lpp2 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Beautiful day in Cheshire sunny and relaxing on a smashing mooring when some idiot turns up and leaves his bloody engine running, as I write this rant its been running for 2.50 hours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayalld Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Beautiful day in Cheshire sunny and relaxing on a smashing mooring when some idiot turns up and leaves his bloody engine running, as I write this rant its been running for 2.50 hours. That's life. He can run his engine until 8 o'clock Basically, the quid pro quo of having a time for shutting engines off is that you can't reasonably complain if engines are run before that time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delta9 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 You are engine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Payne Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 No, i am engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Beautiful day in Cheshire sunny and relaxing on a smashing mooring when some idiot turns up and leaves his bloody engine running, as I write this rant its been running for 2.50 hours. You can always use your own engine to move your boat to somewhere where he is not. N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Payne Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 You can always use your own engine to move your boat to somewhere where he is not. N But then you would pee off the other boaters with your engine.... Paddle it away a bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I'll stick up for the OP here. Yes, the rules state you're allowed to run the engine (or a genny) between 8am-8pm while moored. But an engine doesn't be okay at 7:59pm, then suddenly become intrusive only at 8:00pm - then cease to be at 8:00am.. Canals are - can be - a quiet place for relaxation. The gentle hum of boat engines passing you by breaks up the silence with a cheery wave (normally) but a stationary engine does not have a similar effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 You'd change your mind if your batteries were flat Richard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 The one that annoyed me was the guy who rolled up at a nice empty stretch of canal with miles of available space, moored up next to me, turned everything off, had a cup of tea, then started his engine, locked up his boat and went for a two hour walk, leaving the thing pumping fumes into my cabin. By the time he got back and turned it off (he obviously didn't like listening to running engines) I'd moved half a mile down the cut. Could still hear him, obviously, but bearable. Was mid-afternoon, so presumably he'd been travelling all morning, so can't have been flat batteries, just an inconsiderate plonker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 You'd change your mind if your batteries were flat Richard Me or the OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogless Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I like to moor alone as much as possible, so that I don't have to spend my days considering others. At busy moorings this isn't possible, and I try to always consider any neighbours. However I have never understood boaters who complain about other boaters running engines. Surely it goes with the territory. And I know the solar league are now going to try and do missionary work. But I don't like solar panels. They are acne spreading over every possible surface, boats, houses, even some fields. So you can run your engine near me, cos I live on a boat, and that's how we charge stuff up. Rog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I like to moor alone as much as possible, so that I don't have to spend my days considering others. At busy moorings this isn't possible, and I try to always consider any neighbours. However I have never understood boaters who complain about other boaters running engines. Surely it goes with the territory. And I know the solar league are now going to try and do missionary work. But I don't like solar panels. They are acne spreading over every possible surface, boats, houses, even some fields. So you can run your engine near me, cos I live on a boat, and that's how we charge stuff up. Rog I tend to agree with you. I do have a couple of solars which in the summer do assist with the charging but yes deffo running an engine does go with the territory and provided it is strictly within permitted hours I see no problem with it. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Actually, the VERY worst one was the guy I met on the way to Cropredy, who not only ran his engine but sat on the roof playing the banjo. I had to go miles to get away. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Megson Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Actually, the VERY worst one was the guy I met on the way to Cropredy, who not only ran his engine but sat on the roof playing the banjo. I had to go miles to get away. Always run away from the sound of banjos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machpoint005 Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Always run away from the sound of banjos. Why limit it to banjos? Anything with strings... Things you blow are fine, unless they are bagpipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0atman Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 bloody birds tweeting in the hedgerow does my head in why cant CRT do something about them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 bloody birds tweeting in the hedgerow does my head in why cant CRT do something about them They have managed to limit the tweeting of birds to between dawn and dusk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) Why limit it to banjos? Anything with strings... Things you blow are fine, unless they are bagpipes. I agree. I always take my trombone with me on trips these days. ETA it's also cut down my problems with people mooring up close to me... Edited March 17, 2016 by Arthur Marshall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I agree. I always take my trombone with me on trips these days. ETA it's also cut down my problems with people mooring up close to me... I used to play the trombone when younger. I had a very rare rubber trombone at one point; I was in an elastic band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD3Bill Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I like Banjo music me boy... Pleeeese can I run my engine until I have some hot water? Always a good thread the engine running one. :0) I used to play the trombone when younger. I had a very rare rubber trombone at one point; I was in an elastic band. Is that a euphemism or euphoniumsm? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 The one that annoyed me was the guy who rolled up at a nice empty stretch of canal with miles of available space, moored up next to me, turned everything off, had a cup of tea, then started his engine, locked up his boat and went for a two hour walk, leaving the thing pumping fumes into my cabin. If the bloke had left his engine running next to me, and then gone off leaving the boat unoccupied, I think he would have returned to find a potato rammed into his exhaust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I like Banjo music me boy... Pleeeese can I run my engine until I have some hot water? Always a good thread the engine running one. :0) Is that a euphemism or euphoniumsm? I am not one for blowing my own trumpet If the bloke had left his engine running next to me, and then gone off leaving the boat unoccupied, I think he would have returned to find a potato rammed into his exhaust. That'd make his eyes water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I agree. I always take my trombone with me on trips these days. ETA it's also cut down my problems with people mooring up close to me... I have been serenaded by a cornet player in Gosty Hill tunnel Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klanky Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I think I may just keep quiet for now about my new project to use a jet engine to power my Engel fridge on off-line evenings at Braunston...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXEdq3UnnFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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