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noddyboater

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  1. Between two lots of abandoned moorings, and you can guess what they all used as fenders!
  2. It's really bad luck to get a tyre round the prop isn't it. Two at the same time and you'd think you were having a pretty bad day. But three?
  3. Going on recent experience nowhere. I helped a couple up Wood end lock yesterday who had bought a boat from Banbury. They'd managed to get as far as the T&M but asked whether you "should close lock gates behind you if there's nobody coming?" Oh dear.
  4. Would it really though? For boaters already based in the area I'm sure it would, but the idea of cruising to Rotherham for your holiday is as alien as the tidal Trent to a lot of other people.
  5. noddyboater

    T&M closed

    Forgive my stupidity, but wouldn't travel higher up on the section let water down towards Derwent Mouth? Like every time someone went through a lock that's fed upstream by a river?
  6. noddyboater

    T&M closed

    It's a pity that the section isn't fed from something isn't it? Like the River Trent at Wychnor.
  7. Unfortunately not, just a strimmer. He was in the middle of the lock moorings, but that's not really relevant is it. It's a busy spot with waiting boats queuing back around the bend into the woods often. To sit on the lock mooring for that amount of time is selfish and rude.
  8. Yes, apparently he was just about to move when he was politely asked.
  9. Here's one. On the lock mooring, quite obviously - but tied to the piling with chains. (Centre line is around bollard too, just to make sure the boat heels over well as people use the lock) Extended TV aerial up, bike chained up on towpath. There from approx. 4PM Wednesday until noon yesterday when he was politely asked to BLOODY MOVE.
  10. Will be very shortly, with New & Used at Mercia I believe.
  11. Don't worry it's in Shardlow Marina. There's that turn upstream to Derwent mouth lock though..
  12. Here's a slightly less flattering recent photo of Clara, taken by myself. Maybe that will help.
  13. I've seen some classic mooring techniques in the past few weeks now it's silly season. Got one drifting across in front of me where the stern was tied to a short length of piling, the centre line on a pin (now in the cut), and the bow line neatly coiled on the gas locker lid. Who'd have thought that wouldn't work? And what's the obsession with piling!? Why do people stick to it like magnets even if it's in the most inappropriate place? Inside of tight bends.. Outside of tight bends.. Practically in the bloody bridge hole..
  14. A boat that started life with a Beta JD3, then a Gardner 4LK for many years. I'd guess it would sell easier with either of the above than a DIY electric conversion.
  15. Slightly off topic but I saw a new method of mooring this week. A chap had used his piling hooks loosely into mooring rings on a concrete bank. Not quite sure what that's about but it doesn't bode well if you get a bit of slack.
  16. "Steve! There's no room above the lock landing.." "Oh bugger, well I can't be arsed to find the pins and hammer. Tell you what, let's tie up here but use piling hooks instead of the bollards, we're not really using the lock landing then are we? And we'll be off by lunchtime tomorrow" Brilliant.
  17. You can't judge a book by it's cover, but I'd guess it's still the case. Think I'll join them next time everything is due.
  18. And am I right in thinking that the community of dossers on the Dukes cut require neither a Thames or CRT licence?
  19. As mentioned earlier I've recently done the same length of canal around 200 times in the last couple of months due to work. Only one uninvited overtake, the only consequence was some most unpleasant name calling. I was most distressed let me tell you, but I quickly got over it.
  20. I'd say that either I've been lucky or you have been very unlucky. In over 20 years of using the tidal river with a relatively deep draughted narrowboat I can honestly say it's never touched the bottom. That's not following the defined channel religiously either, just being sensible, in fog or the dark often. Since the barges stopped running it's obviously not as deep as it was, but I wouldn't worry about passing another boat.
  21. I've never heard so much tosh in my life. The navigable channel of the tidal Trent is wide enough for 2 gravel barges to pass or overtake at low water, nevermind 2 narrowboats!
  22. Now for a moment imagine you're working, on a stretch of canal around 3 miles long. You've done the run around 200 times up to now, the job is half done. The 6 mile round trip can easily be done twice a day, including loading/unloading and a couple of locks. That keeps everyone involved happy. But then you get stuck behind a dawdler, he's seen you, he knows you're working. You just helped the dopey bugger through the lock. But there's no way he's pulling over. That's when I get bad tempered!
  23. It's not always possible to leave earlier or go by road if you're working on a canal. It's about being courteous, nothing more.
  24. It's definitely getting worse by the year. Inefficient locking is frustrating, but being stuck behind someone doing 1mph for miles when it's pretty obvious you're working is something else.
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