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3 minutes ago, Andrew Denny said:
It also could snap off my front T-stud.
If you do get a passing boat to give you a snatch you might best try to come off backwards. As an alternative maybe just to pull the fore-end sideways into deeper water first.
Tam
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Google will doubtless tell you, but it is basically to take a line from the boat, round a tree or something immovable, then back Then put a bar between the two strands and twist it round and round (careful not to let it slip and do serious damage to any bits of you in the way). Can be very effective.
Hope it works, rather than for you having to wait much longer.
Tam
p.s. as said by Tracy, you pull on one end, not pull sideways,
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And at the risk of teaching grandmothers (or Andrew, at least 😁) how to suck eggs, have you tried a Spanish windlass? Again much more powerful than a handful of guys, no matter how strong. It has worked for us even when partially loaded.
Tam
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27 minutes ago, junior said:
I was in the same position as you ten years ago and just went for it. It depends what sort of person you are, but I doubt there's too many people who bite the bullet and get a boat to live on and regret it.
I think you'll find there are, and we've met quite a few. I agree that a week or so on a hire boat does not give any real experience of full-time life on a boat, not least because you normally do that in summer, and most niggles can be shrugged off when it's warm. As you say, it does depend very much on the sort of person you are, but it can depend too upon getting the 'right' sort of boat that your abilities can cope with, and (in the OP's case) an suitable mooring.
Tam
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But I still can't see any problem with partially emptying the internal system so the level is below the leak. Why should that be so difficult or risky? The OP's lack of experience is giving him unnecessary sleepless nights. What's the problem with at least trying that?
Tam
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I don't know the relative levels involved, but you say you are filling the system with 2.5litres each day and it is leaking internally. Presumably you can tell from the amounts you put in and the amounts you pump from the bilge that there is no external leak. If that is the case is it not possible to drain the system to below the level of the hole? - that would allow welding or any other of the suggested repairs to be done.
Tam
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In fact a link between the Slough cut and the Thames was being mooted back in the 60s (and maybe before), but that would involve a brand new canal rather than a restoration, and land prices alone would make that little more than wishful thinking. Not that I'm against wishful thinking, mind you 🤩
Tam
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I suppose the point is that UK might somehow become a real country again at some stage, so any developments which affect the canal route must take the possibility of restoration into account.
However if the landowners concerned are strongly opposed to restoration, and given the extra costs involved for developers in taking that possibility into account, it is a big ask.
Tam
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On 05/05/2017 at 01:14, dinglem said:
..... Promptly i received a map dated today and entitled with the house address showing their boundaries, and very clearly showing that their ownership line runs directly along the edge of the water when crossing past my grandfathers property. Immediately to the south there is a bridge which also shows the boundary running along the edge of the water, but for the subsequent property moving further south of the bridge the border immediately jumps out to include the river bank also.
A very old thread but I was given to wondering, if dinglem's grandfather does indeed own the land to the very edge of the canal, whose reponsibility would it be to maintain the piling or whatever else there is to keep water in the canal? Unfortunately dinglem never returned after his original query, but does anyone else have thoughts on this? It could be very important if the lie of the land made it possible for there to be a breach.
Tam
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If the boat is now sold surely it should be up to the new owner to get any necessary licences etc. I'm not even sure of the legallity of licencing a boat that does not belong to you.
Tam
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14 hours ago, blackrose said:
Gloves are fine while you're at the tiller but you should take gloves off to do anything with ropes in my opinion. It's very easy to get them caught between ropes along with your fingers and if the boat happens to put tension on the rope it can end badly.
I can't think of any UK working boatman I've known who wore gloves, and unlike most pleasure boaters the life obviously includes winter snow and ice. We certainly never have done ourselves, and would not allow trainees on our barge-handling courses to do so either. Continental boatmen do if they are using wire ropes - generally the heavy duty ones as frequently found in gardening shops. I do know someone who now has less than the allocated number of fingers for exactly the reason given by blackrose.
Tam
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26 minutes ago, John Brightley said:
It appears that most of the photos are sourced from geograph.org.uk .
Photos on Geograph are not intended to show the most scenic views of an area, simply to record a place at a moment in time.
And the first 12 I viewed were all dated between 2007 and 2013, though the next one was 2016. So the 'moment in time' is not particularly recent.
Tam
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7 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:
It's clearly all to do with wellbeing rather than boating.
Haven't C&RT just promoted themselves as an offshoot of the NHS 😁. I must say though that spending time looking at those terrible photos did nothing at all for my 'wellbeing' - probably the contrary in fact, as it made me rather cross and sad.
Tam
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They are a particularly crap selection of holiday snaps, mostly with little or no merit as a photo, and seldom with any interest as a scene. But then any random selection of people's holiday snaps are unlikely to make you want to visit a place. It would be very interesting to know what form of analysis is going to be applied to the results - it must presumably involve categorising each shot in some manner, and that would immediately bias any conclusions. I suspect it will prove whatever it is that CRT want it to prove.
Tam
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27 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
They are quite annoying.
Yes ;-(
Tam
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12 hours ago, Derek R. said:
I was thinking that. The tube looks black enough to suggest it might be an exhaust
It might just be the quality of the photo, but to me it looked like a newly cut piece of tube with a shiney end. Perhaps Ella could enlighten us.
Tam
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I can't understand what the curved brush thing is either.
Tam
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There is one advertised for sale on the Internet https://boats-from.co.uk/not-specified/creighton-27ft-canal-cruiser-boat-566796
If you contact them they may be willing to give you the information you require.
Il y en a un annoncé à la vente sur Internet. Si vous les contactez, ils seront peut-être disposés à vous donner les informations dont vous avez besoin.
Cordialement
Tam
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Thanks MtB for the readable version of the post. Unfortunately Google Translate has not helped matters, and Vincent's (his first name) requirements are still a little ambiguous. I'm not sure what information/paperwork is required to register a boat in France, but if it went there in 2009 that was long before Brexit, and if he can show that he will at least avoid the problems for VAT etc that it has caused. Perhaps he has pre-Brexit photographic evidence of it. As said, private pleasure craft in the UK do not have to be registered, so there is no existing UK certificat d'enregistrement that he must have cancelled before registry can be carried out in France.
Tam
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Bonjour,
I don't know how you are sending your messages but the lines disappear off the side of the screen which makes them very difficult to understand. If you now own Me N Thee there is no problem. If it is in France you will have to register it there of course.
Je ne sais pas comment vous envoyez vos messages, mais les lignes disparaissent sur le côté de l'écran, ce qui les rend très difficiles à comprendre. Si vous possédez maintenant Me N Thee, il n'y a pas de problème. Si c'est en France il faudra bien sûr l'y immatriculer.
Tam
P.S This now appears on three threads - Build Blogs, New to Boating, and General Boating - so it is very confused.
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Many modern builders (just a welder, really) make something like a rectangular steel box with a pointy bit at the front and a squarish or slightly semi-circular thing at the back - it's the cheapest option and requires minimal boat-building skill or knowledge. Buyers just basically want something to live on, and if it floats that's all they consider a boat needs. If it's ever moved then the front pushes up a little wave rather than cutting through the water, and a lack of proper swim means the flow cannot get properly to the prop or the rudder, but few people ever get to realise there could be anything amiss.
Tam
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Horses for courses, as they say. There is an enormous difference between a ship at sea and a narrow boat on a canal, and factors other than rudder size/style come into play. Having owned and worked craft from freight narrow boats to motor barges on the Thames and estuary, small coastal ships, and 24m-38m working craft on continental canals, I would suggest that hull design and engine:propellor relationship are probably more significant factors.
If you have no control over these, then changing the rudder on a craft that does not handle well could make a large difference, but it is not the be-all and end-all of boat design. The key phrase there is having "a boat that does not handle well" in the first place.
Tam
p.s. This is not meant as a put-down, and if you want to play with your rudder design, who am I to criticise. 🤷♂️
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A big bag full of money. 😁
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How they can say:
"About 3 feet long and full of details and miniature items with amazing detail. All correctly detailed from traditional construction, painting, rope-work" is beyond me. 🤷♂️
I can't even see how the model person leaning against the boat fits into the cabin.
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Help wanted near Kidderminster
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I should have refreshed my memory of how the boat is lying 😟