ac.uk/marine
or
myself or Tony Brooks 0118 967 5246 home 0118 987 4285.
AWCC club members get a £10 discount


Keith Williamson
Secretary

It has been suggested that it would be useful for visitors to see a hints and suggestions page on the site eg good places to moor, easily accessible shops etc. If you have any ideas for the part of the canal you know best can you jot them down and hand them to any committee member.

Don't forget those cakes for Colt Hill!

The annual rally at Colt Hill will soon be upon us. Assistance is urgently required to, set up,run and breakdown the site. The club stand and cake stall need helpers, cakes will be needed for sale at the rally

Dont forget for your diary.
Odiham Rally over the Jubillee Weekend 1st to 4th June
Fox and Gound Sept 21 - 22nd September.
Keith Williamson.

Stoppage.

Surrey County Council will be emptying and inspecting Ash Embankment on Wed 20th and Thu21st March.

For Latest info ring BCA 01252 376 523

If you are reading Canal and Riverboat March 2002, keep an eye open
1. Article on Ron Kettles farewell - page 51 and
2 The article on page 9 about my new business hiring boats over the internet - "Waterways Holidays.com"
Lesley

Re The AGM
Loking forward to seeing you all there.

There will be the usual election of committee members.

NEW BLOOD is definatly require this year. If you would like to join the committe please contact David Venn or any other committee mmeber.

Keith Williamson
Hon Secretary

We will be going to Bridge Barn though the theme for the decorated boat competition doesn't sound easy (Fools!).
Some of you will know that Pablo and Jill went on the BCN cruise over the midsummer weekend this year organised by WRG.They were accompanied by their daughter and son-in-law and have just heard that their log of the weekend gained first prize!
Don't forget the AGM everyone- details on the diary.

We've changed our minds for the time being and are keeping Merlin as the boat we were hoping to get fell through. Who's going to the Easter rally this year? See you there.

Edited by author 06-01-2002 11:10 AM
Hi all
For those of you who worry about it the final BSS documents are now available for download at:
http://www.boatsafetyscheme.com

You will need Acrobat reader to view these.

Thanks to AWCC for address.
KW