IanM

Is it just me who can't understand what that post is meant to mean? Are you saying that you never have needed a plumber in the past and if you did need one you wouldn't get one because they would be all off working for other people? And if one was available you wouldn't want them to do work for you anyway as obviously they're no good as they would be working for other people if they were? No wonder you've had issues with tradespeople in the past with that attitude!

The thought of the ring coming apart was why I had words with a hire boater the other week who had tied their rope to our ring thinking it was a part of the armco. I did offer the loan of a paper clip for the night though.

Which, if the shackle came undone you could drift off to who knows where. However if you're just chaining your boat to armco the only likely place you're going to drift off to is the other bank. You probably wouldn't use chains on rivers. I think you're overthinking it but yes, it is a pain when the shackle gets caught.

What's one of them then? Or is it some Freeman of the Land wibble?

My thought is that they didn’t.

We can't be having that kind of sensible idea in here! Reported 🤣

Somewhere in here I would imagine Of course, it depends how far above the full level the breather is and how well sealed your filler cap is so @LadyG may be talking cobblers.

I think @ditchcrawler is talking about Gosty Hill Tunnel. Single boat width, low roof (and confusingly a really high roof in places too) and a lot of floating rubbish.

I think you have @SeanMcP to thank for that with his essays on how only he seems to understand electric boating on UK canals when he is in Kentucky.

I bet if you had jumped the queue and used the lock there would have been a bit of tutting and shaking of heads to start with then others would have followed you

Not around here they don't.

Also it was Braunston tunnel, which is just plain horrible anyway. Blisworth is lovely in comparison.

I wouldn't worry about it or say anything. There's a high chance you're going to bump into either the wall or the other boat when passing in a tunnel so don't get annoyed and say something, you might not like what their reply is.

One thing I've found common with the riders of the electric motorbikes and the modified e-bikes is that the riders have got the wheelieing skill down to a fine art! The one who was tearing up and down the towpath at Long Itchington the other week did say hello and slowed down when passing any moored boats, which is more than a few boaters did over the weekend 😆

That’s the new winding hole at Thrupp on the Thames & Severn. The boat is indeed Dudley named after a man, not the place.