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I've also spoken to Steve a few times over the years and this episode doesn't surprise me in the least, sadly.

Surely the point is that if somebody "steals" the mooring you are aiming for (and I am not saying they did in this case) you grit your teeth, smile and carry on, not aim for and ram their boat.

I did not intend that.

I think you've lost the plot - nobody said you started the suggestion. MtB's explanation was perfectly clear and it is completely valid for a narrowboat in all conditions, including single handed. Your use of the word 'perhaps' is, frankly, sarcastic and could be interpreted as being bloody rude. It is without doubt the safest way to moor up in a current without risk. Taking advantage of the ferry glide principle is overlooked by many helmsmen, probably because they have little experience of rivers. I recall learning the technique in 1961, how about you? Shut the door on your way out.

I showed a boater how to do that last trip as he sat there spooning it in

Well, they were closest. The fact that two people want a single mooring doesn't mean that the one that got there first pinched it. I watched the video without sound, but it seems reasonable to me that the yoghurt pot was closest to the mooring, and would in the ordinary course of things get there first. If they see Mr Haywood going hell for leather to try and get in before them, then it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they get on with it lest THEIR spot be nicked by Mr Haywood,

The bad news is that I appear to be in a minority of one, even my wife does not agree with me, but the better news is that we are currently moored just above Stone for a couple of days and Goliath is right in front of us. Yesterday we had a spectacular all day session at the Borehole and tonight we have been to the Swan and drunk even more. Tomorrow we need to move on but its only a day to the Holy Inadequate. I still think I am right but enjoying boating is much more important than talking about boating, and getting the police or CRT involved in minor boating disputes is not a good idea. ...............Dave

Excellent, you have some cheap grainy video of the same incident? Do post it up so we can compare it with the good quality GoPro video posted on youtube. Much obliged.

Ha. I knew it.

You are probably right but any credibility Haywood may have had (from those who, like me, haven't actually met him) is totally shot. I'm not sure about prosecutions however, there is only merit in them for more serious incidents involving injury or loss of life, not for just being a dick (the courts would soon get clogged up if that were a defining factor). I'm sure however that if he has caused damage to the hire boat any civil/insurance claim against him would succeed on the basis of the damning video. When you look at it the cruiser skipper didn't do anything wrong, not wanting to get involved in colreg arguments, but they do say that two vessels on collision course should turn to starboard to try to avoid one , the cruiser skipper having already pulled alongside, no longer had that option, to make any effort to avoid a collision he would have had to steer to port in which case a collision would have been held to be mainly his fault as he would then be turning across the bow of the approaching narrow boat.

KFC is definitely fowl.

The beagle is now a skunk, I can't keep up

The lithium battery version was trialed by " Eco " Ltd just a couple of years ago. They had a panel of twenty boaters try them out over a six weeks period. The trial had to be stopped when two boaters received severe burns whilst sat forty feet away from their fan with all doors and windows open. It was discovered after the enquiry into what had gone wrong that they had not been wearing the heat proof asbestos suits supplied to each person before the trial began.

Hi Steve!

I am crap at spelling so I used Google to decide if it was dual or duel, are you saying that Google told me fibs ? but I have just spent a couple of hours in the Holy Inadequate so both the fingers and eyesight have gone a bit second best. .................Dave

Statistically, about as likely as the marriage thing. ?

Here's Whitby and Pictor going round the turn single handed at Hawkesbury in 1980. Who it is steering I don't know though.

Took me awhile, but finally twigged wot you were saying.

Blimey! I'd say that is a pump designed to be connected with flexible rubber 'heater' hose (probably 3/4") and Jubilee clips. Looks to me as though someone has bodged copper pipe to the inside of the inlet and outlet spigots and I'm not surprised one has come loose. The pump tails are not designed to be connected to copper pipe. What is the make and model of that pump?

Thank you Richard. I have spoken to you a few times over the years, as well, and always thought you to be a sound and sensible person. Your single sentence confirms everything I thought I had already concluded about Mr Haywood!

Turn the volume up on the telly ...

You'd be batty to get a butty....

The lock was set for this bloke but I nipped in first! Then this happened! (There is another pic of the thing stopping about 2 m behind our boat but it failed to load.) it was all ok . the lockkeeper told us to go in first but we did move up a bit.

No, that nice Mr Dog agrees with you, so a minority of two. Although one gets the impression he is only posting in this thread to be contrary and stir things up.

DJ is in the house...

Ahhh a bit like alternative facts..........

Either. A bootlace ferrule under a screw such as chockblock or a ring terminal for a busbar such as in your picture. Simply put, ALL cables must be terminated with a suitable (for the application) terminal.

Ok so 'sketchy' remains your style....!

Oh the irony....

A dc clamp meter around the individual cables should achieve the same result.

Our gulper is 20 years old,full time liveaboard. Nuff said. Buy cheap buy twice (or more) Jeez, I'm beginning to sound like mrsmelly.