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I think it's the same for migrating birds such as geese. By flying in the V formation they are riding the waves of the bird in front, thus reducing the effort required. Pity the poor one at point of the V!
Do they change position like cyclists in the peloton or penguin in a storm stood in a pack so all taking turns in easier or warmer positions ?
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Just having returned from a prolonged tea-time sesh I would like to agree with all your comments. Happy Days are here again!
Oh Happy memories
In the late eighties /early nineties we were often found having a few in there,
Before any boat safety system came along there was an old boy with two twenty foot ish plastic cruisers joined together back to back with a waterwheel for propulsion at the rear of one of them. He was often moored there at weekends.
Many pints were consumed, and when my new pair are mobile I freely intend to come and taste the beer again for a session or two on my way around the system. Just to check if you are correct about the good ale.
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I missed it last night - did anyone actually get it right? It's amazing what they know.
I'm also surprised that the hull shape doesn't influence the angle. I guess if I had a square shaped bow the wake would still be 39 degrees.
Its the same for ducks swimming too ! 39degrees.
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Guess we would get free Rosey & Jim's rather than Meerkats with every license renewal - please don't give them ideas!
Now you are putting the horse before the C&RT in your thinking !
Sorry.......Just a poor joke .
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Hey up boating folk
I'm wanting to CC sometime this summer, but due to the fact that I have up to 6 hospital appointments a year plus blood tests, and ordering and collecting medication; I was wondering if it's possible to carry/load a small motorcycle like a scooter or 125cc type bike on a NB. Is there any known laws? would the weight affect the boat? would I have to choose where I loaded/unloaded the bike? I'm of the thinking that if I was in a 100 mile radius of Halifax I could jump on the bike to arrive at my appointments.
Cheers in advance
In the eighties I had a yam xs1100 that weighed 230kg in the front well deck, which to get on and off i cut the gunnel down to the water tank nearly and hinged it , just like the disabled access boats you still see about that also have a ramp built in.
Any reasonable welder/fabricator shell builder could do it for you, or buy a small fold up moped in a suitcase if you want a smaller bike that you can nearly lift on and off.
Just dont drop whatever you do in the cut as its a bugger to get them out and repair ! And dont ride on the towpath please.
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Recorded some of the programme, missed the start.
Reporter: "He has to move his boat every 2 weeks, if only a few yards, but the new plans by the canal trust we see that happen every few days. If not, he would face a fine"
Mike Doherty (south east boater): "This means we will have to be moving again and again and again, and that's just not do-able like some of us have kids in school, I work myself in London...it is do-able with the 14 day rule and we try to abide by that, but these new mooring restrictions, well I don't know how I'm gonna cope"
Reporter: "His neighbour Paul also fears the proposed restrictions could break up the community and further alienate the people who choose to live on the canal"
Paul Hut: "It frightens me that there going to push and push and push so we got to be...basically, moving further and further away from normal society, and being almost treated like gypsies. It's not a very nice feeling"
There are hundreds of opinions going to appear on this from :" Let everyone live where they want for any length of time in peace" all the way to "you should be moving again and again in one direction to be a continuous cruiser not a continuous moorer which are hated by all".
And thats THE PROBLEM. US. So many opinions appear here we will never pull together, but the Hire Industry has got together and managed to get together (or so it seems to humble me ) with the hiarachy of the IWA to form an alliance of "we want things our way". So getting the best moorings (closest to the pubs shops etc) available for our overnight stoppers on the holiday boats.......Mainly in the warmer summer months admittedly........we mess up there businesses and cause delays to their customers at locks etc etc.
A viable system has to be found to suit all not just a greedy few........on any side.
So we have to change thinking and be savvy or in todays world we the foolhardly will lose out in a big way.
So what now ?
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A vote and then ten pages saying he doesn't represent me? I am happy with first person to phone as long as they report back
Thanks Sue,
Thats what I intend doing .
I can ask specific sensible questions if people send them to me and i am allowed the time to ask !
Personally I think there are so many different views on here we are totally not united on any front that it will be a difficult to have a " voice" for the people.
If the ones who shout loudest and longest had contacted C& RT first then perhaps they would be there not me, but I feel as an ex boat builder and 10yr livaboard, who still owns a share in a trad 58 footer and is about to build a new pair to live on and eventually CC I have a fair knowledge of the working of the waterways, as my first wooden boat was bought by me in 1981.
So lets wait and see what we find out ?
And I am sorry this is the night before but being in hospital stopped my internet access, but any questions people ?
Old Git. Aka Jerry.
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Yes, but canalchef stated he represents no one.
And I am the other.
I sent an email to them and as I was first to ask I got the space.
Old Git
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It may be worth asking Brenda Adams: Brenda.Adams@canalrivertrust.org.uk, who the other person is as no one seems to know
Its me,
Old git..........Sorry been in hospital ......Now home and able to go tomorrow so inbox me with things to discuss/ ask And I will report back.
I may not live aboard at present but did for years and as soon as the new one pair are built i will again , but I still own a share in a 58 trad that is used lots.
Old git
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It would take an act of Parliament to remove the continual cruising rules.
Other than that, Old Git... Trolls live under bridges
No problems with Continuous Cruisers, its the Continuous Moorers on the towpath that nark me, when they dont move for months on end from the best spots near the pubs or other useful spots.
But just my opinion !
Old Git
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So, you like living in a floating caravan. Good for you. Do let us know when you decide to move.
Ohh, do you mean that you wash your boat with tap water?
Hello all,
I do find this all very funny, but the "do let us know when you decide to move". Comment could apply to all those CM ers , who bridge hop at best which if you read Ca RT blurb is not allowed.
If we All paid a fair amount it would improve the coffers and we may just get a better system for all of us to use and enjoy.
Just an Opinion
Old Git
Ps......Build heaps more marina's please, I do not care if they are used or not but it will help keep the water levels up as more water per pound in theory.
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I'd have a very quiet word with a tame CRT bod first because as soon as word got out that mooring would be permitted you could add a nought to the site value.
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News ,
I have asked
Mooring more than likely allowed.......no residential they object to it !
Might be worth a punt now
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Lets be right about this your house is nearly 3km from the proposed route. You have nothing to complain about.
Your responses really do scream of someone spitting the dummy out. How have you got an estate agent out that quickly to value your home and tell you that a project 3km away will devalue your home by £80k?
The proposed route will pass our home much closer than 3km on its way from the proposed Sheffield station to Leeds. We see it as a positive project and welcome the move. We will also in all likelihood get noise from HS2 but no worse than the road noise we already suffer living on the edge of a big city.
So quickly,
You fool we have been arguing this for 3 yrs in the Chilterns........ i have two neighbours within a mile and then just views across a totally rural valley........all Green belt, Until this dam thing happened.
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We live at the Locks in Woodlesford, on the fairly new build housing estate! Not great news for us, looks like we are just over the 120m voluntary purchase zone so not sure where that leaves us.
The same place as me........OUT OF POCKET. And unable to sell and it wont be worth what you paid for it ?..........Write to your MP lots now.....join Stop HS2
Old Git
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Oh dear!
Yep,
I am totally pissed off with this.
This house I bought 9 or ten yrs ago , and rented out whilst abroad until 3 yrs ago , it was to keep into my old age after retiring from boating, and As it was in the middle of nowhere in Green belt i felt sure it would be a worthwhile deal and be what i wanted, like all narrowboater.......Peace and tranquility.
Now my £330k investment and hundreds of hours work is worth about £80k less according to my local estate agent, and near impossible to sell for years. But considered to be to far from the line to qualify for a pre HS2 valuation buy out by HM govt. Not even a payout for the valuation difference they do not care.
I have sat in a house in France the same distance from the TGV with roughly the same elevation......... It was hell.
So if one of you is a deaf trainspotter I have the ideal house for you. But not me
I cannot wait to move onto the new pair and sail off and forget this nightmare until I am to old to care !
Old Git
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Would you be happy for the project to go ahead if it didn't pass almost 3km away from your home?
No.........Read last autumn statement from the Treasury , They say we cannot afford it and the profitability is suspect.
They are financial experts not Politicians on a campaign.
Spend the money on the Hospitals that we need
Yes, I believe the preferred location is somewhere in the Chilterns:-)
George ex nb Alton retired
Only by a bloody fool donkey........does the hat fit ?
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There are very good reasons for the UK to catch up with the rest of the world in this area of transport.
The greatest is the plain fact that our existing railways (the important ones anyway) are rammed to bursting. We've only just completed the upgrade of the West Coast main line and already it is nearly full. The upgrade took years, cost a fortune and made the lives of its users and neighbours a misery while it happened. Yet it is still a Victorian railway with loads of disadvantages by comparison with what the French, Spanish, Chinese and many others take for granted these days from their railways.
As a semi-retired railway engineer, I am not going to gain any work or money from this, but I cannot see any real argument against it. I've considered it long and hard, and believe it to be a "no-brainer" if the country is going to be competitive and "green" in the decades ahead.. We have to build new railway capacity, and to build it to Victorian standards instead of 21st century ones would be madness. It would cost very little less to do that and take little, if any, less land, but deliver so much less for the future of our country.
Of course there will be issues to sort out, such as the canal crossings we boaters are worried about. The answer to that is for us to get involved vocally in the consultation process, and make sure that the issues we have are managed appropriately.
As for householders, landowners and so on, believe you me they will not lose out. The Government will have to "buy off" the MPs whose constituencies are affected by making sure that affected people are treated well. On the first stage there are already all sorts of deals on offer so that people can get compensation for the effects of the scheme.
Building HS2 may be upsetting to people along the route while it happens, but then so would a major upgrade of any of the existing routes. At least the work will have relatively little effect on users of existing lines, unlike an upgrade, which would be a major pain. Remember all the "bustitutions" on the West Coast line a few years ago. I certainly do, and it isn't a happy memory!
Experience is that once the line is open, few neighbours will notice it once the trees grow back etc. Meanwhile, the existing railways will be freed of the high speed trains and have lots of capacity released for better local and freight services, using the paths left vacant. This will mean better services for the towns and cities not directly served by HS2. So it isn't just for the big cities like London & Birmingham, it will also benefit the likes of MK, Coventry, Crewe, and the like on the existing lines.
How Wrong can you be ,
There is a distance of 2670M from our house to the centre of the tracks proposed route, we are 22m higher than track level and there is a slight dip in between us and it , all arable fields
We get nothing nowt sod all not a bean........Except the noise when its open.
And I still am not allowed to build my detached garage as I have a house in a Green belt area.
Now go and actually read the real facts before spouting off........
I will never be able to sell this house which at present is in beautiful Green belt.........Which is why I bought it.
Hs2. The biggest white Elephant in history ! IT STINKS. and it is not Carbon neutral or Green in any way, its Co2 output will be horrendous.
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be interesting to see what lot 187 goes for.
Definitely,
Thats space for 3 x average narrowboat moorings, water and power cannot be far away so for less than about £8k each a mooring with parking and room for a shed or two, thats at a price of only a couple or three of years marina payments !
Absolute bargain. Who wants to join together and buy it ?
Old git
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You could also say that they are creating a new North to South wildlife corridor.
Its already GREEN BELT..........
Go down to Kent and listen to the Eurostar trains at high speed, audible 4 miles from the high speed line any evening, It will be worse than that !!!!
Want it now ?
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The demand for transport seems to rise inexorably.
If they don't build more railway capacity they will have to build more road (ie motorway) capacity.
I know which I prefer.
George ex nb Alton retired
CRAP..........Read the stop HS2 campaign details......With figures by the treasury, It does not add up at all...........Its a vote buyer a confidence booster to the great unwashed that we are not in recession..........The treasury even state in last years forecast they cannot find the money for the budget at present and have stated the figures are dubious as to the returns.
When will the stupidity end .
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There are 32 billion (ish!) problems that I can see.
Which then begs the question, why?
Martyn
Absolute bloody stupidity is why , i have a house within two miles of the bit going through the chiltern hills, and its all green belt !!!!, WTF , I cannot even build a detached garage in the garden, they are having a 180m wide. ( yep you did read that correctly ) swathe cutting through the countryside With trains going past every 6 minutes for large parts of the day .
Its likely being built by a Spainish company who have done a few around the world ........That amount of money would build and finance 63 new hospitals for the next twenty years.
What would you want Hospitals built by British companies for our use or a train for Camerons rich friends, as they will be the only ones able to pay for a ticket .
Even the head man at the Treasury cannot see the figures adding up and has said so in public, and says the country cannot afford this sillyness.
This needs a referendum on where WE the public spend OUR money.
Old Git
Please write to your MP and try to stop it all.
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Can anyone recommend a web-site, artist or gallery in the Midlands? We have a space on a wall (in the house) that really needs a painting, photo or print. Preferably, but not necessarily, with a canal or river or Old English Sheepdog theme. If you know of, or are, an artist who may have what we need (I'll know it when I see it!) please post details.
Thanks as ever, Beo
You can get any photo or picture you like turned into wallpaper to fit whatever size wall you like, one of the missus kids has a wall done, and its bloody fabulous.
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Good quality plastic tanks are best. Intergral tanks will give you more water storage but come at a price of needing maintenance, stainless steel tanks are expensive and not worth the price.
i have seen a few plastic tanks rupture from knocks/old age/brittle joints.........Never seen it happen to a stainless steel one welded by a coded welder, and i have lived with a steel integral for years, the painting was a pain.
How deep are your pockets is where it rests quite often
My new pair will have stainless tanks as they are with me till I am finally to old to get on board !
Old Git
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Hi all long time no speak ,when fitting new anodes to alluminium z drive i presume you must fit alluminium anodes , is this correct? thanks
Wouldn't have thought so as they will both rot away at the same rate as the water doesn't know the difference, you need something to create A positive / negative bias so the right bit rots .
Magnesium works with steel , you will have to search, Try looking at a Sea Otter add they are made of Aluminium so must have anodes. Or a damn good paint? , perhaps some one here has a similar set up. I have only owned wood or steel boats.
Old Git
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I shall be doing a speil tomorrow for all to read.
Today i have to take my beloved out as its an important anniversary.
Old Git