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Narrowboat on Blackpool beach

Jim Riley
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#2

It's that AI slop again :( 

    • Greenie 2
    #4

    Problem with this is some people will believe this is fact.

    #5

    There have been passages between Glasson and Tarleton for as long as Glasson Dock opened, with the Douglas Navigation having a coal yard at Milnthorpe as early as the 1740s. This https://www.canalhistory.co.uk/gallery/1833 news cutting re steam boat at Tareleton.pdf is a report of a court case about a boat being towed from Tarleton in 1833. I remember the owner of NB Princes Anne having a film of becoming beached in a pleasure boat at Lytham on the passage before he bought Princes Anne from Geoff Wheat. 

    #6

    When we were stuck on the Lancaster due to the Rufford breach in 2015 it did very briefly cross my mind one night that you could go down and in at Liverpool…..I dare say this or worse would have been the outcome!!!

    #9
    24 minutes ago, Ray T said:

    Problem with this is some people will believe this is fact.


    I don’t see this as a problem, the pink canals for Valentine’s Day was rather amusing. The comments from some were a surprise.
     

    Perhaps it’s better to appreciate the power of AI image creation with something benign than being takin in with something more malicious? 
     

     

    #12

    How common are V bottomed narrowboats? Is this one a Springer?

    #13

    Pretty common in AI resources and neverland  I understand but in real life AFIC mainly/ almost all were narrowboats built by Springers?  It is possible that this is flat bottomed and dug in at an angle by the AI bot? 

    17 minutes ago, Alway Swilby said:

    How common are V bottomed narrowboats? Is this one a Springer?

     

    #14

    The boat shown is not a Springer. There are other V bottomed narrowboats, but not many. Apart from the angle it is sitting it looks like a pretty bog standard flat bottomed clone craft.

    #15

    The clincher is that the guys don't flinch when a great big wave crashes down on them!

    • Greenie 1
    #16

    And the side fenders don't move!

    #17

    Sea is flat as a pancake here today with the Easterly wind, so no...

    The Lytham lifeboat has been used for several narrowboat rescues around Asland and up the Ribble...one did end up near Lytham beach.

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    #18
    2 hours ago, Mike Tee said:

    And the side fenders don't move!

    The flags far right dop not look right either.

     

     

    OTOH, it is quite amazing how much looks realistic!

     

    #20
    3 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

    The flags far right dop not look right either.

     

    They are spot on, not flags, big seed pods blown in the wind

    #21

    There've definitely been narrowboats past there - TNC was one and I think someone else had done it.

     

    I find the biggest 'tell' in these AI things is that they don't know one end of a narrowboat from the other. If you look closely this one has no swim.

    #22

    First Mate and I left Bembridge one Sunday morning to go to Chichester Harbour. We followed a freshly painted narrowboat that made the same journey. It ended up on the end bit of the Chichester Canal by Birdham Pool/Chichester Marina.

     

    We had a 40 foot Milton Keynes vee bottomed narrow boat in the 70's. It was built using a scaffold tube bent to shape with the bottom plates welded to that. A shallow vee, about seven inches. It performed very well, steered nicely, and was easy to move by pulling the bow line.

    #23

    The guy that ran Waterside moorings in Marple, attempted that route maybe 30+ years ago. His boat was a modified Springer about 40ft . I think he went aground somewhere off Fleetwood and had to be towed off by a lifeboat. I can't remember whether he completed the journey or returned to Glasson. Both he and the boat  survived the experience.

    #24

    Anything from Canal Boats Facebook page is AI slop.

     

    It's a real shame that page has been allowed to continue on.

    • Greenie 1
    #25

    i've seen better content in a forgotten and festering cassette.........

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