Thursday 26th January 2023: 7.30 for 8.00pm
Strood Yacht Club, Knight Road, Strood. ME2 2AH
Bowman Bradley, Chair of the Inland Waterway Association’s Sustainable Boating Group.
Bowman will talk about the work of the group, their vision of how inland waterways boating might be made sustainable in the future, how that vision has developed over the last two years and the intended work of the group going forward. Bowman will be interested in the views of members as to how they might contribute towards the vision and any suggestions they might have as to what the group might look at in the future.
Bowman is a retired mechanical engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has been a ‘canaller’ since the mid 1970’s and a narrowboat owner since 2005. Other members of the Sustainable Boating Group own a variety of canal craft ranging from historic narrowboats through ‘conventional’ diesel powered leisure craft to a state-of-the-art electric narrowboat.
Entry is free with a raffle to cover costs. All IWAKES events are open to non-members and you are encouraged to bring friends. Similarly, if you know a local club or society that might be interested, please do tell them.
In regards to sustainable. Future, it’s bit like electric cars and motor bikes it sounds very substainable until you want to charge your car bike or boat, as charging points on the waterways are just as bad on the roadways, as is mooring spots & carparks, the UK substainable is to buy cheap abroad, well that’s buggered now with brexit, when cars were first produced they had cans of petrol strapped to the side, as fuel stations where as rare as hens teeth, so more where rapidly built, as it was simple to fill a tank 10 minutes, today is no different, but when it comes to charging an electric car, it’s very different, first you need a big site as cars take at.least 4 hrs for a decent journey, and 100s of charging points, where as in a fuel station with 12 pumps you can serve 12 customers every 10 minutes, in a very small area, this will never happen on the waterways it’s not affordable, as for roadways it will take decades, our government can’t even priotise the 4 basic things people need for existence, ENERGY FOOD SHELTER HEALTH, and are more interested in denial coupled with fiction, so my suggestion is lots of solor panels and wine power, because anything else would be fairy tales, sorry I am not there, I am in Asia where we don’t suffer the politicians if the UK, here they either do or don’t,
yours Toni Hodgkins