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16 minutes ago, IanD said:
Posting negative -- or positive! -- reviews/comments about pubs/restaurants without saying when you were there is unhelpful, given how often licensees change nowadays... 😉
It was terribly irresponsible of me, I apologise.
But it was at a time when people on here were raving about how good it was, I remember that much.
Here's a couple more reviews to level it out then..
Bridge 61 was great, apart from the homemade chilli that was far too hot.
The village pub at Yelvertoft had recently changed hands, worth the walk, we were made very welcome. It's probably a house now.
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7 minutes ago, IanD said:
Has it changed hands recently? When we were there in 2020 beer, food and staff were all excellent...
It could have changed hands since my visit as it was probably before yours!
Time flies as they say..
I can remember clearly the young staff doing that most irritating of things when they doubt your ability to say if a pint is off and then openly admit they don't know what it's supposed to taste like as they don't drink beer.
A good sniff is all it requires in most cases.
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11 hours ago, Jon57 said:
Get down the Welford arm to the wharf tavern worth the trip. Services great.
I always detour up the arm when passing but the Wharf was a disappointment last time.
The first pint of ale was off, but the staff didn't want to believe me or apologise. I picked another which was begrudgingly pulled and given to me and found to be also more like Sarsons than beer!
We had a meal which was average at best. Maybe we caught them on a bad day, but rude staff when returning a bad pint is never acceptable.
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5 hours ago, MtB said:
Some sort of vintage Lister genset might be interesting.
Yes, one of those lovely JP3 searchlight generators I used to flog to Steve Hudson would work a treat.
Here's an idea.. you could couple it up to some kind of propshaft maybe too.. so the boat could move while you charge the batteries..
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I'm pretty sure I viewed it around 7 years ago in the arm at WFBC Stockton. John owned it who also had Kenelm. It had the engine beds in the stern and was composite, full length.
It must have gone from there to Braunston when it sold.
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4 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I was mostly pointing out that there is a major danger of the boat being cut.
They do still cut these despite most reasonable people realising this is unacceptable.
Wasn't Hydrus a butty? Now a motor on market for 80 grand with nothing inside it.
Motorising a butty using original elum is a way to potentially avoid the cutting.
Towing it behind a motor is an even better way.
I find it interesting that a seller would 'vet' a purchaser presumably to stop this sort if thing happening.
Its a bit like someone selling a flat where the neighbour is a relative and saying 'no BTL landlords to buy the property'.
Once you have bought it then you can do what you like with it.
Its a nice boat one hopes it stays that way.
Unless I've got my boats wrong, which is quite possible, Hydrus was motorised many years ago with a Petter in the stern.
It's probably spent more time with an engine than unpowered.
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9 hours ago, IanD said:
Agree that would look better, but good luck finding a shell fabricator who'll do that -- curved plates over curved frames... 😉
A BOATBUILDER capable of replicating the complex shape of an historic bow and stern would find it a doddle.
A fabricator accustomed to pre-cut and folded steel would undoubtedly struggle.
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1 hour ago, nealeST said:
Now that’s interesting because I was going to ask which is better between the two and I see it’s probably down to smoke. Learn a lot from these replies…
and another thing, people are scared of Kelvins? There is a nice RW Evans tug out there for sale for quite sometime now. I love it but it seems people very unsure about Kelvins….well at least compared to everything else you have to wait a long time if you decide to sell?
RW Evans.. Might be why it hasn't sold.
Reminds me of a bloke once telling me he had a Steve Davis tug.
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10 minutes ago, magnetman said:
The CRT should introduce aesthetics based licence bands. Hike the licence so high on these monstrosities that it makes it unappealing to own.
I'd say 3.7x normal licence fee for that one. There could be a sliding scale and a group of sensible people to do the judging.
Sounds like a good plan but I fear the owners may have more money than sense!
Slightly off topic.. CRT should definitely start refusing licences to owner's of boats who can't keep the roof clear of crap.
The amount of near head on collisions I've had lately is worrying. A clear line of sight from the steering position shouldn't be an optional extra.
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2 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Good boat for unseating lock gates.
Certainly is. And for inducing nausea.
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2 hours ago, MtB said:
Or even, if it is the ghastly boat that East Europe Lady was trying to sell for an insane amount of money.
There's certainly more "Eastern European Lady" shaped boats appearing lately.
Who can we blame/throw rotten eggs at for blighting the canals with such things?
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It must be a scam, if not I'm really concerned for Phil Speight.
I know he's recently gone from driving Alfas to a Mercedes.. but imagine spending hours in front of that thing.
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2 hours ago, Paul H said:
Has it been sold? … or is it just no longer advertised?
Paul
Not sold, just taken off the market.
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6 hours ago, koukouvagia said:
Our Braithwaite and Kirke butty has a small stud welded to the stem post. I've no idea when or why this was added, but it does make it easier when on cross-straps. It prevents both arms of the rope from slipping over to the same side of the stem post. I also wonder what purpose the swivel bracket with the eye was for.
The loose bracket with the eye is for hanging the button from.
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What about the cases - particularly on the BCN, where it's bleeding obvious who's dumped the crap as it's at the bottom of their garden or behind their industrial unit?
A car repair business I passed regularly used to throw old tyres, bumpers etc. over the fence quite brazenly. I moored up one day and threw the lot back over. Most of it landed on customers cars.
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47 minutes ago, spud said:
this sounds like the view of somebody with a sense of entitlement, prepared to push their way through at the expense of others. engagement is a better solution to gain friends
or learn how to handle them in all circumstances, so preserving part of our living history
I've just spent the week moving various dumb boats and unpowered craft using tugs, pushing and pulling if you like. Most folk at locks are very accommodating once you explain the amount of faffing involved if you have to single out. They very often help you through.
But I did say MOST folk.
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2 hours ago, LadyG said:
Maybe more people don't do it because they don't have a crew jumping ashore, handling the ropes. Far easier to wait till the lock opens and in you pop.
I rarely have crew on the river but always get a bow rope off if arriving early at Stockwith.
The bank above the lock where the bollards are is always slack water, it's an eddy regardless of the tide.
It's never easy to pop in the lock if there's still a good flow on, 5 or 10 minutes can make all the difference.
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9 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Its years since I went up the Chesterfield, but us and the boat we were traveling with got there early so tied up and had a cup of tea
As do I. I once caught a lovely eel from the front deck while waiting for high water.
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2 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
Wouldn't like to rely on arm waving and the response of a fast moving on coming vessel myself when a quick transmission was all that was needed to alert all involved.
As it happens the little ski boat helped nudge us into deeper water so that the much deep drafted Dutch steel cruiser could safely hitch the tow ropes without the risk of running aground itself.
Far from being knobheads, they were very helpful.
As most boaters on the river are.
But all that could easily have been achieved without the radio, that's my point. Useful, but not essential.
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3 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
But you are not on the river on your own. Other boaters around you may well want to know what your intentions are.
The one time we broke down on the Trent it was quite handy to tell the ski speed boat that was approaching at speed than we were immobile and unable to move out of his way. We didn't have his mobile number to let him know.
Same with hitching a tow back home. As it happens we did have the approaching boats mobile number but it was a damn sight easier to hail them on the vhf then start searching through hundreds of phone numbers saved on a sim card!
Equally we have aided other boats broken down or in trouble on the Trentand we wouldn't leave anyone through choice in trouble on a tidal stretch of water. You can't have everyone's phone number!
Surely the fast approaching speed boat would have just treated you like a barely moving "sewer tube" and easily avoided you?
And some arm waving from a stranded vessel will always get attention from a passing boat.
Unless they're complete nobheads.
VHF is handy, but hardly essential.
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5 minutes ago, MartynG said:
If you had waited for the slack then you could have gone in straight with no drama.
I've yet to work out why more people don't do this. Take a bow rope off to the bollards above the lock and wait for high water, no banging around and paint scraping.
The lock keepers don't like you doing it though, they try to get you in asap.
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If you're on a budget have a look at Kadu Flyer.
28k seems very reasonable.
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I've been based down Armitage for a while and noticed a dead end road (which now ends in the toilet factory) called Boat House Lane.
Searching the local history it was so named due to a canalside pub at the bottom, and possibly a wharf.
I've found images of the long gone thatched cottages up the lane but none of the pub. Anyone got any?
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5 hours ago, IanM said:
That’s not Thames Head by the way. Thames Head is much further upstream.
It's not Tinsley basin either, it's Sheffield basin or Victoria Quays as it's called now for some unknown reason.
Coventry Victor single cylinder diesel
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I had a hand start Victor that came cobbled up on beds as a starter for a JP3. It had some home made clutch set up that would engage with the lister when the Victor had eventually started!
It did however come with a manual, I'll see if I can find it.