Someone untied my ropes

[ditchcrawler]

Just now, LadyG said:

You don't like quirkyness?

I can just see the commander staning in the conning tower with a nice "Kiss me Quick" style naval admiral's cap.

Last seen wearing a suit with arrows all over it. I wonder what he is up to now

[LadyG]

3 minutes ago, Cheese said:

But from what you have said, you don't know if it is one person involved, who both untied and then retied your line; or one person leaving it adrift and a second securing it to the best of their ability - who should be applauded, not castigated.

Thinking bout it, I know who it was, and how it came about, it was not intentional, I never thought that, if I suggested that, I recind my sins.

[Mike Tee]

2 hours ago, blackrose said:

 

 

Just sayin'?  I think you mean just talking bollox again.

Language Timothy!

Testicular ventriloquist please.

[Thomas C King]

On 26/05/2020 at 00:13, LadyG said:

I had been particulalry helpfull, providing beer an' drugs! as they were broken down!

Maybe they did it because they were off their face and completely muntered?

[Naughty Cal]

11 minutes ago, LadyG said:

You don't like quirkyness?

I can just see the commander staning in the conning tower with a nice "Kiss me Quick" style naval admiral's cap.

He was a first class knob head and fraudster.

 

Wonder if he is still in prison?

10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Last seen wearing a suit with arrows all over it. I wonder what he is up to now

He was in prison. Not sure if he still is or not.

10 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Thinking bout it, I know who it was, and how it came about, it was not intentional, I never thought that, if I suggested that, I recind my sins.

So a load of bollix about nothing then?

[ditchcrawler]

1 minute ago, Naughty Cal said:

He was a first class knob head and fraudster.

 

Wonder if he is still in prison?

He was in prison. Not sure if he still is or not.

Hence the arrow suit. His time is well up, I looked it up the other week.

 

[LadyG]

20 minutes ago, Cheese said:

But from what you have said, you don't know if it is one person involved, who both untied and then retied your line; or one person leaving it adrift and a second securing it to the best of their ability - who should be applauded, not castigated.

I do know, honestly, I do. I'm not castigating, I am just saying, don't leave a boat less secure than it was, I think I already said that..........

[Iain_S]

3 hours ago, LadyG said:

(snip)

... and then used a round turn and half hitch which later came undone, the only explanation is that he did not know how to tie a bowline, though why he had to undo the existing one is a bit of a mystery.

(snip)

Obviously, didn't know how to tie one of these, either

[TheBiscuits]

4 minutes ago, Iain_S said:

Obviously, didn't know how to tie one of these, either

 

That's why you tie two half-hitches, just in case one comes undone ...

[Murflynn]

milady would be better off returning to Kansas and doing her boating on the vast plains where no-one will interfere with her knots.  .........................  or perhaps settle in Pitlockry (the only reference to which is found in another US State - South Carolina I believe).

 

yes I know exactly where Pitlochry is, having spent several years in Dundee.

 

for gawd's sake this is a right tempest in a teapot.  get over it!

[Dr Bob]

4 minutes ago, Murflynn said:

 

 

yes I know exactly where Pitlochry is, having spent several years in Dundee.

 

 

Is Dundee twinned with Beirut?

 

 

......our household were all St Johnstone supporters when we lived up there.

[LadyG]

4 hours ago, Thomas C King said:

Maybe they did it because they were off their face and completely muntered?

glad someone reads my posts!

On 26/05/2020 at 10:13, restlessnomad said:

I can easily make a 15 min video out of this.... jk...

go on then, try youtube

On 26/05/2020 at 10:13, restlessnomad said:

I can easily make a 15 min video out of this.... jk...

go on then, try youtube

On 26/05/2020 at 10:13, restlessnomad said:

I can easily make a 15 min video out of this.... jk...

go on then, try youtube.

a pity we don't have any cartoonists on the forum....................

On 26/05/2020 at 10:13, restlessnomad said:

I can easily make a 15 min video out of this.... jk...

go on then, try youtube.

a pity we don't have any cartoonists on the forum....................

On 26/05/2020 at 10:13, restlessnomad said:

I can easily make a 15 min video out of this.... jk...

go on then, try youtube.

a pity we don't have any cartoonists on the forum....................

[Naughty Cal]

Have you been on the drugs yourself this afternoon?

[Joe Bourke]

6 hours ago, LadyG said:

If you are told to moor on the diesel mooring on the advice of the marina owner/CRT, then that is exactly what you would do rather that risk pulling up pins in a F5 or when a big vessel passes by. To be honest, I would want to be 100% secure on any commercial waterway, no point in crossing fingers and toes.

I do have a wire rope for securing stuff on roof , or mooring if leaving boat unatended in a dodgy area, and some fat padlocks for the Gas/anchor locks.

I don't mind mooring lines beng disturbed, for whatever reason, if people are going to do that, please don't leave the boat insecure! That is  the point!

 

 

I SWEAR I wasn't meaning you specifically Jo. I SWEAR that I was just generalising.   Please don't send for the Old Bill. 

[TheBiscuits]

8 minutes ago, Joe Bourke said:

Please don't send for the Old Bill. 

 

Was it Old Bill that untied the knot?  This is getting less and less like an episode of Poirot every minute ...

[Naughty Cal]

I thought it was the druggie?

[TheBiscuits]

Just now, Naughty Cal said:

I thought it was the druggie?

Are you saying Old Bill is on drugs?  Who has been providing drugs on the marina? 

[Naughty Cal]

I mentioned no names! 

[LadyG]

3 hours ago, Joe Bourke said:

I SWEAR I wasn't meaning you specifically Jo. I SWEAR that I was just generalising.   Please don't send for the Old Bill. 

no one has been arrested , yet.................

[cuthound]

On 27/05/2020 at 10:18, howardang said:

Not Royal Navy but was standing by in Leeds Dock, next to the Armouries Museum waiting for the call!

 

Howard

 

This is the RN canal submarine along with the rest of the fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 28, 2020 by cuthound
To remove a duplicate post.

[howardang]

51 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

This is the RN canal submarine along with the rest of the fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

Yet another shot of the RN showing the flag!

 

Howard

Edited May 28, 2020 by howardang

[IanM]

2 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

This is the RN canal submarine along with the rest of the fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

It isn’t, that’s a different boat entirely. A friend of mine owned the ex-RN one and it had all its submarine bits removed years ago.

edit: I can see now that you weren’t saying that the Leeds one was the same as the old RN boat. 

Edited May 28, 2020 by IanM
Reading failure

[cuthound]

1 hour ago, IanM said:

It isn’t, that’s a different boat entirely. A friend of mine owned the ex-RN one and it had all its submarine bits removed years ago.

edit: I can see now that you weren’t saying that the Leeds one was the same as the old RN boat. 

 

IIRC John Pinder built the entire "downsized" Royal Navy fleet.

[Alan de Enfield]

On 26/05/2020 at 14:47, Mike on the Wey said:

Which particular piece of legislation applies here?

It is actually the 1965 BW Bye-Laws :

 

BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD
BYE-LAWS
____________________
for regulation of the canals belonging to or under the control
of the British Waterways Board (other than the canals
specified in Bye-law 1) made pursuant to the powers of the
British Transport Commission Act, 1954.

 

 

Moorings not to be cut, etc.
37. No person shall turn any vessel adrift upon any canal or shall
unnecessarily cast off, cut loose, or interfere with any mooring or
rope or fastening of any vessel.

[Murflynn]

On 28/05/2020 at 12:02, howardang said:

Yet another shot of the RN showing the flag

in better days folk realised that flying the white ensign is not allowed except for a very limited list of vessel categories. 

a couple of boys in pretend uniforms on board a couple of play-boats does not qualify.

Nuffink ain't sacred any more, more's the pity. 

 

.....................  oh, and I believe there is still a statute in place that allows citizens to arrest any vessel flying the skull and crossbones.