Who has more than one boat?

[mrsmelly]

21 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

I was on Flag Officer Portsmouth staff then. rear Admiral Wilf Graham of Sailor (Ark Royal) fame. See we all know somebody off the Ark. We had a dummy run in the Barge, not narrowboat, the day before, when all the ships lined the sides and hip hip hoorared as we passed. Some nugget on the third hooray threw his cap in the oggin. Oh! How we giggled. My mum and dad were onboard. A real treat. Dad died in the following February. I digress.

I manage d to catch my cap..................must have been a sober day, very rare in those fab days.

[Nightwatch]

Great times. I had a bed in the residence and I managed the bar that was in the cellar. Great times!

[haggis]

1 hour ago, Neil2 said:

That's very impressive.  Is your Sea Otter the standard version or is she adapted at all?  What sort of conditions did you get on Loch Ness? 

She is a standard Sea Otter and any changes we have made have no bearing on her sea worthiness :-). When we entered the Caledonian canal we said we would only cross Loch Ness if we considered it safe to do so. We moored at Fort Augustus and the next morning the forecast was for the wind to get up in 4 hours. We reckonned that was enough and we set off with a couple who have a GRP moored up there "escorting" us. It went great and the GRP was able to nip round us to protect us from the wash of other boats buzzing us. As predicted, the wind got up in the last quarter of an hour but gamebird coped well.  We had only met the couple on the GRP boat a couple of days before and unfortunately we lost touch after the trip but we had a great trip across Loch Ness with the two boats being fairly evenly matched for speed. 

haggis

[Starcoaster]

I only have one boat, but I'd totally like two. One to stay on a mooring (my fantasy personally owned stretch of land, of course) and the other to go off playing on...

I would also like to own said fantasy private mooring outright, and I'd really like a Pullman train carriage on it too.

And a big-assed yacht somewhere warm with clear seas you can swim in, the moon on a stick, etc...

Edited July 16, 2017 by Starcoaster

[mark99]

11 minutes ago, Starcoaster said:

I only have one boat, but I'd totally like two. One to stay on a mooring (my fantasy personally owned stretch of land, of course) and the other to go off playing on...

I would also like to own said fantasy private mooring outright, and I'd really like a Pullman train carriage on it too.

And a big-assed yacht somewhere warm with clear seas you can swim in, the moon on a stick, etc...

If you have no dreams you have only chattels.

[Iain_S]

2 hours ago, Neil2 said:

That's very impressive.  Is your Sea Otter the standard version or is she adapted at all?  What sort of conditions did you get on Loch Ness? 

Loch Ness turned out to be fairly benign, with the wind (and waves) only increasing for the last couple of miles. It did help that wind and waves were coming from behind, though . Some of the boats going the other way looked like they were making heavy weather of it.

One trip on the Forth was a bit more exciting, with wind over tide, and a mean wave height of about a metre and a half. It was OK if met head on, and there was some limited shelter to do the 180 degree turn into the River Carron. Gamebird did better than some GRP cruisers and a steel widebeam, and we didn't lose any crockery, unlike one boat!

Gamebird gets a bit alarming in waves or wash hitting side on, with quite a vicious roll. Thinking about it, though, that's probably good: the vicious bit is when she stops rolling abruptly, before going back the other way. I'd quite like to see the stability curves, if they exist!    

[system 4-50]

I own one nb and have access to a small yacht. I would like to own, not another boat, but a lock. I'd like my very own lock. I would rejig the paddle mechanisms to allow automatic locking, using only canal-building era technology. No electrics, no electronics. One of the twins on the T&M would do nicely.

[Neil2]

1 hour ago, haggis said:

She is a standard Sea Otter and any changes we have made have no bearing on her sea worthiness :-). When we entered the Caledonian canal we said we would only cross Loch Ness if we considered it safe to do so. We moored at Fort Augustus and the next morning the forecast was for the wind to get up in 4 hours. We reckonned that was enough and we set off with a couple who have a GRP moored up there "escorting" us. It went great and the GRP was able to nip round us to protect us from the wash of other boats buzzing us. As predicted, the wind got up in the last quarter of an hour but gamebird coped well.  We had only met the couple on the GRP boat a couple of days before and unfortunately we lost touch after the trip but we had a great trip across Loch Ness with the two boats being fairly evenly matched for speed. 

haggis

 

6 minutes ago, Iain_S said:

Loch Ness turned out to be fairly benign, with the wind (and waves) only increasing for the last couple of miles. It did help that wind and waves were coming from behind, though . Some of the boats going the other way looked like they were making heavy weather of it.

One trip on the Forth was a bit more exciting, with wind over tide, and a mean wave height of about a metre and a half. It was OK if met head on, and there was some limited shelter to do the 180 degree turn into the River Carron. Gamebird did better than some GRP cruisers and a steel widebeam, and we didn't lose any crockery, unlike one boat!

Gamebird gets a bit alarming in waves or wash hitting side on, with quite a vicious roll. Thinking about it, though, that's probably good: the vicious bit is when she stops rolling abruptly, before going back the other way. I'd quite like to see the stability curves, if they exist!    

I presume it's the way Sea Otters are ballasted that makes them behave differently to a "traditional" narrowboat, that initial stability is no good in choppy water, as you say Iain you need the boat to roll a bit.   I have read accounts of other narrowboats crossing Loch Ness and it really doesn't sound like much fun at all.   

[Rob-M]

We own one boat but also get to go boating on a couple of ex working boats without the costs associated with ownership.