The Dreamer

It’s been moored there so long, this boat, that it appears on google maps. Although I guess if they retook the satellite image tomorrow, it would be gone!

There is this, from googling “boat fire Rickmansworth”... https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/17360207.the-incident-took-place-on-the-grand-union-canal-close-to-the-aquadrome/ but does not really match the facts you describe...

As Homer (Simpson, that is, not the ancientGreek poet) might say... D’OH!!!,!

And certainly if you have a long (69ft or longer) boat. Going down stream, on the lower Avon, we find we get wedged between the cill and the lower gates, in a number of the locks. Going uphill, the prowl of the bow, just sits enough over the cill to make things a little less stressful!

Definitely no guillotiné locks on the Avon now. We did the ring just two months ago...

Doesn’t look diamond shaped enough.

Evesham Marina has a crane, so costs will be lower than bringing one in...

Someone round these parts, but can’t remember who, reminded me that this is effectively what they do to cruise ships (epoxy first, then paint on top). These boats don’t come out the water from one decade to the next, so I’d say it’s a good call. BTW, was desperate to find a suitable Tupac quote, but was hampered by the legends lack of interest for inland waterways. Some rappers just have no taste!

Surely that’s a typo? oops, too soon ?

Go for a 70 ft boat, and you can have both! We have re-styled ours so as well as the dinette/galley fore, we also have a snug aft. In regards to boarding we tend to come onto the boat at the bow, for the reasons others have mentioned, but have matched locks on both doors, so we can doe as we please!

A couple of years ago we moored up near the football ground at St Andrews, an got into a debacle with some local lads who, at one point, we were sure had hidden something in our gas locker when they boarded the front of the boat. Anyhow, we became spooked and decided to move on at about 7pm. We hammered it down towards Star City, followed all the way, on the towpath, by some other, slightly older lads, who we took to be associates. When we got to SC, at dusk, we had to breast up as the moorings were full, but we were so glad to be behind that locked gate. Needless to say we stripped out all of the front lockers, but nothing suspect was found,

Yep, missed that bit! however, this lot were reviewed in last months Waterway World, and claim that no proof of address is required... https://monese.com/sign-up?l=c&utm_source=financeads&utm_medium=cpl&utm_campaign=GB&utm_term=32169

Residential moorings in some marinas come with a fully registered postal address. Sawley Marina, for example, is is one. My son is an electoral services officer for the local authority which covers that area, and he assures me that these addresses are as good as bricks and mortar.

Who are you calling an Oxymoron! ?

Are you sure? I’ve just checked the RAL charts and there is no 2014. Nearest colour is RAL2012, Salmon Orange, and that is no colour for a boat!

The basin isn’t a marina, it’s part of the Waterside set up, so not manned at all. Frankly, if you don’t make a nusance of yourself, you should be fine. Or what he said...

Where is the boat at the moment, and how close to Bristol do you need to be? Thinking laterally, what about the Gloucester and Sharpness? Miles by water, but no so far by road! There are currently moorings at Victoria Basin in a Gloucester...

I think there might be a glitch in the system. There are a number of threads showing in my “Live topics” which are un-bolded, which normally means no one has posted in the, since I last read them. Yet they are threads I have never looked at!

Never mind, and I’ve given you a kindly greeny in return!

Thanks every one, for the record, I went with “cruise” and “navigate”, although I was less sure about the latter. In follow up to subsequent post, I like “Master”, as for the person doing the “navigating”, although in the interests of gender neutrality, I wonder if this now needs to become “Zaster”, on second thoughts forget that idea!

Not giving you that one, as that is exactly what my colleague asked. Thus, if you are to edit it out, an ellipsis (...)is in order!

Yes but that is the person in charge, not what they are doing. Are you therefore saying that one masters a narrowboat, or that tomorrow, “the wife and I are going out for a little master”!

Generally I agree, although at the begging of a statement, like the one I posted, I think it is less unacceptable (purposeful double negative). When it really get me, is when the first word of someone’s answer is “so”, as it comes across as exceptionally condescending!

So I was asked by a colleague today, whilst discussing my life choice, “so Is the correct verb, for what you narrowboaters do, cruise or sail?”. He went on to ask whether one captains or navigates a narrowboat. On both counts I instinct gave an answer, but it got me thinking if I was right. And the forum’s view is?

Also useful for knocking out a painful tooth, then using the hot end to cauterise the bleeding gum...