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Post by thebfg on Jul 28, 2018 18:17:12 GMT
nice pics btw
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 18:33:57 GMT
we got blown about a bit too. going to see what tomorrows storm brings before casting off in the morning. It was too windy to take any pictures while underway, hand off the wheel for a short while was guaranteed to blow you onto the lee bank, I had to draft my glamorous assistant into steering duty while I rodded out the weed filter - almost constantly at one point. mouse had to fend for himself with no crew to press into service - the old seadog did OK 🚢🍻👍 Better than the old boy from MLWC that left me no option but to give him a love tap, on an extremely narrow bit of the Old West at Aldreth he was broadside across the navigation more over to his port than anything else - leaving me the option of reversing flat out onto a lee bank full of weed with no hope of getting back into clear water or strike the thing a glancing blow. Luckily it was a Highbridge cruiser so no harm done to either of us. In all my years of boating I've never had that happen before - almost all situations being recoverable, particularly if another boat was involved. Unfortunately this was utterly unavoidable, utterly annoying, and utterly unpreventable even with 5 short blasts!
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Post by patty on Jul 28, 2018 18:36:28 GMT
guess maybe..he works for Reds in-between his walks across these islands..he's got a week there then back here for last minute whatever before he flies off to Greenland in August..so that'll be me worrying about Polar Bears and Crevasses..he demonstrated using my stairs how to tie a prusik knot to haul a person out of a crevasse...he had heavy kitbags swinging...apparently its all based on the concept of pulleys like a crane works...didn't take much in as I was visualising what could happen!..Who'd be a mum?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 10:28:30 GMT
Away early from the Pike and Eel, two years ago a knackered old Harborough marine narrow boat lived under the guided bus route. 2018 he's gone but the graffiti artists have made their mark. Not the greatest photo, will try harder on the way back. Arrived in light rain and a bit of wind at the Waits St Ives. The Ely model is catching in Fenland. This is us for the next day or so, shopping to do, possible nip to the Chinese laundry just up the road, bit of ten pin bowling and visit a few pubs with mouse 🚢🍻👍
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Post by mouse on Jul 29, 2018 10:37:09 GMT
Mouse at the Pike & Eel. Learning how to post pictures! Gazza showing me how. All I have to do is Romberg the instructions!
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Post by erivers on Jul 29, 2018 12:25:07 GMT
Just to amuse Gazza on a wet and windy Sunday in St Ives ........ Brownshill Lock in the 1950s with a couple of Banham's boats. Radial gates before new guillotines. Boat Inn (long gone) and landlord Mr Lock who also acted as lock-keeper and expected payment in beer!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2018 18:07:53 GMT
Just to amuse Gazza on a wet and windy Sunday in St Ives ........ Brownshill Lock in the 1950s with a couple of Banham's boats. Radial gates before new guillotines. Boat Inn (long gone) and landlord Mr Lock who also acted as lock-keeper and expected payment in beer! There is only Ditchford on the Nene that still has its radial gate, Rush Mills and Abington Lock rebuilt an age ago. I wonder why they were chosen at these locations over the standard guillotine given both serve the same function of acting as sluice as well as a navigation lock.
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Post by erivers on Jul 29, 2018 21:01:32 GMT
Not sure how these relate to the radial gates on the Nene, but the history at Brownshill is quite interesting.
The downstream radial gate at Brownshill, which had been installed in 1933 to replace the original oak pointing gates, was only replaced by a guillotine gate in 1969.
The river is tidally influenced up to Brownshill and the sluice/lock was originally built in 1837 to maintain a navigation level of 3 feet up to St Ives after the tidal Ouse was shortened by the Eau Brink Cut.
The massive original oak lock gates from 1837 sometimes had to be opened against a 4 foot head of water and so had a central butterfly gate that revolved on a vertical spindle that could be winched opened first. Unlike the other locks on the Great Ouse there no slackers in the gates, water flowing instead through culverts in the lock walls.
The steel radial gates were installed in 1933 but were not counterbalanced and it is said that it could take an able-bodied man almost a whole day to winch them open. (No wonder the lock-keeper, who was also landlord of the Boat Inn, insisted on being bought a drink or two).They also had very limited headroom when open, restricting navigation as leisure boating on the river began to increase after WWII. The radial gates were finally replaced by guillotine gates in 1969 by the Great Ouse River Authority with contributions to funding from the Great Ouse Boat-Builders and Operators Association and GOBA.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 8:22:21 GMT
Not sure how these relate to the radial gates on the Nene, but the history at Brownshill is quite interesting.
The downstream radial gate at Brownshill, which had been installed in 1933 to replace the original oak pointing gates, was only replaced by a guillotine gate in 1969.
The river is tidally influenced up to Brownshill and the sluice/lock was originally built in 1837 to maintain a navigation level of 3 feet up to St Ives after the tidal Ouse was shortened by the Eau Brink Cut.
The massive original oak lock gates from 1837 sometimes had to be opened against a 4 foot head of water and so had a central butterfly gate that revolved on a vertical spindle that could be winched opened first. Unlike the other locks on the Great Ouse there no slackers in the gates, water flowing instead through culverts in the lock walls.
The steel radial gates were installed in 1933 but were not counterbalanced and it is said that it could take an able-bodied man almost a whole day to winch them open. (No wonder the lock-keeper, who was also landlord of the Boat Inn, insisted on being bought a drink or two).They also had very limited headroom when open, restricting navigation as leisure boating on the river began to increase after WWII. The radial gates were finally replaced by guillotine gates in 1969 by the Great Ouse River Authority with contributions to funding from the Great Ouse Boat-Builders and Operators Association and GOBA.
Thanks for that, very interesting, the landlord sounds like he was a character! Talking of history we went in to the Norris Museum in St Ives yesterday, very good little museum. www.norrismuseum.org.uk/Well worth a look.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 20:10:10 GMT
Better pictures of the graffiti, it wasn't blowing a Howling Gail so I had a chance to piss about spinning around in the river to get some good shots. I wonder if they used the guided bus to get there - there's a request halt at Fen Drayton 👍 Years ago they would have been chuffed to bits there as it's the former Cambridge to St Ives railway.
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Post by thebfg on Jul 31, 2018 12:04:42 GMT
I suspect they were were chuffed to bits anyway cracking graffiti.
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Post by patty on Jul 31, 2018 15:32:33 GMT
I suspect they were were chuffed to bits anyway cracking graffiti. I think its quite artistic...
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Post by mouse on Jul 31, 2018 16:01:00 GMT
Mouse has a lodger.
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Post by mouse on Jul 31, 2018 16:15:13 GMT
Tried to post photie on my own but failed! This was Gazza before he was called to action.
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Post by mouse on Jul 31, 2018 16:16:58 GMT
Not quite what I had in mind, but it gets you there!
This post refers to the url address that was there, but has now bee edited!
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