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Post by kris on Apr 8, 2017 10:19:06 GMT
I think narrowboaters who single gate broad locks should pay a surcharge on their liscences.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 10:39:37 GMT
why ? they're only causing wear to one gate pivot and not two !!!
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Post by kris on Apr 8, 2017 11:06:04 GMT
The number of them you see on the L&L who scrape the sacrificial sticky out bit of their boat all the way down the closed gate is incredible. Maybe the iwa could run a campaign about it. I think the up and coming liscence review is the right time to place a surcharge on "single gaters" liscences. I mean after all they are pisstakers.
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Post by lollygagger on Apr 8, 2017 11:58:42 GMT
Perhaps an edging of interlocking hardened steel teeth would do the trick.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 13:00:42 GMT
I don't have a sticky out sharp bit on my narrow hull and I regularly use only one gate. I think widebeams should pay double because they have to use both gates ....... so they wear out twice as many gate pivots
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Post by kris on Apr 8, 2017 13:02:30 GMT
John, just to remind you, you have a widebeam as well.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 13:04:21 GMT
John, just to remind you, you have a widebeam as well. Ah .... but my widebeam is too wide for both lock gates open, in those puny little 14 foot canals
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 13:09:55 GMT
In a decent lock like this one ..... I reckon I could get Sabina through one gate 034 by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 13:17:59 GMT
John, just to remind you, you have a widebeam as well. Anyway ...... I just felt like being one of the awkward squad today
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Post by kris on Apr 8, 2017 13:28:56 GMT
John, just to remind you, you have a widebeam as well. Ah .... but my widebeam is too wide for both lock gates open, in those puny little 14 foot canals View Attachment thats because it's a proper boat.
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Post by kris on Apr 8, 2017 13:29:47 GMT
John, just to remind you, you have a widebeam as well. Anyway ...... I just felt like being one of the awkward squad today View Attachmenti think most people on this forum feel the same at times.
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Post by bargemast on Apr 8, 2017 13:49:19 GMT
In a decent lock like this one ..... I reckon I could get Sabina through one gate 034 by mudlarker2, on Flickr As soon as you can't get your barge in through 1 gate in a lock like that, it will be time to give up boating (or at least steering your barge
I have a question John, the Anchor winch on this photo loooks very Dutch, is this winch fitted on the deck of a Dutch- or Belgian built barge ?
Peter.
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Post by Jim on Apr 8, 2017 14:07:17 GMT
I learned how to steer. Simples!
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Post by JohnV on Apr 8, 2017 15:26:44 GMT
In a decent lock like this one ..... I reckon I could get Sabina through one gate 034 by mudlarker2, on Flickr As soon as you can't get your barge in through 1 gate in a lock like that, it will be time to give up boating (or at least steering your barge
I have a question John, the Anchor winch on this photo loooks very Dutch, is this winch fitted on the deck of a Dutch- or Belgian built barge ?
Peter.
Hi Peter It was on a tug called the Aicirtron and well spotted .... she was built in Schiedam !!! Alongside by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by bargemast on Apr 8, 2017 16:13:06 GMT
Thanks for posting a photo of the complete Tug John, much nicer than just her front deck with the Anchor winch.
Tugs like this one were (are) plentyful in the harbours of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerpen to assist big ships to their moorings and to help them when they need to do some tight manoeuvering that big ships can't really do without the help of these tugs.
I'm sure that she will go well with the nice lines of her hull below the waterline, no problems getting water to her prop, and not pulling the water behind her either.
Peter.
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