Jerra
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easier and safer to go through it "making a bit of progress"
It is possible to"make a bit of progress" without going full throttle and boasting about speed records isn't it?
What next F1 narrowboat racing!
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His face is vaguely familiar....
Previous thread perhaps??
He has appeared in a previous thread but I can't remember which one.
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If they didn't want you to go through as quickly as you safely can, why would they actually instruct you to?You said they instruct you to travel at normal cruising speed not as quickly as you safely can. The two may not be the same.
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Good mooring just past bridge 28 with fresh eggs and bacon etc at the farm shop - Fine Feathers Farm Shop Feathers Farm Shop.
I posted this on another thread about the Caldon "Coming through Milton towards Stoke I saw some kids on a bridge obviously watching the boat carefully so I went to the front to get a better view and saw they had several half bricks on the parapet. One kid lobbed one towards the boat so I promptly got the camera out and started photographing. The kids vanished below the parapet and only reappeared after we had gone under and away from the bridge - waving nicely!! Do they not realise the harm a half brick could do??!!"
That would have been about 3 weeks ago. Something to look out for perhaps?
While I would agree about the canal being well worth a visit when we were there in March 2 teenage girls threw a small stone from a bridge in that area. Again use of the camera moved them on.
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They're pretty easy to spot around here, they tend to use the bow thruster to steer rather than the tiller.
Ah I see only boats with bow thrusters are allowed to be share boats! Now I know.
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Sometimes people are in a rush due to external commitments, there is nothing in the bylaws that says you can't be. We for instance usually have a plane to catch at the end of the weekend. Although I appreciate you do let people past, its not your place to decide whether or not they can be in a rush.
The post implies that they may also be using excessive speed if the "slow" boat was doing 3 -4 mph
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if you are in a rush, what are you doing on the canal?
Tell that to those folk posting about speed records for the Harecastle tunnel.
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I was overtaken by a share boater/posh chap
Excuse my ignorance but how do you know he was a share boater - did he have a sign round his neck saying I am a share boater?
I haven't learned how to tell boaters apart unless they have a hire company sign on them.
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Whats to say that the swan hadn't been killed by blunt force or something similar as opposed to disease or illnes? And you'd be surprised how many people actually eat roadkill these days. It's an up and coming thing in the USA.
Nothing is tosay it hadn't been killed by blunt force. How ever you will find (I think) that with road kill you are able to tell exactly how longit has been there (well less than 24hours anyway) because firstly it is likely to be as flay as a pancake if it has been there long. Also people I know who collect road kill take it from roads they use regularly an so know it wasn't there when they last passed.
With an animal/bird away from a road it is more difficult to be certain how long it has been there and with out going to the trouble of taking it home and preparing it for the table you are unlikely to be able to guarantee what it died from. I have in my time seen many dead birds including swans which have died from blunt force trauma and it is very difficult to establish the cause generally.
Unles sof course you caused the blunt force trauma yourself!
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The only relevant fact about locking threads is that Dan is responsible for what is said on HIS site. If he feels there is a risk of any kind from the thread he must act.
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I used to live next to a farm in scotland and regular dosing was a fact of life! ok it was a few years ago but thing s dont change much. Also if you remember that was one of the reasons that humans and animals cant have the same antibiotics
I had very close contact with the local farming community for 35 years through my work and I certainly didn't find it was the norm.
Are you saying penicillin is no longer available for use on humans, as it was the commonest antibiotic our vet used. I admit it is now 10 -15 years since I had such contact
EDIT: to correct spelling.
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The difference being that the top speed of any boat I have tried out hasn't put a wash over the towpath, with its potential damaging effects.
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How does anyone know for sure that the Swan was killed for consumption? What if it was already dead when found and, like those who eat roadkill, was cooked and eaten.
There is a subtle but noticeable difference between road kill and finding an animal dead. With road kill you can be reasonably certain what it died from. Finding an animal dead it could have died from a disease which could possibly be caught or it might even have died from poisoning. There are few enough people eat road kill I would imagine even fewer are prepared to eat an animal which has died from some unknown cause an unknown period of timea go.
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Most recently I got a load of abuse from another cyclist coming the other way at high speed (on a pavement in town),
Correct me if I am wrong but I thought it was illegal to cycle on a pavement (unless of course you mean part of the pavement marked as a cycle way).
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Do you put it into the empty cassettes straight after emptying, or once the cassette is back in the toilet do you tip it down the loo??
I think the recommendation in the instructions is to put it into the tanks as it eventually damages the seals. However in the years of caravanning I just poured it down the hole being careful to miss the seals.
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Perhaps this is the root of the term "hobby-horse" - a horse that doesn't actually go anywhere as I understood the term to mean...
It is more likely to derive from the word Hobby a middle english word for a small light horse or possibly a breed of Irish horses now extinct.
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As somebody once said I thought boating was supposed to be a chilled out no rush sort of thing. I didn't know with a speed limit of 4 mph there were speed records!
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No I wouldn't. It's poisonous to humans, I believe.
I think you will find it is also poisonous to sheep.
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Anyway what I found interesting was that on the 2 days free mooring below the locks there were 4 (yes four) CRT work boats moored, taking up something like half the 2 day space, which was full.
No its all a cunning plan (or should I call that a Baldrick) fill up the available space so you can show there is a need for charges.
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Tell that to Tesco.
Banking?
Insurance?
Clothing?
Electricals?
I am sure they felt the need to expand as has been said there is no need to expand the gallery. Also Tesco diversification would bring in more money expanding the gallery might but is it needed.
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Do you go out of your way to park on yellow lines?
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Time will tell, this is all done in the spirit of trying to work with CRT just hope that maybe they will see it that way.
I couldn't agree more it seems a strange way to run a business (OK I know its a charity but it needs tor un like a business) toignore efforts to help you provide the service your customers need/want.
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Again with this Survey I think the problem CRT have is that it is a Survey organised by Boaters they would prefer to have a Survey that they set the questions and have some control on who answers the questions. As I said at the start this IMO is an unbiased Survey and going by the replies has been completed by boaters who hold many different views and that as far as we are concerned is great. It is what it is, a random sample of boaters opinions including Hire Boaters, Leisure Boaters and Continuous Cruisers.
I think that CRT are just going to have to get used to the fact that int his day and age boaters are able to communicate and organise such surveys. As they results of these surveys pile up over the years they can continue to ignore them but it will be more difficult for them too (just my opinion of course).
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Once again a big THANK YOU
I feel it is us who should be giving the YOU big thank you.
THANK YOU
Two Threads, C&RT's two faces and this forum.
in General Boating
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I was just thinking it might make the canals less attractive to walkers and dare I say it cyclists. We are after all told people like to see boats.