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13 minutes ago, PeterF said:
Plenty of traction in this thread yet.
Spotted loads of tyres precariously hanging on old bits of rope on the abandoned moorings at Woodend Lock on the T&M when we moored there recently, all just waiting for an avid collector. Thinking about it, with the footpath upgrade work there are a lot of gravel laden tugs and hoppers moving about creating extra wash to loosen the tyres.
Woodend one side, King's Bromley Wharf the other. They both must have had shares in a tyre recycling company.
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28 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
I'm glad you got them because if that is where I think it is I will be going that way next week and I don't want them
There's plenty more where they came from!
But 3 on one prop at once must be some kind of record.
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29 minutes ago, magnetman said:
A good 'guess the location' picture.
I recognise the ash tree.
Between two lots of abandoned moorings, and you can guess what they all used as fenders!
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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?
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19 hours ago, NB Alnwick said:
I sometimes wonder how some boat owners learn their boating skills. I remember that we did a lot of research before we started boating including taking the RYA's 'Inland Waterways Helmsman Course' and spending a time learning from experienced boaters.
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.
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23 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
For the Chesterfield the big thing would be if/when the River Rother link is ever made. This would allow narrowboats to connect to Yorkshire waterways directly with no tidal river and with the whole canal open again a (partly tidal) cruising ring too.
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.
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5 hours ago, PeterF said:
Today's update for Stenson lock to Derwent Mouth lock section says that Derwent Mouth lock is unlikely to be open before the weekend as water still needs to be let down below Swarkestone and travel on the whole section is discouraged.
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?
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It's a pity that the section isn't fed from something isn't it?
Like the River Trent at Wychnor.
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Just now, Jon57 said:
You didn't have a cassette in your hand at the time did you 🤣
Unfortunately not, just a strimmer.
31 minutes ago, Rob-M said:Looks like Woodend Lock, there is a good section of lock moorings and then a good length of piling. It is hard to tell how much lock mooring is in front of them.
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.
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Yes, apparently he was just about to move when he was politely asked.
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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.
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12 hours ago, max's son said:
Someone told me Vesta is (was) for sale. do not tell Alan Fincher
Will be very shortly, with New & Used at Mercia I believe.
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On 18/06/2023 at 19:51, matty40s said:
Collect from Nottingham......please can I borrow one of the old engines for the Trent bit....
Don't worry it's in Shardlow Marina.
There's that turn upstream to Derwent mouth lock though..
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8 hours ago, Ogwr said:
There was a motorised butty around in the sixties owned by a Reverend Hayter. I think this one came from the Samuel Barlow fleet, possibly originally built by Tooley's. From the picture above I am uncertain if this is the S.U.C. fly boat Clara
Here's a slightly less flattering recent photo of Clara, taken by myself. Maybe that will help.
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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..
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46 minutes ago, MrsM said:
Tim Tyler 2000 tug deck. Electric drive conversion (DIY?). £45k.
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.
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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.
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"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.
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17 minutes ago, MtB said:
ISTR this exact point being discussed on here a few years ago and yes, that conclusion was reached. Whatever the legalities, neither the EA nor the CRT polices it.
Dunno if that situation persists nowadays though.
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.
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2 hours ago, Dog said:
Am I right in saying that no two boats can have the same name on the Thames?
It may apply just to boats moored there permanently, or any visiting boats too?
And am I right in thinking that the community of dossers on the Dukes cut require neither a Thames or CRT licence?
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42 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:
For those who wish to keep the canals as they used to be, they should note that attempting an uninvited overtake could result in serious consequences. It was considered the height of rudeness and would be dealt with accordingly.
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.
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1 hour ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
So would you care to explain as to why last year, when about 12 feet off the navigation channel travelling from Cromwell to Torksey, the boat rode over a sand bar? The fact that water levels were low (as they seem to be this year) might very well have had some impact upon it, but your generalisation isn't particularly helpful if wanting to avoid grounding.
I haven't much of an issue travelling upstream on a flooding tide, since you will probably be lifted off as the tide continues to rise, grounding on an ebbing tide is a whole different ball game. So in terms of 'tosh' it would seem that is what you might well be talking
Well I suppose you'd best tell the IAM and Emergency Vehicle trainers that they've got it all wrong then.
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.
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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!
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16 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
I average 3mph and the boat is happy at that speed. Much less and I get huge vibration until I drop right down. This means, I think , that if I'm really catching someone up quickly, they are going about half my speed, which is fine for them, but not me or my old engine. So I see no reason why I should sit behind them, get shaken to bits and take twice as long to get to where I want to go. Nor can I see why they should want me to.
Mostly I avoid such folk by starting early before they get up. Sometimes I stop and make tea, but if we've ended up in a convoy, that's not practical, so I bully my way past them, assuming I'm second in the queue. If not, I just get bad tempered.
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!
Michelin man
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The first two gave up pretty easily, pulling with the shaft while turning the prop backwards on the coupling. Some hosepipe came out with them, presumably they were tied together.
The third one was a different matter. Unfortunately due to health and safety issues we couldn't remove it, but if we had it would have included the use of a mini digger on the towpath, lifting straps, various saws, a borrowed cordless grinder and my colleague taking a refreshing dip.