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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 21:27:49 GMT
We did a few locks on the K&A in 2012 with a solo guy. . He was on a tiny grp and was working solely off solar power. Worst possible year if you remember, cos it rained almost non stop.
Turned out he worked at Brinklow, and had taken a year out from work to see how much of the system he could do.
Everybody has a story, and there are some fascinating ones out there.
My experience is like iconoclast, I find the canals are very easy going, and accepting of everyone, man, woman, child, and even several trans gender folks we've met too.
I am always surprised how pleasant most people are, when you give them a chance.
Rog
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Post by Saltysplash on Feb 20, 2017 21:39:54 GMT
I've never fallen in, never polished the outside, never had a burgee flying or a flag stuck to the tiller, never dressed up as a 19th century boatman, never shouted at anyone going past, never refused to share a lock with anyone, never masterbated over the thought of a replica back cabin, never painted a rose or a castle or had decorative water cans and mops on the roof, never moaned at someones engine running after 8pm, never stopped anyone breasting up if mooring is scarce, never bothered if someone has a pram hood or not. I'm not a proper boater Well obviously not as you have a floating coffin ( cant say narrow boat as its a `sort` of boat he he ) Ah but its not a narrowboat, and in my time I have jumped in the Macclesfield canal at 3am while drunk with a couple of mates and pulled the boat ala African Queen once the outboard ran out of petrol for a couple of hours....till the scotch ran out. Have navigated between Chatham and Belgium several times. Have watched breakfast throw itself on to the floor due to rogue waves. Have hired narrowboats. Have towed broken down boats weve come across. Have spent weeks under a boat in dock scrubbing down and recaulking and reantifouling. Have repelled boarders one night when they boarded us at victoria park. Have broken down in a Thames Lock. Have brought a dutch barge from Amsterdam to Chatham. Have crushed a sea scout tender while trying to enter West India Docks. Have stripped down to the waist and jumped in the cut to clear a prop. Have stripped down and jumped in to clear an obstruction to a lock gate. Have dived under my mates yacht while at anchor off Porquorolles to clear his log impellor of barnacles. Have cruised a whole flight of locks just for the sake of cruising through a tunnel and back again. Have got stuck on a slipway at braunston while trying to recover our Europa 19. Have manage to travel at 1 kt over the ground while passing the Isle of Grain against a 4kt tide. Have turned the deck wash on a mate because he messed himself due to trusting a fart. Boatings great init
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 21:43:38 GMT
Some stories to share over a good malt there.
If any of that's a qualification for proper boater....
I know my place.
Rog
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Post by loafer on Feb 20, 2017 21:50:00 GMT
I spent 5 years living on a sea yacht, but sTILL wasn't considered a proper boater by the yachting community because I had a plastic one! You just can't win. I'm now considered a 'Shiney Boater' because we have a Hudson narrowboat! Today I heard a rumour that older Hudson boats are becoming sought-after, since the demise of Steve Hudson a couple of years ago. Suck it up, you Hudson-bashers!! yes but sought after by who? I guess anyone who wants a quality bit of boat-building chum!
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Post by kris on Feb 20, 2017 22:45:47 GMT
yes but sought after by who? I guess anyone who wants a quality bit of boat-building chum! Has yours got a proper engine?
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Post by peterboat on Feb 20, 2017 22:50:05 GMT
Thanks to the ARMY I have sailed from Australia to England via the South Atlantic in a 55 Nicholson yacht, it was at time very exciting to say the least, would I do it again in a heartbeat. I now enjoy my boating without big waves and high winds, so for me all us boat owners are proper boaters, in our own way
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Post by loafer on Feb 21, 2017 4:48:24 GMT
I guess anyone who wants a quality bit of boat-building chum! Has yours got a proper engine? Yep. Otherwise it wouldn't go!
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Post by patty on Feb 21, 2017 6:39:07 GMT
Get u lot in a pub I reckon there would be some right yarns spun as on line snippets would be embellished as the beer flowed, and those of us who have only dabbled would sit n listen....
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 21, 2017 8:35:12 GMT
Get u lot in a pub I reckon there would be some right yarns spun as on line snippets would be embellished as the beer flowed, and those of us who have only dabbled would sit n listen.... "C'mon Sally, we got to (hic!) get back to the farking boat, pub's closed and I wet me knickers."
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Post by kris on Feb 21, 2017 8:41:49 GMT
Has yours got a proper engine? Yep. Otherwise it wouldn't go! i quite like hudsons with vintage engines, it's just the fake rivets that let them down.
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Post by 46700 on Feb 21, 2017 9:29:24 GMT
I think it highly amusing that anyone pootling about in narrowboat thinks they're a boater no matter how long they've been doing it. Ha, ha, ha. I think it says more about their ego than boating and advise them to try a sailing boat on the sea. In days past in my working boating period at the time leisure boating was getting more popular on the cut, I witnessed some seafaring types trying canal boating. Some of the "cock ups" they made although proclaiming "Ive been sailing for x # of years left a lot to be desired, so I don't think you can discount the cut guy as being a non boater the 2 different types of boating require different skills In my time I never came across a sea boater that could take a 70ft boat fully into an empty narrow lock & I'm talking 7ft wide boats with out hitting the lock entrance or the sides. It's horses for courses & unfair to compare.I would be interested to see a sea goer work a loaded pair of boats,similarly a cut only boater would be struggling at sea in a sailing boat.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 10:03:16 GMT
I've been boating since I was a kid with my family - on a wide range of boats and locations from Broadland to Devon. A proper boater is someone who enjoys being on the water and in the company of other like minded souls. Despite my odd bit of sewer tube bashing (as the late great Kenny Everett said - all done in the best possible taste ) I couldn't care less how anyone gets afloat. I can't stand the supercilious twats that for whatever reason look down their noses at others who ultimately share the same interests. Remember what Ratty said:- Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 21, 2017 10:09:27 GMT
I've been boating since I was a kid with my family - on a wide range of boats and locations from Broadland to Devon. A proper boater is someone who enjoys being on the water and in the company of other like minded souls. Despite my odd bit of sewer tube bashing (as the late great Kenny Everett said - all done in the best possible taste ) I couldn't care less how anyone gets afloat. I can't stand the supercilious twats that for whatever reason look down their noses at others who ultimately share the same interests. Remember what Ratty said:- Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Yet again Gazza you put up a post that needs much more than just a thumbs up
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 10:12:43 GMT
I've been boating since I was a kid with my family - on a wide range of boats and locations from Broadland to Devon. A proper boater is someone who enjoys being on the water and in the company of other like minded souls. Despite my odd bit of sewer tube bashing (as the late great Kenny Everett said - all done in the best possible taste ) I couldn't care less how anyone gets afloat. I can't stand the supercilious twats that for whatever reason look down their noses at others who ultimately share the same interests. Remember what Ratty said:- Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Yet again Gazza you put up a post that needs much more than just a thumbs up View AttachmentTa!!
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Post by kris on Feb 21, 2017 11:49:21 GMT
You've all forgot the most important criteria for a proper boater. Not having fenders down, when under way. According to the font of all knowledge "the plumber" this is the distinction.
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