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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 19:59:13 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 If he approaches too slowly he risks losing momentum before he clears all the crap and then risks having to put the boat back under power and fouling the prop. I'd opt for a fairly brisk approach and then drop the boat into neutral to ensure it cleared all the crap.
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 20:01:02 GMT
See my post above.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 20:04:36 GMT
Then get your bow in the gap and give it some welly, remebering to drop it back and into nuetral as your stern clears the gates.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 20:04:47 GMT
Yes that is a better approach I agree if you are concerned about getting something on the prop. I don't think that a boat like kris' boat would be likely to have that problem but its possible .
Overall I agree with dogless who said earlier that it is only safe if you think its safe.
If you feel it is unsafe to navigate then do not navigate. I don't know how this would work with extremely nervous people.
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Post by kris on Jan 29, 2018 20:28:40 GMT
Then get your bow in the gap and give it some welly, remebering to drop it back and into nuetral as your stern clears the gates. fine apart from the widest part of the boat is the middle.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 20:31:25 GMT
Then get your bow in the gap and give it some welly, remebering to drop it back and into nuetral as your stern clears the gates. fine apart from the widest part of the boat is the middle. Yes. They are normally like that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 20:43:31 GMT
Jeremy has the only word needed
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jan 29, 2018 22:19:45 GMT
Then get your bow in the gap and give it some welly, remebering to drop it back and into nuetral as your stern clears the gates. The likeliest outcome of doing that with a boat like kris's ( 14' beam between walls/gates that are only a shade over 15' apart) would be to get yourself nicely jammed partway through with some of the bigger chunks of floating wood/tree branches that would be drawn into the gap down either side of the boat by the water it would be rapidly displacing water from the gap between the hull sides and the gates and the walls. Surprising as it might seem, the bigger chunks of floating rubbish/timber could equally be a problem whichever direction the boat was passing through the floodgates. Going through towards the rubbish would cause the stuff closest to the gates to be drawn into the gap by the water moving along either side towards the stern, and going in the other direction, the same thing would happen to all the stuff that was initially pushed into the gap between the gates/walls by the bows.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jan 29, 2018 22:24:06 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. The same comments apply to this suggestion as to the equally impractical and ill-advised suggestion referred to in the post above.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 22:27:14 GMT
So the answer is?
Ed don't bother Tony I can guess.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 22:28:04 GMT
Jeremy has the only word needed Seemingly not in this particular case.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jan 29, 2018 22:44:28 GMT
The correct way to deal with and get rid of that raft of floating garbage is to draw it all through and clear of the floodgates and along/down the cut by running water though the lock at the other end of the cut (Cranfleet, on the Trent), especially BEFORE attempting to get through the floodgates with any boat approaching the maximum beam (14' 6'' - original Trent size) they were built to take. Back in the days when such routine tasks were the day to day responsibility of real lock keepers and rivermen, instead of a bunch of office chair polishers sitting in front of a computer terminal, the procedure described above was standard, normal practice, and was invariably followed up immediately afterwards by 'penning' all the rubbish down the nearby lock, flushing it out of the chamber and away into the river below.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 22:47:25 GMT
I was right.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2018 22:50:41 GMT
Jeremy has the only word needed Seemingly not in this particular case. My post was for comic effect. All that shit wants flushing into the river before trying to smash your way through it. Hell, heading downstream I flush a Nene lock of weeds and shit before we drop the guillotine and fill it, saves clogging up the raw water intake. Bulldozing that crap out the way with my own boat would be low down on the to do list.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jan 29, 2018 22:51:09 GMT
Well done, and good for you, . . . . so why did you post that tripe about taking a run at it then ?
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