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Monday 30 January

An email arrived from Andrew. He'd been busy. Attached was the first draft of the DVD fold-out map for this summer's planned filming of the Scottish Lowland canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh. We expect to cover the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals. It's an excellent start, although it looked a little bare without the photographs.  We still have to decide what the symbol should be for the Falkirk Wheel.

Tuesday 24 January

We visited our preferred builders main base and spend several hours discussing our detailed requirements. The five pages of notes we thought might be too detailed turned out to be surprisingly useful. There was time to browse the builder's ideas folder and look through photographs of previous builds. These were just as useful at identifying things we didn't want as things we did. We left the builder to start drawing the plans and to begin the serious research into our requirements for electric propulsion.

Saturday 7 January

We visited the London Boat Show at Excel. Our preferred builder had a stand there and kindly provided complimentary tickets for us. We discussed our requirements and agreed to send in the deposit cheque to formally reserve our build slot for delivery in March 2007.

A tour of the rest of the show produced much additional information and a ton of brochures to carry home.

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