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3 hours ago, MJG said:
I wonder what ever happened to Dean?
The same question has been asked about you on Thunderboat - it appears they miss you.
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Thunderboat .
Despite some comments here the natives there are not all that bad.
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On 27/12/2017 at 00:38, haggis said:
It takes about 40 minutes to navigate the drop lock!
haggis
Not the day we took the Athol Brose through in Ronnies video above, the mechanism was playing up & we had to wait for an engineer to come & sort it out before we could pass through. It was such an extremely hot day (for Scotland anyway) that the swing bridge at Erskines bridge had expanded too much to open, luckily the next day was back to normal Scottish weather.
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Could the Admin team just include a VNC option / line in the default streams along with the existing five, that shows 'new content' just like the old software did?
Despite numerous advise including screen dumps in the posts above, I cannot get it to work right, I either see multiply lines showing latest post of each topic, or I cannot see topics that I have looked at within the past hour.
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When I worked offshore our urinals flushed with sea water, the pipes use to get in hell of a state.
Now they are mostly FW flushed vacuum toilets, we used Unitor "Gamazyne" biological toilet products (cleaner, descaler etc) link to website below:
http://wssproducts.wilhelmsen.com/marine-chemicals/cleaning-and-maintenance-1/bio-chemicals
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What about donating, or loaning to one of the better known / popular canal museums?
That way they would have maximum exposure and be of benefit to future generations
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There will always be a period between first touching and fully sitting on the bottom where any movement in the water will cause the boat to bounce on the bottom, if that same movement in the water will cause the boat to move (heave up & down etc) when fully afloat.
At first this can be disconcerting until you get used to it, the main concern is when drying out on an unknown bottom. If the boater had already been there for a couple of tides (original report is a bit vague), I don't see how the boat would settle down on something that could damage the hull - that would have happened when first drying out.
Having spend several years operating landing craft (regular drying out was part of the job) I would never intentionally dry out at a mooring or landing without having surveyed (visual check previous low tide) the area first to ensure there were no unexpected surprises once we had dried out.☺
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Stayed there 2 nights in mid July before heading down to Bowling. There were a lot of empty berths all with power & water outlets available. We had been advised to stop at the Applecross St basin (SC office), however it is small and with a couple of boats already there, there was no room for us. Luckily 2 other hire boats had booked through to Spiers wharf so were able to get through the bridge with them.
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We didn't fancy being surrounded with all the buildings at Edinburgh Quay and so chose Ratho which is about 8 miles east of the city centre.
Yes an impressive looking marina with a great pub across the canal, unfortunately for the OP, the "Living on Water" web site reports it as fully let.
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Edinburgh Quay appeared to have a lot of empty berths when we visited in July, they all have electrical outlets but not water points (only at the scottish canals office near the entrance and the finger berths at the end). Its only a short walk to the castle & a bit longer to city centre /rail station.
see link below for information on Lockrin Basin
http://www.livingonwater.co.uk/index.php/homepage/show/home/home
I have no doubt the Scottish forum members would be able to provide more pertinent information when they next log in.
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When they changed the rules recently, they simply said that "by posting you agree to the updated rules". So, if anyone disagrees, they have the option to never ever post again.
Interesting. Since there are 21,592 total members, the vast majority of which have not postedon here since the recent rule change, this must mean that they do not agree with the updated rules.
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Actually yes, that sums it up. What used to be a thriving local has decided to go up market and chucked out all the regulars who were a bit rowdy. I'm allowed to stay and talk to myself in the empty bar though.
So it should be Dan's Den aka Boilers Bistro??
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Are you saying that Thunderboat is the Rovers and CWDF is Nick's Bistro?
Can't be Nick's bistro - he currently isn't allowed in here.
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What's the reason behind Nick " the electric guru on all matters " being banned from cwdf for a period of 2 weeks ?? Are the POWERS THAT BE this petty they are wiling to lose such a valuable member on such petty crimes ( if any )
Darren
It would seem so, and are more to be pitied than spanked.
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Looks like they are going with the 'anonymous moderator' idea suggested earlier in the thread. Another forum I am on uses this for potentially 'unpopular' moderation decisions such as thread removals etc.
So there is a very real danger that the current "Moderators" will carry on the same, emboldened by their new found anomymity.
One of the many things that this thread has highlighted (and other previous threads such as MooninPapas one) is the need for checks and balances to be in place, not only for the members but also the moderators.
Quote from www.acton.org :-
It was Lord Acton, the British historian, who said: “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Please do not misunderstand me. These persons who are corrupted by the process of ruling over their fellow men are not innately evil.
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You may find that the 'conventional' door to the left of the revolving door (which you appear to be using) may mean you can exit without continually returning, and achieve what you have said, several times, is your intent to achieve.
Hear hear - Sorry no "greenies" left
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There there?Where where?
Seem to have problems getting emoticons to stick to posts with this tablet
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Hear hear
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Has it been heard barking?
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The 'dance' is due to 'interaction' MGN 199 (M) gives guidance on the dangers of interaction and is interesting reading.
link below (hopefully):
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mgn-199-dangers-of-interaction
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Interesting definitions for 'disruptive'
Could it be that any ground breaking, innovative or new threads / posts are also possibly 'disruptive' and therefore should be banned under the rules?
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I fear it would be very difficult if not impossible to recover an incapacitated or unconscious person from the water onto a boat, especially through a hatch without the aid of a 'Jasons Crade' or something similar.
http://www.jasonscradle.co.uk/commercial.php
Link to Totally enclosed lifeboat model brochure:
http://www.jasonscradle.co.uk/admin/files/1456841485JC003%20Issue%209.pdf
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Maybe the moderators should make an exception in this case, and post why they are banning the tillers as soon as they spot him. Especially if he has asked why he is been banned. It looks like he wont go away until this happens and in the mean time would appear to be wasting the moderators time in having to hunt him down each to re-ban him and delete his posts each time he pops up again.We now have numbers at the front and the question of why am I being banned
Southern Oxford Summit.
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It says............."Turn your add blocker off"???????????? ???????