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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 14:31:28 GMT
I like to go through locks, speially flights, efficiently and quickly. As designed. No hurry or schedule but I find when people just fanny about for ages as if their boat is made of bone china is just annoying.
Does anyone else get this or am I an intolerant twat?
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Post by Gone on Jul 21, 2017 15:20:57 GMT
When it's busy I like to have the boat in front to be slightly slower than me so I can comfortably keep up and not be responsible for slowing those behind. It's a bit like driving on the roads, if much faster than me they are reckless speeding swine, if much slower then I hate them for holding everyone up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 15:23:16 GMT
This was a boat coming the other way on a flight and I easily had time to turn the lock on them but I don't do that.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 21, 2017 15:24:13 GMT
I like to go through locks, speially flights, efficiently and quickly. As designed. No hurry or schedule but I find when people just fanny about for ages as if their boat is made of bone china is just annoying. Does anyone else get this or am I an intolerant twat? You are an intolerant twat. Just like me! Yes people can make an incredible meal of going through a lock. No wonder they are so fat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 15:26:09 GMT
They left gates and paddles open so to be fair perhaps they were newcomers. I hate newcomers
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 21, 2017 15:30:53 GMT
In, both paddles up straight away, whether going up or down, then out on full throttle, that's Mr Stabby.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 15:34:13 GMT
In, both paddles up straight away, whether going up or down, then out on full throttle, that's Mr Stabby. With daggers drawn I assume ?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 15:36:40 GMT
We just do the locks.
Invariably if someone is following us we are often faster, even when they have more crew.
I hate it when people lift paddles slowly and one at a time when going downhill.
I suppose when you know the flight and it's idiosyncrasies, you just crack on.
There was a discussion on t'other place and I was gobsmacked by the rules for locking some people have.
Mind you at Colwich, I was once told off for opening gate paddles first. The fact that I was turning en empty lock seemed to be entirely ignored by the charmless jobsworth doing the telling.
Still, I boat to have fun not battles, so smile and remain serene.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 15:37:01 GMT
Mr Stabby Have you considered filing down the end of the handle of the windlass to a spike so you have a legal weapon to deal with scrotes?
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Post by Jim on Jul 21, 2017 16:06:25 GMT
There was a discussion on t'other place and I was gobsmacked by the rules for locking some people have. Rog I suspect some, well one really, are/is on the spectrum he's soooo anal about it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 16:09:10 GMT
If you mean the autism spectrum I reckon loads of people on forums are. Myself for one. I didn't read the topic so not sure what was said.
And may have wrong end of stick anyway !
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 16:30:11 GMT
It was all about who's in charge, and there can only be one person in charge.
We never really think about locks anymore. They are like bridges, just something you encounter as you travel.
I realise the stuff that johnv does and you roughy toughy big boat people on rivers do needs a bit more care and thought, but the muddy ditches shouldn't be that difficult.
I've seen loads of drunken stag and hen parties manage with rarely ever any accidents.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 21, 2017 16:44:59 GMT
Mr Stabby Have you considered filing down the end of the handle of the windlass to a spike so you have a legal weapon to deal with scrotes? Actually we had to cross a busy road and walk over a bridge to operate a lock somewhere and I said to my boy that if we did this and didn't have a boat we would probably get arrested for carrying a windlass in a public place. I believe at least one murder (in Birmingham iirc) has been committed using one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 16:55:29 GMT
That's interesting if a windlass has been used to kill someone. Must be fairly unusual.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 21, 2017 17:25:04 GMT
That's interesting if a windlass has been used to kill someone. Must be fairly unusual. 312 August 18 1888 ALLEGED MURDERS At Whitchurch, yesterday, John Gallagher was committed for trial in a charge of attempting to murder Aaron Thomas, a boatman. Without the slightest provocation, prisoner, it is alleged, struck Thomas a fearful blow on the head with the handle of a windlass, causing an extensive wound, and was about to deal him another blow as he lay unconscious on the ground when the murderous instrument was wrested from him. The police subsequently found him in a field naked. Dr George said he could not tell whether prisoner was suffering from homicidal mania or alcoholic insanity. Prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he had killed Thomas for disobeying his orders.
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