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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 16:28:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 16:57:08 GMT
It's safe to move as soon as YOU feel it is.
Rog
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 17:17:19 GMT
Oh I won't be sailing through that lot.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 29, 2018 19:10:34 GMT
I get that at every lock on our canal
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 19:23:37 GMT
It's probably not that clear from the photos but there are some huge chunks of wood in there that could do some serious damage, if got in the prop.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 29, 2018 19:28:10 GMT
How about just clearing it? Put on a Davy Crocket hat so you can feel at home in the Wild Frontier.
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 29, 2018 19:29:39 GMT
It's probably not that clear from the photos but there are some huge chunks of wood in there that could do some serious damage, if got in the prop. What a girlie you are. Just put it into gear, and when the back of the boat nears the rubbish, put it into neutral and coast past. Alternatively send an email to Parry telling him that you know your rights and demand he sends a CRT team to pull you through with ropes attached to their testicles.
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 29, 2018 19:30:49 GMT
Oh I won't be sailing through that lot. If you have sails, so much the better - no danger of damaging the prop.
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 19:37:24 GMT
How about just clearing it? Put on a Davy Crocket hat so you can feel at home in the Wild Frontier. It's not my job to clear it. Bw used to clear it when they opened the gates. They don't bother any more, the same as they don't bother kebbing out near locks anymore.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 29, 2018 19:44:06 GMT
I must confess Kris, although I would hesitate in my little yoghurt pot, with a steel boat I would push into it at speed and glide through with the engine in neutral. Most of it pushes away on the bow wave and doesn't even touch the hull.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 29, 2018 19:46:47 GMT
Ask another boat going through to give you a tow!
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 19:49:41 GMT
I must confess Kris, although I would hesitate in my little yoghurt pot, with a steel boat I would push into it at speed and glide through with the engine in neutral. Most of it pushes away on the bow wave and doesn't even touch the hull. ill just wait for a day, until it clears.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 19:52:49 GMT
Approach slowly. Put boat in neutral. Walk to front of boat with keb and haul out any tasty looking bits of wood for firewood. Its still winter. It seems to me that by definition there is no flow or all the junk would not be there anyway. So you can take your time.
Or you open her up and blast your way through then claim for an 11 months overstay due to a bent prop shaft the material for the replacement of which has not been mined yet.
Hth
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 19:56:08 GMT
Ask another boat going through to give you a tow! Just make sure they havn't picked up a mattress first.
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 19:58:37 GMT
Perhaps I should mention the gates are quite narrow, so there's no way of approaching it at speed.
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