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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 8, 2018 10:04:21 GMT
From yesterday apparently. Fortunately no casualties.
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Post by Jim on Dec 8, 2018 10:08:02 GMT
From yesterday apparently. Fortunately no casualties. Cilly boy! Hope they survived. Looks like it's the bow that's hung up on the top gate? Going down backwards (no pun intendedπ)?
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 8, 2018 10:22:52 GMT
Details lacking so far.... once again a boat too long for the lock? Like people who have to go in diagonally, shut the gate behind them, and then reverse back a bit? Nothing on Canalworld, can't see anything on t'Internet. Stabby gets 1st prize for being First this time
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 8, 2018 10:47:32 GMT
That's got the fore-end hung-up on the bottom gate going downhill. Easily done with a narrow beam boat laying diagonally across a wide lock, the stem on the gate close up to the heel post, and the flare round the bow plating overhanging the copings, plus the stupid protruding bottom plate on today's crudely built pleasure craft catching on the uneven courses of stone work at the end of the gate recess, . . . and just as easily avoided by keeping the boat laying parallel alongside one of the chamber walls whilst drawing the paddles and until the the lock has drained a good way down.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 8, 2018 10:57:56 GMT
I am reminded of the Hillmorton incident, where a lockie got fired, when a boat that was obviously too long for the lock insisted on attempting it anyway and got hung up on the gates. I forget the name of the boater.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 8, 2018 11:47:33 GMT
Details lacking so far.... once again a boat too long for the lock? Like people who have to go in diagonally, shut the gate behind them, and then reverse back a bit? Nothing on Canalworld, can't see anything on t'Internet. Stabby gets 1st prize for being First this time Apparently happened at Wigan. Bow button caught on bottom gate while emptying.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 8, 2018 11:49:02 GMT
I am reminded of the Hillmorton incident, where a lockie got fired, when a boat that was obviously too long for the lock insisted on attempting it anyway and got hung up on the gates. I forget the name of the boater. You're probably thinking about when that prick Alan Fincher managed to get 'Flamingo', a Big Northwich motor, ex- GUCCCo, BW, and Willow Wren CCCo/CTS which had been through that very same lock countless times without any problem since it was built in the mid 1930's, hung up on the bottom end gates and submerging it's stern-end/counter. Different set of circumstances altogether, and primarily caused by farting about closing the top gate behind the boat before drawing at least half a paddle at the bottom-end, which slams the top gate shut and creates a flush that pulls the boat back away from and off the bottom gates as the lock starts to drain down, . . and then keeps it moving to and fro by small, decreasing amounts all the way down and greatly reduces the chances of ever getting hung-up on anything at all. <iframe width="20.980000000000018" height="3.240000000000009" style="position: absolute; width: 20.980000000000018px; height: 3.240000000000009px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_87330397" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="20.980000000000018" height="3.240000000000009" style="position: absolute; width: 20.98px; height: 3.24px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 992px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_91970573" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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Post by bluesman on Dec 8, 2018 11:59:17 GMT
Yes indeed, but thanks to a witness, the Lockie in question was declared innocent by CRT and is thankfully still one of their number although since then, they all disappear when "that prick" comes through.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 8, 2018 12:04:53 GMT
Details lacking so far.... once again a boat too long for the lock? Like people who have to go in diagonally, shut the gate behind them, and then reverse back a bit? Nothing on Canalworld, can't see anything on t'Internet. Stabby gets 1st prize for being First this time Apparently happened at Wigan. Bow button caught on bottom gate while emptying. Rubbish, . . look at the photo, there's nothing on those gates for a stem fender to catch on. The protruding bottom plate that passes for the chine on most if not all modern boats is jammed in the joint gap between the second and third courses of stone below the copings.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 8, 2018 12:10:00 GMT
Apparently happened at Wigan. Bow button caught on bottom gate while emptying. Rubbish, . . look at the photo, there's nothing on those gates for a stem fender to catch on. The protruding bottom plate that passes for the chine on most if not all modern boats is jammed in the joint gap between the second and third courses of stone below the copings. I wouldn't know, I wasn't there, just going by what an eye witness reported.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Dec 8, 2018 12:19:00 GMT
Rubbish, . . look at the photo, there's nothing on those gates for a stem fender to catch on. The protruding bottom plate that passes for the chine on most if not all modern boats is jammed in the joint gap between the second and third courses of stone below the copings. I wouldn't know, I wasn't there, just going by what an eye witness reported. That would be someone with a Labrador and a white stick, would it ?
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Post by Trina on Dec 8, 2018 12:40:45 GMT
Saw this on Farcebook yesterday.Some real smug,self satisfied comments about it not being an accident as it was down to folk not concentrating.Most people would realise that fact,but how many of us have had a chat etc with gongoozlers at a lock & are not 100% concentrating on the boat ? I know I've been guilty of this.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Dec 8, 2018 13:10:14 GMT
Rumour has it that one of the operatives dredging Bosley locks fell in 2 days ago, and was hospitalised.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 13:16:01 GMT
...Farcebook...Some real smug,self satisfied comments.... How surprising !
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 8, 2018 13:58:52 GMT
Yes indeed, but thanks to a witness, the Lockie in question was declared innocent by CRT and is thankfully still one of their number although since then, they all disappear when "that prick" comes through. I remember a certain amount of 'economy with the truth' in that incident from Mr Fincher. A stain on his reputation - I think in a court this would be referred to as 'perjury'.
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