possibly the most unsuitable vessel for the canals

[GUMPY]

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https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253842193896

[TheBiscuits]

 

Be good for getting 'round on

 

I quite like it but not for that much!

[mrsmelly]

Surprise, surprise it's for sale in London ?

[billS]

Can it go through a narrow lock sideways?

[Jen-in-Wellies]

8 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Surprise, surprise it's for sale in London ?

The pictures on Ebay don't look very London. How does it handle in reverse? Since you can't tell what's forward and what's reverse, or sideways for that matter.

 

Jen

Edited September 6, 2018 by Jen-in-Wellies

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, billS said:

Can it go through a narrow lock sideways?

 

Well its 4m in diameter which is 13ft 2in, so yes! 

 

Curiously the listing mentions an engine but I can'tr see a propeller. 

[mrsmelly]

3 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Well its 4m in diameter which is 13ft 2in, so yes! 

 

Curiously the listing mentions an engine but I can'tr see a propeller. 

You should have gone to spec savers.......how many narrow locks have you seen that are over 13 feet wide ?

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

You should have gone to spec savers.......how many narrow locks have you seen that are over 13 feet wide ?

 

Its less than 7ft tall....

 

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

4 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

You should have gone to spec savers.......how many narrow locks have you seen that are over 13 feet wide ?

I thought most of them are 7' long by 72' feet wide.

 

[NB Lola]

Suppose bow thrusters are difficult to fit

[mrsmelly]

Just now, NB Lola said:

Suppose bow thrusters are difficult to fit

??  yeah be like a kids spinning top lol.

[alan_fincher]

27 minutes ago, billS said:

Can it go through a narrow lock sideways?

 

21 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Well its 4m in diameter which is 13ft 2in, so yes!

 

Errm no!

It might go through a broad lock, but not a narrow one!

EDIT:  Sorry - I see the point has already been made!


It looks like winding it should be a doddle though - or simply unnecessary anyway!

15 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Its less than 7ft tall....

 

 

I'm not convinced!

Edited September 6, 2018 by alan_fincher

[NB Lola]

7 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

??  yeah be like a kids spinning top lol.

Could turn into a flying saucer !

[Machpoint005]

32 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

The pictures on Ebay don't look very London. How does it handle in reverse? Since you can't tell what's forward and what's reverse, or sideways for that matter.

 

Jen

It hasn't got reverse - a Whittaker survival craft can turn round in its own length.

[NB Esk]

The really daft thing?............someone will buy it.

 

 

 

 

[Nightwatch]

50 minutes ago, billS said:

Can it go through a narrow lock sideways?

No, only fore and aft!

 

[bizzard]

Just a newer version of one of these, with a lid on.

[howardang]

Its a Bruker Capsule made by Whitakers (I think). Plenty of them around offshore in the 1970s and 80's but now redundant. 

 

Howard

[Neil2]

Klaatu barada nikto...

[mark99]

Someone crush it please.

[matty40s]

It's more curvy than this thing seen a couple of days ago on the Seine.....probably headed towards the sea and the Thames.

[jonesthenuke]

26 minutes ago, mark99 said:

Someone crush it please.

Agreed. I was going to suggest loading the bow torpedo tubes!

[Athy]

45 minutes ago, Neil2 said:

Klaatu barada nikto...

Que?

3 minutes ago, jonesthenuke said:

Agreed. I was going to suggest loading the bow torpedo tubes!

First you must find the bows.

[howardang]

39 minutes ago, Athy said:

Que?

First you must find the bows.

 

40 minutes ago, Athy said:

Que?

First you must find the bows.

I looked it up

Google says "Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase originating in the 1951 science fiction film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), instructed Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that, were anything to happen to him she must say the phrase to the robot Gort (Lockard Martin)

 

Howard

[Scholar Gypsy]

I think this photo was taken somewhere near Foxton. With my apologies to the subject ...