Any takers? London boaters to the Rescue.

[BoatinglifeupNorth]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=26001922752&story_fbid=10160408628797753
 

unfortunately I’m a bit too far away☹️

Edited January 27 by BoatinglifeupNorth

[Alan de Enfield]

 

Unfortunately It appears to be a closed page - I have no access to it.

[MtB]

[Alan de Enfield]

Well, whatever it is it cannot be that serious if they only want to restrict it to a 'few friends'.

 

London, Insular lot, let 'em get on with it.

[MtB]

3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Well, whatever it is it cannot be that serious if they only want to restrict it to a 'few friends'.

 

London, Insular lot, let 'em get on with it.

 

I guess BLUN could always copy N paste the content if it was actually important....

 

 

 

[BoatinglifeupNorth]

Any good? Also the screenshot of the Vid???

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/147533510850037/permalink/708802848056431/

 

 

 

Edited January 27 by BoatinglifeupNorth

[ditchcrawler]

1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Well, whatever it is it cannot be that serious if they only want to restrict it to a 'few friends'.

 

London, Insular lot, let 'em get on with it.

Yes there are only 4.1K members who can read it and is it in London?

[Tam & Di]

"My boat is stuck at Chertsey weir" is a very laid-back way to describe the situation. The sort of help necessary is rather specialised too.

Edited January 27 by Tam & Di

[Tonka]

47 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Yes there are only 4.1K members who can read it and is it in London?

 

39 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:

"My boat is stuck at Chertsey weir" is a very laid-back way to describe the situation. The sort of help necessary is rather specialised too.

Looked sunk to me.

Chertsey is in Surrey 

[PaulJ]

2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Well, whatever it is it cannot be that serious if they only want to restrict it to a 'few friends'.

 

London, Insular lot, let 'em get on with it.

I have no idea what your experience of boating in London is like -I can only speak for myself- but Ive found (in general) London Boaters to be a very friendly and helpful bunch. 

Ive often tied up for the night and the new neighbours will come and introduce themselves. Maybe its because they (another generalisation) tend to be a bit younger and not so grumpy as some of us old gits out there on the system..

[Tonka]

1 minute ago, PaulJ said:

I have no idea what your experience of boating in London is like -I can only speak for myself- but Ive found (in general) London Boaters to be a very friendly and helpful bunch. 

Ive often tied up for the night and the new neighbours will come and introduce themselves. Maybe its because they (another generalisation) tend to be a bit younger and not so grumpy as some of us old gits out there on the system..

And whilst chatting to you they can see what is worth nicking

[PaulJ]

8 minutes ago, Tonka said:

And whilst chatting to you they can see what is worth nicking

Funnily enough, also in my own experience, 

the one and only time Ive had my stuff nicked in London was by some scrote who crept on the boat while I was dozing on the sofa.

No chatting involved..

[MtB]

1 hour ago, Tam & Di said:

"My boat is stuck at Chertsey weir" is a very laid-back way to describe the situation. The sort of help necessary is rather specialised too.

 

I thought that too. 

 

"My boat has sunk and the wreck found sucked onto Chertsey weir" seems more accurate.

 

Also, Chertsey is not London. Nor is The Thames a canal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tam & Di]

Sunk/stuck - no great difference surely.? 😃  Just needs a couple of guys with a big bucket to help him sort the problem.

[blackrose]

30 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Also, Chertsey is not London. Nor is The Thames a canal.

 

Maybe I missed the bit where someone claimed the Thames was a canal? 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Just now, blackrose said:

 

Maybe I missed the bit where someone claimed the Thames was a canal? 

So draining the pound to get at the boat isn't an option then?

[blackrose]

2 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

So draining the pound to get at the boat isn't an option then?

 

Did someone say that? I didn't see it. My phone only showed the video and the caption about the boat being stuck rather than sunk.

[MtB]

7 minutes ago, blackrose said:

 

Maybe I missed the bit where someone claimed the Thames was a canal? 

 

 

Oh your WICKED sense of humour really cracks me up sometimes! 

 

 

[Adam]

The lengths they go to for a permitted overstay 

[Stilllearning]

There are times on here that the lack of sympathy astonishes and depresses me.

[magnetman]

There is a lot of GRP scrap in the River. Not saying this is necessarily scrap but GRP is an awkward material to dispose of and it really is showing up all over the place now. 

 

At the end of the day it actually isn't particularly difficult to make sure that a Boat doesn't come adrift. You can use things like chains or wire ropes as a security backup should ropes break. Put a long thin chain with wired shackles to something secure. 

It might not stop it sinking or going onto the land if the Boat is unattended but it is likely to help prevent it ending up on a weir. If there is nothing secure to tie up to then its not a sensible place to moor.

 

Recovering a Boat which is still connected to the riverbank is more straightforward than dealing with something stuck to a weir. 

 

 

 

 

 

[MtB]

1 hour ago, Stilllearning said:

There are times on here that the lack of sympathy astonishes and depresses me.

 

In this case I think it stems from the sheer monumental disconnect between the very reasonable-sounding request for assistance, and the fact that the boat is fully submerged in deep water, stuck on a Thames weir and already a total loss.