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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 17:25:16 GMT
doglessMaybe if the telly was involved you could do a "challenge Paneke" type show. Telemachus could helm the helicopter for you and umm... Something missing here. Do we have a reasonably fit young female to get in the way of the camera?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 17:27:50 GMT
dogless Maybe if the telly was involved you could do a "challenge Paneke" type show. Telemachus could helm the helicopter for you and umm... Something missing here. Do we have a reasonably fit young female to get in the way of the camera? could do it ... "Stop the clock, stop the clock" Rog |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 17, 2021 17:33:08 GMT
Pansy / panicky or not ... I won't be hitting any Thames bridges, or losing power on the tidal Trent. Rivers are best left to river boats in my view. Rog Where's your sense of adventure? The Lancaster Canal is beautiful. Two hundred boats a year cross the Ribble Link, I doubt that more than three or four have any type of issue and I've never heard of anyone dying in the attempt. You could even hire a pilot at Tarleton if you're that timid.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:05:17 GMT
I love canal boating because it isn't exciting.
If I sought excitement I'd take up gliding, sky diving or motor cycling.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:06:55 GMT
I never watch these YouTube things. I was told that watching videos on YouTube has become quite common lately. Not sure what the appeal is but I suppose related to being able to watch things you like. And the tailored adverts must help too. Well, for example I watched a YouTube video the other week which was a tutorial showing how to access and clean the oil strainer on the Honda CBF125 which I then did on Red Marauder. As the time I didn't have a Haynes manual, which I do have now, but even so it's more helpful to watch it being done than to read how to do it with just a few grainy black and white photos as illustration. There are a few YouTubers whose channels I follow, mainly covering quirky historic and geographical stories, true crime etc, the sort of thing not really covered on mainstream TV. Jago Hazzard, Tom Scott, Jay Foreman and Qxir are a few. YouTube is great, some really helpful, interesting people/channels. Then you get some couple on their boat telling you for an hour how some speeding boat upset their day, or a marina wouldn't let them declare a split or something else really fuc*king boring. The twitter/vlogger brigade has been out in force this week declaring CRT are evil for not helping the stranded boats on the L&L, now this is a good thing, but where were they when all the other breaches were happening, the ones that didn't affect their mates.. Hypocrisy. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:22:33 GMT
I love canal boating because it isn't exciting. If I sought excitement I'd take up gliding, sky diving or motor cycling. Rog here at an inspirational song for you Head out on the waterway, looking for adventure, in whatever comes our way. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space. I like smokey chimneys, heavy old lock gates, racing the current and the feeling on my rudder. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space, like a true natures child I was born, born to be wild, I could cruise so far I never want to die; born to be wild..,,,, |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:28:26 GMT
I wish the encounter with the rower who complained that he was in his way had been caught on camera. His response was seemingly very relaxed. TBH I'd love to have a conversation with a rower who didn't know sail has priority. If I ever go past Henley...  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:29:56 GMT
I love canal boating because it isn't exciting. If I sought excitement I'd take up gliding, sky diving or motor cycling. Rog here at an inspirational song for you Head out on the waterway, looking for adventure, in whatever comes our way. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space. I like smokey chimneys, heavy old lock gates, racing the current and the feeling on my rudder. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space, like a true natures child I was born, born to be mild, I could cruise so far I never want to die; born to be mild..,,,, ftfy |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:52:29 GMT
dogless here at an inspirational song for you Head out on the waterway, looking for adventure, in whatever comes our way. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space. I like smokey chimneys, heavy old lock gates, racing the current and the feeling on my rudder. Yeah darling gonna make it happen, take the world in a love embrace, fire all your guns at once and explode into space, like a true natures child I was born, born to be mild, I could cruise so far I never want to die; born to be mild..,,,, ftfy Thank you - that is the killer lyric right there - I’ll split the royalties 80/20 with you 👍😂 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 18:54:32 GMT
Thank you - that is the killer lyric right there - I’ll split the royalties 80/20 with you 👍😂 OK, I'll squander the loot on a bag of chips.  |
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Post by ianali on Oct 17, 2021 18:58:22 GMT
You can use your anchor as a drag (a mud weight is better) over the bow. Just keep it bouncing lightly on the bottom and as long as you are going slightly slower than the current you have steering and can slowly back along on the current. With care it's enough to get you to a safe spot.
It's how they used to move dumb barges around the place using the tide and a sweep.
Sounds highly workable. But if the pair in the vid had rang the alarm bell...do the RNLI operate on that bit of the river? RNLI towed a plastic into Keadby lock, 2 years ago from the river, the afternoon before we went onto it. I don’t see canal and river boating as a dangerous pastime. I expect more people get ran over by buses than die boating every year. |
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Post by JohnV on Oct 17, 2021 19:03:19 GMT
Sounds highly workable. But if the pair in the vid had rang the alarm bell...do the RNLI operate on that bit of the river? RNLI towed a plastic into Keadby lock, 2 years ago from the river, the afternoon before we went onto it. I don’t see canal and river boating as a dangerous pastime. I expect more people get ran over by buses than die boating every year. that surprises me !!! I really didn't think they went there .... Humber rescue cover the Humber and there is another rescue group on the Ouse around York but I wasn't aware that there were any rescue organisations on the Trent. |
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Post by ianali on Oct 17, 2021 19:15:31 GMT
RNLI towed a plastic into Keadby lock, 2 years ago from the river, the afternoon before we went onto it. I don’t see canal and river boating as a dangerous pastime. I expect more people get ran over by buses than die boating every year. that surprises me !!! I really didn't think they went there .... Humber rescue cover the Humber and there is another rescue group on the Ouse around York but I wasn't aware that there were any rescue organisations on the Trent. I maybe wrong. Often am.. Ali just asked how do I know it was the RNLI? Pic  attached, could be something completely different. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2021 19:16:47 GMT
Sounds highly workable. But if the pair in the vid had rang the alarm bell...do the RNLI operate on that bit of the river? RNLI towed a plastic into Keadby lock, 2 years ago from the river, the afternoon before we went onto it. I don’t see canal and river boating as a dangerous pastime. I expect more people get ran over by buses than die boating every year. Sure, neither me, but following some incident on the Thames a while back (the speedboat debacle?), the RNLI began operating (I think) two new bases. I just wondered what the plan is in an actual emergency. There surely must be one. |
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Post by JohnV on Oct 17, 2021 19:32:34 GMT
that surprises me !!! I really didn't think they went there .... Humber rescue cover the Humber and there is another rescue group on the Ouse around York but I wasn't aware that there were any rescue organisations on the Trent. I maybe wrong. Often am.. Ali just asked how do I know it was the RNLI? Pic attached, could be something completely different. pretty certain that is not the RNLI they are flying a Red Ensign whereas the RNLI fly a defaced Red Ensign |
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