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Post by peterboat on Jun 1, 2016 11:46:14 GMT
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire doesnt have a lot of moorings we have long stretches of deep wide water.
So why does a boat [Squirrel Away] have to go past the moorings flat out and close? His excuse was that I dont move? mmmm Out for a week last month, out again tomorrow with luck I will meet him {hope his pins are in good and deep]!
I am a big boat with springs and even then he managed to move me around the yogurt pots were bouncing around!
He didnt slow down and I wasnt the only one shouting at him about his poor boating strange world to say the least eh
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Post by JohnV on Jun 1, 2016 11:54:22 GMT
decisions decisions, which forum shall I answer on ..........hmmmmmm............ There are stupid inconsiderate bastards everywhere ......... even on the glorious reaches of the S&SY
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Post by peterboat on Jun 1, 2016 12:07:41 GMT
There are John he didnt slow down just hurled abuse all the way down as others were yelling at him! Sent an email to CRT our area is very good at having talks to errant boaters
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 12:59:38 GMT
The Sheffield and South Yorkshire doesnt have a lot of moorings we have long stretches of deep wide water. So why does a boat [Squirrel Away] have to go past the moorings flat out and close? His excuse was that I dont move? mmmm Out for a week last month, out again tomorrow with luck I will meet him {hope his pins are in good and deep]! I am a big boat with springs and even then he managed to move me around the yogurt pots were bouncing around! He didnt slow down and I wasnt the only one shouting at him about his poor boating strange world to say the least eh None of his business if you don't move Peter,is he local,how does he know that ? I see it regular where I am,smug, retired early bastards,that read and post on CWDF, full of opinions and more often than not reside in a marina,though not as a live aboard.
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Post by macwolfelee on Jun 1, 2016 13:38:25 GMT
However, surely he can't produce as much wash as the huge commercial barges? I've been bounced around quite a bit on the A&C and S&SY even when they slow down. Deep wide water like rivers and the said canals require less slowing down (but equally there is no need to pass very close).
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 1, 2016 13:46:43 GMT
Hunt him down and gut him like a fish. You can be frying his liver tomorrow, with some sauteed onions. Problem solved!
How about putting a boat horn (quietly so he doesn't hear the scraping) down his chimney and then, from a distance, set if off at 3am?! Video camera at the ready!
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Post by JohnV on Jun 1, 2016 13:53:41 GMT
However, surely he can't produce as much wash as the huge commercial barges? I've been bounced around quite a bit on the A&C and S&SY even when they slow down. Deep wide water like rivers and the said canals require less slowing down (but equally there is no need to pass very close). That surprises me. I found the big barges very good at keeping their wash down, and being a yoghurt pot I noticed things like that
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 14:03:50 GMT
However, surely he can't produce as much wash as the huge commercial barges? I've been bounced around quite a bit on the A&C and S&SY even when they slow down. Deep wide water like rivers and the said canals require less slowing down (but equally there is no need to pass very close). That surprises me. I found the big barges very good at keeping their wash down, and being a yoghurt pot I noticed things like that Its all just a decline in etiquette and manners John.People come to the canal for a bit of peace and tranquility others treat it as the M25,constantly on a timetable,a BLOG to update so our friends in Spam Valley can see our progress as we "do the system"
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 1, 2016 18:52:01 GMT
But those blogs are great for beginners to the canals, they get to see places and can plot their own routes and make notes. What's wrong with "doing the system"? That's what we're doing. It's an unusual way to see England. Even though I knew England pretty well, I have learned about the canals' histories, read books about boating - other peoples' adventures, such as the war time girl bargees, and got to know a bit about boats and engines and what boating is all about. I now know what Hawkesbury Junction is, and I never thought I'd be au fait with Nuneaton, Banbury, Congleton, Huddersfield and Halifax! It all leads to an appreciation of what England is. Have you ever read Priestley's English Journey? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/04.TU.04/?style=expander_popup&filename=expandables/04.EX.01.xml I now know where the laundrettes are in Halifax, Banbury and Congleton - something I didn't know 2 years ago. Boating is an education!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 1, 2016 18:55:53 GMT
This bloke is rather entertaining:
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Post by peterboat on Jun 1, 2016 19:04:28 GMT
However, surely he can't produce as much wash as the huge commercial barges? I've been bounced around quite a bit on the A&C and S&SY even when they slow down. Deep wide water like rivers and the said canals require less slowing down (but equally there is no need to pass very close). I get the Exol pride going past me 4 times a week ,twice forward, and twice in reverse, 7 in the morning when he reverses often I dont wake up. This chump comes flying down the canal, I am cutting tiles with a diamond blade tile cutter next thing I know I am sitting on my arse as his wash banged me into the side and backwards! If my fingers had been near the blade I wouldnt be typing now, I would still be having the fingers sowed back on not good and totally ignorant. I will catch up with him revenge is a dish served cold!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 19:11:15 GMT
But those blogs are great for beginners to the canals, they get to see places and can plot their own routes and make notes. What's wrong with "doing the system"? That's what we're doing. It's an unusual way to see England. Even though I knew England pretty well, I have learned about the canals' histories, read books about boating - other peoples' adventures, such as the war time girl bargees, and got to know a bit about boats and engines and what boating is all about. I now know what Hawkesbury Junction is, and I never thought I'd be au fait with Nuneaton, Banbury, Congleton, Huddersfield and Halifax! It all leads to an appreciation of what England is. Have you ever read Priestley's English Journey? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/04.TU.04/?style=expander_popup&filename=expandables/04.EX.01.xml I now know where the laundrettes are in Halifax, Banbury and Congleton - something I didn't know 2 years ago. Boating is an education! Your a Holiday Boater,totally different animal
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 19:14:56 GMT
But those blogs are great for beginners to the canals, they get to see places and can plot their own routes and make notes. What's wrong with "doing the system"? That's what we're doing. It's an unusual way to see England. Even though I knew England pretty well, I have learned about the canals' histories, read books about boating - other peoples' adventures, such as the war time girl bargees, and got to know a bit about boats and engines and what boating is all about. I now know what Hawkesbury Junction is, and I never thought I'd be au fait with Nuneaton, Banbury, Congleton, Huddersfield and Halifax! It all leads to an appreciation of what England is. Have you ever read Priestley's English Journey? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/04.TU.04/?style=expander_popup&filename=expandables/04.EX.01.xml I now know where the laundrettes are in Halifax, Banbury and Congleton - something I didn't know 2 years ago. Boating is an education! Theres nothing wrong with doing the system,it just that its these peoples raison detr"e,they see it as something akin to visiting the Pyramids
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 1, 2016 19:33:34 GMT
This bloke is rather entertaining: He is. And look, there's my boat at 03:10!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2016 19:52:26 GMT
But those blogs are great for beginners to the canals, they get to see places and can plot their own routes and make notes. What's wrong with "doing the system"? That's what we're doing. It's an unusual way to see England. Even though I knew England pretty well, I have learned about the canals' histories, read books about boating - other peoples' adventures, such as the war time girl bargees, and got to know a bit about boats and engines and what boating is all about. I now know what Hawkesbury Junction is, and I never thought I'd be au fait with Nuneaton, Banbury, Congleton, Huddersfield and Halifax! It all leads to an appreciation of what England is. Have you ever read Priestley's English Journey? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Journey www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/history/04.TU.04/?style=expander_popup&filename=expandables/04.EX.01.xml I now know where the laundrettes are in Halifax, Banbury and Congleton - something I didn't know 2 years ago. Boating is an education! Theres nothing wrong with doing the system,it just that its these peoples raison detr"e,they see it as something akin to visiting the Pyramids Without fail they write about the Nene, the Middle Levels & the Great Ouse aa though no one has ever been there before. Always reference to having to empty the lock when traveling upstream, whining about the manual guillotine gates, lack of moorings and facilities (which is bollocks) and a blog wouldn't be complete without the standard shit about the pronunciation changing from Nen, to Neen at Thrapston - it doesn't but enough idiots repeat it they believe each other!
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