Chertsey
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A very short trip! I was settling down to 80 minutes worth, which is what it took me last time.
Blimey, that was quick! I seem to recall it took us two and a half hours - that was with the electric tug though. Can't believe it's ten years now since we did that.
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It is, but so is:
Horses have four legs.
This animal is not a horse.
Therefore this animal does not have four legs.
...where the mistake being made is "denying the antecedent". So it's more specific to describe it as an example of the other sort of fallacy of the undistributed middle, i.e. the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
Yay, less politics, more philosophy!
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Oi, keep this stuff in the pub so I can avoid it!
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Who is pearlygeoff? He seems to be a rather rude and unpleasant character. I thought this was quite a good discussion up to post 22.
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yep this is the one..
Yup, that's the one, tho it no longer has the Hingley's livery it is still grey. I saw it again at the weekend on the N. Oxford.
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No the one i'm thinking of they owned, it was grey in colour the name began with "N"
Edited:- Just remembered Scraggy owned Molly Maguire then theres Zulu on same number 503407 so maybe thats the one i'm thinking of..
Well it is grey...
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I've seen it years ago with all the cabin sides painted inside, but can't remember the boat i'm sure it wasn't a butty, for some reason i seem to remember Viv Scragg/Barber owning it or at least one like it before she had Monarch..
There is a modern(ish) (Jim Forester??) tug style boat called Zulu which has panels as described inside, painted by Kevin Scragg, or so I was told at any rate.
There may well be a similarly decorated old boat, but that's the only one I've seen.
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FTS will have chapter and verse on this but I thought that a condition of the 'council' moorings was that they were residential?
The NBTA are as a rule a bunch of people considerably pushing their luck (that is the euphemism), but I think the moorings in question in this case are not normal leisure moorings.
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If you do need to replace bits Midland Swindlers at Braunston have them - at a price!
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Yep, I found 2 hours bad and then BW sending a team to us because I had (against my better judgement) breasted up with another boat (to save time!!!)
But which of you had your fenders down?
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Getting stuck in the lock.
But that's a reason for not sharing a lock at all...
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That's not a reason though - that's the fear.
Can't find the other thread about this that ensued shortly after I came back from August hols... But the gist was that there are some people I would be perfectly happy to trust to steer with my boat breasted up to them, and did so to very good effect in the summer.
Obviously there are also plenty of people I wouldn't trust, likewise with working locks and no doubt many other things.
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Just keep it in its plastic bag on the deck. It's coal, not the crown jewels!
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Convenient timing but I swear this is true (because if I was going to make it up I would have done so long ago).
I was coming up the Coventry towards Hawkesbury on Sunday and went over something in bridge 22. Immediately knocked it out of gear, rode over whatever it was, and the tiller swung wildly to the right and was snatched out of my hand. Going forwards.
Not with as much force as I've had happen when reversing (I've had the rudder out twice), but certainly enough to knock someone off balance if they had been caught by it.
So don't stand in range of the tiller.
(By the way, I've just spent an absolutely perfect weekend (Sat-Mon) single handing from Alvecote to Braunston; it was utterly brilliant. And what weather!)
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Tee hee.
They are our local boatbuilders and also run a hire fleet, so they are a common sight going past our house. I would put them fairly high on the list (which is headed by unladen Town Class motors) of things which you don't want to meet coming round a blind bend.
Well put it this way, if I met a Foxes boat (almost) head on I suspect I'd come off worse. I don't think I'm scary; I always fear for my rivets.
Northwiches are scarier than Woolwiches.
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Oil soaked rag may do it
I use oil* soaked rag *and* kindling.
Maybe alcohol/meths would do it? It works for barbecues...
Otherwise, yes, firelighters.
Actually our own patent 'mysterious flammable substance' mixture of leftover oil, diesel, paraffin, white spirit etc.
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Ooh, how gratifying!
I calculate I will need 72 x 6" squares, and I am up to 36.
I will then have to learn how to join them together:-)
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Well, cars are a bit quicker and more predictable at stopping.
It's the old practice thing again. Someone who has one bad experience and is enabled, even subtly encouraged, not to try again, isn't going to get the necessary practice and experience to judge how their boat stops. Heck, I still only get it right about half the time and I still go in too slowly.
The bloke, especially if he's the boat owner, is far less likely to feel able to just give up trying, so will eventually get better at it.
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Thanks for all the tips! Especially the one about taking an umbrella to a trapeze act! Mind boggles!
Ta Da........
Wish I could say it was a 'first attempt', it was probably 13th time lucky! Still beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, and I am very pleased! Really pleased people here pointed me in the right direction!
That's brilliant. You've mastered something that probably 90+%* of boaters can't do. Crown know next! (I can *never* remember how to do one)
*Wild guess.
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I have finally mastered basic crochet.
Does anyone ever read this subforum? I want to announce it to the world!
I now have a winter project of making a bedspread for Chertsey out of 72 'granny squares'. I am now exactly half way through square production.
I don't know why it's taken me so long to crack crochet; I've been quite good at knitting since teenage years. I think it's maybe the knowing where to put the stitches (which isn't an issue with the squares as they go in the hole). I hope to continue making progress and maybe be ready to tackle lace some time within the next decade.
I can certainly see why crochet beats knitting as a boat based craft - it requires a lot less space both to do and to store.
Anyway, here are some of my early squares. I will post progress reports. If anyone's reading
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I only popped into the arts and crafts corner to talk about crochet, but as you're talking about tattoos, I wanted this:
I still do sort of, but clearly not enough to actually bear the pain and the cost. I suppose I might yet change my mind. How old is too old to start?
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I didn't mean use real Masonite, I was suggesting that a Masonite (or ply) cabin might be easier to replicate with modelling materials than an original wooden one. And quite fancied going for a seventies vibe partly because the available three inch tall people seem to have one.
So going back to the other thread, which ones were(n't) around in the seventies :-)
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Only the metal ones.
Can't get anything past you :-)
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I lost my old BW key at the beginning of the summer and am still very sad as the new ones don't have BWB or indeed anything stamped on them :-(
selling my boat
in General Boating
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It's payable on the broker's services, not on the boat.
My sister, in the course of her job, once came across someone who was genuinely called Helen Highwater.