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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 27, 2019 18:05:51 GMT
Thought I saw an ex-member of the Village People crossing the river section at Alrewas It was probably just Jesus.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 18:46:31 GMT
We wish to call at Fenny marina for diesel, gas and stuff, and realise at this time of year one has to take a mooring early in the day at 'hotspot' sites. Consequently, it being a lovely day we selected a mooring all alone, where it would be virtually impossible to moor with us. Enjoyed about three hours of peace when suddenly a boat pulls in almost stern button to stern button (maybe four to six feet away). Horrendous engine revving and wash bouncing us around ... and slowly they moved away as it was too shallow. Peace reigns once more I really ought to put a photo up of how inhospitable the boat length behind me is ... and yet they have to try. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 18:52:27 GMT
Yes that really is a tree hanging down, and yet he tried to moor Rog
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Post by metanoia on Aug 27, 2019 18:55:27 GMT
We wish to call at Fenny marina for diesel, gas and stuff, and realise at this time of year one has to take a mooring early in the day at 'hotspot' sites. Consequently, it being a lovely day we selected a mooring all alone, where it would be virtually impossible to moor with us. Enjoyed about three hours of peace when suddenly a boat pulls in almost stern button to stern button (maybe four to six feet away). Horrendous engine revving and wash bouncing us around ... and slowly they moved away as it was too shallow. Peace reigns once more I really ought to put a photo up of how inhospitable the boat length behind me is ... and yet they have to try. Rog You think that's close ......…. !!! I, too, have some of those photos - --- moored on pins in the middle of ABSOLUTELY nowhere - looked out and thought they must be sharing my pin. Have a good evening - minus those sheep, Rog and Jane (eta - we both had enough of an education to respect the spelling of a name) Met x
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 20:15:16 GMT
Telemachus and mjg aee almost entirely correct. The big problem is the arseholes all think we enjoy the sound of their engines while they reap the benefit of hot water or charged batteries. It's sorely tempting to take a double trailing socket over and ask to share in the peace shattering din.... I wouldn't dream of running our Genny within earshot of other boaters, sadly, all these shitty crusing narrow boats that seem to have the smallest, most poorly insulated cauliflowers and batteries that go flat the moment the engine is switched off are now the norm 🤦♂️ I'll spark the Genny up in marvelous isolation, I won't do it for others to enjoy. Same as running the engine for battery charging and hot water, ours does that underway, I couldn't bear the thought of wearing it out static! We've not moved since Sunday afternoon, the webasto has done the hot water and the little solar we have has kept the batteries topped up. Gas fridge means the beer and food is still cold. Not difficult to set a boat up so you don't irritate your neighbours 🤔☹️👍
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Post by Trina on Aug 27, 2019 20:17:09 GMT
Gulp,have to admit...I hate gennie noise,engines running at appropriate times don't bother me...but gennies ahhhh. Pulled into Sale by the King's Ransom & spotted the next boat had a gennie on his stern next to our stern (plus solar panels).😫However,really nice guys who only put the gennie on when we were running our engine for an hour.Gennie obviously went off while we were out for our meal.It's the folk who run gennies after 8pm ish I want to kill.Don't know why,but the gennie sound makes me want to borrow a decent knife off Mr Stabby.Realise it's me,but gennie sightings make me cringe-sorry gennie peeps.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 20:47:10 GMT
8.30pm and beginning to get dark and ANOTHER boat tries to pull in immediately behind me.
Hits the tree, grounds, revs a plume of water all over us and thankfully moves on because it's too shallow.
Over 2000 miles of navigable water ... why oh why do you have to moor with another boat ... frightened of the dark?
I live largely on a boat and have to use my engine to cruise, heat water and charge batteries.
I like to moor away from anyone I can annoy (houses, other boats when they'll let me )
However if we decide for whatever reason not to cruise on a given day, I will keep my engine running to a minimum, within approved hours, and where possible apologise to neighbours.
I live largely on a boat, and I believe boaters accept this.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 21:20:40 GMT
Good god! I thought I was having a Grrrr! day - some of you seem to have surpassed me. Not telling about my grumps as I know several of the other boaters are avid readers of the forum... TB does seem to be on par with CWDF for nosy parkers!
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Post by patty on Aug 28, 2019 5:44:52 GMT
Good god! I thought I was having a Grrrr! day - some of you seem to have surpassed me. Not telling about my grumps as I know several of the other boaters are avid readers of the forum... TB does seem to be on par with CWDF for nosy parkers! Occasionally its stress busting to let of steam and have a mini rant amidst other ranters... It seems that gennies strike a note that has to be played out.... I don't like the noise, never have and I was brought up partly on a farm that used one for lecky before cables run there from the grid....I remember the first time it fired up and we had real lights instead of big lamps...I was very young Used to avoid mooring near one if i could. I like peace...
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 28, 2019 6:58:02 GMT
Thing is, what are those of us who live on our boats meant to do? OK, a decent solar array sorts the matter for 8 months of the year, providing we have a gas water heater. Maybe I'm on my own here but I'd much prefer to have to listen to the relative quiet 'put put' of a quiet Honda (or equivalent) genny rather than the horrible constant low pitch drone of a modern diesel engine.
I have a good slab of solar and a wind turbine. In the depths of winter I run my small Kippor generator for 1 to 3 hours, every 1 or 2 days.
Fortunately, during the depths of winter, most of the shiny boats that live mostly in marinas have gone back to sleep (too cold I guess) leaving a smaller number of boaters, who realise and understand that running a device to charge the batteries within the permitted hours is essential.
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 28, 2019 8:06:03 GMT
Thing is, what are those of us who live on our boats meant to do? OK, a decent solar array sorts the matter for 8 months of the year, providing we have a gas water heater. Maybe I'm on my own here but I'd much prefer to have to listen to the relative quiet 'put put' of a quiet Honda (or equivalent) genny rather than the horrible constant low pitch drone of a modern diesel engine. I have a good slab of solar and a wind turbine. In the depths of winter I run my small Kippor generator for 1 to 3 hours, every 1 or 2 days. Fortunately, during the depths of winter, most of the shiny boats that live mostly in marinas have gone back to sleep (too cold I guess) leaving a smaller number of boaters, who realise and understand that running a device to charge the batteries within the permitted hours is essential. I get that at some point, generators have to be run. But there does seem to be a sense of entitlement out there whereby generators can be run anywhere, any time. Is there really a need to run generators on popular and busy honey-pot visitor moorings when there are long swathes of nearby canal with piling and no boats or houses? And this particular case, it was the starting of the genny and then going straight off to the pub, so that the perpetrators didn’t have to listen to it whilst everyone else in the vicinity did. Last night we passed a lone boat moored in the middle of nowhere and naturally we had to stop next to it (in case it might have been Rog). Well actually, it was where we wanted to stop as it gives good satellite reception on a stretch where trees are a problem. And in fact we stopped about 2 boat lengths from it. At about 9pm I became aware of his engine running. But I had to be fair and say that we had chosen to moor near him “out in the wild” and thus it was really down to us. The engine was barely audible and it didn’t cause me any stress or grief. So I am not unreasonable about it, I just don’t see why it has to be open season for generators to be run on popular visitor moorings full or people trying to relax.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 8:12:21 GMT
As usual, I agree with you ... but you started by 'banning generators'. There was a boat about (not seen it for a few years) called The Seventies Boat. The lady on board used to moor in solitary locations and place a large sandwich board out, politely warning others that she's moored alone because she runs her genny late into the evening. I've heard boaters complaining about her even so ... sometimes you can't be right for being wrong Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 28, 2019 8:18:41 GMT
As usual, I agree with you ... but you started by 'banning generators'. There was a boat about (not seen it for a few years) called The Seventies Boat. The lady on board used to moor in solitary locations and place a large sandwich board out, politely warning others that she's moored alone because she runs her genny late into the evening. I've heard boaters complaining about her even so ... sometimes you can't be right for being wrong Rog You can ban generators, but you can’t ban people from being selfish and inconsiderate. But by banning generators you remove a means for some people to demonstrate their selfish inconsiderate behaviour. In the same way that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with guns, but we choose to ban them because we can’t trust owners to use them sensibly.
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Post by bills on Aug 28, 2019 8:20:50 GMT
"A spoonful of sugar makes the generator go down"
Mary Poppins.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 8:34:41 GMT
Good god! I thought I was having a Grrrr! day - some of you seem to have surpassed me. Not telling about my grumps as I know several of the other boaters are avid readers of the forum... TB does seem to be on par with CWDF for nosy parkers! Occasionally its stress busting to let of steam and have a mini rant amidst other ranters... Yes I realise that, but honestly 'banning generators'! or people mooring near you
I was pissed off last night with several other boaters, but certanly wouldn't want them banned from the waterway!
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