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Post by dogless on Sept 15, 2024 7:36:32 GMT
Blue sky and sunshine ☀️
Only 14 degrees in the boat, but it'll quickly warm up.
Cruising today anyway.
Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Sept 15, 2024 9:06:55 GMT
Well the fishing boat hunt goes on. I still haven't ruled out the Orkney Strikeliner but I'm also exploring other options. A Seahog Alaska 500 popped up for sale the other day only 10 miles away, on Shell Island. It's a slightly bigger and heavier boat. Powered by a 75hp two stroke Mariner. It's going to be thirsty for fuel, probably 1 litre a mile but it will be fast, probably 30 knots and a bit more. Handy for safety if the weather changes unexpectedly. Large deck with a high freeboard for comfortable and safe fishing.
Sea trial arranged for next weekend.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 15, 2024 9:10:54 GMT
16 hours ago dogless said: But that's all Dunkley ever posts about everyone ... including you. Rog. (Roger Day - aka 'Chloroform Alice' - the poisonous turd, who hides malice and ill-intent in every mind-numbing post _________________________________________________________________________________________Replying to a post in which ' kris' said - " . . if it’s okay to keep posting serious unsubstantiated claims about another member." - ' Chloroform Alice' ('dogless') said : - "But that's all Dunkley ever posts about everyone ... including you." Having made that clear, unequivocal, and completely untrue statement, . . I think this poisonous turd should do some ' substantiating' himself. I think ' Chloroform Alice', the self-appointed Thunderboat Forum moderator, is now obliged to post some examples of my posts with which he can try to demonstrate me doing what he describes. *
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Post by on Sept 15, 2024 9:43:25 GMT
Well the fishing boat hunt goes on. I still haven't ruled out the Orkney Strikeliner but I'm also exploring other options. A Seahog Alaska 500 popped up for sale the other day only 10 miles away, on Shell Island. It's a slightly bigger and heavier boat. Powered by a 75hp two stroke Mariner. It's going to be thirsty for fuel, probably 1 litre a mile but it will be fast, probably 30 knots and a bit more. Handy for safety if the weather changes unexpectedly. Large deck with a high freeboard for comfortable and safe fishing. Sea trial arranged for next weekend. Sounds like an interesting platform. Definitely want a good secondary motor for that as well. Tohatsu 6 hi thrust is a pretty good article. I'd also be tempted to put a bow mount trolling motor on it. Really nice thing to have. Some of the modern ones effectively do dynamic positioning although they are quite expensive.
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Post by Andyberg on Sept 15, 2024 9:51:04 GMT
Picture of Admirable’s latest ‘electric outboard motor’ released.👌
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Post by deleted on Sept 15, 2024 10:21:07 GMT
It's a fake. All the timber is nicely cut and there isn't a stauff clamp in sight.
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Post by dogless on Sept 15, 2024 10:21:20 GMT
Had to look that one up too Clinton Cool. Random photo in case anyone else isn't familiar with it. Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Sept 15, 2024 10:44:44 GMT
Well the fishing boat hunt goes on. I still haven't ruled out the Orkney Strikeliner but I'm also exploring other options. A Seahog Alaska 500 popped up for sale the other day only 10 miles away, on Shell Island. It's a slightly bigger and heavier boat. Powered by a 75hp two stroke Mariner. It's going to be thirsty for fuel, probably 1 litre a mile but it will be fast, probably 30 knots and a bit more. Handy for safety if the weather changes unexpectedly. Large deck with a high freeboard for comfortable and safe fishing. Sea trial arranged for next weekend. Sounds like an interesting platform. Definitely want a good secondary motor for that as well. Tohatsu 6 hi thrust is a pretty good article. I'd also be tempted to put a bow mount trolling motor on it. Really nice thing to have. Some of the modern ones effectively do dynamic positioning although they are quite expensive. I agree regarding the secondary motor. This one doesn't have one at the moment. Positioning one can be tricky on some boats due to the limited width of the splash well. This can result in the steering of one motor interfering with the other motor. It's something I'll consider during the trial, along with the million and one other things. It would be handy, it being local, my mate would pick it up for me for a couple of beers.
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Post by dogless on Sept 15, 2024 13:03:21 GMT
Called at the cafe at Hillmorton (formerly Canal Chef and now imaginatively called 'Watery Leaf' cafe). Lovely breakfast after doing the locks. The bikers were there in force ... some fabulous machines too. Now found a bit of piling free, just prior to Willoughby, with great views all round. No sooner moored than we spotted two roe deer grazing about 200 yards away. Rog
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Post by on Sept 15, 2024 13:04:53 GMT
Picture of Admirable’s latest ‘electric outboard motor’ released.👌 Those Mickey mouse drill right angle adapters can't handle load.
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Post by on Sept 15, 2024 13:06:33 GMT
Sounds like an interesting platform. Definitely want a good secondary motor for that as well. Tohatsu 6 hi thrust is a pretty good article. I'd also be tempted to put a bow mount trolling motor on it. Really nice thing to have. Some of the modern ones effectively do dynamic positioning although they are quite expensive. I agree regarding the secondary motor. This one doesn't have one at the moment. Positioning one can be tricky on some boats due to the limited width of the splash well. This can result in the steering of one motor interfering with the other motor. It's something I'll consider during the trial, along with the million and one other things. It would be handy, it being local, my mate would pick it up for me for a couple of beers. It is likely if you put a motor on a lifting bracket and leave it fixed straight you can steer with the larger motor. Even if the auxiliary is quite far over.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 14:23:25 GMT
Went for this lung scan thing this morning. Won't know the results for six weeks they say but I'm not expecting any issues. It's just some precautionary thing they give to coffin-dodgers who used to smoke.
Went for a ride on the Clockwork Banana which is running really well at the moment. I put a cooler-running spark plug in it a couple of weeks ago and it seems to like that. I might go to work on it this week, weather supposed to be set fair. Raining at the mo.
Mark on Callisto is calling by tomorrow, it's probably been over three months since I've had a top-up so I imagine the bill will be £150-ish.
Will chase up DVLA at the end of this week if the Scoopy's V5C hasn't been issued.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 15, 2024 14:35:15 GMT
On 12 August 2024, psychopath, pervert, and pathological liar, Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon, also known by his own chosen internet name of ' Mr Stabby' - posted the following blatant lie in the pages of this forum :- " I live in a house in Kent where I pay Council Tax and am on the electoral register."______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Fact is, that despite claiming to live in Kent, . . in a house for which he says he pays Council Tax, and is on the electoral register, . . this psychopathic pervert has in truth for the last 9(+) years lived permanently, full time, on board a canalboat for which he can't obtain compulsory third party insurance due to not having what insurance underwriters define as having 'an insurable interest' in the boat. To get round this insurance problem at every annual renewal, Coventon obtains a technically worthless insurance certificate from his insurers by means of a less than completely truthful Proposal declaring that he owns the boat, with which he then usually succeeds in conning C&RT into believing that he's complying with the third party cover requirements in the boat Licence T&C's. In the early part of this year C&RT became aware of the problem with the invalid third party insurance cover on the boat, and that is what kept Shit-for-Brains at home on his mooring all of this year, . . instead of going out on his usual Summer cruise. Coventon shares this uninsured boat (which is owned by someone else who probably does actually live in Kent) with a life-size inflatable rubber doll, and moors and keeps it for most of every year, with a number of other residential boats, on the field moorings at Colehurst Farm, Rugby, CV23 0PT, alongside the (North) Oxford Canal, close to the villages of Stretton-under-Fosse and Brinklow. For some reason not yet discovered or known, 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon also tells, and repeatedly publishes on the internet, lies about where and who he works for as a driver. Whilst pretending that he works for a company called Slam Transport, with depots in Coventry, Darlington, Dunfermline, Gourock, and York, the truth is that he's employed by a specialist logistics company called Hi-Speed Services whose Midlands depot is on Swift Valley Industrial Estate in Rugby. For anyone understandably wanting to give this serious nutter the widest possible berth, this 'selfie' photo of him waving a (Army rifle) bayonet around in public on the stern of his uninsured borrowed boat will be helpful in identifying him :- "Unlike some here, I fully understand the Law and do not think that different interpretations of it apply to me."
Vince 'Shit-for-Brains' Coventon -- 12 August 2024
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 14:37:32 GMT
Convicted child rapist Tony Dunkley who has been imprisoned a total of three times for sexual offences against children, 4 Forest Close, Cotgrave, Nottingham, NG12 3JN One look at the photo and you can tell this is a "wrong 'un".
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 15, 2024 14:42:59 GMT
In a nutshell, I understand the law regarding boat licensing and Dunkley doesn't, which is why I've got a boat and Dunkley hasn't.
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