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Well I've offered Dave my nomination in the belief that when it's not just Dave's opinion he is intellectually capable of taking it on board.
There will be minutes; I can be held to account, however as one of the more capable (and of the two willing) members of the board I'd be willing to stand by his nomination.
Yup Ive backed Dave too, I wasnt going to mention it but as you have , why not.....
This is fascinating. What is it about Mr Mayall that attracts the smelly voters?
Does he own an after-shave factory, and has he promised freebies? Has he patented an anti-flatulence device that promises to bring relief to those with turbulent bowels?
Or has he simply promised to hold his election meetings in the open air?
I think we should be told.
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I've learnt never to judge someone by their posting style on a bulletin board. I've discovered some real life examples of why. I've never met Dave IRL, perhaps if I did, then I'd be able to make a fair judgement on whether to vote for him or not.
Those of you who do know him IRL have good things to say, though <waves to Kiki>
Not sure about your use of the plural, Lady M, but Kiki's lone voice certainly contained a ringing endorsement.
And although I take your point (books and covers and all that), successful committee workers tend to be consensus-seekers (like Mr Fincher). A tendency to be dogmatic doesn't work so well (unless you're the chairman, and can't be voted out).
But it would be good if Mr Mayall's undoubted talents could be brought to bear in some way. It's my view that CART will only work if it is able to harness a vast army of volunteers to work on canal maintenance, and perhaps Mr M could usefully agitate for that, and apply his powerful mind to the associated logistical problems. It's a task that will require the organisational and strategical skills of a latter-day Alexander III of Macedon. I am sure Mayall of the Peak is up to it.
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One analogy would be Tony Blair being some sort of Middle-East peace envoy. Can you imagine?
Good one.
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Nope, it means you are leaving the bare scratches and patches for the long time between docking, how long do you leave it 5, 10 years ?
Only if you are an idiot.
With epoxy, an annual inspection, and repair of any scrapes, should ensure a very long life. But there won't be many scrapes; it's incredibly strong stuff.
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I told you not to buy a Mikuni, Ebber, etc.
Sound advice, Blackers.
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I'm not being disingenuous.
So far as I'm aware, I do not advance dishonest arguments.
You have suggested that I do so, and if I am to attempt to defend myself against such accusations, surely I should be challenged with these dishonest arguments.
In the absence of any examples, I can do little but deny your suggestion.
Mr Mayall, since you seem to want me to prolong this derailment, I shall do so, but briefly.
I first became aware of your existence when you started a poll a year or more ago on the subject of continuous cruisers. The poll questions were craftily selected so that the results would come out the way you wanted them to. You weren't actually seeking information at all (which is the ostensible purpose of a poll), but instead you were using the poll mechanism to promote your own agenda.
If you wish to debate this further, feel free to start another thread. I honestly do not wish to interfere with this one, which I think serves a useful purpose. As I stated earlier, you do have a number of good qualities, but for me, they are out-gunned by your extreme hostility to a section of the boating community, many members of which haven't had your advantages in life.
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I also have to say that I am doubtful if a committee of 35? will ever reach any decisions at all.
That's no doubt the intention.
We should probably call this the Camel and Drivel Trust.
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How many pumpout machines do you think there are between Leeds and York ? Its a long way by boat and which pumpout machine did you use ?
Who cares? It really doesn't matter how many there are, as long as you have a decent-sized tank. You seem to think everybody with a pump-out loo fits a 20 litre poo-tank. Whilst that may be what you did once, it's not what intelligent people do.
If all the pump-out machines on the Thames were removed, I would simply cruise down to the estuary four times a year and discharge at sea.
Your posts on this subject are really very silly.
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Well, clearly you will have your views on me that I'm not going to change, but that is as it is.
Not sure why you believe that I argue dishonestly though.
Indeed.
I have very mixed views about you. It's because I don't see things in black and white terms!
I can appreciate your good points without pretending the bad don't exist.As for dishonest arguments, stop being disingenuous. We don't want to derail your thread, after all.
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But of course it is.
It is also a fairly blatant attempt to de-rail any sensible discussion of what I might do on the Council into an argument about CMers.
I shan't be playing that game with them!
I will, of course answer sensible questions :-)
Actually, Mr Mayall, it wasn't. The last thing I want to do is to get you cantering off on your hobby-horse again. I was merely making the point that you are basically a one-trick pony, with an inability to see shades of grey, and a tendency to argue dishonestly.
Apart from that, you're great!
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....and will use my voice to represent the prevailing view ahead of my own views.
Hmm.
If MPs voted for what their constituents wanted, they'd bring back hanging and all sorts of unsavoury things.
I prefer to vote for a good man who will do what he thinks is right, whatever the herd might want.
In my opinion, you have shown yourself to be both devious and malicious when it comes to the matter of your personal bête noire, the continuous cruiser whose commitments limit his cruising range (and who usually can't afford a paid mooring). You therefore don't pass muster as "a good man", so you won't receive my vote.
Which is a pity, because you are well-informed and capable, and in other respects would probably be an excellent choice. Announce that you will abstain on matters relating to continuous cruising and I might well adopt a different stance.
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I think 3742 have decided on Robin Evans competence -
I see no mileage in trying to convert you and 82 others.
Convert?
What a strange word. It's the word a missionary would use when trying to persuade savages that his magic was more powerful than theirs.
I don't seek to be converted. I just seek information. I can make my own mind up, providing I have the facts. As a "journalist" that's where you could be useful, if you had any interest in truth rather than "conversions".
Do feel free to come back when you have some information to impart, rather than slogans and empty assertions.
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Thanks everyone so much for your help. I am going to take her out Thursday for a run and check to see if the skin tanks are getting hot and will report back!
Tiggers, it's really very simple.
If the water is returning hot from the skin tanks, then they are too small. Simple as that. It's not a pump problem, because if the pump were too slow, the water would have extra time to cool, and would therefore be cooler, not hotter. And if the pump is too fast, and the tanks adequate, the engine would not be getting too hot.
If the water is returning cool, and the engine is still too hot, then it COULD be a pump problem, in that the water may be being pumped around too slowly to remove all the heat. If that is the case, the water coming out of the engine will be very hot.
It could also be a thermostat problem, if the 'stat is not cutting in until the engine is too hot. Measure the temp of the water. Above around 75 degrees it should start to be diverted to the skin tanks.
It could also be a blockage/air-lock in the skin tanks. I had that problem with my JP3. Water was being diverted at the right temp by the stat, but the air-lock prevented much of it from getting through. So not enough was going through the skin tank, and the rest was being forced through the thermostat and back round the engine. Bad for pump, pipes and stat. In my case, the problem (an air-lock) cleared itself on a long run with the engine working hard.
Surprised you don't like JP3s. They are the smoothest and quietest of the JPs.
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Thanks for that.
We have started roasting on a trivet and much prefer it.
I've not heard of adding water to the pan, sounds like a brilliant idea - I'll let you know.
Alex
If you have a fan-assisted oven, turn the fan off.
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I am not sure what financial crisis you are talking about.
How many are there, old chap? You're obviously far better informed than I am, because I only know of the one that started with the collapse of various banks around the world, and as of now is threatening the existence of the Euro. Are there others that have passed me by?
It you mean the one that faces the waterways then the blame must be put squarely on the shoulders of Evans/Hales. The self sufficiency target was missed by £18m in 2004/5 and has increased every year since. As such the economic downturn has only compounded the situation.
Had I meant the BW funding gap, then I would not have said it "was not of Robin Evans' doing". And I would not have said that because I do not, like other readers of your article, have any idea of the extent to which Robin Evans is or is not responsible for BW not meeting its targets.
I have no idea because your article did not explain WHY BW failed to meet its targets. Had it done so, it would have been worth reading. As it didn't, it wasn't.
In 1939, Germany attacked Gdansk with a battleship, and a handful of Poles with very little ammunition resisted. They were overwhelmed, having fought to the last man. Their responsibility was to defend the city, but they failed, against overwhelming odds. Should they be blamed? Were they incompetent?
Unless we know WHY and WHERE Robin Evans failed, we cannot form any judgement about his competence. We look to journalists to provide us with the information to make such a judgement. Sadly, it seems we look in vain.
You, and that silly website you belong to, have failed us. Monumentally.
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Has anybody ever had a goose for xmas dinner ? I was offered one recently but wouldn't how to cook it or if they taste any good.
Alex
I have often cooked goose for Christmas. They are delicious, but as others have said, half the weight is fat.
But that's proper goose. Canada Goose is very fishy-tasting and even the French haven't found a good recipe for it.
ETA: Wanted, you should try again. If I am cooking Christmas dinner, it's goose every time over turkey. And Bazza may be wrong about Esox, but he's right about a trivet. Mind you, I roast everything (lamb, beef, pheasant, duck, etc.,) on a trivet over some water, as the French do. Keeps the meat moist, and the juices, instead of burning, make superb gravy.
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Couldn't you just say Pike, save lots of us having to look it up?
Tim
Well, I could, but....................
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While cassette owners watch quietly in smug satisfaction as iced-in pump-out owners clench their buttocks and wonder how long the cold snap will last...
Sorry, but I know I made the right decision (for me). I had a pump out on my last boat and now I've got a cassette - I know which system I'll be sticking with. If a pump-out toilet suits you then carry on, but the implication that cassette owners have made the wrong decision is totally bogus.
I try to avoid these loo threads, but Tuesday night is masochistic night. So sorry to be coming late to the party.
What made you turn away from pump-out? As a wide-beam owner, you don't have the space problem that seems to me to be the sole reason (other than cost) to have a cassette? Always bearing in mind that a wise pumper-out keeps a porta-potti in reserve.
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I'm curious as to why you found it surprising?
Tim
I suppose it's because I fall into the trap of supposing that other people are rational. I'm rather naive at times.
If you are going to put yourself at risk of drowning, then it's not a bad idea to be able to swim. I'd have died several times if I hadn't known how to swim. And if I hadn't known how to swim, there are a lot of interesting things I might never have done (or never have survived having done).
It's possible that being able to swim might not have saved this unfortunate person on this occasion, but it has saved the lives of many others on many other occasions.
Bizzard makes the point that people who can swim are less liable to panic, and that can make all the difference.
So, if anybody reading this can't swim, learn!
Thank yourself lucky you don't have to navigate these waters.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
Not for the sqeemish.
Two men gazed from prison bars.
One saw mud, the other stars.
Why this nitwit has to focus on the squalor is beyond me. Perhaps he knows it will appeal to his audience and their prejudices.
India is grubby to be sure. But, as even this chap admits, there is much else to see there.
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What a crass comment.
I'd like to see you swimming late at night fully clothed.
What, you own a boat and you can't swim in full winter clothing?
I live for the day when I will read an intelligent comment signed "Chris Pink".
The post I responded to stated that the victim "could not swim". In other words, he was a non-swimmer. This is what I found surprising.
I think I mentioned on here at the time that I fell into the Thames last February wearing "full winter clothing". The fact that you are reading this now should tell you that I survived. And I did so by swimming. In full winter clothing. To the bank, where I was able to haul myself out.
This was my second effort. Another time I capsized a kayak at Marlow on New Year's Day wearing "full winter clothing". It was well below freezing at the time. I managed to swim to the bank and haul myself out on that occasion too.
Another time I attempted, wearing a lot of clothes as a sort of makeshift wet-suit (it didn't work), to swim down and free the prop of a sailing boat at Easter in Grandcamps in Normandy. It was very cold, and afterwards I suffered mild hypothermia, but somehow I survived. Amazing, isn't it?
Now run along, laddie, and stop being tedious.
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its dirty flamable stuff...hammer some red oxide about and dont waste your money on wax oil..its great for landrover chassis's but not for the interior of a boat..iv never seen a base plate rot from the inside out......
Well, you haven't seen much then.
It's a big problem on older boats. Including my own, but I reckon I have got to grips with it now.
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Canada Geese are known to be disgusting to eat. That's why there are so many of them.
My betting is on Esox Lucius, which can weigh 30 kilos and be nearly five feet long. One that size would manage a goose.
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Yes, I deliberately used that word to alienate people and showcase my vast intellect, nobody who read it understood it and there's a far better word I should have used because you prefer it and it's not 'crappy'. Spot on.
Jesus christ, this is making me agree with jenlyn.
It's OK, Chris Pink is on your side. You MUST be right.
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If I thought it would be misunderstood or not understood at all I wouldn't have used it. It's in no way meant to confuse or to appear somehow lofty and the fact is you did understand what I meant. I wouldn't call it unconventional either, more of a dialect thing.
(p.s.I quoted sebrof originally, who did call it ignorant)
Measure is the right word in this context.
Metric as you used it is jargon, emanating from America, and using it instead of measure shows ignorance. You were just trying to make yourself look clever, and succeeded in doing the reverse.
The use of such words is an indication of the speed at which this nation is becoming culturally indistinguishable from America. It's a situation I deplore, but that you no doubt either welcome, or are blissfully unaware of.
I can appreciate your good points without pretending the bad don't exist.
CRT Council
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Posted · Edited by sebrof
Whether it can or not will depend on what is contained in the as-yet unpublished document (trust deed, perhaps, or Articles of Association) that contains the rules and regulations of the charity.
Normally a board has powers to co-opt.