End the plague of floating corridors

[F.U.]

I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 
Most are these poxy imitation ones built in the 80’s and 90’s, they are not even real working boats. They are mostly shortarsed wannabes. Living on narrowboats should be banned, it makes people very narrow minded. Just look at some of them on here. I’m going to suggest to crt that they set up a voluntary ethuanasia scheme for boaters. Some of them are so miserable it’s the kindest thing to do to euthanise them. Put them out of their misery. Anyway widecanals for wideboats, keep the narrowboats on the narrow canals. 

Edited April 15 by kris88

[Naughty Cal]

You have started on the drink early today!

[Stroudwater1]

Moored up on Calcutt middle lock landing again are you? 

[Alan de Enfield]

 

I'd agree with you but then we'd both be wrong !

[F.U.]

It’s actually factual for where I’m moored at the moment. So narrowboats go home. Narrow canals for narrow boats. 

[DShK]

Don't feed the troll.

[Jonny P]

Do it properly; short boats for short canals as well.

 

[Tony Brooks]

1 hour ago, kris88 said:

I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 
Most are these poxy imitation ones built in the 80’s and 90’s, they are not even real working boats. They are mostly shortarsed wannabes. Living on narrowboats should be banned, it makes people very narrow minded. Just look at some of them on here. I’m going to suggest to crt that they set up a voluntary ethuanasia scheme for boaters. Some of them are so miserable it’s the kindest thing to do to euthanise them. Put them out of their misery. Anyway widecanals for wideboats, keep the narrowboats on the narrow canals. 

 

More self entitlement. I want what I want and stuff everyone else, even if they are not causing any problems.

 

I wonder if the OP has a boat that was actually built for commercial work on whatever waterway he is on, or does he have some modern thing of similar dimensions - but probably shorter.

 

If he is where @Stroudwater1 thinks he may be, then the canal was MODIFIED to accept breasted up narrowboats and the experiments with commercial wide boats did not seem to come to much, so built for narrowboats pairs.

 

 

[ElectroMan]

I have it on good authority that he is on the Beeston canal (Nottingham) where he has been for nearly 12 months😊😊😊

[IanD]

10 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

 

More self entitlement. I want what I want and stuff everyone else, even if they are not causing any problems.

 

I wonder if the OP has a boat that was actually built for commercial work on whatever waterway he is on, or does he have some modern thing of similar dimensions - but probably shorter.

 

If he is where @Stroudwater1 thinks he may be, then the canal was MODIFIED to accept breasted up narrowboats and the experiments with commercial wide boats did not seem to come to much, so built for narrowboats pairs.

 

 

Never mind the width -- surely to take this to its logical conclusion, only horse-drawn wooden boats with a boatman's cabin and no other living space should be allowed? 😉 

[F.U.]

They are like locusts swarming all over the land. Narrowboats should be on narrow canals. No narrowboats on wide canals. 

[Jerra]

28 minutes ago, DShK said:

Don't feed the troll.

Clearly just an attempt to attract attention and stir the brown stuff.

[David Mack]

1 hour ago, kris88 said:

I’m currently on a canal built for widebeam boats. It is over run with narrowboats. They should be made to stay on the narrow canals that where built for them. Leave the wide canals built for widebeams to the widebeams. 

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

[Gybe Ho]

Nurse!

[F.U.]

7 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

See a plague I tell you, a plague on the waterways. 

[dogless]

I thought it was just vloggers that were swarming .

 

Rog

[Chris Lowe]

They are on the way.

 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

1 hour ago, David Mack said:

Quite. Shouldn't be allowed. Just like all these narrow boats in a dock built for seagoing ships.

Identical, mass produced clonecraft. All at their identikit marina moorings. No individuality at all.

[Jonny P]

I don’t think the opening premise necessarily holds true.
 

In terms of canals the 7’ beam was established in the earliest canals built in the canal age and it’s surely no coincidence that the main wide beam canals (GU and L&L) have 14’ wide locks to enable both pairs of narrow boats and wider beam boats?

 

Some river navigations have locks far too big for any form of canal craft in isolation so are either intended for small ships, multiple boats, or either.

Then there’s the case of the Bridgewater. A wide canal unrestricted by locks but for other reasons had a form of very narrow craft.

 

Ultimately all canals were built simply for boats.

 

Edited April 15 by Jonny P

[F.U.]

Down with narrowboats, narrowboat narrowmind. 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

8 minutes ago, Jonny P said:

I don’t think the opening premise necessarily holds true.
 

In terms of canals the 7’ beam was established in the earliest canals built in the canal age and it’s surely no coincidence that the main wide beam canals (GU and L&L) have 14’ wide locks to enable both pairs of narrow boats and wider beam boats?

 

Some river navigations have locks far too big for any form of canal craft in isolation so are either intended for small ships, multiple boats, or either.

Then there’s the case of the Bridgewater. A wide canal unrestricted by locks but for other reasons had a form of very narrow craft.

 

Ultimately all canals were built simply for boats.

 

The Chesterfield Canal had 14' wide locks to Retford, but was only ever worked by their narrowboats beyond the Stockwith Basin. The wide locks were built to speed narrowboat through in pairs. Not for wide beam boats.

Today, a narrow bridge hole still restricts it to narrowboats.

 

[Jerra]

12 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

The Chesterfield Canal had 14' wide locks to Retford, but was only ever worked by their narrowboats beyond the Stockwith Basin. The wide locks were built to speed narrowboat through in pairs. Not for wide beam boats.

Today, a narrow bridge hole still restricts it to narrowboats.

 

Don't feed the troll.

 

My bold.

 

Computer trolling, also known as online trolling, involves posting deliberately provocative, offensive or inappropriate content online with the aim of upsetting or disturbing others.   Trolls often seek to elicit reactions, disrupt conversations, or cause chaos rather than engage in meaningful discussions. 

 

Surely nobody can think the original post was anything other than provocative.

[F.U.]

Down with narrowboats, up with personal ai. 
 

Keep the narrowboats on the narrow canals where they belong. 

[zenataomm]

2 hours ago, kris88 said:

It’s actually factual for where I’m moored at the moment. So narrowboats go home. Narrow canals for narrow boats. 

Yawn! 🥱

[Arthur Marshall]

Is there any difference between a troll and someone who is just a pillock?

It's a real shame people like Kris got TB closed down.