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Author: Flash GordonFlash Gordon Date: Oct 23, 2006 10:43
My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
Now back to your scheduled programming...
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Flash Gordon
In the land of the curried breakfasts
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Author: BazBaz Date: Oct 23, 2006 13:11
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
wrote:
>My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>
>Now back to your scheduled programming...
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Baz
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Author: BazBaz Date: Oct 23, 2006 13:47
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:32:24 -0700, muddy cat gmail.com>
wrote:
>In article 4ax.com>,
> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
>> wrote:
>>
>>>My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>>>holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>>>great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>>>like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>>
>>>Now back to your scheduled programming...
>>
>> I know nothing of the Great Lakes but there is a lot of Houseboating
>> in my part of Canandia ....
>
>Think Edmund Fitzgerald...
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Author: Larry GreenLarry Green Date: Oct 23, 2006 16:06
muddy cat wrote:
> In article 4ax.com>,
> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>>> holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>>> great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>>> like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>>
>>> Now back to your scheduled programming...
>> I know nothing of the Great Lakes but there is a lot of Houseboating
>> in my part of Canandia ....
>
> Think Edmund Fitzgerald...
>
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Date: Oct 23, 2006 21:55
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:33:18 -0700, muddy cat gmail.com>
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>In article ,
> Larry Green wrote:
>
>> muddy cat wrote:
>>> In article 4ax.com>,
>>> Baz...
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Author: Larry GreenLarry Green Date: Oct 23, 2006 22:01
muddy cat wrote:
> In article ,
> Larry Green wrote:
>
>> muddy cat wrote:
>>> In article 4ax.com>,
>>> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>>>>> holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>>>>> great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>>>>> like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>>>>
>>>>> Now back to your scheduled programming...
>>>> I know nothing of the Great Lakes but there is a lot of Houseboating
>>>> in my part of Canandia ....
>>> Think Edmund Fitzgerald... ...
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Author: MickyfinnMickyfinn Date: Oct 24, 2006 07:53
"Baz" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:gc8qj2t7gukranfpqbn6m7qe4ipg1rlqiu@4ax.com...> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
> wrote:
>
>>My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>>holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>>great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>>like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>
>>Now back to your scheduled programming...
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Author: Flash GordonFlash Gordon Date: Oct 25, 2006 11:37
Larry Green wrote:
> Seriously, while I can't speak of the other Great Lakes the one I live
> next to (Lake Erie) really doesn't have the sort of boat rental
> facilities that are common in the UK (at least not down in this corner).
Ah well, you never know unless you look/ask.
> Boating the Great Lakes in small craft takes some experience and it can
> very easily catch out the unwary. You have to think of them more as
> inland seas rather than lakes and like seas they can get very rough very
> quickly. For instance Lake Erie is 240 miles long and 60 miles wide and
> is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of just 62
> feet (210 feet max.)and when a storm blows through it's not uncommon to
> get 8-9 feet waves on the lake. The shallow depth also imparts a higher
> frequency to the waves so small craft take a heavy beating on Lake Erie
> in storms.
Yes, I can see that could be a problem. You can get pretty big waves on
some of the Lochs in Scotland that we went through, but they are not
quite that large and the lock keepers won't let you on if it is not safe.
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Author: Flash GordonFlash Gordon Date: Oct 25, 2006 11:08
The Odd Stray wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:33:18 -0700, muddy cat gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> In article ,
>> Larry Green wrote:
>>
>>> muddy cat wrote:
>>>> In article 4ax.com>,
>>>> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>>>>>> holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>>>>>> great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>>>>>> like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now back to your scheduled programming... ...
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Author: Flash GordonFlash Gordon Date: Oct 25, 2006 11:25
Baz wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:43:05 +0100, Flash Gordon
> wrote:
>
>> My brother Simon, my parents and I are thinking about what to do for a
>> holiday next year. We are thinking about a (large) houseboat on the
>> great lakes and/or the canals in that area. Any of you done anything
>> like this and do you have any suitable links or email addresses?
>>
>> Now back to your scheduled programming...
Thanks for that Baz. Your part of the country looks nice as well.
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Flash Gordon
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