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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 21:24:21 GMT
Oddly when I was on the Lark I clouted someones boat. They were moored on the outside of a fairly gentle curve. I was travelling quite slowly (fortunately) when I suddenly discovered that my steering was having no effect and I was continuing in a straight line ..... right at the moored boat. Full astern also had absolutely no effect and I had no time to climb out of the cockpit to get up forward to fend off. I apologised profusely to the other boat owner who (once he had grasped what had happened) took a line from me while I proceeded to dive head down into the weed hatch and haul out the most enormous quantity of fine weed that was totally wrapped round my prop and rudder. Sometimes shit happens I fitted a slide on one of these two years ago. www.prop-protector.co.uk/Only had to deal with weed so far, it was night and day better across the Fens with it fitted.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 21:26:37 GMT
I'm not that thick......... hurumph! Rog Actually I am. I had to google it.....normal for Norfolk....high six! As I understand it GP'S have had to reign it in with there shorthand thanks to the power of Google. Could be worse, Norfolk'n'gud isn't an ideal way to be described
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 7:14:50 GMT
I met a boater years ago who had a narrow boat with a fibreglass/wood cabin. Inside near the fire the lining was odd as if it had been removed and replaced. I asked the geyser why and he said that a narrowboat had crashed straight through the side of the cabin. It was true as there was also repair evidence on the outside. He said he was on the boat at the time. Thats BAD Some of the old workboats when unloaded could do a lot of damage and also the dreaded harborough marine windowbreaker bows. My mum hit a harborough marine boat side on in her narrow boat at Fox's marina in Cambridgeshire and yes it did destroy a window including bending the crappy channeglaze frame. She was steering, other boat was stationary, a bit breezy.
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Post by patty on Mar 7, 2017 7:32:32 GMT
When I had 'Patty Ann'. I had pointy end of hire boat hit me side on..couldn't work out how her got full length of his boat across width of canal at that point..fortunately he'd cut the engines so the knock though it shook us up not as bad as it could have been. had grand daughter plus daughter,son and his partner on boat...he claimed the blokes wifey was driving just before so guess that explains it as us women can probably get boats definitely where they shouldn't go with ease. I admit to hitting few boats but only very lightly at slow speed and I always apologised.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 9:06:15 GMT
When I had 'Patty Ann'. I had pointy end of hire boat hit me side on..couldn't work out how her got full length of his boat across width of canal at that point..fortunately he'd cut the engines so the knock though it shook us up not as bad as it could have been. had grand daughter plus daughter,son and his partner on boat...he claimed the blokes wifey was driving just before so guess that explains it as us women can probably get boats definitely where they shouldn't go with ease. I admit to hitting few boats but only very lightly at slow speed and I always apologised. My mum did many hundreds of hours steering her narrow boat (55ft) and like me she was single handed and covered the majority of the southern half of the system (we travelled together for 10 years each with our own boat). In this case it was not a woman thing it was a wind thing. Pontoon moored boats sticking out on the way to the diesel pump.. and a side wind
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Post by cuthound on Mar 7, 2017 16:22:34 GMT
Oddly when I was on the Lark I clouted someones boat. They were moored on the outside of a fairly gentle curve. I was travelling quite slowly (fortunately) when I suddenly discovered that my steering was having no effect and I was continuing in a straight line ..... right at the moored boat. Full astern also had absolutely no effect and I had no time to climb out of the cockpit to get up forward to fend off. I apologised profusely to the other boat owner who (once he had grasped what had happened) took a line from me while I proceeded to dive head down into the weed hatch and haul out the most enormous quantity of fine weed that was totally wrapped round my prop and rudder. Sometimes shit happens I fitted a slide on one of these two years ago. www.prop-protector.co.uk/Only had to deal with weed so far, it was night and day better across the Fens with it fitted. My boat already had one e of these when I bought it. At firdt I thought it was snake oil, then one day when I stopped at a bridge hole to let another bost through first it picked up something on the prop. It really made the engine labour and I lost all steering. I limped through the bridge hole and pulled to the side, with the engine still labouring. When I opened the weedhatch there was nothing to be found, so although it took a minute or so for the prop protector to chomp through whatever was there it worked. Didn't work last year though, when as I was pulling up at Streethay Wharf I got a canvas cratch cover wrapped round d the prop. That stalled the engine instantly.
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Post by Saltysplash on Mar 7, 2017 16:25:44 GMT
I agree with phil, an apology will ease the tension of many a bump which in a metal shell can give a very alarming resounding CLANG with even the slightest of knocks. When I lived aboard Emblem i was once knocked up from behind by the chap who moored directly behind me. He had one of those silly sporty cruisers, less than 20' long, twin props and a silly pointy pointless pulpit on the front. He was coming in to moor and just failed to stop, bouncing off the pontoon and rammed Emblem with his pointy bit. Luckily he didnt hit any planks but the solid oak Rubbing band around the stern, unluckily this band was further protected by an Iron Strip and his pointy bit put a lovely dent and bent the strip which then ripped out its Iron fixings. He did give me an apology which calmed me down but never managed to explain how he was unable to control a small twin propped boat which hadnt had any sudden mechanical failure...he just said he got distracted. No real harm done in the end, I took the Iron section off, re-bent it into its correct curve using brute force and ignorance and re-fixed with new stainless coach bolts........a bottle of spritous liquid would've been nice though
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 17:01:18 GMT
I fitted a slide on one of these two years ago. www.prop-protector.co.uk/Only had to deal with weed so far, it was night and day better across the Fens with it fitted. My boat already had one e of these when I bought it. At firdt I thought it was snake oil, then one day when I stopped at a bridge hole to let another bost through first it picked up something on the prop. It really made the engine labour and I lost all steering. I limped through the bridge hole and pulled to the side, with the engine still labouring. When I opened the weedhatch there was nothing to be found, so although it took a minute or so for the prop protector to chomp through whatever was there it worked. Didn't work last year though, when as I was pulling up at Streethay Wharf I got a canvas cratch cover wrapped round d the prop. That stalled the engine instantly. We haven't got a weed hatch. A furious bit of forwards and reverse usually helps, after fitting the prop protector I didn't have to throw any crap off during our last couple of trips across the sometimes weedy Fens. Thankfully we've never snagged something hateful in all the years we've boated in East Anglia, worst was a few carrier bags on Well Creek with an outboard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 18:28:36 GMT
I fitted a slide on one of these two years ago. www.prop-protector.co.uk/Only had to deal with weed so far, it was night and day better across the Fens with it fitted. My boat already had one e of these when I bought it. At firdt I thought it was snake oil, then one day when I stopped at a bridge hole to let another bost through first it picked up something on the prop. It really made the engine labour and I lost all steering. I limped through the bridge hole and pulled to the side, with the engine still labouring. When I opened the weedhatch there was nothing to be found, so although it took a minute or so for the prop protector to chomp through whatever was there it worked. Didn't work last year though, when as I was pulling up at Streethay Wharf I got a canvas cratch cover wrapped round d the prop. That stalled the engine instantly. Sorry, off topic but.... how's cuthound going on? Did the training improve things? Rog
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Post by cuthound on Mar 10, 2017 9:32:09 GMT
My boat already had one e of these when I bought it. At firdt I thought it was snake oil, then one day when I stopped at a bridge hole to let another bost through first it picked up something on the prop. It really made the engine labour and I lost all steering. I limped through the bridge hole and pulled to the side, with the engine still labouring. When I opened the weedhatch there was nothing to be found, so although it took a minute or so for the prop protector to chomp through whatever was there it worked. Didn't work last year though, when as I was pulling up at Streethay Wharf I got a canvas cratch cover wrapped round d the prop. That stalled the engine instantly. Sorry, off topic but.... how's cuthound going on? Did the training improve things? Rog Thanks for your concern Rog, When he was doing his residential training, they sent me video's of him walking on the lead quietly past other dogs, and him playing with other dogs off lead. "Great" I thought, "they have cracked it". When we collected him they said, "take his lead and we will introduce dogs into the compound with him, one at a time". First dog entered the compound and he went for it, barking and lunging, as he always had. "Oh dear" said the trainer, "he hasn't done that before, you have a guarding issue, sorry we can't help with that". So it proved he could behave, but wasn't a complete success. Since then I have found a professional dog walker who is happy to let me walk Zeus with him and his clients dogs, provided Zeus is muzzled. This is really helping Zeus develop the necessary social skills, and I am optimistic that he will eventually be a normal dog, as on a couple of occasions he has walked past other dogs without incident whilst on a lead.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 14:09:54 GMT
Thanks for the update, and we wish you well for the future. Forgive my nosiness, but has he been castrated? I am assuming he has. It's just that a dog we had many years ago displayed similar traits, and he did mellow considerably after castration (well you would wouldn't you ) Rog
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Post by Gone on Mar 10, 2017 14:30:13 GMT
Thanks for the update, and we wish you well for the future. Forgive my nosiness, but has he been castrated? I am assuming he has. It's just that a dog we had many years ago displayed similar traits, and he did mellow considerably after castration (well you would wouldn't you )Rog If I was castrated I am pretty sure I would be extremely pissed off and very grumpy and not in the slightest bit mellow about it , but then I am not a dog........
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Post by cuthound on Mar 11, 2017 15:39:43 GMT
Thanks for the update, and we wish you well for the future. Forgive my nosiness, but has he been castrated? I am assuming he has. It's just that a dog we had many years ago displayed similar traits, and he did mellow considerably after castration (well you would wouldn't you ) Rog Yes, we got him from a charity called "German Shepherd Dog Rescue" and one of their ownership conditons is that any un-neutered dogs (male or female) must be neutered. When we got him he had a broken lower canine tooth that was going rotten, so having paid the charity for him, we then had to pay £300 for the castration and tooth removal. Since the I haven't dared to count the cost of ownership, but weekly training, several one off training sessions, etc must have cost us a far bit. Perversely although he has been more trouble than all of my other dogs put together (x10), owning him has been more rewarding.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 15:43:14 GMT
That's the trouble with dogs. You just get them how you want, and blend together with them perfectly, and then the damn things die on you. Good luck, although it sounds like it's more effort than luck Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 21:32:52 GMT
Thanks for the update, and we wish you well for the future. Forgive my nosiness, but has he been castrated? I am assuming he has. It's just that a dog we had many years ago displayed similar traits, and he did mellow considerably after castration (well you would wouldn't you ) Rog Yes, we got him from a charity called "German Shepherd Dog Rescue" and one of their ownership conditons is that any un-neutered dogs (male or female) must be neutered. When we got him he had a broken lower canine tooth that was going rotten, so having paid the charity for him, we then had to pay £300 for the castration and tooth removal. Since the I haven't dared to count the cost of ownership, but weekly training, several one off training sessions, etc must have cost us a far bit. Perversely although he has been more trouble than all of my other dogs put together (x10), owning him has been more rewarding. Fair play to you. That's a big commitment to a dog that sounds like it knows it's own mind! We had a rescue from Wood Green in Godmanchester that had received loads of vetinary work before we rehomed him. The minimum donation was around £50 in 2003 if I remember correctly, we doubled it as it seemed way too cheap. Current hound is way more flakey than our previous dogs, the vet has done well out of him but we have had a fairly rewarding relationship from him too.
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