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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 11:47:25 GMT
Yes it's ok. A bit windy.
I decided to turn around below Windsor and have another cruise up through the Thames valley.
Not too terrible.
I quite like it actually especially in this rather fine conveyance.
Back of envelope calculation suggests 4 knots running both units I am using around 2.5 litres per hour. 16 tonne boat so she will use a bit but that's not too greedy.
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Post by kris on Aug 5, 2021 13:27:57 GMT
No 2.5 Lts an hour is mor so bad for running two engines.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 5, 2021 13:43:19 GMT
We now have 2 landlubbers shouting from the bank, one about covid Zombie one, he was thick, First in line to get the prick. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie two, comatose, Just lapped up her second dose. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie three, more absurd, Trotted up to get his third. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie queen, number four, Perforated as before. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie last, number five, Can't be stabbed, as not alive. Nick-nack, paddiwack, you're all in the bin. We are out to do you in.
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Post by Jim on Aug 5, 2021 13:50:42 GMT
We now have 2 landlubbers shouting from the bank, one about covid Zombie one, he was thick, First in line to get the prick. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie two, comatose, Just lapped up her second dose. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie three, more absurd, Trotted up to get his third. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie queen, number four, Perforated as before. Nick-nack, paddiwack, come and bare your arm, We are out to do you harm. Zombie last, number five, Can't be stabbed, as not alive. Nick-nack, paddiwack, you're all in the bin. We are out to do you in. I'd be impressed if you had made that up all by yourself, even though it's utter twaddle. But I doubt you have made it up yourself. So I'm not. Are you coming over to play on your boat? Just been for a short trip on ours. Lovely and relaxing.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 5, 2021 14:12:03 GMT
When we do get over, all that really must be done is to empty the water tank, but we already have a hand-operated barrel pump which works very well (850 litres out in 35 minutes). Couldn't you just turn on the taps?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Aug 5, 2021 15:35:38 GMT
Not so nice today, but at least it’s not raining yet. Remember this ? it's a letter you drafted to C&RT, . . and asked for advice on prior to sending it : -- kris nadin <krisnadin2002@yahoo.co.uk> Attachments Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 11:19 AM
Hello, My name is Kris nadin my boat is called MEDLOCK index number 76914. I'm writing to you in connection with an incident that happened on the Aire and Calder on 26th-27th of sept just below heck bridge. I was cruising along this stretch on the late afternoon early evening on the 26th sept. I moved over to allow space for a passing boat, where I ran aground on a concrete block about 12ft into the navigation. After unsuccessfully trying to reflate by various methods my friend went and fetched his boat and tried to tow me off. Which was unsuccessful, by this time it had become dark so we stayed overnight in this spot. In the morning we decided to run my anchor chain across the channel and use the anchor winch to winch the boat off. I thought it was best to phone yourselves and inform you of the obstacle to navigation this would cause whilst in progres. After explaining to the lady on the switch board that I didn't want RCR and that she had misunderstood what I was phoning for I talked to graham . Who then said he would send a boat from the yard the other side of the bridge. The boat turned up after trying to tow me off, they then pushed the boat off the block. I'm writing to you as I'm concerned about damage to the plates and framing of my boat. I understand a few boats have run into difficulties on this stretch, which is why you have placed the yellow lolly pops just after the bridge. As can be seen from the photo I've attached the place of this incident was a good 500m from where the yello signs are. I'm wondering if I encounted the problem, because the level was lowered for the work to be carried out at ferry bridge the day before. Kind regards Kris
__________________________________________________ Was the letter sent in the original 'as drafted' form, . . or did you send C&RT the advised re-draft I provided you with ? How's your memory with regard to the detailed advice I gave you later on about how, without the need for docking A41, you could temporarily stop the leaks around the damaged areas of the hull bottom plating and frames with small cement box or wedged in steel patches to allow for internal doubling and strengthening of the affected plating and frames before finally attending to the leaks themselves with an acceptably sound permanent repair ? I suspect that advice was dismissed, along with the offer of FoC ultra-sonic thickness testing of the hull plating, and that you simply went ahead with your own ill-conceived short-sighted panic measures of pouring something of the order of 10(+) tons of concrete, in one big slab, over all of the damaged, weakened, and leaking area. If that is what you did, it would certainly explain the irrational fears of grounding A41 that were so obviously haunting you last year with regard to 'parking' the boat on the undredged flood shoal at Barton Island. Who would want to risk restarting a lot of hull leaks that they had so recently, and so foolishly, made inaccessible and untraceable under a 10(+) ton concrete bodge-up, . . that their insurers almost certainly haven't been notified of as a (very) temporary leak stopping measure ?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 5, 2021 15:58:01 GMT
Seems CRT aren't interested in byelaw offences, kris won't have any issues. As Tony as never been inside my boat and only ever been on the back deck for maybe 40mins. He wasn't on the back deck for as long as Ricco's engine then?
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Post by Jim on Aug 5, 2021 16:22:52 GMT
Not just yet.... but it hasn't sunk, despite your wishing it will. Not sure why you think it is going to sink, we had a hull survey in 2016 and another one in 2019 - both surveyors thought the hull was fine for another 30 years or so. Engine has been started recently and run for half an hour, no water in the engine room, stern gland greaser turned. No funny smells inside, all looking OK. When we do get over, all that really must be done is to empty the water tank, but we already have a hand-operated barrel pump which works very well (850 litres out in 35 minutes). Did they give you a video? I don't want your boat to sink, but boats left unattended... Is it not wise to check the veracity of what you are told, like you do with all the expertise offered by experts in the safety of the covid jabs? And then post a load of annoying old guff? Pot , kettle , petard, Hoist, by, calling, black, own. Organise those words so it makes two well known phrases. Just think, if you had got yourself organised 2 months ago you could be boating now. Lovely.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 16:26:55 GMT
My MI6 contacts have indicated that the narrow boat with the "little red thing where the engine should be" is just fine.
No issues.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 5, 2021 16:39:38 GMT
Not just yet.... but it hasn't sunk, despite your wishing it will. Not sure why you think it is going to sink, we had a hull survey in 2016 and another one in 2019 - both surveyors thought the hull was fine for another 30 years or so. Engine has been started recently and run for half an hour, no water in the engine room, stern gland greaser turned. No funny smells inside, all looking OK. When we do get over, all that really must be done is to empty the water tank, but we already have a hand-operated barrel pump which works very well (850 litres out in 35 minutes). Stop gaslighting me, COVID deniers! We are in a pandemic. One million people die every day from this virus. By tomorrow you and everyone you love will be dead of COVID, There's a nutter born every minute. COVID under the bed! COVID in the wardrobe! COVID in the cat litter tray!
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Post by kris on Aug 5, 2021 16:49:38 GMT
As Tony as never been inside my boat and only ever been on the back deck for maybe 40mins. He wasn't on the back deck for as long as Ricco's engine then? He didn’t reach the required duration of three weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 17:12:32 GMT
My MI6 contacts have indicated that the narrow boat with the "little red thing where the engine should be" is just fine. No issues. Jim is just being an arsehole. Nothing new there. Not just an arsehole, but an old arsehole. I also don't know why he thinks we haven't been free to travel to England - the possibility has always been there, but we deemed it wise to wait and see how things go for this Summer. And also you may catch the lurgy
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Post by Jim on Aug 5, 2021 17:18:26 GMT
My MI6 contacts have indicated that the narrow boat with the "little red thing where the engine should be" is just fine. No issues. Jim is just being an arsehole. Nothing new there. Not just an arsehole, but an old arsehole. I also don't know why he thinks we haven't been free to travel to England - the possibility has always been there, but we deemed it wise to wait and see how things go for this Summer. But not a "reams and reams of nonsense c&p posting" arsehole.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 17:23:05 GMT
I feel that the purposeful throwing around of insults could be in danger of bringing the forum into repute.
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Post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel on Aug 5, 2021 18:17:32 GMT
I feel that the purposeful throwing around of insults could be in danger of bringing the forum into repute. I for one am heartily sick of it. This forum is now so boring.
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