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Post by Clinton Cool on Feb 27, 2019 14:46:03 GMT
I love living on the cut, moving every few days or week or two. Love waking up to different scenery rather than just the same old thing. It's great to fix things on the boat, and make improvements. I love boats. I can fish off the back of it or take the kayak out with no faff. I love the social aspect, boaters helping and looking out for each other, walkers with their dogs.
Having said all that I find the process of moving the boat, cruising, doing locks and swing bridges etc. tedious and boring, in the extreme.
I suspect I'm in the minority with this. Anyone else?
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Post by Jim on Feb 27, 2019 15:01:18 GMT
I love living on the cut, moving every few days or week or two. Love waking up to different scenery rather than just the same old thing. It's great to fix things on the boat, and make improvements. I love boats. I can fish off the back of it or take the kayak out with no faff. I love the social aspect, boaters helping and looking out for each other, walkers with their dogs.Β Having said all that I find the process of moving the boat, cruising, doing locks and swing bridges etc. tedious and boring, in the extreme.Β I suspect I'm in the minority with this. Anyone else?Β Being moored at the summit of the Rochdale we mostly go east, so I know all the locks and the scenery but I do enjoy it, the rhythm of doing a lock, doing it efficiently, looking at the scenery while it fills or empties. Often single hand a lot of the locks, depending on how Noreen's Narcolepsy/cataplexy is, it's so unpredictable. Once out of Brighouse I like the mix of river and cut, being able to open the throttle for a bit of a blast. Going elsewhere, well, it's new scenery. I'd probably be bored doing the fossditch, only the bank to see.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 15:59:30 GMT
I love living on the cut, moving every few days or week or two. Love waking up to different scenery rather than just the same old thing. It's great to fix things on the boat, and make improvements. I love boats. I can fish off the back of it or take the kayak out with no faff. I love the social aspect, boaters helping and looking out for each other, walkers with their dogs. Having said all that I find the process of moving the boat, cruising, doing locks and swing bridges etc. tedious and boring, in the extreme. I suspect I'm in the minority with this. Anyone else?
You should do it utterly drunk.
Very occasionally I feel that way and it feels like a bit of a chore but most often I do enjoy it a great deal, more so when I'm cruising with a friend or two.
My cruise this weekend from Paddington to Cowley was one of those days. It was perfect boating weather and actually no locks so just a straight cruise. It occurred to me as I was cruising past places I had stopped at many times and a number of places I'd always meant to moor up for a while but never did, that it'll probably be the last time (for a very long time at least) that I'll see those places on my boat so it was a little bit more emotional perhaps (not in a teary way!).
And my adventure up north in a few weeks will take me along plenty of waters I've never seen, plus a bucketload of locks which I'm sure will eventually become a bit of a drag but I'm really looking forward to it!
ps. don't do it utterly drunk
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Post by freewind on Feb 27, 2019 16:20:38 GMT
I love living on the cut, moving every few days or week or two. Love waking up to different scenery rather than just the same old thing. It's great to fix things on the boat, and make improvements. I love boats. I can fish off the back of it or take the kayak out with no faff. I love the social aspect, boaters helping and looking out for each other, walkers with their dogs. Having said all that I find the process of moving the boat, cruising, doing locks and swing bridges etc. tedious and boring, in the extreme. I suspect I'm in the minority with this. Anyone else? I suppose different people enjoy some aspects of boating and dislike other aspects. Personally, I enjoy "spannerin" and generally "fettlin". Love cruising.Watching the scenery drift past,and getting an eyeful of fit female joggers. Bloody hate with venom locks! Just settling into cruising,and up comes a lock. On some canals you haven't got your breath back from one lock when another sod heaves into view.I should mention that I always boat solo,so locks are hard work. Hate emptying the cassette toilet.Some of the Elsan disposal points STINK! Don't mind swing bridges,they are easier than locks,except that the operating gear for some reason that escapes me,is usually on the opposite side to where you moor. You're right about the social aspect of boating.Boaters are usually ready to chat and swap a yarn. The people you meet on the towpath too are generally friendly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 16:27:35 GMT
Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly...
"Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat Solemnly, as he leaned forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
"Simply messing...about in boats -- or with boats... In or out of 'em it doesn't matter. Nothing seems to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.
I'll just leave that there π
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 27, 2019 16:46:22 GMT
No, I'm the opposite, I haven't moved since September and I'm now absolutely bored rigid. I'm pushing off tomorrow and can't wait. When I am out cruising I tend to move pretty much every day. I enjoy working the locks, and chatting to other boaters. Don't really like moveable bridges but in general I do prefer being out moving than static some place.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Feb 27, 2019 16:58:06 GMT
. . . . . . . . . Don't really like moveable bridges . . . . . . . . . . None too clever with some of the fixed ones either, are you ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 17:18:21 GMT
Love boating including locks, love the people (boaters and passers by) - feckin hate contorting myself into positions to work on the engine only to find that the spanner you need is just out of reach so you then have to un-contort yourself only to have to contort your self again!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 17:41:13 GMT
Love boating where the water is deep enough! Hate queueing at locks (not a problem where I am going) Not overly keen on other boaters getting in the way (not a problem where I am going) Can't wait
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Post by ianali on Feb 27, 2019 17:58:08 GMT
Love boating including locks, love the people (boaters and passers by) - feckin hate contorting myself into positions to work on the engine only to find that the spanner you need is just out of reach so you then have to un-contort yourself only to have to contort your self again! I found a solution to the spanner problem yesterday. I dropped one in the canal. Thatβs one less to pick up by accident.
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Post by rockdodger on Feb 27, 2019 18:03:36 GMT
I love living on the cut, moving every few days or week or two. Love waking up to different scenery rather than just the same old thing. It's great to fix things on the boat, and make improvements. I love boats. I can fish off the back of it or take the kayak out with no faff. I love the social aspect, boaters helping and looking out for each other, walkers with their dogs. Having said all that I find the process of moving the boat, cruising, doing locks and swing bridges etc. tedious and boring, in the extreme. I suspect I'm in the minority with this. Anyone else? Well I could be cheeky and suggest those who pernamently stay in marina's and of course those pesky CMersπ£ββοΈ
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2019 18:45:16 GMT
Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly... "Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat Solemnly, as he leaned forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." "Simply messing...about in boats -- or with boats... In or out of 'em it doesn't matter. Nothing seems to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not. I'll just leave that there π ^^^^^^^^ this ... everytime. Locks are part and parcel of boating. Love it all ... and even the horrible bits (weed hatch visits, elsan emptying etc.) are better than good bits with no boat. Rog
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Post by patty on Feb 27, 2019 18:50:11 GMT
John and Gazza just said it all really..... I miss my boat but I can drool over other peoples and I do take myself to Marinas and canals..
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 27, 2019 19:00:55 GMT
I'm often on the lookout for photo angles, especially when the Witch is driving. And just chugging along one can sip a single malt. Boating never boring. Had a good look at Diglis Basin this afternoon - all those boats - what a heap of money just floating and doing nothing. CRT must be raking it in.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 27, 2019 19:06:55 GMT
Is it so nice as all that?" asked the mole, shyly... "Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat Solemnly, as he leaned forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." "Simply messing...about in boats -- or with boats... In or out of 'em it doesn't matter. Nothing seems to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not. I'll just leave that there π ^^^^^^^^ this ... everytime. Locks are part and parcel of boating. Love it all ... and even the horrible bits (weed hatch visits, elsan emptying etc.) are better than good bits with no boat. Rog Yea, I look on things like emptying the Elsan or getting my hands and arms ripped to ribbons freeing a mattress off of the propeller while being pelted with stones and bottles by the local scum as simply being "not the highlight of the trip". Things might change but as they stand I couldn't see myself living in a house again. Just too boring. Setting off tomorrow unless there's any great change in the weather, Liverpool is my first destination. Might get to Hartshill, maybe even Atherstone.
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