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  2. Oh dear. That might have been me steering and although I may have passed moored boats at more than tick over I don't think I have ever boated with a breaking wash. I remember passing several moored boats yesterday and If I saw they were either on rings or nappy pins or permanently moored I would have slowed down but not to tick over. If a boat is moored on pins I creep past. If your boat was not properly moored and moved I do apologise but I must admit I didn't notice any moving. In fact most boaters acknowledged the fact that I had slowed by waving. Haggis
    5 points
  3. I find the sneering re hire botes the most divisive. I hired for years and was astounded when I hired a hire bote that had no sign of being a "hire bote" and all of a sudden everyone treated me differently! A bit like motorcycles. I make a point of nodding to the moped riders etc when on the hyper bike for similar reasons.
    4 points
  4. I don’t think many people would object to being asked nicely. We certainly wouldn’t. It is the presumption that because it is a hobby historic boat towing a hobby historic butty, somehow they are very important and everyone must give way to them that irks me. And I’m not talking about draught issues, which are fair enough. The hobby historic boaters probably don’t pause to consider what would actually have happened in the days of yore they seem to want to replicate. Two working, loaded pairs meeting in opposite directions at a narrow lock - I really can’t imagine that one would have given way to both boats coming the other way. It would of course have been one up one down, as is required by the bylaws to save water. I see no reason why hobby historic boaters can’t replicate that bit, whilst being able to replicate the red hankies, silly clothes, attitude etc! Not getting at you Rob, you’re not like that, but unfortunately a good proportion are!
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  7. Just nip up to Brentford on a visitor licence. If you are really unlucky and have to stay in london then its best to sell the boat.
    3 points
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  9. Just did Cromwell to Torksey in two and a half hours. All very controlled, but getting into Torksey lock cut across the current zooming around the outside of the bend was quite exhilarating. Next stop, the wildly oscillating Stamp End sluice..... MP.
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  11. Just in from getting a narrowboat out from where it was stuck under a mooring. The river has come up, only a few inches, but enough for it to lean over and be pinned under the ledge with tight lines. Took a couple of lads on the side and me to push it out from under and tie again. Not seen the owner for a couple of days. Might have been a issue in the morning.
    3 points
  12. Anyone who owns a 'Traditional Working Boat' should load the dam' thing with coal, and I mean Load, and take it up a badly silted canal and learn something about handling it. Play acting with a spotted neckerchief is not boating.
    3 points
  13. Things just get better ?. In the cotton arms and the draft beer was off as the cellar was flooded! Not long after we started on the red wine the draft came back on. Lucky white Heather ? Haggis
    2 points
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  16. I'm saying nothing ...
    2 points
  17. Actually the entitled drivers have moved to mercedes. Bmw are old hat and you cant drive a vag car after dieselgate, your children become anxious, go on strike at school , fail , and become politicians.
    2 points
  18. Might be better to take a boat ? The Anker passes very near me and is almost bursting its banks. Fortunately there is a railway embankment and the canal between it and my house.
    2 points
  19. I’d fish the Whirlpool out and return it under the Recall. Lol
    2 points
  20. Its usualy private boat owners innitt, not those poor hirers
    2 points
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  23. Wrong they were being introduced before we joined the EU. Yet another classic example of Brexiteers blaming the EU for anything they don't like.
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  25. A few years ago I was waiting to go down at Maureen's lock (Wardle lock) in Middlewich. It was quite busy with a few boats waiting to go up. A "working" boat turned up and the crew put the boat straight into the Middlewich Branch under the bridge, just below the lock. As one of them came up all smiling and swinging his windlass, complete with waistcoat and neckerchief, Maureen told him in no uncertain terms to get to the back of the queue and don't ever try and pull that "working boat" stunt again. Crew went back sheepishly to the boat and it backed out to wait its turn. Lovely to watch!
    2 points
  26. Ah, derision regarding the metric system. I was one of you. I used to feign a blank look when someone said ten metres and ask, all cocky, "What's that in real money?" just like you do. I thought I sounded cool rather than a bit retarded. Then one day about ten or twelve years ago, I measured a piece of metal that was 1ft 5in 5/16 that I was cutting into four lengths. Do that one in your head. I noticed it was 440mm and I stopped using imperial that day. Never used it since. I measure in mm, I cook in grammes. Easy.
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  28. This is in no way meant to be advice, but I run a Shoreline 12v fridge. It is an odd setup, running constantly for 5 years plus. In it, I have a 30 amp fuse. The setup consists of a computer PSU of 650 watts, so, not massive. It is rated at around 32 amps. Honestly, I've had no problems, using the 30 amp fuse. Yours, at 15 amp is not enough, imho.
    1 point
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  31. I never noticed her pass me either...……………………...hang on...………………………...I'm on the Stort!!
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  33. Which, if you’re unaware of the fact, was criticised by the ASA and they must never run it again. A TravelPower then, or similar.
    1 point
  34. When Kelpie was moored at Streethay Wharf she reguarly passed our mooring and never once sped past.
    1 point
  35. Reading the Goole Times a newly formed group 'The Yorkshire waterways society' are looking to buy Wheldale and the three Tom puddings. Their intention is to continue to use the tug for for public tours of Goole docks. Donations can be made at 'www.justgiving.com/campaign/Wheldale' The article reads that a target of £35.000 has been set but expensive work will be required in the near future with dry dock and survey required.
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  37. I think you will find there are two separate issues being discussed. Behavior when moving and behavior around locks (with their associated audience). One is influenced by 'physics' the other is influenced by attitude. In my car I expect to give way to an artic driver in many instances. I don't expect them to push in front of me when queueing up for a cup of tea.
    1 point
  38. Out of interest Nick, what percentage in your mind is "a good proportion"? To makethat claim, do you have a number in mind? As an aside, to my mind the number of "historics" actually regularly travelling around as motor and butty pairs on narrow canals is pretty damned small, so one can expect to meet such a combination only rarely - or at least that is our experience. I suspect the emphasis being put on the alleged inconvenience put on motor and butty pairs is a bit overstated, particularly as many are operated with great precision, generally on broad canals by people who know what they are doing, (Jules of Jules Fuels is such as example). I concede again that as an owner of two "historics" I am sometimes upset by other people's operation of other "historic" craft. However I really don't think that there is any greater "good proportion" of "historic" operators getting it wrong than there is for any other categorisation of boater. One of the things I am aware of is that even when doing nothing wrong we draw far more attention than just about any other boats on the cut. On another point raised above, few "historics" are ballasted to more than 3 foot static draught, although there are some exceptions. However underway the back will very often pull down to give a working draught of rather more than 3 feet, even if travelling slowly, (much more for a shorter boat - Sickle has same draught and same engine as Flamingo, and a similar prop, but pulls down several inches more at the back when underway). Some empty "historics" are often operated with the uxter plate several inches above the water when static, to reduce constantly being on the bottom. Whilst this may work for a relatively light unconverted boat with no load and little ballast, we have found it impractical on a much heavier boat with a full cabin conversion, and a lot of under floor ballast. Running with the counter well out of the water makes reverse so ineffective that stopping becomes a nightmare, and "bloody working boat" meetings on bends and at bridge holes start to become just too scary. We have just experimented with travelling part of the Rochdale with a lot of back end ballast removed, simply because the boat has been regularly deeper than the water available, but reluctantly put it all back in again in the opposite direction, because of an inability to stop in a length that most other boaters would expect you to be capable of. Finally, I still do not fully understand why regularly when I met someone at a blind bridge or bend, and it must be obvious from the black smoke coming out the exhaust and the heavy swirl of water flushing back along both ides of the boat that I am flat out in reverse, that those coming the other way with a boat that can clearly stop far more easily regularly think it is a good idea to make no attempt to do so! When I had a standard 50 foot leisure boat I never much fancied potential collisions with ex working boats, and would have considered racing them into a gap, knowing they might not be able to stop at least "unwise". If you fear "working" or "ex-working" boats, and maybe the efficiency or attitudes of their crews, better surely to do something yourselves to avoid unnecessary problems - that's how I handled it when our only boat was a "normal" one...
    1 point
  39. Historic boat owners are a funny old lot, I’m sure some of them don’t like themselves! Their attitude to other owners of old boats has to be seen to be believed. I had first hand experience last Christmas on a cruise with friends on their historic boat that they’d had the cabin extended on. (It’s been long for years, but they bought it and added a bit more). Boxing day, we passed a couple of historic boaters, cheery hello from me, nothing in response. My friends behind got the same. Better still was the day after when we passed a very well known boating character chatting to his mates at his mooring. I received a miserable nod in my direction, he actually turned his back on my friends behind! The opposite must be said of people who still trade from old boats, I’ve never met a pillock yet.
    1 point
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  41. Thanks for all these replies .. all very interesting.. I am looking at all the ways people have entered and explored the Dee Valley over the last two centuries and am gathering memories/anecdotes for a project. The Youth Hostel in Llangollen is closed now but I'd love to hear from anyone who came here on a hostel boat when they were young..
    1 point
  42. In the last ten years there was a modern boat operating on the Peak Forest and Macc that seemed to be a 21st century attempt to bridge the hostel/hotel boat experience - venture was called Wandering Duck. I think they stopped a couple of years ago. Prices worked out per berth per trip for a few nights and helped as much as you wanted. Smart boat and looked a lot of fun but definitely modern facilities. Land based hostels went from bunk beds in barns to hotel style rooms, hostel boats evolved too. If glamping is glorified camping then maybe a new iteration of hostel boats could be called gloating - an old working boat, tarped over, shower room, 8 bunks, some Indian rugs and throws, a wood burner and loads of USB points!
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  45. That's fantastic, and the more you think of ideas the more ideas you think of. ? When the calendar is ready it would be lovely if you could let us know how and where we can purchase it.
    1 point
  46. I'm a bit confused - I posted (or thought I had posted) a reply at lunchtime, but it doesn't seem to have appeared. So I'll try again. I want to say thank you for the replies, you've certainly given me something to think about. Firstly I never intended any offence, to anyone. I wasn't trying to imply that canal boats were a step up from, or some sort of alternative to, being homeless, or anything of that nature. I guess my comment "homes for the homeless" was me thinking that pictures of homes could be sold to raise money to help the homeless. And I'm honestly not wanting to be inappropriate, but I thought that a set of photos of nice looking or interesting homes may have sales potential - and no, homeless people are not the target audience. I've sent my proposal to a woman who helps run the project and had no complaints from her. But thank you for highlighting to me how a well-intentioned idea can be misinterpreted, or simply viewed differently. I'll try to be very careful how I phrase and present things. Best wishes.
    1 point
  47. But I am sure the style of boating you were used to doing back in 1975 is the type of boating that would be getting highlighted in this thread as anti-social - fore end resting against gates, pushing gates open when running uphill (not ramming them), using a mast line to open gates, using a strapping line to close gates when running downhill, using a shaft to close bottom gates e.t.c. - and all of which are techniques I was familiar with using back in the day, but I can see that I am going to have to review these when I get to go boating again
    1 point
  48. I had a can of Bud at the weekend and thought it had a distinctive taste but couldn't quite figure out what it was. Thank you for clarifying what that taste was.
    1 point
  49. I remember in 1974 as a child of 18 when some mates went to uni ( not many in those days ) and others did other stuff and I went on my first warship to Copenhagen ? Oh my oh my, I reckon my university of life from such an age taught me much more of the world than any uni would have. Add on to that " The Gut " in Malta, Singers etc etc etc etc I am sure you get the picture!!
    1 point
  50. No sorry you are wrong and giving advice that could be dangerous. Your £4 job will do the trick under normal circumstances since the current through the diode will be nothing. Right up to the point when there is a major electrical issue, whence it will become either short circuit or open circuit. The former is bad, the latter worse. A live to earth short can cause thousands of amps to flow through the GI. This will melt a tiny semiconductor junction within a 45A diode in microseconds. Much quicker than an MCB will trip. This is why GIs cost a lot more than £4 and ones that meet the ABYC standard, very much more. Getting angry about it doesn’t make you seem or be any more right! Just do your research and you will find out the facts.
    1 point
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