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45 minutes ago, Athy said:

The bow of a Town Class boat is the thing I least want to see coming through a bridge hole on a blind bend. Mind you, we do most of our boating on the Oxford, so nothing bigger is likely to come at us.

 

A "Royalty" is actually bigger.

William makes fairly regular forays onto the Oxford, I believe......

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32 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

 

A "Royalty" is actually bigger.

William makes fairly regular forays onto the Oxford, I believe......

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Perhaps we have not encountered them because there are fewer of them (aren't there?) We have seen Victoria a couple of times, but going the same way as us!

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This is actually lower hull sides, and much lower in the water,  but you should be at least as easily worried by it!

 

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7 minutes ago, roland elsdon said:

Actualy if its an unconverted town class coming towards you  in a bridge and the bow is low, thats when you should be worried...

Yes,

 

The more it's carrying, the harder they are to stop, and the more damage they can do.

Even Flamingo with its conversion and many tons of ballast is equivalent to a one third to maybe half loaded "Town", and will do you a lot more damage than an empty one.

 

The problem is people see the massive out of water bows of an empty one, and hold back.  When they see us they just see "another leisure boat" and assume we can stop anything like as quickly as they can.  We can't and that's when it can get "interesting".

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On 14/02/2019 at 15:19, Stilllearning said:

The name makes me think of Richard the Thirds .

Got your rhyming slang wrong there 

A Richard (the third) = bird, ie woman.

A Henry (the third) = turd 

Phil (London born and bred)

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2 hours ago, Phil Ambrose said:

Got your rhyming slang wrong there 

A Richard (the third) = bird, ie woman.

A Henry (the third) = turd 

Phil (London born and bred)

But a good friend of mine, Goodmayes-bred, refers to them as richards.

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8 hours ago, Athy said:

But a good friend of mine, Goodmayes-bred, refers to them as richards.

Think about it, we are all familiar with females being referred to as "Birds" so just work back to the root. We would say things like "I was seeing my Richard last night" but I never heard anybody refer to a girlfriend as their "henry" but "richard" yes.

But of course using the terms the other way round may be the norm in Essex.

Phil ?

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2 hours ago, David Mack said:

Even more impressive though if the whole of the stempost and the beginning of the bottom plate is out of the water.

Sadly, he was going too slowly :)

 

 

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4 hours ago, David Mack said:

Even more impressive though if the whole of the stempost and the beginning of the bottom plate is out of the water.

I always quite liked this one I took in the 1970s.

(sorry for quality, it was actally a very foggy day, and it has been darkened to make the boat more visible....)

 

 

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35 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

I always quite liked this one I took in the 1970s.

(sorry for quality, it was actally a very foggy day, and it has been darkened to make the boat more visible....)

 

 

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Mr Shinyboater says, "I hope you told them to SLOW DOWN"

 

Any offers for where and what boat?

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