Where in the UK is the speed limit not 4 mph?

[Frosty]

Eeee by eck them wa days. Those pictures are enlightening and I am appalled that someone would discard a rubber surgical glove already inflated in the canal, whats up wiv people?

Looks a little void of water too!! perhaps piston broke might think now that cruising the canal at 40 MPh might not be possible.

As a kid I sat for hours at Copley canal, just down from Elland catching little perch. I was on my dads land opposite the path so the bailiff could do nothing. Up a bit from Sowerby bridge dock.

[peter radclyffe]

the average speed on the london ring road m 25 is the same as it was in the city centre 100 years ago
5 m p h

[pistnbroke]

perhaps if some of you people could learn to read you would work out that I dont want to do 40 kts but the boats I have are not displacement hulls but need to be on the plane at about 20 kts..... A sensible question I posed about where I could use them ....seems nowhere but at sea .....

[John.E]

AFAIK the Cleddau below Lawrenny Quay.

[peter radclyffe]

Originally Posted by pistnbroke

Sorry frosty why would you want to throw a bucket in the canal ??

From what I have found out from the links ....(as suspected ) Britian is a miserable place for people with boats ....carnt even get it on the plane for efficiency and places wanting 15 quid to use the boat ramp....sorry mates staying here .....and the Noosa river is not a Canal Frosty it has the biggest saltwater lake in the southern hemisphere part way along ....

your damn right there we ran aground in a 70ft tug on the thames once
the port of london authority came along huffing & puffing
& said
you cant run aground there mate, you'll get a fine

[peter radclyffe]

its probably better if you dont use the beautiful parts of the canals but
i think it woul be a very good idea if you & 1000,s of jetskiers used the industrial wasteland that is a lot of englands canal system, the cops cant nab you all
& it would force the apathetic authorities to clean & repair the crumbling state of junk, chinatown decay, trolleys, bikes etc
& if all the junkies & drunks which hang out like trolls under bridges in this wasteland saw you doing 30 knots it might give them something to live for
they might stop killing themselves
& join a waterski club,
if it stopped one more junkie or drunk dying
it would be worth it
you could alert the lazy local councils into rebuilding the canal infrastructure by only skiing where the canals are worst
it may force their hand
because of the press coverage
& everybody could have some fun