Boating fix video

[mark99]

18 minutes ago, howardang said:

I would be interested to hear from Mike why he posted this video because if he thought that it would be a pleasant watch it seems to have missed the mark! A shame, because it have enjoyed Mikes other videos.

 

Howard

 

 

Agree. I thought the actual filming was excellent. 

[junior]

I disagree, apart from those few minutes with the rudeness, which is no reflection on Mike, it's a good watch. Nice boating footage and well filmed. That can't have been easy to film, constantly overtaking etc. With not much to do at the moment 40 mins of decent boating footage and nice countryside is welcome relief. 

[Captain Pegg]

I’ve enjoyed watching both episodes.

 

OK, he was in the wrong at Atherstone top and it was a bit cringing to watch. Mike could have edited it out but obviously saw no need to protect the guilty ?. I dare say knowing he had a long day ahead clouded judgment as he didn’t want to follow another boat down the flight. They passed Fradley in the dark and according to Mike’s comments overnighted at Rugeley.

That’s a direct reversing engine, right? If that thing had a ‘modern’ vintage engine with a nice gearbox there’s plenty of commenters here that could hit a gate with it. I know I could, cos I’m sure I’ve done it in something similar. I’d imagine that’s a pretty hard boat to handle and well beyond the experience of most here.

 

JP

 

[Mike Todd]

13 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

I’ve enjoyed watching both episodes.

 

OK, he was in the wrong at Atherstone top and it was a bit cringing to watch. Mike could have edited it out but obviously saw no need to protect the guilty ?. I dare say knowing he had a long day ahead clouded judgment as he didn’t want to follow another boat down the flight. They passed Fradley in the dark and according to Mike’s comments overnighted at Rugeley.

That’s a direct reversing engine, right? If that thing had a ‘modern’ vintage engine with a nice gearbox there’s plenty of commenters here that could hit a gate with it. I know I could, cos I’m sure I’ve done it in something similar. I’d imagine that’s a pretty hard boat to handle and well beyond the experience of most here.

 

JP

 

If he had been a working boat he would have known the road well enough from frequent use to know that the bollard that he seemed to snap off through and injudicious rope stop was about to fail - unless he is an extreme supporter of Darwinism and enjoys every opportunity to report a failure to CaRT!

[bizzard]

It was very good filming, but I had to turn the sound off, couldn't stant the racket of that 2 stroke engine, it sounded like a maniac erratically beating an empty can with a stick.

[monkeyhanger]

On 14/04/2020 at 20:44, Captain Pegg said:

I’ve enjoyed watching both episodes.

 

OK, he was in the wrong at Atherstone top and it was a bit cringing to watch. Mike could have edited it out but obviously saw no need to protect the guilty ?. I dare say knowing he had a long day ahead clouded judgment as he didn’t want to follow another boat down the flight. They passed Fradley in the dark and according to Mike’s comments overnighted at Rugeley.

That’s a direct reversing engine, right? If that thing had a ‘modern’ vintage engine with a nice gearbox there’s plenty of commenters here that could hit a gate with it. I know I could, cos I’m sure I’ve done it in something similar. I’d imagine that’s a pretty hard boat to handle and well beyond the experience of most here.

 

JP

 

Pedant alert.....I suspect that it was Glascote top lock, not Atherstone.

[Nightwatch]

27 minutes ago, monkeyhanger said:

Pedant alert.....I suspect that it was Glascote top lock, not Atherstone.

I agree fully. But couldn’t be bothered being pedantic. But I do agree with the location.

[Captain Pegg]

1 hour ago, monkeyhanger said:

Pedant alert.....I suspect that it was Glascote top lock, not Atherstone.

No you don’t. You know it was Glascote because he started below Atherstone. I can never remember which order all those little towns between Nuneaton and Tamworth come in.

 

No excuse about following through flights then, just generally clouded judgment.

 

JP