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Dharl

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    Pembrokeshire
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    Honeystreet (Share)
  • Boat Location
    Alvechurch

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  4. To the OP, if earlier in the year would have recommended that before going boating, take a day out to go to a flight of locks and spend some time watching how other boaters tackle them as well as asking them questions as that’s a great way to learn. Most boaters will happily talk to goongoozlers and the offer to open and close gates is never refused!
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  6. yes "rope cutters" on blue water boats to great success! not sure how they would get on with rubble bags which is what i seemed to be wrestling with under spaghetti junction!
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  8. one of your fellow owners of the shareboat gave us a similar chat when we first joined in 2014...However on recent trip along the BCN Old MAin Line was a little enthusiastic with my "burst astern" and I ended up spending an hour down the weedhatch recovering various items we had collected from the canal bed.... (whilst drifting under the M5 as unable to get into the tow path!)
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  11. Looks a pretty substantial repair to me!
  12. in a nut shell yes she is a challenge! In my day job she paid a visit to my neck of the woods. Planned to moor in the lock entrance to the docks, to achieve this she has to maintain half ahead until her bow is already in the entrance when she goes astern to stop within half a ships length! Nicely done but nerve racking when they are aiming for your real estate! Later calls I was on the bridge and even more nerve racking!! Leaving that berth they just let go the lines and rang down half astern and go until they had sufficient sea room to come ahead with the helm over and head the right way! We used a tug to help with the manoeuvre.
  13. that was my comment about the lack of rings on the lower level......must have missed them
  14. enjoyable watch - Roger Allam is a fav voice artist too.
  15. I think in the 10 years i have been on the cut there has been a handful of times that I think to myself that a Bow Thruster would have been useful there! Normally it has been getting in/out of tight marina spots.
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