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Everything posted by Ray T
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"'ow do!" 😁
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Credit where it is due, the Fradley volunteer lock keepers, at lock Nos 18 & 19 yesterday, were Cheerful, friendly & helpful.
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Take both boats out, then you have a tow home available. 😃
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From "A Canal People" Longden/ Rolt
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Horse boaters occasionally used a short length of rope from the bow T stud to the mast towing line to pull the line down to aid getting round bridges at junctions or tight bends. Got a photo somewhere....
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It is William Humphris in the photo I posted on NB JOHN, previously JACK, which was a horse drawn boat at the time of the photoghraph. Slipping the rope took some of the strain off the horse when moving off. William didn't like motors, he was a "horse" man. Although he did steer a motor in later days when required.
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Not strictly mooring. On horse drawn boats or butties towed from the mast and running blocks, I'd love to see how the OP would make a cleat work here. Does the OP know the reason for this set up? There is also the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I have sailed extensively offshore as well as canal boating and its "horses for courses."
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Didn't some poor chap get his head trapped in one in collision with a bridge?
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Dispensed with grease guns and fitted greasers to the prop shaft and Plummer Block.
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Narrowboat Simulator (google.com) https://sites.google.com/view/narrowboat-simulator/downloads It is quite good actually, one can even "cill" a boat!
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If this is so, how did all these boats get to Ellesmere Port this Easter? If you want to be pedantic modern narrow boats are built to 6' 10" beam.
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Said boat, Cobbett at Audlem June 2021 after being sold to new owners.
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Dave, something to sooth the furrowed brow.
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Not on this occasion, it was about 3 years ago before we moved the boat to the T & M.
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Yes, but we had an awkward cuss at Brownsover, on the north Oxford, who refused to move his boat 2 meters to allow us into a gap, because he had just set his satellite aerial up.
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Willow Wren at Nelson's Wharf, GU. https://www.willowwrentraining.co.uk/
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Got my dates wrong, so deleted.
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Pressed Steel also had a factory in Mile Lane Coventry. Taxi production is now in China.
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Looking for the name of a Canal Documentary
Ray T replied to WiggyDiggyPoo's topic in History & Heritage
DVD on ebay: The Golden Age of Canals DVD (2014) cert E Highly Rated eBay Seller Great Prices 5055298049564 | eBay -
The vertical lift of a boat lift (discussion)
Ray T replied to magpie patrick's topic in History & Heritage
Don't know if this would count? I suppose you could argue it "lifts"* boats from one level to another, although push would be more accurate. Tarn et Garonne, Montech sloping waterway, boat lift on the Canal Lateral to the river Garonne * lifted as it isn't operational now. -
Rose & Joe Skinner had a dog named Scruff too.
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Looking for the name of a Canal Documentary
Ray T replied to WiggyDiggyPoo's topic in History & Heritage
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Brown water in the tank Tra, la-la, la-la There's brown water in the tank Tra, la, la, la, la, la Brown water in the tank Tra, la-la, la-la looks like rust in the tank Tank, tank. Apologies to Boney M.