BCNS Challenge 2009

The BCN challenge took place again this year, after an absence of several years.  Boaters had to travel for a maximum of 24 hours between 09:00 Saturday and 15:00 Sunday and finishing with a gathering of boats and boaters in Walsall Basin.

Points are awarded for the locks and miles travelled with bonus marks for travelling over little used sections of the BCN.

The weather was great with a festival atmosphere in Walsall.

It was organised by Graham Whorton, Chairman of the Birmingham Canal Navigations Society (BCNS), seen here talking to one of the challengers on his phone.

About 37 boats were entered with many of them successfully reaching Walsall Basin, in a succession of boats arriving and departing during the day.

We’re moored at Tame Valley Junction and heading to Salford Junction and beyond to film the Warwickshire Ring (clockwise) over the next week.

Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 22:29       

 

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1. Hi,

   The hideous dark blue “thing” on the deck of Tawny Owl in the foreground is the remains of a fishermans keep net we picked up at the bottom of the Crow. It took a quarter of an hour of bowhauling, hacksawing, knifework, swimming and swearing to remove it from the prop!

   Richard

   Comment by Richard Powell — On 29-06-09 at 12:56

2. Richard: I’m sorry you had all that trouble with the keep net. Just think of it as a good turn for others who will be spared the trouble of getting it around their propellor.

   It’s pity there aren’t points for rubbish collected in the BCN Challenge or you would have done well.

   Comment by Paul — On 29-06-09 at 13:21

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