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Post by kris on Jun 8, 2017 11:16:00 GMT
As I've said feel free to drive, park fly your boat as you like. It doesn't make it correct however many links you provide.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 8, 2017 11:25:21 GMT
As I've said feel free to drive, park fly your boat as you like. It doesn't make it correct however many links you provide. Well, that entirely depends on whether you consider language to be descriptive or prescriptive. For example "electrocution" originally meant "put to death by means of electricity", it is a portmanteau of "electricity" and "execution". However, since everybody agrees that "electrocution" also means any accidental death by electricity, e.g. stumbling onto the third rail on a suburban railway then that is now what it means. If "parking" is used widely to describe mooring a boat, then by extension it is a valid use of the word.
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Post by peterboat on Jun 8, 2017 11:50:42 GMT
Apparently CRT are considering giving out grants to fund the retrofitting of steering wheels to narrow boats. Oy I have wheels in both boats!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 11:53:08 GMT
As I've said feel free to drive, park fly your boat as you like. It doesn't make it correct however many links you provide. Well, that entirely depends on whether you consider language to be descriptive or prescriptive. For example "electrocution" originally meant "put to death by means of electricity", it is a portmanteau of "electricity" and "execution". However, since everybody agrees that "electrocution" also means any accidental death by electricity, e.g. stumbling onto the third rail on a suburban railway then that is now what it means. If "parking" is used widely to describe mooring a boat, then by extension it is a valid use of the word. Spoken language is no more than a tool really. You can use it for any purpose you like. Lawyers use it to make lots of money. Body language is less ambiguous...I mean it's obvious what the chap on the back of the boat is doing with the tiller without the use of spoken language.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 12:01:10 GMT
Apparently CRT are considering giving out grants to fund the retrofitting of steering wheels to narrow boats. Oy I have wheels in both boats!! I've got wheel on one and tiller on the other but had been considering indoor wheel steering as well as that would be nice in crap weather ! Very nice !
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Post by bargemast on Jun 8, 2017 13:06:21 GMT
Its no wonder so many people handle boats with a car driver mentality exactly, including trying to go as fast as they do on the roads. While phoning and sms-ing, without looking where they're going, I'm surprised that there aren't more accidents. Peter.
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Post by peterboat on Jun 8, 2017 13:33:41 GMT
Oy I have wheels in both boats!! I've got wheel on one and tiller on the other but had been considering indoor wheel steering as well as that would be nice in crap weather ! Very nice ! Indoor steering both suapect JohnV the same for his boats must be a trend
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 13:37:22 GMT
I do like a tiller myself for a smaller boat or narrow boat. The best of both worlds would be tiller and indoor wheel. That really would be ideal. I've seen a narrow boat steered from the front with a wheel. There are Morse control dual helm arrangements available and the steering would be hydraulic with a bypass circuit for when using the tiller.
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Post by lollygagger on Jun 8, 2017 13:53:07 GMT
I think the difference is that a narrowboat barely has more grace than a skip really, much as I love mine. Certainly more like a skip than what I think of as a boat. I'd be embarrassed to apply nautical terms to it in anyone's earshot so I'll carry on driving it, on the right.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 13:54:29 GMT
Unusual name for a bloke Cross dressing? Not my cup of tea really although my daughters were very amused when I put a couple of small balloons under my t-shirt so I won't rule it out.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 8, 2017 13:55:02 GMT
Maybe he meant parking the bus? Foxy says ('cos Thunderboat reply system gone wonky, can't reply under the line): No. Parking is parking, and driving is driving. Airline pilots drive flying buses. We also other boats on the right or left, our boat has a front end and back end and a kitchen.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2017 13:59:25 GMT
I think the difference is that a narrowboat barely has more grace than a skip really, much as I love mine. Certainly more like a skip than what I think of as a boat. I'd be embarrassed to apply nautical terms to it in anyone's earshot so I'll carry on driving it, on the right. Traditionally people in control of narrow boats were steerers. Someone else will know if this is right but I think you passed other boats on the chimney side. This whole thing about keeping to the right on water is funny. It only applies when there is a collision risk. If there's no risk you can do what you like - totally different to the roads.
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Post by kris on Jun 8, 2017 14:01:16 GMT
None of the people who go driving on their boat and park it up, will mind then when there are parking meters and traffic wardens every where on the waterways?
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Post by lollygagger on Jun 8, 2017 14:03:29 GMT
I think the difference is that a narrowboat barely has more grace than a skip really, much as I love mine. Certainly more like a skip than what I think of as a boat. I'd be embarrassed to apply nautical terms to it in anyone's earshot so I'll carry on driving it, on the right. Traditionally people in control of narrow boats were steerers. Someone else will know if this is right but I think you passed other boats on the chimney side. This whole thing about keeping to the right on water is funny. It only applies when there is a collision risk. If there's no risk you can do what you like - totally different to the roads. Pass to the right then. Steering was what they did, someone else was walking the towpath with the engine? Driving is both?
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Post by markhez on Jun 8, 2017 14:04:16 GMT
I tried telling that to the coppers that arrested a bloke the other day for drink driving (in his boat) under the road traffic act. They still seemed to think it applied and he got a night in the cells. it is against the law to be drunk in charge of a boat so they didn't need to use the road traffic act. But I'm sure the "coppers" wouldn't be aware of this. But under what law when it's a pleasure boat, that's the question! Merchant shipping act?
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