narrowboat Invincible

[mrsmelly]

Just thought you might like to know that your water skier didnt survive when you just passed me above Nell Bridge lock. I fished them out the cut after my boat had resurfaced after your wake sunk it but the skier died. Just sayin like.

[MtB]

33 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Just thought you might like to know that your water skier didnt survive when you just passed me above Nell Bridge lock. I fished them out the cut after my boat had resurfaced after your wake sunk it but the skier died. Just sayin like.

 

You need to learn to tie up properly.... Shirley!

 

 

[mrsmelly]

7 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

You need to learn to tie up properly.... Shirley!

 

 

I didnt drown the skier, he did. I am tied up properly hes a Richard Cranium ?

[matty40s]

Invincible, that's one of those Navy tubs innit...

 

[mrsmelly]

2 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Invincible, that's one of those Navy tubs innit...

 

This bloke thought his was!! Bless him......................but no, it were a private, probably a share boat innitt?

[MtB]

There used to be a 70ft ex-hire boat dumper here on the K&A called INVINCIBLE.

 

I always noticed it as it had the most stunningly worn out and knackered looking paintwork I've ever seen on a NB, and the name seemed spectacularly inappropriate. 

 

 

[Lily Rose]

I fort you weren't back till tomorrow!

 

Perhaps HMS Invincible's captain thought the same and that he could get away with it in your absence. The fool.

Edited May 2, 2019 by Lily Rose
Speeling

[Lily Rose]

Update 3.54pm - Invincible just went past us in the pouring rain at Twyford Wharf heading for Banbury.

 

Didn't seem to be going very fast and I heard the revs go up a bit as it was almost past. Supports my theory that they thought mrsmelly's boat was unoccupied. Or maybe there's no longer any need for speed now that they've lost their water skier.

[mrsmelly]

14 minutes ago, Lily Rose said:

Update 3.54pm - Invincible just went past us in the pouring rain at Twyford Wharf heading for Banbury.

 

Didn't seem to be going very fast and I heard the revs go up a bit as it was almost past. Supports my theory that they thought mrsmelly's boat was unoccupied. Or maybe there's no longer any need for speed now that they've lost their water skier.

Yeah we came back a bit earlier than planned. There was some poxy bike race going past the house door later in the day so we left early and got back to our wonderful boat abart 1215. See ya satdy 

[Lily Rose]

2 hours ago, matty40s said:

Invincible, that's one of those Navy tubs innit...

 

 

Andrew, Emma, Trafalgar.

 

All based at Calcutt's hire base. At least two, possibly all three, went past us in Banbury a couple of days ago.

 

[nbfiresprite]

May have been Tim at the Helm, Afterall they are filming on the South Oxford this week for the next series.

[Captain Pegg]

2 hours ago, Lily Rose said:

Supports my theory that they thought mrsmelly's boat was unoccupied.

Or perhaps it was because they knew the opposite was true?

[mark99]

3 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

There used to be a 70ft ex-hire boat dumper here on the K&A called INVINCIBLE.

 

I always noticed it as it had the most stunningly worn out and knackered looking paintwork I've ever seen on a NB, and the name seemed spectacularly inappropriate. 

 

 

Unusual.

 

Dumpers and cmer's normally name their botes wanderlust, intrepid explorer, move-a-lot or dun-moorin.

[roland elsdon]

4 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

Just thought you might like to know that your water skier didnt survive when you just passed me above Nell Bridge lock. I fished them out the cut after my boat had resurfaced after your wake sunk it but the skier died. Just sayin like.

Natural causes or did you do to the skier what you wanted to do to the owner

25 minutes ago, mark99 said:

Unusual.

 

Dumpers and cmer's normally name their botes wanderlust, intrepid explorer, move-a-lot or dun-moorin.

New beginings , new dawn,  tommorrow ( ill get a licence) born free

[Nightwatch]

We are in Willington. Nice and peaceful here. Very few boats moored and maybe eight or so boats passed. All at a reasonable speed. Very civilised here.

 

 

[Lily Rose]

Don't be too complacent Martyn, Invincible was heading North when it passed us.

 

It's possible they only slowed past us because we are just South of a lift bridge. If it goes back to the speed it was going past Tim it could reach you tomorrow.

[MtB]

48 minutes ago, mark99 said:

Unusual.

 

Dumpers and cmer's normally name their botes wanderlust, intrepid explorer, move-a-lot or dun-moorin.

 

On reflection I have it wrong. The knackered old dumper I'm thinking of was called the ILLUSTRIOUS. 

 

Which fits in perfectly with your hypothesis!

 

 

[cuthound]

3 hours ago, Lily Rose said:

 

Andrew, Emma, Trafalgar.

 

All based at Calcutt's hire base. At least two, possibly all three, went past us in Banbury a couple of days ago.

 

 

One of those, can't rember which one, holds the water speed record for going past my mooring at 8:30 am one morning, back in 2014.

 

Pint glasses and spirit bottles on the hatch and leaving a breaking wave which overtopped both the tow path and edge of my garden.

 

 

 

[Boater Sam]

One went through Cropredy a couple of years ago in the afternoon with the crew naked on the rear deck, shouldn't be allowed just because they're Navy.

[Nightwatch]

Normal practice at sea!!

[mrsmelly]

15 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Normal practice at sea!!

Not up the ice though ?

[Lily Rose]

31 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

Normal practice at sea!!

 

You old-timers! Was that not just in the old days?

 

Surely not now, with ships crewed by both sexes and, for all I know, those of a gender-neutral persuasion.

[Nightwatch]

3 minutes ago, Lily Rose said:

 

You old-timers! Was that not just in the old days?

 

Surely not now, with ships crewed by both sexes and, for all I know, those of a gender-neutral persuasion.

Still happens but you're not allowed to look. 

 

 

[MtB]

12 hours ago, cuthound said:

Pint glasses and spirit bottles on the hatch

 

You should clear them away each evening or passing boats might smash them up.... 

 

[howardang]

I think the RN connection may be a red herring. Invincible is the name of a share ownership boat based at Wigrams turn and I suspect that this might have been the boat in question. . 

 

Howard