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  2. Hi Nick. We left Keadby at 08.20, and arrived safely into the lock at 10.35. My hunch this very wet morning to be let out 30 mins earlier was correct. Tony’s hour earlier would also have been better. There was a strong head wind all the way and the tide had turned early and with the fresh coming down there was a fair flow. It needed lots of revs for the last 45 mins. Good job we’ve got a reliable 43hp and large prop. I nailed it into the lock without touching the sides, so was v happy. Surprisingly very little debris in the river, but think the tides not as high as a week or two back. 5B84E653-BBCE-47A8-8EF5-0BD4C1766847.MOV Cheers Mike & Wendy
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  3. It wasnt, it was footage of a boat coming in and mooring up and then another boat ramming the first one. There is no similarity to a bridge hole situation.
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  6. Edwin Starr would disagree DIG THAT FAT SAX!!!
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  8. Or even a bit like a fascist, like Hitler.... ?
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  9. The thread has legs yet. It's not quite followed thought the CWDF arc. Four stages to go. 1) Yes - there is a parallel thread talking about the same issue 2) No - no-ones flounced yet 3) Yes - there are those asking everyone to stop it generating another 10 pages 4) No - no one has called anyone Hitler yet 5) No - no poll set up yet 6) No - mod intervention
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  11. Heywood really makes a fool of himself in that doesn't he. He performs a deliberate 'punishment' ramming because he felt entitled to a mooring, even though approaching downstream on the wrong side. In his own words he claims a 'hirer' stole 'his ' mooring - reeks of 'boat owner' entitlement. What has the hire status of teh boat to do with anything at all? His ramming was potentially dangerous and certainly damaging to a fibreglass boat - he was using his weight and steel as a weapon. His nonsense claim about being unable to steer - is either a total condemnation of his capability or simply a lie. I know that mooring spot well and I certainly could have stopped, easily, well away from the vulnerable cruiser. On the road - he'd be guilty of dangerous driving. Like ramming a cyclist with intent. Not a trace of apology for ramming and possibly damaging the boat - he was still swearing as he moved away. As a driver, he'd be breathalysed - from his behaviour he appears out of control of both his boat and himself. You have to ask if he should be in control of 20 tons of moving machinery in that condition. He'd have got away with it if the cruiser skipper hadn't been filming - so the question is how often he's done that sort of thing before. Other posters have suggested this is behaviour they've seen before.
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  13. The the hire boat would have been through the bridge hole and clear of it long before encountering Steve, who then aims his narrowboat at it and rams it. Hope that helps...
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  17. Alternatively, now might be the time to go to a manual pull cable stop. use something like a bike brake cable and outer, or old fashioned car choke cable through to the control panel, with a pull knob there. Attach the other end to the stop lever on the injection pump. No more electrical worries and save £290 of your £300.
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  18. Bring back I Player or get Sounds to work before introducing it! Also, why are IT 'upgrades' always introduced without a hint of user advice. Back to the subject, I'll make it bedtime listening
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  23. I haven't tried the David Cameron Black Pudding yet but I hear it's f***ing brilliant!
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  24. If you want to make Black Sabbath Pudding, instead of normal Black Pudding, you need to use War Pigs instead of normal pigs.
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  27. Not properly black pudding if the bits of fat were white. Only if the white bits are black. Some Michael Palin for the OP Python fan. Jen More British cooking with black pudding. The fry up!
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  31. The difference in letter height may be due to computer cut lettering adding a bit above and below the letter line on curved letters such as O, S, C etc. Computer cut fonts over exaggerate the difference to me, intended to give the impression that all letters are equal in height. Vinyl is font perfect if soulless. I can’t paint letters with their precision, nor would I care to. Mine live....
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  32. Aarrgh! <pedant> It is silicone with an e, not silicon for the gooey stuff used to make water diversion dams. As bad as Amps per hour!</pedant> Sorry, one of the consequences of studying Materials Science long ago. It was a lot easier back then as not many materials had been invented then. Flint, reindeer sinew, wood, tree resin. Jen
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  38. And of course access to motor vehicles for shoppin and all that if you know someone
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  41. I am sure. I don't have a telly! You mean it was about a bus that rammed a hire boat? Was it this bus? "And here we have a wild bus drinking water from a river"
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  46. In my case, until they can pry the tiller out of my cold dead hands. I think the question is whether you can remain fit and able. If you can, you can keep going into your 70's or way 80s in my humble opinion,as many do.
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  47. You really think he'd / they'd be much help ?
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  48. I get this all the time with my deep-ish drafted boats. It seems intuitively that a skilled boater ought to be able to bring a boat to a stop right up close to the bank and parallel to it, but not in my experience. Like you I find the instant astern is engaged to stop, the prop sends water forwards up both sides of the boat, and on the bank side, into the gap between boat and bank pushing the stern out so it is not possible to get close and parallel to the bank AND stationary at the same time, using the engine. Nowadays if I think of it, I stop the boat parallel to the bank 6 feet out, let the boat start going backwards then engage ahead with full rudder to push the stern into the bank just as the boat comes to a stop again. The bow swings out across the cut but I can now step off the stern onto the bank with centre line and pull the boat in. If that doesn't work, with the bow now pointing across the cut the stern is therefore pointing at the bank so just engaging astern again motors the stern into the bank anyway. Then step off as before. None of this mucking about is necessary when you have crew! All goes to the wall when there is offshore wind....
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