N.B.QISMA Proposed Programme


N.B.QISMA is currently under construction.  The following programme is being planned.

LONGCAST

April / May 2010 - Launch at Stockton Top Lock

May /June  2010 - “canal trials” in vicinity of Napton Junction/Oxford Canal

2010 May Bank Holiday - Crick Boat Show (TBC)

End of June 2010 - Commence UK 2010/11 Cruise

Dec 2010 - Mar 2011  winter stop  (Possibly Peak Forest Canal)

Dec 2011 - Mar 2012 winter stop (Kennet and Avon Canal)

Mar/Apr 2012 - Arrive Bath

May 2012 - QISMA  refit and enroute to France

2012 - 2014     European Cruise

Proposed UK Cruise route

The intended route is as follows:

(Follow our intended route on the UK Map)

****For Planning purposes to allow you to plan your visit to QISMA, I recommend you use 1 hour per day (3 lock/ miles) (Recommend use approx 100 lock/miles  a month as a quick guide, (see my total of Locks + distance in miles) to determine where we will be at any one time. The cruise equates to a total period of 19 months cruising from July 2010 to April 2012 (and allows 2 months being wintered).   ***************


Grand Union Canal to Kingswood Junction       - 26m / 46 locks        (Total 72 lock/miles)

Stratford on Avon canal to Stratford upon Avon          - 13m / 36 locks        (Total 121)

River Avon to Tewkesbury        - 42m / 17 locks        (Total 180)

River Severn to Gloucester          - 14m / 2 locks             (Total 196)       (approx 2 months)

River Severn to Stourport             -  40m / 6 locks        (Total 242)     

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal to Aldersley Jnt    - 25m / 33 locks     (Total 300)  (3mths)

Shropshire Union Canal to Hurleston Jnt            - 40m / 29 locks          (Total 369)

Llangollen Canal to Llangolllen                    - 45m /21 locks        (Total 435)  (4mnths)

Llangollen Canal to Barbridge Jnt                 - 47m /21 locks        (Total 503) (5mnths)

Middlewich Branch to Middlewich                 - 10m /4 locks        (Total 517)

Trent and Mersey to Kidsgrove                    - 13m /31 locks            (Total 561)

Macclesfield Canal to Fairfield Junction         - 48m / 56 locks    (Total 665)  (Winter stop)

Ashton Canal to Manchester                    - 4m /18 locks            (Total 687)

Rochdale canal to waters meet jnt                 - 5m / 9 locks            (Total 701)   (1 mnth)

Bridgewater canal to Wigan                     - 15m / 2 locks            (Total 718) 

Leeds and Liverpool canal to Leeds                - 93m / 85 locks        (Total 896)    (3mnths)

Aire & Calder Navigation to Castleford                -10m / 6 locks        (Total 912)

Aire & Calder /Hebble Navigation to Cooper bridge        - 18m /12 locks    (Total 942)

Rochdale Canal to Manchester                     - 32m / 63 locks        (Total 1037)  (4mnth)

Huddersfield Canal to Coopers bridge                 - 24m / 58 locks (approx)     (Total 1119)

Aire & Calder /Hebble Navigation to Castleford            - 18m /12 locks    (Total 1149)

(River Aire and Selby canal to Selby                - 7m / 3 locks)

(River Ouse to York                         - 19m / 1 lock)

(River Ouse to Selby                         -  19m /1 lock)

Aire and Calder to Bramwith Jnt                     - 17m / 5 locks        (Total 1171)

South Yorkshire Navigation to Keadby                 - 15m / 3 locks        (Total 1189)

River Trent to Nottingham                         - 72m / 7 locks            (Total 1268)   (5 mnth)

River Trent to Sawley                        - 10m /4 locks                (Total 1282)

River Soar to Leicester                        - 25m /18 locks            (Total 1325)

Grand Union to Market Harborough                 - 18m /24 locks        (Total 1367)

Grand Union to Norton Junction                    - 23m / 17 locks        (Total 1407)   (7 mnth)

Grand Union to Napton Junction                     - 10m /6 locks        (Total 1423)

Oxford Canal to Oxford                        - 50m /39 locks            (Total 1512)

River Thames to Reading                         - 40m /13 locks            (Total 1565)

Kennet and Avon Canal to Bath                     - 65m / 90 locks        (Total 1720)  Winter stop

Total 1720 lock / miles (not YORK) (1770 if to YORK)
At 3 miles/locks an hour equates to 574 hours


On Kennet & Avon QISMA to be refitted / bottom blackened and ready to be shipped to Europe