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  1. I've also spoken to Steve a few times over the years and this episode doesn't surprise me in the least, sadly.
    7 points
  2. 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.
    7 points
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  5. 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.
    3 points
  6. I showed a boater how to do that last trip as he sat there spooning it in
    3 points
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  11. 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,
    3 points
  12. 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
    3 points
  13. 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.
    3 points
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  17. 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.
    2 points
  18. KFC is definitely fowl.
    2 points
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  21. The beagle is now a skunk, I can't keep up
    2 points
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  24. 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.
    2 points
  25. - the columnist in Canal Boat magazine. And after this escapade, I like him even less. youtu.be/ldoVS0idTBw
    1 point
  26. If you cut a comb in to the stencil at the end you want to curve, then you could lay out the curve as you stick down the stencil. Would need a lot of care, but would be easier to maintain the letter spacing. So, cutting most of the way between letters, but leaving a tag at the inside of the radius.
    1 point
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  28. It will be a sad day when all boats have cameras and video recording and get the police/courts involved everytime a boater makes an error of judgement or has a moment of madness, we will end up just like cyclists. The canals are a place where reputation and gentlemanly behaviour is what its all about and I hope that never changes. Can't the plastic boat man just challenge Mr Haywood to a duel or something like that? ..............Dave
    1 point
  29. Get a bit welded on while your in the drydock, then you can win the BCN challenge. And with all these forum people saying I am talking B*ll*x I really am feeling Holy Inadequate .............Dave Not really thought about that before, you are correct......when single handed! ................DAVE
    1 point
  30. I’ve always been the last one to know anything. canal boating is not about getting their fast, not thinking of others. but enjoy the slow stroll through life, playing with things I know nothing about, and smiling knowing I have friends who together in the forum, who makes it all better. i haven’t attacked the bow thruster yet! i know I started the charging cable once, but reading posts since, and now I haven’t a clue again life is grand, I do wonder why the hospitals sent me for a head MRI, because they won’t find sod all!!!
    1 point
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  32. Burger King is marginally better than McD but it's all foul, I use them occasionally but its fuel not food. A kebab after a night on the lash was almost a tradition but again it's not food, it's more a hangover avoidance technique and I don't anymore anyway. fish, chips and curry sauce is food of the gods and a perfectly balanced food nutritionally Ok KFC is wrong but so lovely
    1 point
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  35. Fortunately I don't dream about them but a good scrubbing brush to the memory should help My granny is not a kebab
    1 point
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  37. I once stepped on some grass thinking it was some grass. Luckily, it was some grass and the lesson has stuck with me ever since. Because of that experience, I've never been dopey enough to attempt to walk on a canal. I count myself fortunate to have learned this at an early age.
    1 point
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  39. nor me. is it about that nice bloke who had a prime mooring spot pinched from under his very nose by the sleight of hand of a grubby tupperware driver?
    1 point
  40. Yes, exactly. Your point 1: it did occur to me that since the downstream boat was a steel narrowboat or broadbeam, maybe he was thinking of using it as a large steel fender. Point 2: the more one thinks about his actions, the less tenable is his position, isn’t it. Having just checked in our bookcases, we have a copy of his book Narrowboat Dreams. Perhaps I should reread it in the light of this episode?
    1 point
  41. About the only thing that can be said to pick holes in the video is that it looks to me to have been filmed using a wide angle lens which exaggerates the distance away things (e.g. narrow boats) appear to be. This means Mr Angry Haywood was nearer to the mooring than it looks in the film, and darted across the river even more sharply than it appears in the film, and inconvenienced that GRP cruiser he steered across the bows of more than you'd imagine, from watching the film.
    1 point
  42. Probably the heatmiser is powered directly by The Webasto, so when you press buttons on the heatmiser the display should come on. If it doesn’t it possibly indicates that the power to the Webasto is disconnected possibly fuse missing. if however it lights up then you need to check the heatmiser is calling for heat, in which case this might help https://www.heatmiser.com/en/download/211/english/7477/tm1-tm1-n-manual.pdf
    1 point
  43. Did nobody tell you about Prince? Get the train.
    1 point
  44. I'm not sure why you would assume that, you should get a 6 month visitor visa easily enough but for longer stays you will need to make sure you are applicable, I strongly suggest that you look into the other different types of visa. It might also be worth booking a hire boat for a holiday first before you commit to planning your retirement. It might be everything you hope it to be or you may feel that your motorhome is better suited to your needs. I don't want to sound like a rain cloud but it would be a bit pants if you spent four years planing to retire onto a narrowboat and then discovered it wasn't your cuppa tea (it has happened before). You can hire both narrowboats and motorhomes in this country so you can add that to your current research and if you only discovered narrowboats last weekend then you have so many blogs to read and YouTube videos to watch and questions to ask yet. That second bit wasn't quite what you asked about but hopefully interesting all the same.
    1 point
  45. I would have put Haynes at the helm. At the very least she may have offered a step by step concisive guide on how to avoid a collision,with a helpful exploded schematic on avoidance techniques.
    1 point
  46. Driving to the boat (75 miles each way) is easy. Boating in general gets harder each year. As a consequence distances covered becomes less. Walking a few miles for a loaf of bread and a pint of milk is more of a challenge. I can envisage that there will come a day when I treat the boat as a floating cottage but not yet. Waiting for this rain to stop before I go back to the boat to finish replacing the flywheel casing, engine mounts, drive plate etc after finding a broken casting whilst replacing the propshaft, sterntube and rudder bearing. Could have paid someone to do the work but it's a challenge. Frank. Aged 73 (almost)
    1 point
  47. The cruiser was alongside, with crew on the bank, while the narrowboat was still astern of the boat moored upstream of the cruiser......
    1 point
  48. Aside from the fact that many people know that his boat is named “Justice”, I have often wondered on the wisdom of having ones names pained on the side too, and personally have never felt the urge . Certainly if you do you need to be very mindful of publicity, and even more so when you are an author and journalist!
    1 point
  49. Email & link sent to the Editor of the publication.
    1 point
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