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I think my real name is known by a lot of people on here but I stopped using it when I was sexually targeted on line. I chose Haggis as it doesn't indicate that I am female. Haggis

I’d rather the they were out carrying out fairly harmless stuff in the open air than bullying each other on line in their bedrooms, with the intent of causing their peers to kill themselves. besides I did loads of ‘naughty’ stuff between 8 and 12 before learning, including fireworks, etc, it’s part of a real childhood. Do minor bad stuff get caught punished and learn not to do it again.

Throughout the industrial revolution, the French were far in advance of us technologically, and were using calculus decades before British engineers. However, they did not have the necessary appreciation of craft skills and their engineers had problems communicating with craftsmen. Ironically, as technical education developed in the UK from the last half of the 19th century, the same thing started to happen in this country. All education seems to do today is test people's ability to remember things, ignoring their ability to make things. Serving my time, I meet people on the shop floor who were just as intelligent as those I met at university latter, they were just skilled in different ways.

I sure hope it was canal water, and not mixed with anything else. But I didn't care to try and taste it. But you try to be hit in the head with a kilo or so of water, thrown from 8-10 feet above you. My head and neck stille hurts. It's not very fun on the receiving end.

Speculation is never good when a business fails and as usual the truth is somewhere in between. I know Claymoore very well and although the canal closures affected the business there was more to it. My thoughts go to John the owner of the business who not only lost his son a couple of years ago but now his business. It's a cruel world and I am sure there will be a new owner of the yard soon so lets hope the glory days return.

The problem, as we have seen time and time before in previous discussions, is that one persons view of "help" can sometimes be perceived as hindrance by the person being "helped". Many people on CWDF, (myself largely included), who have developed efficient ways of working either with a known crew or single handedly and actually see locks as a main part of the pleasure, (not the chore that many seem to think they are), have regularly indicated they would rather be left alone to get on with it, than to get "assistance" that deviates from how they would themselves have done it. (Incidentally that just about sums up the issue with many volunteer lock keepers, particularly those who have a prescribed view f how things "should be done", and assume anybody who desn't share that must be wrong.) My preference not to be "helped" doesn't make me unfriendly or unpleasant. I'll happily chat to you if you are waiting to use the lock, and you'll not find me aloof in any way, but before you wind paddles, (or open the gate I was just expecting to cross back across!), please ask! If anybody, (volunteer, other boater, or just bloke on tow-path with own windlass), really wants to help, please go and set up the next lock for us, and let us work the one we are currently working!

Well that's a view. An alternative view is that no crew on the lock side indicates a lack of interest in using the lock. It takes us 3+ minutes to negotiate a lock, if no one has appeared by then I will close the gate. If the crew of the other boat are variously employed making tea and/or moving their bowels, who am I to hurry them in their pursuits? Remember I'm not wasting water, I'm just leaving them with a gate to open, a gate they would have to open if I was not there at all. Which, as far as personal interaction is concerned, they have treated as being the case in the first place. By the way, Haggis has done too much for the boating community to be abused by some (admittedly not you) on this forum.

Apart from the pristine engine bay bit, I did that twice today on separate engines. First time just bloody forgot the tray and rags to catch the diesel, so I was stuck like a Muppet with a bowl full of fuel, oh well I won't do that a second time i thought, which is exactly what I did the second time

Changed 2lw primary fuel filter and through a brainfade failed to catch the diesel which went in my pristine engine bay bilge which I cleaned in the winter and repainted. Spent ages getting it out with detergent and rags making it all clean and smell nice. Then 2 hours later the drive belt snapped on the panda 3 cylinda diesel genny without me noticing.... the overheat and steam sent cooling fluid with antifreeze spraying all in the engine room.... into clean bilge again. Just finished cleaning it out. Its funny NOT! Pretty rubbish day.

Repairs to HATFIELD'S handrails which were mangled in a flood about a month ago, when a large boat moored alongside sank and tried to take the handrails with it. Great deal of pushing and pulling but everything in the pics was straightened and re used, with the exception of the forward most upright, which was too badly damaged. Just ready for a coat of paint to finish. For scale the top rail is scaffolding pole, tough stuff....

Indeed. I think the OP would have mentioned anything more noxious than water though. Someone on a day boat once threw an almost full bottle of wine at me which I deftly caught. Turned out to be a rather nice Chablis.

Well, Carl. They were aiming for and hitting my head. To an elderly or otherwise frail person that could potentially be dangerous.

I appreciate that there are warped people everywhere. A sad world we live in.

Pleased to meet you Earl.

You don't have to stir up waters to suffer personal consequences - More than one woman has been brutally assaulted or murdered because a man with a horribly skewed perception of reality has found out where she lives. I for one would no longer be able to post on any forum where I had to disclose my true identity to the public.

What you describe is more like the attitude of a hire boater rather than someone who shares a boat. Do you think the other 11 owners were arguing, rather than exchanging ideas and then coming to a democratic decision- I bet they were more likely to be having a friendly exchange of views and learning from each other. I would think you may have missed out on getting the best for your shared boat, and just maybe you may have been able to educate your fellow owners in areas where their knowledge was light? I wonder what sort of boat you would have ended up with if the other 11 owners applied the same philosophy. Howard

This happened to me last year. There was a couple coming up the lock, I was on my own. I usually walk ahead to help but as there was already one person on the boat, and one operating the lock, which is sufficient for efficient operation, I decided to make a cup of tea. Tea done, see them at the top, I untied and my boat drifted forward as they came out of the lock. As the boat cleared the lock the bloke closed the gate. The point here is that if I had helped it would have made very little difference to them. He went to extra trouble for both of us to make a point. Not a reasonable point. If my help would have assisted i.e. they'd been single handed I would have helped, and been pleased to do so. I gave the bloke a serious piece of my mind as he passed but if he didn't hear me, because of his engine, and happens to be reading this: you're a childish, petty, selfish individual. Maybe see you around sometime.

I have a built in Schrodinger's Water Tank... The water tastes fine and I don't get any rusty bits so it must be perfect - unless some idiot takes the lid off to find out.

That's no way to talk about the gurl you are sleeping with....

If I were you I wouldn't start from where you are. Get a nice plastic tank made and put it somewhere else. Then use the steel tank to keep junk in and never worry about rusty water again. Hope that helps.....

'cording to Trump, the French fire service should have water-bombed Notre Dame to save the roof. the Fire Service spokesman said it would be like dropping a 3 tonne bomb onto the roof, hitting it at 250km/hr. ................... just sayin'

Dont believe him Tony, hes a muppet ?

I'm confused. How can anything that hurts be considered harmless? O/K, fairly minor on the scale of things but where does one draw the line?

I do! Russell Newbery

I don't have a tv that ever gets switched on on the bote.

Alliterally nothing can go wrong!

To qoute the late Fred Dibnah 'It's all book learning nowadays'

Easier said than done. Most people either buy a share in a new boat, in which case you don't get to meet the other shareholders until the boat is launched, or buy a share in a second hand boat. In the case of the latter, if the share is in a managed boat, then the first time the new shareholder will meet the others is at the annual meeting, as the management team manage the sale and purchase of shares. Only in shareboats that are self managed (and these are very much in the minority) will the new shareholder be given an opportunity to meet the others. Indeed in many self managed share boats, the existing shareholders will "vet" the person wanting to buy the share to assess his compatibility with the extant group.

Why don’t they just enter Brighton? Lightweights.

I always speed up through bridgeholes...... In case of kids with Waterbombs.

So what’s acceptable to throw at others in your view.....If I launch an ice cube back at them is that acceptable??...it’s only frozen water after all.....

A word of warning. When navigating the repaired section of the Middlewich branch below Stanthorne lock, keep well away from the offside bank. There is a considerable amount of what I suspect is broken concrete or rocks in the channel at least one boat width away from the concrete "wall" that retains the canal. It is not silt or gravel but big stuff, enough to rip the bottom off a boat. Water depth here is less than 50cm, we heeled over to a frightening angle when passing a boat coming towards us and the grinding and bumping was bad.

Many thanks Dr B for very informed input on a specialist subject thatw eoften find difficult to get difainative answers. Cheers

But see what you get - Engelbert Humperdinck visiting unexpectedly. I include the name of my boat and Frank only became frahkn due to finger problems when I first registered.

Indeed, I had share boats for 23 years and in that time must have had around 35 fellow shareholders. Only one who was obnoxious (Not Frahkn, who always sent a note to the chairman of the annual meetings saying he would go with the majority and gave his share to the rest of the group rather than selling it, which helped pay for a new engine). I learnt a great deal about boat maintenance and which boatyards are good or useless, which came in handy when I got to own a whole boat. I also met several great people who i now call friends.

Is that a make of bow thruster? ?

omg, horrific, all hugs and kisses to both of you, I fell off so many horses, and hardly had any major problems. I still keep my crutches in the hall cupboard, and am uber careful nowadays, but nothing like that.

Not so, I have an end of garden mooring with 4 bollards and use spring lines. Most passing boats don't move my boat at all, but occasionally a boat goes past so fast that they suck all of the water from under my boat, which results in a violent up and down movement and a scraping noise as my boat hits the bottom. I have moored here for 5 years and with each passing year the number of boats failing to slow down enough increases. I think it reflects the general increasing lack of proper boating knowledge and etiquette that is slowly increasing over the years.

Stan, the Master of the understatement lol ?

That's hardly fair...

I just said that you know ETA oh you might not.....