“Canal boating Celebrities”

[doratheexplorer]

25 minutes ago, Idle Days said:

Bimble.  OED: to move at a leisurely pace. 

 

Bimble. CWDF: place to buy solar panels.

[cuthound]

20 hours ago, IanD said:

You're obviously an example of a Schrodinger's boater -- both proper/scruffy and Noddy/shiny at the same time until you talk to somebody or post on here, then the quantum uncertainty resolves itself... 😉

 

Mines like that when I'm half way through cleaning it. 😂

16 hours ago, David Mack said:

I do the same. Unless there's a strong crosswind, I find it much easier to wait in the middle of the cut until the oncoming boat emerges from the lock, and then we can dance around each other before I try to line up for the lock entrance. 

And if I am going to pass another boat in a short pound between locks I wait in my lock until the oncomer is ready to emerge, and then we can both pass in the middle of the pound, with a little power on and we both have steering. The problem in that situation can be the other boater who won't start to move until I have completely left my lock!

 

 Likewise.

[IanD]

57 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:

 

Bimble. CWDF: place to buy solar panels.

Bimbling along to Bimble; a solar panel odyssey... 😉

[Laurie Booth]

3 hours ago, Athy said:

Possibly, but I don't recognise him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dimbleby

[Stroudwater1]

1 hour ago, Idle Days said:

Bimble.  OED: to move at a leisurely pace. 

As opposed to Bumble who is another celebrity who sell boats from Stowe wharf? 

[matty40s]

16 minutes ago, Stroudwater1 said:

As opposed to Bumble who is another celebrity who sell boats from Stowe wharf? 

....and helps people moor up...

 

[LadyG]

Bimble, the place to buy solar kits? 

[agg221]

2 minutes ago, LadyG said:

I would not have thought CtC is a shiny boater the Foxes are much more aware of how boats look, inside and out. 

CtC spends a lot of time in a marina and not much vlogging these days, he has a big following as he was an early adopter and produces professional vlogs. Probably does other things in his life that don't involve boating, includes his Vandemoniun channel. 

I rather like CtC as it happens. The videos have high production standards, I like the sense of humour and I find the breadth of content interesting. I would put them in the documentary category rather than the celebrity category.

 

I also enjoy Danni & Joe's Narrowboat Conversion. I like their enthusiasm and the fact that, whilst it doesn't always go right first time, they are getting there with a boat that suits them. It isn't rose tinted, and it isn't car crash TV, and I find it entertaining.

 

There are plenty of others I avoid though.

 

Alec

[matty40s]

2 minutes ago, LadyG said:

Bimble, the place to buy solar kits? 

Free electric when its sunny....see if you can get CRT NW to buy you some.

[PD1964]

Anyone know what has happened to the Foxes new boat build?

 I remember them mentioning last year(maybe longer) the base plate was laid down and they were going to be working with the top builders/suppliers to produce the new boat and will be documented and filmed, but as of yet nothing. Anyone seen anything that suggests they will be getting a new boat soon?
  

[Dyertribe]

On 21/12/2021 at 15:02, MtB said:

 

Funny you should say that...

 

I have a hand-start vintage diesel and gas lamps, and lithiums. Does that make me a proper boater or a Noddy boater? I can't decide.

 

Mind you I've also been called a scruffy boater and a shiny boater by two different people on the same day, and I was in the same boat on both occasions! 

 

 

I think it makes you a Proper Noddy 😂

[Alan de Enfield]

5 minutes ago, Dyertribe said:

I think it makes you a Proper Noddy 😂

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2021 by Alan de Enfield