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  1. And I though that the loop was to pass the rope through so that when the pin pulled out from the ground you didn't lose it in the cut
    3 points
  2. Long story short. My old Land Rover got nicked, got found half trashed, written off, bought back from insurance, so was looking for a cheap running tow car. Went all over looking for an old but running Discovery and kept missing some good ones. Yesterday, saw one on gumtree, turned out to be maybe 100 yards from my parents' house, a guy who's lived there for probably 3 decades and my parents' age. My dad knows him to say hello on the dog walk. Chatting away while we're looking over the car, another one of their neighbours stops, starts talking about the canals and it turned out that the guy selling the car was brought up in a canal worker's cottage on the Rochdale. His dad worked on the stretch all his life. Bought the car. I think the word for today is serendipitous!
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  4. Yes we do or they will continue to be “cycling like an idiot”. That said, we have laws about zebra crossings and traffic lights which too many cyclists ignore.
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  5. Bugger me, they kept that one quiet, I had to go and find my own....?
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  9. And I though big woowich was a term of endearment as in "Come here you big woolwich"!
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  10. I can boil an egg without burning it. AND been on several vacuum cleaner courses. Glad you've learnt how to spell Hoover correctly.
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  11. RCR tend to call out the local boatyard to where you are. If the local boatyard send a numpty, you have a bad experience. If the local boatyard send out a good chap, you have a great experience. I don't pay for RCR, but I have access to Google who know where the local boatyards are!
    2 points
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  13. There's nothing like a reliable and accurate newspaper article, and that's nothing like one.
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  15. No the context is irrelevant to the OP's question. It's not up to you or me to decide whether the OP's perception of the service they received from RCR was correct or incorrect, just as it's not up to us to decide whether Athy's perception of his experience was right or wrong. They were the customers and it was their money so it's their perception that counts. I don't like shopping in Tescos or the taste of Mars Bars but lots of other people do. Who's right? The OP asked for alternatives, it's as simple as that. If those options are limited then the OP can decide for him/herself what to do.
    1 point
  16. I can't help but feel calling something a cycle track or cycle way makes some cyclists think it is for them alone.
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  17. For a bit of balance, I have been hit by a cyclist on the towpath. Was pushing my own bike through Woodley tunnel, with its light flashing. MAMIL on expensive bike comes ploughing through in the darkness. Bit of a tangled mess. His other half comes through at a much more sedate pace and bollocked him in the darkness. Quite surreal. Nobody hurt. But this is the kind of person who would pay any licence, any insurance to cycle like an idiot. In the same way that lots would choose to ignore any licence requirement or towpath ban. The scumbags at both ends will ignore all the rules and make the decent people suffer.
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  18. On a towpath, a cyclist should be down to no more than walking speed before passing, unless say someone has stopped to let them past, and everyone is quite clear about things, Holding cyclists to account for their actions is perfectly correct but banning them from the towpath isn't the answer. It is one of the few places that offers gentle cycling for mixed ages along good stretches.
    1 point
  19. The loop is there to stop the tennis ball going too far down.
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  20. Classic quote from Dick Whittington: Alice (at the ball): 10 o’clock and still no sign of Dick!
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  24. A bit personal Mike, a bit personal. I've met a few Dicks that could take that the wrong way!!
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  28. I need to file off the burrs that have been created over the years.
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  29. Ya have to bring a bit of serious boating in to the discussion every now and then else people might think a " Big woolwich " is actualy a big boat
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  30. Another possibilty, I have often see people tied to just the welded eye near the top of the mooring pin, without passing the rope around the pin. This weld can easily break (especially if it has been hit with a hammer on a few occasions) with just the gentlest of pulls on the rope. In fact most of my pins are old ones that people have thrown away after they have broken in this way, because they can't use them any more.
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  32. Why, I wonder, when I read your posts, I read them as if young Boris had written them?
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  34. I don't think the OP is under any obligation to justify exactly why they aren't satisfied with RCR or relate details of their experience to this forum. If you're all happy with the service you've received from RCR that's all well and good, but it almost sounds like some people here are telling the OP that they should be satisfied when clearly they're not. The OP was simply asking if there are any alternatives. Personally I don't bother with RCR. I carry lots of spares and will attempt any repairs myself, but I guess it depends on your abilities and your boat; how old and what sort of condition it's in, access to the engine, etc. But that's my alternative.
    1 point
  35. I have called RCR twice in my 10 years or so of boat ownership. The first time it was an unmitigated disaster but they did compensate me, to my complete satisfaction, for that. The second time they came out it was a brilliant success and experience. As said it depends on who comes out to you. They do have their problems I suppose, especially considering where their mechanics have to go and work, the conditions they they might have to put up with and the, normally, complete inaccessability of some of the stuff they have to work on but anyone else would have those same problems where boats are concerned. I'm still with them and likely to stay with them for the foreseeable future.
    1 point
  36. They're usually known as scuttles in the Royal Navy who tend not to use the term porthole.
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  42. In appreciation of the bread you gave them earlier they are surveying the hull for you. Don't forget to ask thrm for a written condition report. ?
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  44. Called them out twice brilliant service of them both times ?
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  45. The first national census was taken in 1801 no names purely numerical to ascertain what the population was. The 1811,1821 and 1831 were also just numerical 1841 did give names ages and occupation and if born in the county enumerated in and no family connections ie husband , wife and so on. The 1795 Boat Registers where taken in counties where there were canals these are held in local county record offices if they have survived.
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  48. Ive ridden and boated it. I found the natives friendly but virtually impossible to understand ( and i went to school for seven years only 2 miles away) we rode the towpath on the tandem, as part of a ride taking in the erewash the nottingham and the cranfleet cut. We expected abuse but instead the locals were great helping lift the bloody great thing round the anti motorbike barriers. we were wearing australian tops that may have helped , and i said crikey and strewth a lot.
    1 point
  49. I see lots of Narrow Boats moored in inconsiderate places.
    1 point
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