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7 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Nor me. I think Gyby is making it up. 

 

 

Wouldn't potentially be the first time that has occured.

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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

We have a Political section, a virtual pub, maybe we should have a snip and insult section.

 

What?? There's a section for us vasectomised members?

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Oh the hypocrisy in that reply!

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36 minutes ago, truckcab79 said:

And MtB has nothing useful to add but slagging off those that criticise people

that don’t revere the ‘forum elders’.   
😂😂😂

 

I’m trying to improve the forum by pointing out the issues that make it so unwelcoming to newbies. 👍
 

Conversely, and I can’t believe I’ve not mentioned this in the past, the boat folk on Insta, Facebook and god forbid real life are friendly, informed and welcoming. 
 

Oh. And pretty much all of them own boats. Many of them even do their own work on them. Who’d have thought. 😉

FFS, give it a rest!
I've looked through all your posts in this thread and haven't seen any that help the OP. All you seem to have done is criticise and be rude to numerous others.

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7 hours ago, kris88 said:

Well done to everybody, you even managed to kick the proscribed scapegoats in a completely unrelated post. But go on tell me, you are not just voicing your preducises. 

Are you implying that your never show yours?

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It would appear from reading another source that the accused didn't attend Court to defend himself, and that this was the second time it had gone to Court. He didn't attend the first Hearing either, so it was now heard in his absense.
I wonder if he will pay?

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It's a big BADGE! 😁

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What is a "nippy boat"?

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If he is having a problem at the lock at Astwood due potentially now being overwidth, he could also get a problem at Commandry Lock going south.

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15 hours ago, magnetman said:

This could become an interesting circumstance. 

 

On a small Boat is likely to be a cassette style or suitcase. These need emptying. 

It could prove to be an interesting discussion with the lady as to whether it is appropriate to dispose of the contents in the household lavatory. 

 

If not then a little dinghy could prove useful if there is a nearby elsan emptying point. 

 

Thinking about it if there is a garden perhaps a composting loo could work. 

 

Or if it is a gentleman rejecting fluids then a pyrex jug. 

 

 

Manhole cover outside is perfect for emptying a PortaPoti cassette as long as it can be lifted easily. It is what happens at many small caravan sites.

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2 hours ago, LadyG said:

Lol, they don't have an engine, but the rule refers to running the engine for charging, not for propulsion. They did manage to upset their most important neighbour namely ME! 

Reading your opening post here, have you considered that the manner and wording of your intial reponse to them might have been the problem? It does come over possibly being overly agressive.

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I have asked the Mods whether the bridge discussion could be moved into it's own thread

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3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Remember, before us leisure boaters were about worrying about a bit of fresh on the river the old boys would come down the Severn when in flood and go round the locks, that was before red boards

We brought a hire boat down from Stourport to Worcester around 1980 and went straight through one of the locks, with the gates at either end open. Had a hell of a job turning back into the stream to get into Diglis Basin Lock. The nect day someone from the hire boat company went straight over one of the weirs on the way down. This was in the days before there were protection floats above the weirs.

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8 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

He must be fairly experienced to go from Sharpness to Portishead and back on his own without a pilot.

I have a feeling he might have been a Severn pilot in the past. He certainly knows the river.
His YouTube channel is fascinating.

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34 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

To misquote the immortal Frankie: "Fantasy, fantasy, they've all got a fantasy"....

I think a few of us have been thinking that from the start.

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As far as I can see GH is proving once more that he knows very little about canal boat builders, or even canal boats in general.
 

21 minutes ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:

 I don’t know why all the secrecy🤔

Because there is no boat builder?
 

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1 hour ago, David Mack said:

That said, the reuse of excavated material from one project for use in another is not unknown (partly for the reasons you give), so let's hope some useful synergy can be found to bring down the cost.

 

The Corris Railway are having to build an embankment on a short section of their route and the controls that were put in place about the quality of the infill required was very strict. They have been very lucky as the builders of the new Dyfi Bridge at Machynlleth had many thousands of tonnes of hardcore they had used for their site offices, etc, all of which passed those rules, and they were very happy to load, truck and unload this hardcore a couple of miles up the valley, saving them and the Railway a huge amount of money. 

It was said that if the Corris hadn't taken it, it would have meant taking it down to South Wales for it to be checked, cleaned if neccesary and then possibly ending up in land fill.

https://www.corris.co.uk/the-future/southern-extension/

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28 minutes ago, magnetman said:

I suppose what happens when a culvert collapses is this. Suction effect causes a build up and softening then a plug of earth drops down and blocks the culvert. Then the canal discharges to the other side. 

 

 

 

That depends on where exactly the culvert collapses. Certainly on one of the collapses on a rail line through Surrey last (?) year the culvert collapsed in the middle and caused a "sink hole" to appear. That is the same as happened in South Wales at the beginning of December. (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/everything-know-huge-50ft-sinkhole-30493826)

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Re culverts.
As Network Rail has found when culverts have collapsed, many of these were built with wooden linings, and as is natural wood slowly but surely decays. This results in the culvert collapsing. Now they can be lucky and it just paryially dams the water course up as the collapse doesn't completely block the flow, and is seen quickly, or they can suddenly collapse, often at times of severe storms, and they bring the whole embankment with them.

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And what's a "Boldinger"?

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25 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

What then on a narrowboat is the name of the length of tubular metal that slots onto the tiller to extend the tiller?

And this is another example of your total lack of knowledge about narrow boats. It's just part of the tiller and on many boats is NOT removable, especially on hire boats that we keep suggesting you actually try out before you go any further.

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1 hour ago, magnetman said:

 

There is a nice little 1970s  100ft superyacht at Canary Wharf which has morse controls outside on the bridge wings. For close-in manoovering when berthing. Nice feature but it is a little larger than a narrow Boat. It would be quite nice though on a semi trad style or cruiser. 

The big boats we've cruised the Rhine, Danube, Rhone and Duoro had 3 helm positions. A big one in the middle that could drop down for low bridges and then one either side they used going through those bridges and locks.

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Caravans actually!
However I seem to have a lot more experience of narrow boating, for over 50 years, in everything from fibreglass cruisers, to converted Army floats, to hire boats and part-ownership, then you do.
So I suggest again, you stop day-dreaming and get off your BTM and hire a boat for a week or two. You might, hopefully, realise that some of your "ideas" are from cloud-cuckoo land.
 

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4 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

 

I thought you were one of the more experienced members but apparently you have never needed to stop urgently using the throttle and tiller.

See my comments above.
All you keep doing is proving you have NO experience.

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48 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

 

You have a trad stern I think?

 

Now imagine you own a cruiser stern boat with a throttle mounted left on the u-shaped stern rail. Let's assume you are left handed standing forward right of the tiller extension steering with your left hand.

 

Now a hireboat appears ahead around a bend and you have to hit reverse and steer right pronto.

You simply take the Morse control handle in your left hand and move it an inch or so, whilst your right hand holds the tiller steady. You don't even need to look at the control.
It is as simple as that!!

27 minutes ago, Peugeot 106 said:

Just hit the hire boat probably.  They are both steel. It happens. The hireboat probably has more experience

Almost certainly compared to GybeHoHoHo!