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  1. Tunnel bands is a modern term for them. Since the 60s, I’ve always known them as counter bands. I don’t think the waterways press help in this respect, I’ve seen what I know as a stop beam referred to as a “ boatman’s beam” , likewise a cabin stool called a “ boatman’s stool”. Side doors called swan or duck hatches make me wince….
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  6. Can we end this speculation as to which member is human and which is an AI. Seems to come up with increasing regularity. New members are on moderator approval for their first couple of posts. We make enquiries of some of these and they don't get approved for general viewing if we aren't satisfied that they are human. There are AI posters about. We get some of them. There is a middle ground, where we don't know who is human and who is an AI from a single post. Speculating about the humanity of a new member is very off putting to that person. If you have concerns, then report the post and the moderators can look in to it. There can be all sorts of reasons why a first post can appear "off", from English not being their first language, through to cognitive differences, to to the wish to give a detailed technical answer. Once AI's start going boating and have some valid experience to contribute, then they won't be a problem. Until them, they are regurgitating information in their training data, with a sprinkling of making stuff up, which will degrade the usefulness of CWDF if it gets out of hand.
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  9. This forum has never treated the 'canal' in the forum name as a limitation on what can be discussed. All of us (or at least almost all of us) have boated sections of river as well as canal, and I see no problem whatsoever in this thread featuring the pictures of those boaters who spend more of their boating time on rivers and larger waterways. And if they make the occasional forays out onto coastal waters, and visit harbours, inlets and coastal rivers that most of us will never take our own boats to, that only adds to the forum in my opinion.
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  13. Your reputation of falling out with tradesmen has never been in doubt
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  15. @nigel carton also moves boats. I always find it a bit sad that someone has bought a boat, presumably to go boating on, yet they can't find the time to move the boat to their new home mooring. Especially as we are about to have a four day weekend which would be enough for most of the trip. And no reason not to leave the boat moored to the towpath for a week or two if the trip can't be completed in one go.
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  16. Well, I hope Peter don’t get put off posting. It’s also been good to have a thread where there’s usually little said, certainly no squabbling, just pictures to look at.
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  17. Seemed plain enough to me. No need to be rude. PS "cant" and "can't" are different words. Please write correctly.
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  18. I let em all live in my garden. Its fabulous. We get the occasional rat who I think ,lives next door but pops over for a munch sometimes. We have lovely squirrels and indeed are oft visited by foxes and most nights a couple of badgers. All caught many times by our Trail cam. The squirrels sit over our heads in the trees and drop nut shells on us when sat out in late summer. We have slow worms as our garden adjoins the Ceredigion slow worm sanctuary lol. No hedgehogs as yet but working on that.
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  19. Ahhh, interesting mate - and that makes total sense! Will have a good nosy about tomorrow when not under the influence and hopefully be able to suss out! thank you Thank you so much everyone again! I’ve just had a good nosy and found a loose wire in the changeover switch! I’ve just re-attached and I now have a working travel pack! can’t tell you how delighted I am, genuinely absolutely made up and grateful to you all! thank you all for diagnosing!
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  30. Me too. I like working locks, and I like sitting on the boat while someone else works them. I like going along, too, which is something fewer and fewer boaters seem to enjoy.
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  33. Agreed. David, your contributions to this and other threads are fascinating. Please continue to post, and just ignore the rest of us when the discussion wanders off in odd directions.
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  39. Dr Mengele was it?
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  46. You haven't got your boat yet, and looking for somewhere to put it first is an excellent idea. But you need to do some research yourself before posting general questions. For example, a bit of reading would have told you that genuine residential moorings are virtually nonexistent but "under the radar" ones can be found if you can live with the insecurity. And you would have learnt that most of these are on CRT water, which the Bridgewater isn't. There are a fair few farm moorings which allow residents, but as far as I know there's no central database of these and the only way to find them is to go and look. I presume you've hired boats, so you know the limitations - maybe hire one in the area you want to live and go and see what's available. Call in and talk to people on likely moorings, most boaters like to chat. That's the only way to learn if a marina will let you live on, too, as they can't advertise it without getting into planning permission trouble. It's also rare that a mooring is sold with the boat, the mooring owner will usually take the opportunity to whack the rent up. It's two separate deals. And, finally, don't get snotty on here, we don't like it. You'll just get told to use the search engine as every question you can think of has been answered many times, so you may get answers phrased humourously (or what we think of as such) and some of us are less patient repeating advice than others. Posting the same question twice is regarded as rude, and complaining about jokes made because you haven't even checked the title says what you mean is just silly.
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  49. I'm really not sure why you feel the need to stop. I think everyone has been enjoying your pictures and stories.
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  50. Oh dear. I have got the name wrong again. Sorry about that. The fact is that as children we called it the River Stroud. Anyway it was good fun for us when it flooded. I haven't got a photo of us sailing on its water meadows, but here is one of sailing on the Stroudwater. I doubt it is a sight often seen these fifty years. In the days of trade however no doubt sails were used whenever convenient. And better set than in the photo. The rig was a sliding gunter and something has gone wrong. Reverting to my story and back to Gloucester. Here is a photo of the docks, looking towards the drydocks. I accept it is a poor shot but it may give some idea of the variety of commercial vessels in the 1950s. In the drydock, the white bows of the Shell Glassmaker. Clustered around the entrance, to the right, Regent King, an unpowered tankbarge, to the left Severn Trader, the first of a new batch of IWE traders of which it was the first and the last, then the diesel tug Severn Iris, and the steam tug Primrose. Plus some lighters the names of which I have forgotten. In the foreground, at left, the Glevum. Now I believe a residential barge in Bristol. Again, I accept it may be difficult to make them out. The quayside right in the foreground, had below it an outlet from one of the mills. From it one could catch good big roach with the aid of a stick with a line and breadpaste hook. Not good to eat but fun to catch. Now to the other end of the Ship Canal, and our alternative route. We could not moor in the Dock itself, so we used the Old Dock. Right under the bows of the Gravesend Sea School's Vindicatrix. Just to the left of her is the hull of the schooner Dispatch, built on Speyside and famous in her day. Inboard of her one of the war-built ferro-concrete barges, of which there were a number hanging about the Old and New Docks, all ending up beached on the banks of the Severn at Purton. Save one which was retrieved, towed up to the museum in Gloucester where it stayed for a while before being relegated again, this time to the timber ponds near Sharpness, where it is still, sunk beneath the waters. Our mooring in the Old Docks was quite dramatic.We overlooked the Severn Railway bridge, and the sight and sounds of the river as the tide roared in and out brought home just how dangerous the river could be and was. The weather could change in minutes to a thick mist which blanketed everything. However my father didn't much like being moored close to the tankers, nor did he appreciate the early morning activities of the cadets clumping about on the deck high above us. Here for good measure is a photo of the Regent Queen, fully laden, waiting to depart at 6 a.m. for Stourport. Under the old coal shute. Neither still exist. The Regent Queen was broken up on the foreshore by Sharpness Docks and the coal shute a remarkable building, was demolished. So we moved. Where we then stayed, off and on for three or four years, was at Purton. This was a wild and beautiful place. We could see behind us the railway bridge and watch the steam locomotives trundle across it. And on the other side of the towpath was the Purton Graveyard. In the 1950s it was the finest collection of wooden hulled vessels, both local and national, anywhere in the country. It was visited by the maritime historians of the day. And by me. Just two of my many photos. On the right the former schooner Sarah McDonald, built in Perth in 1867. To the right, the former trow Edith built at Bridgwater in 1901and a local trader, first in sail and then by motor. Both destroyed by arson in 1986. If you go there now, there is little to see. The same vessels from a little distance, but including in the foreground, the Kennet barge Harriett, and the Gloucester built towing barge Dursley. The Harriett remains, I think, sinking ever lower into the mud, with such protection from damage as a scheduled Ancient Monument can command. Right. That is enough. That is the end of my beginning.
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