We stopped for water at Burscough Bridge by the junction of the Rufford Branch. There was a man waving a yellow box around as if he were trying to get a signal. Now, as I am interested in possibly getting a GPS device, I asked him if his device measured speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour. Jonathan Mosse, for that is who it was, replied that his box was indeed a GPS device, but for getting accurate position fixes, not for speed measurements. Mr. Mosse travels the waterways by bicycle - in all weathers (today was rainy) - researching for the Nicholson's Guides. His name is at the front of every one. Here he was standing on the footbridge over the old dry dock by Junction Bridge checking the position of the water and elsan point. "But can't you just get the information from BW?" I said.
"For accuracy I have to check it all."
Here was a case in point: the elsan disposal door was locked with a non-BW key (well, not the one boaters have). It will be interesting to see if the next edition of the Nicholson Guide shows an elsan point at Junction Bridge.
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