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Post by kris on Feb 7, 2024 18:42:56 GMT
Looks like Tony Dunkley is posting on cwdf. On 04/02/2024 at 14:18, ditchcrawler said: It didn't give in easily did it. an all day job. There is a lengthy but nonetheless interesting commentry on both the sinking and raising of this boat attached to this YouTube video : Sunken Barrow Narrowboat Finally Out (youtube.com) The author of the commentary, Tony Dunkley, is, for several reasons, almost certainly uniquely qualified to comment. Two of the more notable grounds derive from his almost lifelong experience of boating on the Rivers Soar and Trent - firstly, and beginning in the 1950's, as an 8 year-old lad enjoying rides with his father on the BW Nottinghm - Leicester grain traffic commercials, at that time using Nottingham Pans and BW's then new Bantam Pusher Tugs, one of which, "Will Scarlet" still remains in service with BWB's appallingly incompetent and corrupt successors. Secondly, and of greater significance, is the fact that by the early 1980's, and gained in no small part from raising a long sunken vessel in Nottingham, held by BW's Engineers, after their own multiple failed attempts, to be impossible, his professional reputation and work achievement track record as a commercial boat operator, contractor and marine engineer led to him becoming BWB's first, and for a time, only, approved and recommended contractor for the removal and/or salvaging of sunk, stranded or abandoned boats under the provisions of the then newly introduced Section 8 of the British Waterways Act of 1983. www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/120606-boat-sunk/page/6/ |
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Post by Aloysius on Feb 7, 2024 18:55:44 GMT
Looks like Tony Dunkley is posting on cwdf. On 04/02/2024 at 14:18, ditchcrawler said: It didn't give in easily did it. an all day job. There is a lengthy but nonetheless interesting commentry on both the sinking and raising of this boat attached to this YouTube video : Sunken Barrow Narrowboat Finally Out (youtube.com) The author of the commentary, Tony Dunkley, is, for several reasons, almost certainly uniquely qualified to comment. Two of the more notable grounds derive from his almost lifelong experience of boating on the Rivers Soar and Trent - firstly, and beginning in the 1950's, as an 8 year-old lad enjoying rides with his father on the BW Nottinghm - Leicester grain traffic commercials, at that time using Nottingham Pans and BW's then new Bantam Pusher Tugs, one of which, "Will Scarlet" still remains in service with BWB's appallingly incompetent and corrupt successors. Secondly, and of greater significance, is the fact that by the early 1980's, and gained in no small part from raising a long sunken vessel in Nottingham, held by BW's Engineers, after their own multiple failed attempts, to be impossible, his professional reputation and work achievement track record as a commercial boat operator, contractor and marine engineer led to him becoming BWB's first, and for a time, only, approved and recommended contractor for the removal and/or salvaging of sunk, stranded or abandoned boats under the provisions of the then newly introduced Section 8 of the British Waterways Act of 1983. www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/120606-boat-sunk/page/6/Blimey that's two really long sentences. And all that comma abuse! |
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Post by kris on Feb 7, 2024 19:08:29 GMT
Looks like Tony Dunkley is posting on cwdf. On 04/02/2024 at 14:18, ditchcrawler said: It didn't give in easily did it. an all day job. There is a lengthy but nonetheless interesting commentry on both the sinking and raising of this boat attached to this YouTube video : Sunken Barrow Narrowboat Finally Out (youtube.com) The author of the commentary, Tony Dunkley, is, for several reasons, almost certainly uniquely qualified to comment. Two of the more notable grounds derive from his almost lifelong experience of boating on the Rivers Soar and Trent - firstly, and beginning in the 1950's, as an 8 year-old lad enjoying rides with his father on the BW Nottinghm - Leicester grain traffic commercials, at that time using Nottingham Pans and BW's then new Bantam Pusher Tugs, one of which, "Will Scarlet" still remains in service with BWB's appallingly incompetent and corrupt successors. Secondly, and of greater significance, is the fact that by the early 1980's, and gained in no small part from raising a long sunken vessel in Nottingham, held by BW's Engineers, after their own multiple failed attempts, to be impossible, his professional reputation and work achievement track record as a commercial boat operator, contractor and marine engineer led to him becoming BWB's first, and for a time, only, approved and recommended contractor for the removal and/or salvaging of sunk, stranded or abandoned boats under the provisions of the then newly introduced Section 8 of the British Waterways Act of 1983. www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/120606-boat-sunk/page/6/Blimey that's two really long sentences. And all that comma abuse! I only post because I had heard he’s dead , but obviously not. I got an email because somone tried to drag me into the argument. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 7, 2024 19:21:23 GMT
Yes, I've flagged "GHL" up before as a blatantly obvious Tony Dunkley CWDF sock puppet. Some previous GHL posts on CWDF- "Tony Dunkley is a first class engineer, semi-retired now, but a lifetime of experience, and Works trained at Listers. You could not do better". "Excellent advice on pilotage and tides in the Humber, the Trent and the Yorkshire Ouse can be had from a retired commercial barge and tug skipper called Tony Dunkley on the Thunderboat forum". "I am replying to this topic to ensure that anyone who may already not know is aware that advice, practical assistance, and onboard pilotage services are all available from semi-retired tug/bargemaster, and former member of CWDF, Tony Dunkley, based in Nottingham. Tony is happy to provide a range of services from FoC advice on passage planning and making, via whatever means are most convenient, through to full onboard pilotage for the rivers Humber, Ouse and Trent. Tony Dunkley can be contacted via the Thunderboat Forum at < thunderboat.boards.net >" |
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Post by thebfg on Feb 7, 2024 22:35:44 GMT
What's Tony got to do with the video?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 7, 2024 22:54:43 GMT
What's Tony got to do with the video? Tony Dunkley posted on the thread "The author of the commentary, Tony Dunkley, is, for several reasons, almost certainly uniquely qualified to comment". For some reason Tony Dunkley writes about himself on CWDF in the third person, pretending not to be Tony Dunkley. |
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Post by kris on Feb 8, 2024 8:51:12 GMT
It’s not Tony talking in the video.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 8, 2024 13:58:03 GMT
Perhaps he's referring to this, in the comments below the video. TonyDunkley-ye2ov TonyDunkley-ye2ov 2 hours ago The owners of this boat had already suffered more than enough at the bumbling incompetent hands of the River Canal Rescue [RCR] clowns who sank it with their ill-conceived amateur attempts to winch it off Barrow Bridge, . . and their interests were NOT best served by then being placed in the similarly questionable hands of Commercial Boat Services[CBS], . . a company with a well deserved reputation for dishonestly exploiting private boat owners misfortunes. Whilst the vessel was successfully raised and removed by CBS, the operation was badly planned, badly executed, and far more costly than it needed to be, . . both in terms of CBS's labour charges, and further unnecessary damage to the vessel. CBS is owned and run by one Brian Clarke, . . a nasty little crook currently under investigation for theft and fraud, who, along with some equally dishonest Canal & River Trust [C&RT] senior management and retained lawyers, are the joint beneficiaries of a long running so-called "boat removal" scam under which CBS/Brian Clarke invoice C&RT huge sums of money for supposedly 'removing' sunk stranded or abandoned boats from the C&RT controlled waterways. Although the circumstances in this particular boat "removal" were different, CBS's so-called boat 'removals' are usually carried out under the fraudulent pretence of being lawful removals that are the subject of a bona fide Court Order. The sad truth is that the Court Orders are any thing but bona fide, and all are obtained by means of C&RT's crooked lawyers wilfully misleading the Courts as to the true extent of the statutory powers of boat removal that the C&RT inherited from British Waterways under Section 8 of the British Waterways Act 1983. |
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Post by kris on Feb 8, 2024 14:02:00 GMT
That sounds like Tony, so he’s not dead then!
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Post by on Feb 8, 2024 14:38:09 GMT
He may have had his online ID stolen and used to train an AI bot. He was quite well known and obviously disorganised. Its not impossible.
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Post by kris on Feb 8, 2024 14:51:36 GMT
He may have had his online ID stolen and used to train an AI bot. He was quite well known and obviously disorganised. Its not impossible. I think it’s more likely he’s alive. That means he has been barred from posting on here. I wonder if it’s a time limited ban? |
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Post by thebfg on Feb 8, 2024 15:03:33 GMT
Thank you Mr Stabby. I did try to look at the comments but didn't notice it. I knew the presenter wasn't him so just wondered. |
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Post by on Feb 8, 2024 15:46:30 GMT
He may have had his online ID stolen and used to train an AI bot. He was quite well known and obviously disorganised. Its not impossible. I think it’s more likely he’s alive. That means he has been barred from posting on here. I wonder if it’s a time limited ban? I told you he had been barred months ago. There is a facility to place members in a 'group' which is then given read only status. No rocket science here. |
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Post by thebfg on Feb 9, 2024 17:54:00 GMT
That doesn't explain why he wouldn't just create a sock puppet. Would be easier to just ban the IP address.
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Post by Andyberg on Feb 9, 2024 18:43:38 GMT
That doesn't explain why he wouldn't just create a sock puppet. He has probably just realised pretty much every canal user & waterways based forum poster today thinks he's a gobshitecunt who’s legal acumen is akin to a blackbird in your back garden… 🙄🙄 |
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