this is the way to berth your narrowboat lol

[adam the wanderer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-7Zh6VHSxiM

[Martin Megson]

Nothing unusual there. I always moor that way, much safer than mooring pins.

[Athy]

That's one of the former P&O "Pride" ferries going to be broken up, in Turkey or somewhere. Ugly brutes they were, but I am surprised how short their working lives were.

[patty-ann]

Guess he was in a bit of a hurry to get "his space" you know similar to man who spies parking space that just has to be his no matter what.

[Athy]

I've seen it happen with mooring spaces on canals too.

 

I've just thought that if one of those ships had been named after France's second city, it would have been Pride of Lyons. You wouldn't want to transport a giraffe on it.

[Naughty Cal]

Can you make a narrowboat go that fast?

[peterboat]

Easily push it off a cliff!!

 

Peter

[NickF]

It was the pride of Calais I think.

[RLWP]

Can you make a narrowboat go that fast?

I believe it's surprisingly easy to get the bow of an empty working boat up onto the bank. After all, the front end is barely in the water and has a nice curve to it

 

Richard

[The Toad in the Hole]

Dome of the more excitable hirers on the Llangollen take the 90 degree turn at Trevor like that. One properly pranged itself on the drydock a few years ago. Not sure what happened , but there was a lot of diesel in the cut the next day

[Guest]

It was the pride of Calais I think.

 

Correct

[Androo]

It was the pride of Calais I think.

Her bowing out name was 'Ostend Spirit'

 

MS Pride of Calais was a cross-channel ferry owned by P&O Ferries. She operated the Dover - Calais route between 1987 and 2012. In early 2013, under bareboat charter to Transeuropa Ferries, she served on their Ramsgate - Ostend route and was re-named MS Ostend Spirit. After further lay-up in Tilbury she was sold for demolition in Turkey and beached at a salvage yard there on 13 Nov. 2013.

[MikeT]

Here's a view from the bridge - eventually. Good choice of music methinks

youtube.com/watch?v=nHenSc…

[Paul's Nulife4-2]

Wasn't the skipper a German ?. I'm sure there was a towel on the beach by the anchor.

[Dharl]

Thanks for posting the "view from the bridge" MikeT.

 

As a professional seafarer it's one thing I would want to do, drive a ship up a beach, but also it's the one thing I would NOT want to do, being the man who took a living ship and turned her into scrap...