Lily Rose

On the whole I suspect living in Wales (well some of it) is better than living in Surrey. But there is such a thing as too much rain.

I frequently moor at bridge 103 including last week when I got my favourite spot as I often do. But - I only do that midweek, it's a different ballgame altogether at the weekend. Being Easter and fab weather only makes it worse. If I was on the boat this weekend I'd have stayed in the marina until Monday, past experience suggests the marina is by far the quietest place to be during a sunny weekend. There'll be more cars parked there than usual but the owners of many of those will have taken their boats out and moored them up somewhere between Braunston and Napton.

Looks well nasty, thanks for warning us off it. I'll be steering well clear of that dump.

I think Friday, Saturday and Monday afternoons are still the busiest for handover but after the first Covid lockdown they started spreading them throughout the week. One of the Calcutt staff told me at the time that Hoseasons had encouraged this. It seems some (many?) hire bases have continued this to some degree. We went up Calcutt locks last Sunday and a Calcutt hire boat was in the top lock getting tuition. They were doing Sunday to Wednesday.

Seemed pretty busy Napton to Braunston earlier this week, plenty of moving boats along there but not so many moored. They all seemed to end up in Braunston, we had a very limited choice of moorings when we arrived mid-afternoon on Tuesday. Lovely weather on Tuesday, rather less lovely Wednesday and Thursday. Of course it's lovely again now we're back home for Easter!

Here's mine... Impressive eh?

From ChatGPT... This quote is often attributed to the Irish playwright and novelist, George Bernard Shaw. However, it is important to note that the exact wording and phrasing of this quote may vary in different sources. Having been playing with ChatGPT for the last half hour I have no confidence that answer is true. I've been asking about the outcome of a Cheltenham race. First it denied the race even existed, despite the answer quoting its full name (which I hadn't!). Then, when I said yes it does, it apologised for the confusion and gave me the name of the winning horse and jockey. Both were wrong.

Are they the same person? Having had a quick re-read of the last half dozen pages of the Miss Max thread I thought the tone was was a bit different. I can't say I noticed any threats of violence, veiled or otherwise, in the Miss Max thread. Unlike some of the OP's posts in this thread - and I didn't see the post(s) that were deleted for going too far. Maybe the link was just posted as another example of a thread gone wrong and not to imply it was the same person?

Put it in the cupboard for now, there's bound to be another one along before too much longer.

I suspect it was by force, probably to remove them before the veiled threats of violence turned into death threats. That presumably isn't the case here though as the new name has been applied to the OP's existing posts.

That's a shame, I was quite enjoying this thread.

So did I. I never even got to the stage of wondering if it was a scam or not, I just couldn't be bothered to even read it let alone take part.

I'd forgotten about Paul Smith on Orient. He's been away on his winter cruising break and due to re-start his training days in about a month. No doubt it will be gone by then.

It's a bit to the Calcutt side rather than bang in the middle but you can still see it from inside the marina looking out under the bridge. Probably wouldn't cause a problem going towards or coming from the Stockton direction but it gets in the way of anyone trying to go out towards, or come back in from, the Calcutt direction. Depending on boat length I think you have a choice of hitting the work boat or hitting the side of the entrance judging by watching a 57' foot boat come back in yesterday. I've not seen a boat moored there before in the last 8 years, a little bit further on yes but not at that spot.

Example 1. Opposite the entrance to a marina. (note: Ventnor Marina Sunrise basin in this example)

I'm struggling to figure out which one out of two of the posters on this thread (and others) is worse! It seems pretty close, is a poll needed?