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Post by JohnV on Oct 16, 2017 12:50:09 GMT
I had better move somewhere before I get any complaints about me overstaying on 48 hour moorings So tomorrow (depending on levels and forecasts) I might move up to Marygate (just below the Scarborough rail bridge) Don't feel under any obligation or pressure to move until and unless you are good and ready to, John. Queen's Staith is a public wharf owned by York City Council and they alone are able and entitled to impose any time limits or conditions on mooring there. C&RT's powers to control moorings, on rivers or canals, are strictly confined to mooring against land under their control or stewardship, ie. such as canal towpaths and riverside/canalside land acquired by the original navigation proprietors, and they have absolutely no powers or control over mooring to public or private land. Thanks for that info Tony. Popped down to Naburn this morning in the car and had a chat with the lockie ...... there is a nice big floating pontoon in the weir cut ...... looks like a turn round early and drop back astern to it ....... if the island floods I do have a dinghy and outboard. but to be honest I have enough water/fuel/supplies to wait out quite a long time.
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2017 13:44:50 GMT
I'm glad I decided to stay at Gainsborough rather than try to make it to Torskey now the wind has picked up.
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Post by patty on Oct 16, 2017 14:03:42 GMT
I'm glad I decided to stay at Gainsborough rather than try to make it to Torskey now the wind has picked up. Zeee wind is very strong here at times..no rain...
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2017 14:06:36 GMT
It's gusting here, but some of the gust are strong.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 16, 2017 15:55:18 GMT
starting to build here in York and gusting a bit
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2017 17:25:05 GMT
starting to build here in York and gusting a bit definately getting worse here.
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 16, 2017 17:38:43 GMT
I hope all thunderboaters are safe, it's no joke with a hurricane smashing into the uk and wreaking havoc. According to the Met office winds have peaked here at a deadly 30mph. I sincerely hope nobody's brains have been sucked out of their ears by the awesome power of this freak but natural phenomenon. Stay safe.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 17:41:55 GMT
Not much happening in Londonistan. Bit of a breeze and I had beans for breakfast so I did notice some wind earlier in the day but nothing to be concerned by.
I read on the news that all hell is breaking loose in Ireland don't ya know.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2017 17:55:12 GMT
What's really weird is it is 30 years to the day since the 1987 "Mike El Fish" storm which hit Englandland so badly in 1987 (30 years ago).
I was 13 living in a detached house by the Thames in Surrey and we had 6 trees in the garden. I had a wooden shed with electric light. The "don't worry there isn't" storm brought down 4 of the trees one of which fell onto the side of the house and bounced off and crushed my shed . the neighbours Volvo 360 was crushed by a falling oak tree. Bang !
Absolute carnage. Once the neighbour's car went I woke up and watched all of the other events including my shed being crushed like a matchbox.
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 16, 2017 17:55:27 GMT
Well they got one thing right, the sky really did turn yellow as depicted.
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Post by Jim on Oct 16, 2017 18:05:09 GMT
I thought the end of the world was nigh this morning, warm and a slight breeze, a hint of burning in the air and a weird pallid red sky, car windows covered in dust. Turns out there was a southerly wind, with smoke and dust from forest fires in Spain and Portugal. Bit breezy now, had to put a guy line on my green beans. Or they would have blown East and landed on 🦊. Checked the boat at teatime, all is fine, moored with double crossed pins. Just above lock 16. A cart workboat moored on the lock moorings, as is their wont!
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Post by patty on Oct 16, 2017 18:14:39 GMT
It was pretty scary going out early ..tip run of all things to decide to do...it was muggy warm and the sky menacing clouds with yellow tinge...yet then when I retreated to Horror House..blue skies and very breezy....still breezy but not as bad as i anticipated
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Post by JohnV on Oct 19, 2017 16:41:27 GMT
I had been a bit unsure if I should move to a different mooring with the weather forecast for the Dales showing heavy rain for today. I was talking to Peterboat who persuaded me that it is better to move early and be wrong, than move late when the river is running hard. With this in mind I have quit York for now and I have dropped down to Naburn on the visitors pontoon. Nice easy run down the river apart from a coxless pair with two young women who just stopped rowing and sat, slightly on the wrong side but almost in the middle of the river. ...... and it wasn't very wide at that point and I had to swing right onto the wrong side of the river to get the bow past them and then, guessing when they were about midships, go hard over the other way to swing the stern away from them. I don't think people realise that once I get close, they are completely hidden from view. The visitors pontoon is in the weir stream and I had to turn round well upstream and drop down backwards to it ...... Lord, a proper faff with Sabina. She really doesn't like going backwards in the direction she is told
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Post by kris on Oct 19, 2017 16:49:57 GMT
 Nice easy run down the river apart from a coxless pair with two young women who just stopped rowing and sat, slightly on the wrong side but almost in the middle of the river. ...... and it wasn't very wide at that point and I had to swing right onto the wrong side of the river to get the bow past them and then, guessing when they were about midships, go hard over the other way to swing the stern away from them. I don't think people realise that once I get close, they are completely hidden from view. P I've had the same issue with unpowered craft. What worse is when they keep moving across the channel in front of you not realising you can't see them, or can't stop very easily. To be fair though I've had it with narrowboats as well who don't seem to tealise not all boats handle the same.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2017 17:08:50 GMT
Didn't you fit a CCTV camera on the bows John?
Its a strange British thing being allowed to have a boat with unsatisfactory visibility. As far as I know the RCD and EU regulations require a certain amount of visibility without using optical aids. Which is why some wheelhouses seem to be higher than expected.
I'm sure if you were to collide with a rowing boat you would be deemed to be responsible. I remember reading about a narrow boat colliding with a twat rower on the thames and the narrow boat owner was found to be responsible.
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