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Post by loafer on May 2, 2016 19:10:28 GMT
I 'retired' from the sea life, to an inland waterways life, about 6 years ago hoping for a nice QUIET retirement without too many more challenges. Mrs Loafer, Poops and I always moor in nowhere land unless we need more Merlot. No matter WHERE we moor for a few days, almost as soon as we get settled, one of the following begins to piss me off:
1. Tractors commencing a ploughing competition in the adjacent field which hadn't been touched for months.
2. Chainsaw or angle grinder starting off from a property behind the bushes, not noticed prior to mooring.
3. Another boat hammering in mooring pins, 3" from our bow fender, when there is a mile in both directions of similar empty mooring space.
4. Trains hooting because some engineering work has commence a little way down the track.
5. Beeping reversing trucks, half a county away.
6. Speeding boats who don't recognise remotely-moored boats as needing a reduced passing speed. Usually too aggressive-looking to complain.
So to the thread title. Is it just me who can't seem to find peace and quiet on the canals? What have I missed that may be equally annoying?
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Post by Mr Stabby on May 2, 2016 19:32:51 GMT
3. Another boat hammering in mooring pins, 3" from our bow fender, when there is a mile in both directions of similar empty mooring space. That one particularly pisses me off, it last happened to me a few weeks ago. Not a boat in sight and they moored up right in front of me. I just put my "Live from Stonehenge" Hawkwind DVD on and turned it up to full volume, they soon got the message and fucked off.
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Post by Delta9 on May 2, 2016 20:23:11 GMT
When I used to travel a lot in my motor home you could park miles from anywhere in the middle of the Spanish mountains and you'd still get some twat come and park up right next to you.
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Post by loafer on May 2, 2016 20:51:32 GMT
I simply could not do it. If I had to, for reasons of breakdown or propeller blockage, I'd be incredibly apologetic for disturbing his peace, and I would be really quiet. Why are some people so different?
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Post by peterboat on May 2, 2016 21:00:27 GMT
Or for me its the huge explosion which has nearly lifted my boat out of the water!! We are moored in Doncaster and definitely some peoples lives are going to be ruined tonight. Fire engines etc are heading over the flyover alarms are sounding nothing on the internet yet but will watch the news and keep looking
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Post by naughtyfox on May 2, 2016 21:14:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 21:14:56 GMT
Or for me its the huge explosion which has nearly lifted my boat out of the water!! We are moored in Doncaster and definitely some peoples lives are going to be ruined tonight. Fire engines etc are heading over the flyover alarms are sounding nothing on the internet yet but will watch the news and keep looking If you live in Doncaster your life is already fucking ruined
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 21:18:37 GMT
Or for me its the huge explosion which has nearly lifted my boat out of the water!! We are moored in Doncaster and definitely some peoples lives are going to be ruined tonight. Fire engines etc are heading over the flyover alarms are sounding nothing on the internet yet but will watch the news and keep looking If you live in Doncaster your life is already fucking ruined Nothing on Twitter yet Peter,some saying sonic boom
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Post by Delta9 on May 2, 2016 21:19:43 GMT
Or for me its the huge explosion which has nearly lifted my boat out of the water!! We are moored in Doncaster and definitely some peoples lives are going to be ruined tonight. Fire engines etc are heading over the flyover alarms are sounding nothing on the internet yet but will watch the news and keep looking Apparently it was a Sonic boom from some RAF quick response Typhoons
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Post by naughtyfox on May 2, 2016 21:20:26 GMT
Looking for jokes about Doncaster (none, it appears!) I came across these 2 images on the same page. Puzzling....! Attachment Deleted
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 21:24:03 GMT
Moored in Doncaster? Peter knows how to live it to the MAX
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 21:31:41 GMT
Looking for jokes about Doncaster (none, it appears!) I came across these 2 images on the same page. Puzzling....! You want to have a look on Twitter,Drama Queens or what ? Wheres Peter gone ?
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Post by peterboat on May 2, 2016 21:40:25 GMT
Dont know about Jets the water moved for us and everybody else around us! we are on the visitors moorings and couldnt see any jets and it was a large bang rather than a rumble. I have seen bombs going off in NI and it was a similar sound but hey who knows if the RAF say its jets its jets
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Post by naughtyfox on May 3, 2016 4:05:36 GMT
The link I posted above has been updated by the newspaper. Says it was 2 jets going to check on a Paris → Newcastle plane that would not respond to communication. Any idea why not?
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2016 8:14:00 GMT
Getting back on thread,what really winds me up are these boats that are bought as projects and parked up on the Towpath looking like a mobile builders yard.Sheets of old varnished ply wood are piled on the roof with lengths of old skirting and every 3 or 4 weeks some bloke is spotted aboard with a roll up a tin of lager and a hammer following his dream. A year or maybe even six months later the contents of the roof having been cleared into the undergrowth next to the towpath,the boat has moved quarter of a mile in all that time and is fastened with a couple of lengths of washing line attached to a couple of heavy logs; In the filthy window is a sign which says Unfinished Project For Sale and a mobile phone number while on the handrail are four or five Patrol Notices still unopened fluttering on the breeze.This is where the dream ends. Why do they do it ? Do we have a factory somewhere producing these DIY Boatfitters ? Is it to get away from the Mrs ? Why don't they just hire ? Do they actually believe they can turn that old seventies rust bucket into an ocean going yacht ? Year after year I ask myself these questions and year after year they keep coming.
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