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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 9:25:18 GMT
"In my thirties ... " Those were the days Rog
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Post by JohnV on Mar 9, 2019 12:07:02 GMT
"In my the thirties ... " Those were the days Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 12:31:06 GMT
My gran used to run through every name in the family whilst trying to get the right one... I think itβs an age thing...π€π€. Dont, I have started that with the two kids and the cat and I'm in my thirties, just. My younger sister is 42 and about to have her second son. She asked me what to call it I said just call it the same as the other one otherwise it will just get confusing as you get older.
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Post by patty on Mar 10, 2019 7:06:30 GMT
Itβs good that others have the same problem... there r too many names to chose from anyway. My grandad was Russell Derek... my dad Derek Russell.. and apparently further back they just kept swapping the two names...
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Post by TonyDunkley on Mar 11, 2019 10:11:52 GMT
Matty 40's moved our boat back down south, and via. the Trent too, even managed it without the help of the illustrious Mr. Dunkley. Impressive eh. I saw him when he was shifting your boat, . . struggling upriver the way the majority of today's so-called 'narrowboats' seem to, and there wasn't anything I could do to help him. What he really needed was a boat that could get along a good bit better than a ruptured duck. Not at all impressive !
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 10:43:34 GMT
Matty 40's moved our boat back down south, and via. the Trent too, even managed it without the help of the illustrious Mr. Dunkley. Impressive eh. I saw him when he was shifting your boat, . . struggling upriver the way the majority of today's so-called 'narrowboats' seem to, and there wasn't anything I could do to help him. What he really needed was a boat that could get along a good bit better than a ruptured duck. Not at all impressive ! How strange. his comments were different to yours. (well thinking about it, perhaps not that strange at all)
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Post by TonyDunkley on Mar 11, 2019 11:22:28 GMT
I saw him when he was shifting your boat, . . struggling upriver the way the majority of today's so-called 'narrowboats' seem to, and there wasn't anything I could do to help him. What he really needed was a boat that could get along a good bit better than a ruptured duck. Not at all impressive ! How strange. his comments were different to yours. (well thinking about it, perhaps not that strange at all) Quite right, not at all strange. Consider what he has to compare the performance of your boat with. Answer, . . nothing except a lot more awful modern hulls with underwater proportions and lines so bad that they can't make efficient use of more than a small fraction of the installed engine power.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 11:40:33 GMT
How strange. his comments were different to yours. (well thinking about it, perhaps not that strange at all) Quite right, not at all strange. Consider what he has to compare the performance of your boat with. Answer, . . nothing except a lot more awful modern hulls with underwater proportions and lines so bad that they can't make efficient use of more than a small fraction of the installed engine power. Problem being of course that if you want a modern narrowboat your choice is pretty much dictated by whats available. I don't know of any 'modern' (narrow boat) boat builders that make hulls to a design that would allow for good efficient transit on a river AND cope with the depth on lots of UK canals. Which AFAIK is why we have the design that we have, a flat bottomed steel tube with a pointy bit at one end and (mostly) a curved bit at the back end. It's a crude design admittedly, but one that suits both situations (tidal waters and narrow shallow muddy ditches) when most people only occasionally venture onto tidal waters (some never!) it seems to fill a need.
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