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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 16:25:40 GMT
Are the Wash waters fairly sheltered ... I realise it is of course tidal, but it has the appearance of a massive harbour without cliffs which suggest a fairly calm environment ... if you avoid sandbanks. Rog No! Far from it, it can be a bloody awful place if you are out when you shouldn’t be
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 8, 2022 16:27:34 GMT
Oh! I thought this thread was going to be about ablutophobia.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 17:28:02 GMT
I had not seen that one before.
I do have agrophobia and also megalophobia which is why I need to minimise the size of my boats.
It's always good to be in touch with ones phobias.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 6:20:28 GMT
Read Ye Here a tale of intrepid inland waterways enthusiasts who, armed with little more than English pluck, a lovely warm cardy and a bloke called Daryl, bravely braved the terrors of some monstrous waves which terrifyingly made the boat go up and down a bit. Experience their visceral and harrowing account of a bitter and unforgiving English late spring. ianhelencanals.blogspot.com/2019/05/crossing-wash-from-wisbech-to-boston.html
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 8:00:22 GMT
...monstrous waves which terrifyingly made the boat go up and down a bit. I am afeared Sir!
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Jan 9, 2022 8:42:32 GMT
In a proper choppy water boat @gazza do you still have to run aground and await tides when crossing the wash, like I've seen narrow boats do ? I guess not, if only because you have a keel ![:)](//storage2.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rog No boat, whatever its hull form, is obliged to "run aground" over the LW period in the Wash, . . or any where else. Drying out over LW in the course of a Wash passage, either partially or fully, is done mainly to give the occupants of the boat a more comfortable time, rather than being made to feel sick due to the boat's motion if laying to the anchor in any of the deepwater channels to Kings Lynn, Wisbech or Boston and Spalding. What makes you think that anything with a flat bottom isn't a "proper choppy water boat" ? Not so very long ago, flat bottomed Thames (sailing) barges were engaged in regular trade loading Yorkshire coal for the London area from wharves up the lower Trent (Keadby).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 8:47:39 GMT
Not really the same type of flat bottomed craft as a narrow boat ! ![](https://thamesbargewill.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/web-about-sailing-barge-will.jpg) I don't see many straight lines in the side.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 9:17:38 GMT
...monstrous waves which terrifyingly made the boat go up and down a bit. I am afeared Sir! Typical frog reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 9:19:45 GMT
In a proper choppy water boat @gazza do you still have to run aground and await tides when crossing the wash, like I've seen narrow boats do ? I guess not, if only because you have a keel ![:)](//storage2.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Rog No boat, whatever its hull form, is obliged to "run aground" over the LW period in the Wash, . . or any where else. Drying out over LW in the course of a Wash passage, either partially or fully, is done mainly to give the occupants of the boat a more comfortable time, rather than being made to feel sick due to the boat's motion if laying to the anchor in any of the deepwater channels to Kings Lynn, Wisbech or Boston and Spalding. What makes you think that anything with a flat bottom isn't a "proper choppy water boat" ? Not so very long ago, flat bottomed Thames (sailing) barges were engaged in regular trade loading Yorkshire coal for the London area from wharves up the lower Trent (Keadby). Are you suggesting that a flat bottomed steel canal narrow boat was so designed for going to sea in coastal waters ? No I didn't think so. Rog
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Jan 9, 2022 9:25:57 GMT
No boat, whatever its hull form, is obliged to "run aground" over the LW period in the Wash, . . or any where else. Drying out over LW in the course of a Wash passage, either partially or fully, is done mainly to give the occupants of the boat a more comfortable time, rather than being made to feel sick due to the boat's motion if laying to the anchor in any of the deepwater channels to Kings Lynn, Wisbech or Boston and Spalding. What makes you think that anything with a flat bottom isn't a "proper choppy water boat" ? Not so very long ago, flat bottomed Thames (sailing) barges were engaged in regular trade loading Yorkshire coal for the London area from wharves up the lower Trent (Keadby). Are you suggesting that a flat bottomed steel canal narrow boat was so designed for going to sea in coastal waters ? No I didn't think so. Rog Rog No improvement in your ability to read or understand plain written English, . . is there !
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Post by kris on Jan 9, 2022 9:32:11 GMT
Are you suggesting that a flat bottomed steel canal narrow boat was so designed for going to sea in coastal waters ? No I didn't think so. Rog Rog No improvement in your ability to read or understand plain written English, . . is there ! watched any good porn films recently Tony?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 9:33:35 GMT
Are you suggesting that a flat bottomed steel canal narrow boat was so designed for going to sea in coastal waters ? No I didn't think so. Rog Rog No improvement in your ability to read or understand plain written English, . . is there ! Nor in your ability to use it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2022 9:39:48 GMT
Are you suggesting that a flat bottomed steel canal narrow boat was so designed for going to sea in coastal waters ? No I didn't think so. Rog Rog No improvement in your ability to read or understand plain written English, . . is there ! Yes I've missed you too sweetie Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 9, 2022 9:51:03 GMT
No improvement in your ability to read or understand plain written English, . . is there ! Yes I've missed you too sweetie Rog Careful Rog or he'll duff you up and you can't even get retribution as he hasn't got any boats to steal.
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Post by brummieboy on Jan 9, 2022 10:01:42 GMT
Give us a break; I thought Tony gave a reasoned explanation of the transit of the Wash in what many consider an unsuitable craft. The immediate slanging match is not warranted
Looking at the blog, in what was a relatively mild sea, the bow still pitched into the water to a degree I would not feel comfortable with. His point about flat bottommed boats is again valid, although I suspect these craft had 'steerboards' (?) if I recall the terminology correctly. These boats would have been much wider than a narrowboat which would make them more stable. Wouldn't the narrowness of beam make any rolling more dangerous for narrowboats?
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