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Post by Telemachus on Jul 24, 2017 16:44:54 GMT
Our trip is not getting off to a particularly good start. Left Glascote this morning and thought "let's do Atherstone at lunch time when the decrepit ones are having lunch". But no, that didn't work out. We were behind a very pleasant old couple who nevertheless seemed unaware that their boat had a throttle. Driving INCREDIBLY slowly into, between and out of locks. A RN with a 200rpm tickover and 0.2 mph cruising speed! Still bumping and crashing of course, because there isn't much steerage at 0.2mph. So that took 4 hours (11 locks), 2 hours of which was spent standing still (I was on the boat, Jeff and his dad were working the locks including helping them.
Finally, we get to the top and they pull in. hallelujah! So off we chug at 3 mph / 1300 rpm. A little later we get to moored boats near Hartshill, I slow to idle before passing first moored boat. Then a bit of a gap (still at tickover) then pass the next moored boat still at idle with barely a ripple. A guy is walking his dog and as we all pass he says "you're going a bit quick mate, you've just pulled this guy's pin out" and he proceeded to reattach the boat to the Armco type piling. The boat had been attached by poking an ordinary mooring stake down the gap where one would normally put a goat chain or piling hook. Any slight pull on the rope was lifting the stake out. But apparently it was all our fault for not switching the engine off and pulling our boat past on ropes. I forbore to say "You miserable cunt, if that chap can't be bothered to make any effort to secure his boat properly, that is his look out". Well I did say the second bit, I just thought the first bit. He glared at me as if it was entirely unreasonable that a boat should actually be moving on the cut.
What with incompetent old people and miserable cunts, what we need is a cull. I'm looking at genetically engineering a virus.
<feeling a little better thanks to my cathartic rant>
now piss of the rest of you, I don't want to be told "Ooooh! You mustn't hurry on the cut" by people who make a virtue out of going as slowly and inefficiency as possible. As I said, piss off.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 16:49:51 GMT
You're from jock land, use Colin's approach - if in doubt, flat out.
Job sorted, trail of miserable cunts in your wake with something to truly be miserable about - you could consider it a public service 🚢🍻⚓👍
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Post by Jim on Jul 24, 2017 17:00:34 GMT
Thing is by not slowing down you make everyone happy. You are happy, and them as enjoy whinge and or have a "slow down" while shaking fist tourettes tic are happy too. Win win. Even them with the Slow Down for Badly Moored Botes signs are happy, cos it justifies the expense of the sign . Go Nick Go Nick!
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 24, 2017 17:06:37 GMT
Thing is by not slowing down you make everyone happy. You are happy, and them as enjoy whinge and or have a "slow down" while shaking fist tourettes tic are happy too. Win win. Even them with the Slow Down for Badly Moored Botes signs are happy, cos it justifies the expense of the sign . Go Nick Go Nick! Well it does make you wonder what the point of slowing down is when you get grief even after a prolonged period at tickover - and from some passing stranger, not even the boat owner!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 17:26:44 GMT
I have always slowed down past moored boats specially when I was on narrow canals. More than once I have had agro but not from people moored but boaters coming up behind me.
You gotta laugh.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 17:35:08 GMT
Our trip is not getting off to a particularly good start. Left Glascote this morning and thought "let's do Atherstone at lunch time when the decrepit ones are having lunch". But no, that didn't work out. We were behind a very pleasant old couple who nevertheless seemed unaware that their boat had a throttle. Driving INCREDIBLY slowly into, between and out of locks. A RN with a 200rpm tickover and 0.2 mph cruising speed! Still bumping and crashing of course, because there isn't much steerage at 0.2mph. So that took 4 hours (11 locks), 2 hours of which was spent standing still (I was on the boat, Jeff and his dad were working the locks including helping them. Finally, we get to the top and they pull in. hallelujah! So off we chug at 3 mph / 1300 rpm. A little later we get to moored boats near Hartshill, I slow to idle before passing first moored boat. Then a bit of a gap (still at tickover) then pass the next moored boat still at idle with barely a ripple. A guy is walking his dog and as we all pass he says "you're going a bit quick mate, you've just pulled this guy's pin out" and he proceeded to reattach the boat to the Armco type piling. The boat had been attached by poking an ordinary mooring stake down the gap where one would normally put a goat chain or piling hook. Any slight pull on the rope was lifting the stake out. But apparently it was all our fault for not switching the engine off and pulling our boat past on ropes. I forbore to say "You miserable cunt, if that chap can't be bothered to make any effort to secure his boat properly, that is his look out". Well I did say the second bit, I just thought the first bit. He glared at me as if it was entirely unreasonable that a boat should actually be moving on the cut. What with incompetent old people and miserable cunts, what we need is a cull. I'm looking at genetically engineering a virus. <feeling a little better thanks to my cathartic rant> now piss of the rest of you, I don't want to be told "Ooooh! You mustn't hurry on the cut" by people who make a virtue out of going as slowly and inefficiency as possible. As I said, piss off. We always cruise past slowly, but still get stick from twat fuckers like haulier p who actually don't want you to move at all. I came out of London a few months back, and was told to slow down when I was bloody mooring! I have now learnt a new trick, go past really slowly, but work the tiller from side to side. They rock about like fuck, stick their heads out to shout, and we are barely moving 😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Post by smileypete on Jul 24, 2017 17:53:48 GMT
now piss of the rest of you, I don't want to be told "Ooooh! You mustn't hurry on the cut" by people who make a virtue out of going as slowly and inefficiency as possible. As I said, piss off. Well you seem to look down on liveaboards and similar folk in modest circumstances, so if you can't indulge in your rich man's hobby without being miserable, that doesn't get much sympathy from me... sorry
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 17:56:40 GMT
now piss of the rest of you, I don't want to be told "Ooooh! You mustn't hurry on the cut" by people who make a virtue out of going as slowly and inefficiency as possible. As I said, piss off. Well you seem to look down on liveaboards and similar folk in modest circumstances, so if you can't indulge in your rich man's hobby without being miserable, that doesn't get much sympathy from me... sorry They probably recognised him from here or cwdf, and thought "I'll wind that twat up". Can't blame them, I'd have done the same.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:01:13 GMT
He certainly made this pair grumpy. Resemblance?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:06:01 GMT
The benefits of a classics education. He's fluent in profanity as well You should rant! Rammed by an old Harborough day boat yesterday as we cruised past each other on a straight stretch of canal. He pushed the tiller the wrong way apparently. All books off bookcase, ornaments and vase of flowers everywhere. Looked like a bomb site. Luckily the only real damage was a wet carpet from the vase of flowers. The raised bow of their boat missed a saloon window by 1". You just have to shrug these annoyances off and move on, or they spoil your day. Happy cruising you old whinger. Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:14:05 GMT
The benefits of a classics education. He's fluent in profanity as well You should rant! Rammed by an old Harborough day boat yesterday as we cruised past each other on a straight stretch of canal. He pushed the tiller the wrong way apparently. All books off bookcase, ornaments and vase of flowers everywhere. Looked like a bomb site. Luckily the only real damage was a wet carpet from the vase of flowers. The raised bow of their boat missed a saloon window by 1". You just have to shrug these annoyances off and move on, or they spoil your day. Happy cruising you old whinger. Rog I'd have shot the bastid!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:22:26 GMT
Vaguely know the owner of the day boat, and saw the family handing it back at Stockton top later on. The guy who'd been steering had a severe bloody graze on his head and down his nose. He'd tripped up later in the day on the towpath. Maybe he had a worse day than us Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jul 24, 2017 18:31:18 GMT
Our trip is not getting off to a particularly good start. Left Glascote this morning and thought "let's do Atherstone at lunch time when the decrepit ones are having lunch". But no, that didn't work out. We were behind a very pleasant old couple who nevertheless seemed unaware that their boat had a throttle. Driving INCREDIBLY slowly into, between and out of locks. A RN with a 200rpm tickover and 0.2 mph cruising speed! Still bumping and crashing of course, because there isn't much steerage at 0.2mph. So that took 4 hours (11 locks), 2 hours of which was spent standing still (I was on the boat, Jeff and his dad were working the locks including helping them. Finally, we get to the top and they pull in. hallelujah! So off we chug at 3 mph / 1300 rpm. A little later we get to moored boats near Hartshill, I slow to idle before passing first moored boat. Then a bit of a gap (still at tickover) then pass the next moored boat still at idle with barely a ripple. A guy is walking his dog and as we all pass he says "you're going a bit quick mate, you've just pulled this guy's pin out" and he proceeded to reattach the boat to the Armco type piling. The boat had been attached by poking an ordinary mooring stake down the gap where one would normally put a goat chain or piling hook. Any slight pull on the rope was lifting the stake out. But apparently it was all our fault for not switching the engine off and pulling our boat past on ropes. I forbore to say "You miserable cunt, if that chap can't be bothered to make any effort to secure his boat properly, that is his look out". Well I did say the second bit, I just thought the first bit. He glared at me as if it was entirely unreasonable that a boat should actually be moving on the cut. What with incompetent old people and miserable cunts, what we need is a cull. I'm looking at genetically engineering a virus. <feeling a little better thanks to my cathartic rant> now piss of the rest of you, I don't want to be told "Ooooh! You mustn't hurry on the cut" by people who make a virtue out of going as slowly and inefficiency as possible. As I said, piss off. I would have stabbed them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:41:21 GMT
He certainly made this pair grumpy. Resemblance? Surely that bottle of fizz has an A instead of a U...
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 24, 2017 19:31:17 GMT
He certainly made this pair grumpy. Resemblance? Surely that bottle of fizz has an A instead of a U... Well spotted that man!
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