Graham Davis

From those comments I'm guessing you haven't ever been on a canal boat! FFS, put down the keyboard, close down the computer, get off your arse and get out and LOOK AT SOME BOATS!!

So why haven't you deleted this thread?

Really

So one person asks you, very politely, a few questions, and you answer with rudeness and insults. Do you really think that is the way to get an honest response from the informed members here? Now how about answering those questions in the manner they were asked?

Insulting people now. Your not going to get very far taking that attitude. And here's a suggestion for you; go to the Morgan car factory in Malvern and see the rough and ready way they build some of their cars. I suspect you will be very shocked!

And that shows you really don't have a clue! FFS!! Get out from behind your bloody computer and go and see some actual, real steel narrow boat builders so you see what the REAL world is like. I can assure you that they are craftsmen. It's just you can't or won't recognise that, even when the experts on this forum tell you.

Corrected that for you, as you have NO experience of narrow boats or their design. (As you have been told numerous times)

It is.

Really? Your reply really does show your ignorance, about boat builders in both wood and steel. To repeat, you turn up to all the good canal boat builders with the budget and attitude you have shown here and you will not get very far. I suspect you will be shown the door very quickly and possibly in very basic Anglo Saxon language! I suggest that you start listening to the numerous experts on here and act on what they say. I also you suggest that you get out from behind your computer screen and start actually visiting the real steel boat builders who know what they are doing and don't need computers and CAD to build fine and excellent boats. Go with a decent, respectful and open attitude and you might find that they will actually talk to you, discuss your requirements, correct them where you are quite obviously wrong or impractical and may even offer you a sensible and reasonable figure. The answer totally lies in your court, but you need to change your attitude.

We're the sandwich filling between two of those white boats at the moment, in Vienna.

Sounds like someone has a chip on their shoulder

Having worked a "locally controlled" level crossing, none of this surprises me

?? Welcome, but I'm not sure why you have reopened an ELEVEN year old thread.

And this is the third thread about this!!

Very true!!

They certainly are supposed to be doing more than that, and in the past that base did meet you at the first lock to show how to do it. I would suggest a message to the local CaRT office so that they can have a chat with them about it. Mind you, I have found that you can try to tell "learners" lots of things, but how much actually sinks in is debateable. They are often more interested in getting away.

So why not explain in PLAIN English what the jargaon means, what it does, and how it does it, so that we who don't know can learn?

I note you've ignored the last queston! And how about explaining, in English, what it all means and what it does and why it does it? We aren't all geeks!

Err?? What?? Why? And what happens when the battery goes flat?

I'm going to go back to basics here. To the OP, have you actually cruised the canals on any boat, wide, medium or narrow? If not can I suggest that before you do anything you hire atleast a narrow boat for a 2 week holiday, preferably in October or November, when the weather has started to get cold and wet. That way you will see how easy or difficult it is to live in the space, and start to see some of the "problems" that winter can bring to life to a boater.

FFS!!! Give it a rest! Some of your comments about caravanning have been way off line.

Yawn! Give it a rest!!