Graham Davis

March 8

3 hours ago, Gybe Ho said:

Two-Tier policing is alive and kicking in this place. Every week here generates multiple cases that reach the threshold for criminal Hate Speech yet the mods do nothing.

Utter rubbish!
To repeat, if you don't like the way this forum is run, go away and open your own.
Or shut up.

March 8

20 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

Please quote the forum rule that says "You must accept moditorial censure without receiving any hint or explanation of the origin for the action".

There is everything wrong with the system here, the forum is dying. The accumulated Q&A resource built up here between 2008 and 2018 will disappear into the digital ether without trace and that would be a shame. It is time to plan for that event and get the forum Q&A database text released in the public domain under a creative commons license so as a minimum the forum can be resurrected as a read-only resource.

I can assure you, as others have done, that the Mods do tell you why you are being censured. I was told the exact reason why I was and was given the option to accept that and stay, or refuse and leave. I'm still here.

As I suggested, if you don't like the way this forum is run then leave and set up your own. There are a few of us here who wouldn't complain if you did that.

14 minutes ago, peterboat said:

I have passed on everyone's regards to Tim, he is very poorly the transplant hasn't gone well, he was nearly back in hospital the other day. I will be talking to him later so will know more then

Thanks, Peter

March 8

9 hours ago, Gybe Ho said:

The system is faulty. It is like the police expecting a person to plead guilty to a crime before being told what the crime is.

There is nothing wrong with the system here. When you joined you can read the rules and if you don't agree with them you don't join. You are certainly told why you have misbehaved when it gets that serious, and either you accept the Mods decision or you don't and leave, which is what Tim and Phil have done.

I suggest that if you don't like the way this forum is run, which compared to some is quite lenient, then you leave.

March 7

3 minutes ago, peterboat said:

He is poorly but OK Matty

Give him my regards please Peter.

March 7

3 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Has Phil left?

That is a question I asked particularly in relation to another member who posts in a very similar style, but was assured it wasn't him.

March 7

Having lived in the area in the past, that weir has caused problems previously. It has quite a fierce "underwave" (don't know the proper name) under even good conditions.
There used to be a couple of rentable rowing boats just above it and there was a boom across the river to stop you going too near it but I seem to remember that got swept away in a previous flood, and the row boats disappeared.

March 7

Not that I know of.

March 7

I understand he decided to take a break from here, at the same time as Phil left.

March 3

22 minutes ago, magnetman said:

It also seems that people who did once have a Boat are classified as 'ex boaters' rather than 'towpath users'.

I was able to put both.

March 2

33 minutes ago, David Mack said:

I thought you were suggesting they should be using a full Act of Parliament.

That was certainly my reading of what he wrote:

2 hours ago, kris88 said:

That’s interesting, I always wondered why crt haven’t used the current legislation in the correct way in order if not solve the situations they see as problems. At least they could have stopped them getting as bad as they have. But for some unknown reason they’ve chosen not to go down this path and chosen to seek more legal powers from the government. A long winded process at the best of times and with what’s happening in the rest of the world at the min. What’s happening on the waterways will naturally take a step back in importance. After all it’s only a load of old farts, playing boats.

There are many people who don't understand how the T&W Order thing works, not just in the canal world.

March 2

1 hour ago, kris88 said:

There’s a few people on here who have drunk the crt koolaid and believe the propaganda. Unfortunately the behavioral traits that became prevalent during lock down. You know those of people embracing their inner dictator and telling other people what they should be doing are still common. It seems to be this feeling that cc’ers are getting something for free that others are having to pay for. In reality they have the option to live on the towpath but not the resilience required. So want to remove the option from other people. Very sad really and as has been suggested these people deserve some pity.

Example 1 of the rubbish.

38 minutes ago, kris88 said:

With respect all of the so called problems on the waterways have been known about for decades. The continuing failure of crts management to address the issues is what should be under scrutiny. The fact that they use their own failures as leverage to obtain more money (almost gangsterism.) is absolutely disgusting. Unfortunately not uncommon in todays society.

Example 2; you are using the situation on the M & B, which is not being caused by CaRT, to fit yiur arguments

32 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

One of the revelations for me of the pandemic was the prevalence of this personality trait in society. We should not be surprised, in the dark days of communist oppression in East Germany, one third of the population reported others to the Stasi.

Weak people feel a compulsion to ingratiate themselves with an authoritarian culture in order to oppress others. The hate campaign against CCers on this forum is just an expression of the same motivation.

Excellent analysis, I had not considered this angle before, it does fit with my general theme it is a symptom of a weak personality.

Example 3.

March 2

Strewth, GybeHo and Kris don't half come out with some utter rubbish

February 24

Or the degree of personal insults and denigration.
And that has certainly got worse since TB was closed down and a few of their "members" returned here.

February 24

3 hours ago, Gybe Ho said:

Tony has alleged that my ability to recall technical details from previous kezza posts indicates that a criminal online stalking offense is occurring. If the forum fails to act to get that false allegation withdrawn then the forum operator becomes a willing publisher of an untrue and damaging statement about me.

You really are clutching at straws!
Is it any wonder so many of us have no respect of you, your views, or your opinions.

February 24

I have a friend who is a now retired ex-MoD/Navy architect and remember him saying years ago that it was easy designing a ship of a couple of hundred tons, but doing something smaller was a lot more difficult.

February 24

CBA

February 24

19 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

I have had to report your post because it go well over the line and could drag the forum into messy litigation. You should promptly delete it.

Under exactly what grounds would his post have been leaving the forum open to litigation?

As Mike says above, it is these posts of yours that cause people to laugh at you; they are a joke.

There is now an option to report posts that are termed "disruptive behaviour"; have you considered that your post could fit that perfectly?

February 23

When you Gybe Ho has to resort to making insulting comments you know he's lost the arguement.

February 23

And that says it all.
GH has NO experience!!

February 23

11 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

And so you keep saying, I live in hope that one day you might post something here that demonstrates the vastness of your narrow boating experience.

I have, it is just that you don't want to accept that anyone can know more than you.

11 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

Owned 4 sailing yachts between 1987 and 2016. Have sailed across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, singled handed from Portsmouth to Normandy, Channel Islands, Cornwall, SE Ireland, past the Fastnet and round the corner into Biscay along the southern Brittany coastline. Helmed a yacht in Cowes Week and the Solent Winter and Spring racing Series. Spent many hours fixing yachts.

Totally irrelevant when compared to narrowboats of which you have NO experience.

February 23

6 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

The majority of normal viewers of this forum would read that as "Most electric motor powered narrowboats are 48 volts.".

What did you think I meant?

That's funny, I wonder why the post that I quoted didn't say that?
I know......because your inexperience has been proven AGAIN.

February 23

57 minutes ago, KezzerN said:

Thanks everyone for your input. All sounds a bit complex for me at the moment: there is enough to get my head around as it is! Is there a particular brand of lead acid batteries you would recommend?

If for nothing more than convenience and decent prices, I would thoroughly recommend Tayna Batteries in North Wales. Their prices are good, the quality seems good and they will deliver in 24 hours.

February 23

12 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

I am beginning to enjoy this because with each post you are creating a wonderful public record of your ignorance of narrowboating matters.

I suspect that over 40 years experience of our hiring and part owning narrow boats and of working with a couple of boat builders is a lot more experience than yours,
Do tell how what your experience is?
(And funnily enough I also have experience of dealing with solar and electrical systems in caravans, camper vans and off-grid living, where 12v is still the most popular way of doing things, due to the availablility of parts)

12 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

I think new build 12v boats are more than a majority, they represent a stonking overwhelming majority. I did not claim otherwise but there are enough non 12v boats on the cut to make watts the new preferred unit of power comparison.

I suggest you read your post again.

To save you the effort of looking back your exact words were: "Most electric narrowboats are 48 volts."
Now I wonder why you have changed that to the above? Could it be because you know you are wrong, have no experience and that most of us on the forum are right?

12 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

I doubt a parallel hybrid motor would be effective at 12 volts, anyhow go and view the data at Orto Marine, I make it 13 serial hybrids.

https://www.ortomarine.co.uk/boat-data/

And the relevance of that daft comment?

February 23

1 minute ago, Gybe Ho said:

Most electric narrowboats are 48 volts. A more significant indicator is the Victron product range, look at the main battery voltages they offer and the myriad of DC/DC voltage conversions offered. They don't produce these product for a non existent market.

High output alternators are simpler to design for a 24 volt output, so there is another technical incentive. Look at the 24v alternator options available for a Beta 43 engine, again more evidence of market demand.

Really? Quite frankly that is total rubbish.
I think you will find that the majority of narrowboats are 12v, with some 24v. I suspect that the 48v ones are only the all-electric boats and there are not a great number of those.
Your inexperience strikes again.

February 23

Just now, cheesegas said:

As stated earlier in my post, I suspect this number has come from me. 1.5kwh is in my experience a high average for a liveaboard boater in winter, with the fridge on. I'm not particularly frugal with power and I come in well under this. Please see attached for my logs for Jan, 32.9kwh total usage for the month, which averages at just over 1kwh per day.

Wifi, Cerbo, fridge on 24/7, some diesel heater usage, lots of laptop charging.

Thanks for that, however GH is well known for making statements with no factual basis.

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