Narrow boat trips in the Black Country

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Narrow boat trips in the Black Country

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Anyone know of any?

I am sort of wondering when we hit 100,000 about a pubcrawl
or if we get tanked up a front crawl in the canal

I have always fancied a boating holiday

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we could borrow the clubhouse down at hawes basin and go for a paddle in dudly no 2 as it only about 2 to 3 ft deep :lol: :lol:
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They have Narrow Boats near where I live that you can hire , they also do free boat rides on the canal on a weekend, the ones for hire are lovely inside all mod cons. :-)

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This is a good one : http://www.sherbornewharf.co.uk/trips.htm
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Antie Em wrote:This is a good one : http://www.sherbornewharf.co.uk/trips.htm



It looks lovely AuntieEm, would not mind a meal on there while sailing down the canal. :grin:

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something like that would be great dontcha think
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They've been doing that for years where i live!!!! :roll:

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Rob wrote:They've been doing that for years where i live!!!! :roll:

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Yeah but we aint in Holland!

So wondered about the BC area someone mentioned they are involved in narrowboats
and I can't remember who now :oops:
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The BC Museum do Narrow Boat trips through the Lime Stone Caves, we keep meaning to go.

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linell wrote:The BC Museum do Narrow Boat trips through the Lime Stone Caves, we keep meaning to go.

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Remember to take something warm even if you go on a warm day as it can be chilly in the caves.

If it is a busy time of year I have gone more or less straight down to the bottom and booked a place -- if it is busy then you can go for a wander nearby and if not go straight on and then don't have to worry -- sometimes do the mine first as that tends to be the other attraction that has a queue.
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Thanks for the very useful tips MG, will take a woolly pulley with me, no worries, can't stand being cold. :P

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I suppose this would be out of the question?

http://www.stourbridge.com/stourbridge- ... -trips.htm :?
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That looks good
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I think we should rent a boat for a few days
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Northern Lass wrote:I think we should rent a boat for a few days


OK - I'll go for that - will you be the "skipper"
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