Given that such a vessel is, as the name implies, confined to the canals and that your average canal boat is about as stealthy as a hod of bricks in the middle of the road, one must either conclude that the art of detection is not what was or that the Shropshire Union Canal has just made the Bermuda Triangle look like a goldfish bowl.
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"A 43 foot long, four-foot wide canal boat....".
Four foot wide!! OMG must feel like a floating coffin!
As to the lack of detection,one mitigating fact is that the boat as hired was green but the hirer had repainted it blue and made some other changes to alter its appearance.
HTH
nine9feet
To start with they are 6'10" wide, and there are over 2000 miles of waterways in England. You can get a boat a fair distance away from the hire base in a week (20-25 miles per day = 140 - 175 miles) before it is missed. Add that to the change of colour and its no wonder it was hard to find.
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