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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 8:36:12 GMT
Pyrford Lock is next where there are always gongoozlers.
People never know what I'm doing "are you trying to knock out the fish?" Etc.
These days I say a Russian offered me £100 if I can recover his pump action 12 gauge autoloader now that the police have stopped looking for it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 16:32:06 GMT
4 more windlasses and a very unusual boathook which looks like one of Mr Stabby's weapons ! Picture later as am still yotting.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 18:44:39 GMT
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Post by kris on Aug 1, 2017 18:47:44 GMT
I've seen them a bit like that before, infact I think I've got one. But the side arm is curved rather than straight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 18:50:55 GMT
Two possibilities I can think of. Either Mr Stabby lost this years ago (advanced rust on it) when tackling some scrotes in the surrey countryside or it is a tool made for use on the River Wey. I've seen a lot of boathooks but this is different. The spike is sharp (good for stabbing logs and lifting them out of water) and the blade bit is sharp (good for cutting weed etc). So I think its a lock keepers or lengthsman's tool rather than a boaters tool.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 18:55:37 GMT
I've seen them a bit like that before, infact I think I've got one. But the side arm is curved rather than straight. Yes, the normal shape for a boat hook would be a hook and a spike. The hook part being straight as in this case is very unusual. Some old boathooks used by canal boatmen were filed down to a blade edge on the inside of the hook to help with clearing rubbish off the propeller/shaft. I've done this with one of mine and used it to get carrier bags etc off the prop and it works very nicely. A straight arm like this would not be as useful as a hook when boating but if its alengthsmans tool then the hook would be less important. I should mention that I am a major boathook anorak. I have an extensive collection of beautiful hand forged boat hooks from tiny Victorian skiff boat hooks to large high quality working barge hooks. I really love them. They are works of art as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 10:39:20 GMT
More windlasses. Up to 7 now. Does anyone need a Wey windlass? I was thinking I might plant them in different locations near the entrance to the Wey so that I can give a gps location for people to find them if they go on the Wey. Sort if like geocaching.
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Post by tadworth on Aug 3, 2017 11:31:56 GMT
If you get the tapered piece off an old scrapped paddle gear you can re forge any windlass's business end to fit modern lock gear.
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Post by Jim on Aug 3, 2017 11:46:12 GMT
If you get the tapered piece off an old scrapped paddle gear you can re forge any windlass's business end to fit modern lock gear. I tried that with an aluminium windlass...... There must be a spec for the taper?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 13:24:13 GMT
The grand Union ones vary quite widely although they are all supposed to be the same they are not. River Wey is a parallel spindle and I have found an old spindle with magnet as it happens.
Main difference is you need a longer throw with the Wey as the paddles are rather heavy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 15:58:54 GMT
More goddamn windlasses.
I hate goddamn windlasses !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 16:02:09 GMT
The river Wey is really nice. I've done it a few times before so its not new but I recommend it. £65 for 7 days in a 40ft x9ft boat. Charged by length only. Depending on what you like it is either very pleasant or catastrophically boring
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 18:54:21 GMT
The holy grail! Finally!
I have spent hours chucking the magnet in hoping to find an original River Wey hand forged windlass. Found 10 silly modern ones but the real thing seemed to be elusive. Finally today I got it !
Its a lovely piece of scrap !
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Post by JohnV on Aug 5, 2017 19:07:38 GMT
The Wey was the river of my early boating. It was near where I went to school and on days off sometimes a few of us would get the bus to Guildford and hire one of the rowing boats and set off on journeys of exploration.
The photo that I used as an avatar on CWDF was of those days.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 19:15:15 GMT
The boat house at Guildford is closed completely now. No boats at all. We moored near there yesterday and I found a rollock from a dinghy but nothing else of much interest. Fortunately the rollock is the right size for my dinghy
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