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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 13, 2020 20:16:58 GMT
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 13, 2020 22:20:07 GMT
. . . . . . . . . . . Despite all of the fallings-out I have had with the owner, if there's anything I can do to help then I will. Thank you for your offer of help, . . but I have no wish, or intention, to pump out and move Selby Michael from where C&RT abandoned and sank it until it suits me so to do, . . . which would preferably be after the Trust admits to it's part in this matter and accepts full responsibility for it's actions, or lack thereof, and the barge's present situation. I have to say that although your apparent change of heart is most welcome, I'm left wondering just what brought it about. I would very much like to think that it's down to you finally realizing that my intervention with the PLA following your incident on the Thames tideway at Blackfriars Bridge, albeit uninvited and unwelcome on your part, was neither malicious nor in any way intended as an attack on you. It was, as perhaps you now see, attributable to nothing more than a genuine desire to try to spare you and other pleasure boaters being subjected ever again to similar highly dangerous and easily avoidable incidents at the hands of the irresponsible goons who dispatched you from Limehouse without making you aware of the difficult and potentially dangerous situations you were likely to encounter a short distance upriver, and without informing Woolwich VTS of your presence on the river.
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Post by Telemachus on Jul 13, 2020 22:35:39 GMT
I reckon Tony and Stabby are going to get a room any moment now... (yuk!!!)
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 14, 2020 6:54:48 GMT
I think the time has come to substitute a few facts for the uninformed speculation that's been circulating on this matter since the evening of Sunday 26 January last, . . . when Selby Michael was deliberately set adrift from below Hazleford Lock, where it had been left, inadequately moored, by C&RT after moving it, without notice, from it's designated mooring on the maintenance/craneboat wharf above Hazleford main weir. Here are some of the most pertinent: * The vessel did not break adrift, . . it was intentionally set adrift. * There is eye-witness and photographic evidence on record that the vessel's mooring lines neither parted, nor were any of them lifted off the shore bollards on the lock island. * The three lines, out of the original four lines plus a wire rope, used by C&RT to re-secure the vessel after moving it, were all let go from the onboard deck bollards on Sunday 26 January 2020 and were independently seen and photographed the next day, hanging down into the water from the shore bollards on the lock island. * The vessel was returned to Hazleford on 29 January by C&RT, re-moored, by them, on the designated Visitor Moorings at the top end of the lockcut, and water to a depth of 6'-7' pumped into the hold, sufficient to settle the barge firmly on the river bed. ___________________________________________ So there you have it, Selby Michael neither 'broke' adrift, nor has it subsequently 'sunk'. It was first intentionally set adrift and then deliberately 'pumped' down after being returned near to it's original location by the navigation authority, . . the same navigation authority that, despite the weight of evidence, has consistently refused to accept that the barge was intentionally set adrift in the first place, and is now, over four months later, sending me somewhat apologetic e-mails informing me that the barge they left with around 200 tons of water in the hold at it's present location has sunk, and asking if there's anything they can do to help ! Just to follow up re. C&RT's increasingly bizarre strategy to divest themselves of any responsibility or involvement, here's the latest e-mail : Yasmin Kouara Tue, Jun 23
Hi Mr Dunkley,
I write with regards to the craft Selby Michael index no. 508600 which Trust records show you are the registered owner of.
I wanted to inform you if you weren’t already aware that your craft has sunken which is located at Hazelford.
If there is anything we can help with please get in touch using the contact details below.
Kind regards Yasmin Kouara Licence Support Officer
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Post by naughtyfox on Jul 14, 2020 7:10:22 GMT
"your craft has sunken which is located at Hazelford" ?
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jul 14, 2020 7:22:20 GMT
"your craft has sunken which is located at Hazelford" ? Credit where it's due, Ross, . . . they are at least consistent enough to struggle with every aspect of their assigned functions !
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