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Post by JohnV on Jan 29, 2020 17:03:22 GMT
saw that the Selby Michael was on the weir on the barges facebook site .... suggestion there was that it had been cast adrift ..... not heard anything recent on the jungle drums though
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 10:50:41 GMT
£20k worth of damages to some pontoons I read, hope he had insurance!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 10:55:14 GMT
Rivers eh ... who'd be on 'em Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 10:57:41 GMT
Rivers eh ... who'd be on 'em Rog Fools that's who! I did the oxford a couple of years ago, the river Cherwell section made me crap myself, I don't like the idea of deep water under me, being a non swimmer.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 11:17:50 GMT
Rivers are fine if you are happy to tie up and know how to tie up safely. You may be delayed that's the only annoying thing.
However it's true that they can be a bit hair raising. I did the southern Oxford on my first NB trip in 1994 and the Cherwell was really going, bypassing lots of the locks by just flowing around them over the towpath. In some places the river and the cut were the same thing with no towpath.
That was quite alarming in a way specially when the boat got pinned to an overspill weir it took a while to haul it off.
Kennet around Reading and Thatcham is a bit lively as well.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jan 30, 2020 14:03:58 GMT
Anyone know if Tony is ok? Thank you for enquiring, . . but apart from the after effects of laughing myself sick since last Sunday evening at all the ill-informed claptrap and gleefully snide remarks emanating from certain people over on CWDF, and to an extent here as well, I'm absolutely fine ! Initially I was inclined to respond to the speculative tripe being posted over the last three days, but on reflection I thought it best to give the perpetrators some more time and opportunities to make themselves look even more stupid than usual, . . and I couldn't be more delighted with the results ! The vessel concerned, "Selby Michael", is a 250-ton carrying capacity barge owned by my commercial carrying company and has been laid-up out of commission on it's C&RT allocated commercial mooring at Hazleford, on the Trent eight miles upriver from Newark, since 2014. The mooring is in fact a wharf above Hazleford Lock formerly used for loading or unloading piling and other maintenance materials and equipment onto or from the now largely disposed of BWB fleet of Trent maintenance craft. The mooring was allocated to "Selby Michael" by C&RT's Newark office conditional on my permission for the Trust to temporarily move "Selby Michael" out of the way on the now very rare occasions when the wharf is needed for it's original purpose, and when it broke adrift last Sunday evening it was from where it had been temporarily moved to and moored by C&RT behind the bullnose below Hazleford Lock using only 2, or possibly 3, out of the total of 5 headropes, springs, and sternrope with which I had last left the vessel secured. There is also photographic evidence that when "Selby Michael" broke adrift the 'belt and braces' wire rope which had previously been rigged from the barge to the 'dropping down' bollard (for craneboats working on the weir) getting on for a boats length topside of the barge's wharf mooring was laying coiled up, along with the unused mooring ropes, on the barge's foredeck. I'm sure that the more intelligent and perceptive amongst those now reading this can see where this is going, . . but I'm afraid I'm beginning once again to convulse with uncontrollable laughter, . . and I'll have to finish this off later !
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Post by Jim on Jan 30, 2020 14:10:17 GMT
Well, thankfully rumours of your demise aren't true. We were about to make some triangular cucumber sandwiches out of cheap white bread, for the wake. No expense spared. 😂😂😂😂
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 30, 2020 14:50:50 GMT
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
Oops - expect licence fees to go up again as CRT tries to recuperate £20,000 for smashed up pontoons!
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 30, 2020 15:29:03 GMT
Frangar disapproves of Thunderboat:
"As I thought.....im now going for a bath as i feel dirty after that visit....."
"I wiped my feet on the way out as I didnt want to spread the muck onto the towpath.....there still seems to be an odour though....."
Doesn't seem very good with English grammar.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 30, 2020 16:38:24 GMT
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 30, 2020 16:42:36 GMT
Does Naughty Cal owe Tony Dunkley an apology?
"You would have thought Dunks would know how to tie a vessel up on a river!!"
"They know full well who owns it. It won't be licensed because the owner claims it doesn't need one where it was moored up!"
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Post by Jim on Jan 30, 2020 17:38:07 GMT
Does Naughty Cal owe Tony Dunkley an apology? "You would have thought Dunks would know how to tie a vessel up on a river!!" "They know full well who owns it. It won't be licensed because the owner claims it doesn't need one where it was moored up!" Yes! Come on Phillyss man up.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 30, 2020 17:44:28 GMT
Anyone know if Tony is ok? Thank you for enquiring, . . but apart from the after effects of laughing myself sick since last Sunday evening at all the ill-informed claptrap and gleefully snide remarks emanating from certain people over on CWDF, and to an extent here as well, I'm absolutely fine ! Initially I was inclined to respond to the speculative tripe being posted over the last three day, but on reflection I thought it best to give the perpetrators some more time and opportunities to make themselves look even more stupid than usual, . . and I couldn't be more delighted with the results ! I don't imagine you'll be too delighted when the insurance claim lands on the doormat. Although of course, if the vessel is insured, it will be your insurer's problem.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 30, 2020 18:38:10 GMT
Thank you for enquiring, . . but apart from the after effects of laughing myself sick since last Sunday evening at all the ill-informed claptrap and gleefully snide remarks emanating from certain people over on CWDF, and to an extent here as well, I'm absolutely fine ! Initially I was inclined to respond to the speculative tripe being posted over the last three day, but on reflection I thought it best to give the perpetrators some more time and opportunities to make themselves look even more stupid than usual, . . and I couldn't be more delighted with the results ! I don't imagine you'll be too delighted when the insurance claim lands on the doormat. Although of course, if the vessel is insured, it will be your insurer's problem. Would that not be CRT who were (allegedly) responsible for tying it up? And (allegedly) not tying it up properly. Negligently, one could almost say (?). On the other hand, is it Tony's responsibility to check that the boat is tied up properly when CRT have returned it? Hmm... interesting. I have sometimes wondered how insurance companies work out this kind of vehicle accident. Say there are 5 cars in a line waiting at traffic lights (A B C D E) and car F comes along at speed and crashes into the last car in the line, car E. And the whole lot concertinas. Is car B responsible for the damage to car A? Is car C responsible for the damage to car B? etcetera..... or is car F responsible for the whole lot? What if car D didn't have his handbrake on, which would have possibly stopped him colliding into car C?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 30, 2020 18:54:52 GMT
I don't imagine you'll be too delighted when the insurance claim lands on the doormat. Although of course, if the vessel is insured, it will be your insurer's problem. Would that not be CRT who were (allegedly) responsible for tying it up? And (allegedly) not tying it up properly. Negligently, one could almost say (?). On the other hand, is it Tony's responsibility to check that the boat is tied up properly when CRT have returned it? Hmm... interesting. Any claim will be against the boat's owner who will then pass on the claim to his insurer, assuming it is insured. The insurer will then claim against CRT and/or its insurer.
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