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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 9:07:23 GMT
Fortunately I have managed to avoid really nasty incidents when boating.
A memorable one for me was crawling up the Thames in a slow narrow boat (my first narrow boat) with the river on "stream increasing" boards. I had been advised to find a mooring so I came alongside a spot I knew there were some mooring rings. I jumped off the boat with the centre line and looked for the rings which were buried in the grass. Meanwhile the current took the front of the boat out. Oh dear. As the boat began to move away from the side I realised I could not hold it on the centre line and it was much too far to step aboard so I help the line and just jumped. Fortunately I made it. The river is cold in April and I had no lifejacket.
Best to use a bow line in this situation.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 9:30:28 GMT
We ran out of beer far from any pubs or shops once.
My favourite hat blew off me head and sunk without trace.
Arrived at the Ship Inn just as food service had stopped.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 12, 2017 9:36:43 GMT
Worst thing that happened to me was when we broke down and had to moor on the towpath for a year pending fitting a new spark plug. You wouldn't believe the grief we got. So unfair!
Oh no, that was just a dream.
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Post by JohnV on Jul 12, 2017 10:13:38 GMT
Twat back to the OP losing one phase on the three phase drive motor in the Blisworth tunnel. Came crawling out the end with the engine room hatch open and the smell of overheating electric motor insulation wafting in the breeze. just made it before it burst into flames (mark I electric drive system, 72' nb sometime in the seventies ...... mark II followed shortly ..... with III, IV and V at later dates))
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Post by Saltysplash on Jul 12, 2017 10:21:22 GMT
Left Nieuport at 4am in dead calm heading for Chatham in a 100 yr old barge with a 60 yr old engine. Half way across the wind and sea picked up and we rocked and rolled all the way to North Foreland I plonked myself in the Wheelhouse and just held on but all was well. The engine held up well till we got onto the Swale channel heading for Queenborough when smoke started billowing out of the engine room. As the official engineer for the trip I dropped down the hatch and found it was only the dipstick that had come loose and was spraying oil onto the block, so a quick retighten and rub down and we chugged on I've done the trip many times since without batting an eyelid but they have all been proper sea boats.
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Post by patty on Jul 12, 2017 11:01:56 GMT
Mine quite minor..dragged along towpath when the wind took my boat as I tried to moor..managed to scramble back on..had too cos poor Molly was tied up watching me. T'other one bit more iffy..I was shattered, emotionally drained and distraught taking boat to be sold..last lock I did on her nano seconds away from being cilled when fortunately the boat I was sharing lock with noticed and shouted a warning
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 12:03:20 GMT
Meanwhile the current took the front of the boat out. Oh dear. As the boat began to move away from the side I realised I could not hold it on the centre line and it was much too far to step aboard so I help the line and just jumped. Fortunately I made it. Been there except current was caused by lock outwash (might not be the correct term) no amount of shouting 'close the paddle' worked. No harm done one of the waiting boats retrieved the boat, but lesson learnt.
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Post by Saltysplash on Jul 12, 2017 13:00:50 GMT
Found the video of part of the crossing if anyone would care to view
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 14:57:04 GMT
Thats a bit different to the Slough arm !!
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Post by Saltysplash on Jul 12, 2017 15:52:03 GMT
It was my first taste of big barge boating all the way from Amsterdam to Hoo. After that cruising her was a doddle with several trips up the Thames and the three of us doing our Day Skippers so at least we got to know a little of what we were doing on the lumpy stuff. We had to hire Karl the skipper for the crossing, He used to live on a big barge just past Windsor i think, if he's still alive that is. My close chum Gary who owned Disponibel is sadly no longer with us thanks to cancer which forced him to sell Disponibel, which was last seen in Poplar Dock. No idea where it is now
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 15:56:50 GMT
Karl is still there with his stunning Dutch barge moored at Old Windsor. I've been in it. It is the nicest barge I have ever been on. Absolutely beautiful. He was part of the Queens jubilee a few years ago. I'm amazed how the boat has always looked exactly the same since I first took a photo of it about 28 years ago on my way up the River in a Broom Scorpio speedboat I had when I was a teenager.
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Post by Saltysplash on Jul 12, 2017 16:03:27 GMT
Karl is still there with his stunning Dutch barge moored at Old Windsor. I've been in it. It is the nicest barge I have ever been on. Absolutely beautiful. He was part of the Queens jubilee a few years ago. I'm amazed how the boat has always looked exactly the same since I first took a photo of it about 28 years ago on my way up the River in a Broom Scorpio speedboat I had when I was a teenager. Thanks MM, glad to hear it, I'm not sure he knew what he let himself in for when he turned up at Nieuport to find the three of us hosting a BBQ for the previous owner and his wife and getting more and more sloshed on beer but he got us all cracking on prepping for the crossing and after checking the forecast he announced we were off at about 3am. He is quite a character and yes hos barge is a real looker
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 16:08:37 GMT
I might have a paper photo of it somewhere from the late eighties - will look for it and scan it for here if I find it. Last time I passed the boat about 10 days ago it was dark.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 12, 2017 16:12:19 GMT
I was once invited onto a chap's boat in Leeds and was almost overwhelmed by the smell of shit, cardboard and horse shavings. Nice fella though.
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Post by Jim on Jul 12, 2017 16:36:58 GMT
I was once invited onto a chap's boat in Leeds and was almost overwhelmed by the smell of shit, cardboard and horse shavings. Nice fella though. Ah the BYOFS boat. Bring your own fly spray!
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