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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2021 22:21:06 GMT
And I was like Go in diagonally, empty lock, open one gate, then pull boat back moving stern to centre of cill (the cills are curved) to gain enough room to clear the closed gate. That is what I have been doing but can't do it quickly enough when boat doesn't want to behave and a waterfall is pouring down the back deck - bedroom and bathroom flooded...
Fenders already removed.
Posted at 4.19pm on 21st June. The relevant part has not been underlined or made bold as anyone can read it easily enough. Isn't it. Boat already flooded Horse bolt stable door and it was the horse that bolted nothing to do with door bolts.
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Post by faffer on Jul 1, 2021 4:41:59 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Jul 1, 2021 5:31:21 GMT
Quite a bunch of very simillar makes around that price ...... all very much the same, I buy whatever is the cheapest as I find after it has been used a few times cleaning out bilges/tanks/mudboxes/etc, it's so disgustingly filthy that it has to live outside on deck.
A couple of years of the weather then generally kills them off (although the Wickes own brand one I have at the moment is about 5 years old and counting ...... but you do need to put gloves on before you pick it up )
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Post by quaysider on Jul 1, 2021 5:46:04 GMT
How did you get on with mill bank armchair ? is it still as leaky and flooding as it used to be? (2 years since I was last there at least)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2021 5:53:59 GMT
How did you get on with mill bank armchair ? is it still as leaky and flooding as it used to be? (2 years since I was last there at least) Wasn't too bad, leaking a bit but I roped in a passing cyclist to help out pulling the bow across as I pushed the stern into the flow (I had done a reasonably job of 'waterproofing' the boat by this time).
Broadcut lower lock was worse for water spouting onto the boat but as the lock is a bit longer and one of the nearby long term moorers freely volunteered to lock me through there was no real drama.
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