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Post by dogless on Sept 3, 2024 18:15:03 GMT
I did read that C&RT intend to open the link for one week this month, so people can get on or off before it is in any case closed for the winter. Damned if I can find the report now, sorry. Rog We can only hope they know what they are doingπ
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 3, 2024 19:40:31 GMT
With no further posts to follow up on his 26 August guest post, it appears that Arnac may have been put-off coming back to this forum for any further assistance with pilotage services, passage scheduling etc. by the mindless tripe posted in response to his request by a small handful of Thunderboat's particularly stupid, but very disruptive, group of pointless, ill-intentioned, know-nothing morons.
I hope this is not so. Between me, the Tarleton lock-keepers (Mayors boatyard staff), the Douglas Boatyard, and Preston (Docks) Marina there's, in total, several lifetimes of experience and know-how at his and others disposal, . . including from me, operating commercials to tight difficult to keep schedules on the rivers Douglas and Ribble, loading bagged chemicals overside in Preston Docks for transhipping to ICI at Anderton (River Weaver) in the 1960's. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello Arnac, . . and welcome to Thunderboat. I doubt there'll be any definitive answers from C&RT for you, or anyone else wanting to make the passage from Preston back to the Rufford Arm at Tarleton. But the good news is that with the joint co-operation of Preston Marina (Preston Docks), Douglas Marine (boatyard at Hesketh Bank on River Douglas), and Mayors Boatyard at Tarleton, who operate Tarleton Lock for C&RT, we can advise, schedule, and assist with passage from the Lancaster back onto the L&L's Rufford Arm at Tarleton for everyone who's been left stranded by the C&RT. God will be of considerable assistance too, . . he's still sending two tides up the Ribble every day, . . and the majority of them are big enough - 8.0 metres or more on the River Gauge at Preston Docks - to put enough water in the lower parts of Savick Brook for shallow draught canal boats, . . whatever nonsense the clowns at C&RT are saying to the contrary. Do you know roughly how many boats in total are wanting to get back from off the Lancaster before Winter ? With the Half-Tide Gate/Barrier at the low end of the semi-tidal section of Savick Brook out of use, it's very unlikely that any passages from Preston back to Tarleton will be possible without at least a one tide layover in either Preston Docks, or on a floating stage at Hesketh Bank on the River Douglas. Have the C&RT given any specific reasons, valid or otherwise, for limiting passage past the site of the breach at the aqueduct to seven days starting on 20 September ? Please call or e-mail if you would like more details, or any questions you'd like to have answered. You may well have read them already, but there are quite a few posts in this thread and others that you'll find informative and useful. I'll post links to them as soon as I've got time. Regards, Tony Dunkley. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links to other useful/helpful posts ref. Tarleton to Preston and Preston to Tarleton passages :- thunderboat.boards.net/post/397037/thread - (4 x added since yesterday) thunderboat.boards.net/post/397229/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397230/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397318/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397835/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397835/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397887/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/400596/thread* Plenty more to add, . . but need to be picked out and separated from the mindless tripe posted by the forum trolling half-wits with the sole intention of derailing the thread and making it as difficult as possible for anyone to read, follow, or understand. *
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Post by dogless on Sept 3, 2024 19:44:06 GMT
We can only hope they know what they are doingπ Pardon ?
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Post by fi on Sept 3, 2024 20:02:21 GMT
With no further posts to follow up on his 26 August guest post, it appears that Arnac may have been put-off coming back to this forum for any further assistance with pilotage services, passage scheduling etc. by the mindless tripe posted in response to his request by a small handful of Thunderboat's particularly stupid, but very disruptive, group of pointless, ill-intentioned, know-nothing morons.
I hope this is not so. Between me, the Tarleton lock-keepers (Mayors boatyard staff), the Douglas Boatyard, and Preston (Docks) Marina there's, in total, several lifetimes of experience and know-how at his and others disposal, . . including from me, operating commercials to tight difficult to keep schedules on the rivers Douglas and Ribble, loading bagged chemicals overside in Preston Docks for transhipping to ICI at Anderton (River Weaver) in the 1960's. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello Arnac, . . and welcome to Thunderboat. I doubt there'll be any definitive answers from C&RT for you, or anyone else wanting to make the passage from Preston back to the Rufford Arm at Tarleton. But the good news is that with the joint co-operation of Preston Marina (Preston Docks), Douglas Marine (boatyard at Hesketh Bank on River Douglas), and Mayors Boatyard at Tarleton, who operate Tarleton Lock for C&RT, we can advise, schedule, and assist with passage from the Lancaster back onto the L&L's Rufford Arm at Tarleton for everyone who's been left stranded by the C&RT. God will be of considerable assistance too, . . he's still sending two tides up the Ribble every day, . . and the majority of them are big enough - 8.0 metres or more on the River Gauge at Preston Docks - to put enough water in the lower parts of Savick Brook for shallow draught canal boats, . . whatever nonsense the clowns at C&RT are saying to the contrary. Do you know roughly how many boats in total are wanting to get back from off the Lancaster before Winter ? With the Half-Tide Gate/Barrier at the low end of the semi-tidal section of Savick Brook out of use, it's very unlikely that any passages from Preston back to Tarleton will be possible without at least a one tide layover in either Preston Docks, or on a floating stage at Hesketh Bank on the River Douglas. Have the C&RT given any specific reasons, valid or otherwise, for limiting passage past the site of the breach at the aqueduct to seven days starting on 20 September ? Please call or e-mail if you would like more details, or any questions you'd like to have answered. You may well have read them already, but there are quite a few posts in this thread and others that you'll find informative and useful. I'll post links to them as soon as I've got time. Regards, Tony Dunkley. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Links to other useful/helpful posts ref. Tarleton to Preston and Preston to Tarleton passages :- thunderboat.boards.net/post/397037/thread - (4 x added since yesterday) thunderboat.boards.net/post/397229/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397230/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397318/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397835/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397835/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/397887/thread thunderboat.boards.net/post/400596/thread* Many more to follow, . . need to be picked out and separated from the mindless tripe posted by the forum trolling half-wits with the sole intention of derailing the thread and making it as difficult as possible for anyone to read, follow, or understand. * Any updates?
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Post by dogless on Sept 3, 2024 21:13:44 GMT
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 3, 2024 23:12:58 GMT
Yes, . . I'm pleased to say, there are. There's nothing more from Arnac so far about his boat, and the others, trapped on the Lancaster by the world's premier apology for a navigation authority, . . but I'm still trying to re-establish contact. There's been a bit of progress with 'March Hare', the second of George Ward's boats stolen by C&RT and Commercial Boat Services, on 11 May 2023. With Thunderboat's name, its usefulness, and its effectiveness so diminished by the efforts of forum's mindless know-nothing trolls, the owners with boats trapped on the Lancaster, on both sides of the Aqueduct breach, are being contacted by alternative means with offers of passage scheduling/planning and, if thought necessary, the appropriate level of pilotage assistance. Contact has been made, at last, with the buyer of George Ward's boat 'March Hare', who, at this stage, is still inclined to accept and believe the fairy tale he's been 'sold', along with the boat, by Brian Clarke, the crooked little shit who owns and operates Commercial Boat Services [CBS], and his company's equally crooked General Manager, a snide clever-dick called Harry Samuels, . . whose turn of phrase and choice of words is remarkably reminiscent of that of C&RT's so-called 'legal team' of professional liars. A measure of Harry Samuels' attitude, dishonesty, and flair for double-talk can be had from the following extract from the end of a bull-shitting e-mail reply sent to me on 28 May 2024, . . whilst CBS still believed I had contacted them as a genuinely interested prospective purchaser replying to their advert on Boats & Outboards :- β Once it becomes entirely clear that the owner will not be returning to the boat [in that they wonβt be paying what is owed to C&RT], we are instructed to list the boat on Boats and Outboards, where you will have seen the advert.βNote that, as contractors, it is not us that determines when it is sufficiently clear that the owner will not be returning to the boat β this judgement is made by C&RT. Again, the owners are given plenty of opportunities to return to the table before the boat is listed, just as they were before the boat is salvaged in the first place.Kind regards, Harry Samuels General Manager. "
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 4, 2024 11:23:37 GMT
Yes, . . I'm pleased to say, there are (some updates). There's nothing more from Arnac so far about his boat, and the others, trapped on the Lancaster by the world's premier apology for a navigation authority, . . but I'm still trying to re-establish contact. There's been a bit of progress with 'March Hare', the second of George Ward's boats stolen by C&RT and Commercial Boat Services, on 11 May 2023. With Thunderboat's name, its usefulness, and its effectiveness so diminished by the efforts of forum's mindless know-nothing trolls, the owners with boats trapped on the Lancaster, on both sides of the Aqueduct breach, are being contacted by alternative means with offers of passage scheduling/planning and, if thought necessary, the appropriate level of pilotage assistance. Contact has been made, at last, with the buyer of George Ward's boat 'March Hare', who, at this stage, is still inclined to accept and believe the fairy tale he's been 'sold', along with the boat, by Brian Clarke, the crooked little shit who owns and operates Commercial Boat Services [CBS], and his company's equally crooked General Manager, a snide clever-dick called Harry Samuels, . . whose turn of phrase and choice of words is remarkably reminiscent of that of C&RT's so-called 'legal team' of professional liars. A measure of Harry Samuels' attitude, dishonesty, and flair for double-talk can be had from the following extract from the end of a bull-shitting e-mail reply sent to me on 28 May 2024, . . whilst CBS still believed I had contacted them as a genuinely interested prospective purchaser replying to their advert on Boats & Outboards :- β Once it becomes entirely clear that the owner will not be returning to the boat [in that they wonβt be paying what is owed to C&RT], we are instructed to list the boat on Boats and Outboards, where you will have seen the advert.βNote that, as contractors, it is not us that determines when it is sufficiently clear that the owner will not be returning to the boat β this judgement is made by C&RT. Again, the owners are given plenty of opportunities to return to the table before the boat is listed, just as they were before the boat is salvaged in the first place.Kind regards, Harry Samuels General Manager. " ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ There'll be some more on the buyer of George Ward's stolen boat 'March Hare' some time later on today. I've given him a bit of time to get over what must have come as something of a shock to learn that he been sold a stolen boat by a collection of crooks operating a long-running successful scam to make money out depriving people of their boats, property, and often, their homes. The primary ringleaders of this collection of crooks are Brian Clarke, owner and MD of Commercial Boat Services of Chester, Lucy Barry, professional liar and (bent) Solicitor-Advocate working for C&RT, and Matthew Aymes, another professional liar, also employed by C&RT in multiple pointless/meaningless roles, . . other than to identify what he sees as suitable owners and boats for Clarke and Barry to target with their well practised, and very profitable, pseudo-legal boat stealing scam, . . by way of which they wilfully deceive and mislead both the Courts and the Police into making and enforcing legally/technically worthless, void ab initio Court Orders.
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Post by β on Sept 4, 2024 16:39:58 GMT
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Post by Jim on Sept 5, 2024 13:52:04 GMT
Perhaps the Support section really is the best place to post this nonsense, it's obviously a cry for help from someone who thinks repetitively posting nonsense will get them anywhere. Sad really.
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 5, 2024 23:10:23 GMT
Yes, . . I'm pleased to say, there are. There's been nothing more from Arnac so far about his boat, and the others, trapped on the Lancaster by the world's premier apology for a navigation authority, . . but I'm still trying to re-establish contact. There is also, as of midnight Thursday 9 September 2024, some significant progress with regard to 'March Hare', . . the second of George Ward's boats stolen by C&RT and Commercial Boat Services, on 11 May 2023, . . and this can be found reported on other Thunderboat topics/threads, such as - Navigation Authority or Government sponsored Scammers ? - The Abuse & Misuse of C&RT's Section 8 Powers - The C&RT Section 8 Notice.
With Thunderboat's name, its usefulness, and its effectiveness diminished to the extent it is by the all negative efforts of the forum's mindless know-nothing trolls, the owners with boats trapped on the Lancaster, on both sides of the Aqueduct breach, are being contacted by alternative means with offers of passage scheduling/planning and, if thought necessary, the appropriate level of pilotage assistance.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 7, 2024 17:30:19 GMT
Firstly typed out so the search engines can pick it up. For as long as the sick child molester keeps posting the address of my mooring simply to endanger myself and my boat, I will continue posting his address in self defence. If he ends up getting battered to a pulp as a result of it, he can't say he wasn't warned. Convicted paedophile and child sex offender Anthony Dunkley, also known as Tony Dunkley. 4 Forest Close, Cotgrave, Nottingham, NG12 3JN.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 7, 2024 19:23:10 GMT
Firstly typed out so the search engines can pick it up. For as long as the sick child molester keeps posting the address of my mooring simply to endanger myself and my boat, I will continue posting his address in self defence. If he ends up getting battered to a pulp as a result of it, he can't say he wasn't warned. Convicted paedophile and child sex offender Anthony Dunkley, also known as Tony Dunkley. 4 Forest Close, Cotgrave, Nottingham, NG12 3JN
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Post by deleted on Sept 12, 2024 4:25:52 GMT
Tony Dunkley is a well-known dangerous crank, bankrupt and fraud, and possessed of a most unpleasant demeanour stemming from personality disorders we can only speculate on (although some unfortunate experiences in childhood would seem to be the most likely cause). He offers advice to the unwary on a variety of boat-related subjects that, should you be foolish enough to believe and follow it, will likely see you separated from your boat at the soonest opportunity, or perhaps at the least, possess an engine worth no more than its scrap value, or simply a pile of components. His track-record of interactions with the Canal and River Trust is woeful, having lost two boats of his own to legal action he professes to this day was and is an abuse of authority. Notwithstanding these well-documented failures, he continues to promote the belief that he was and is right in every aspect, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In the strongest possible terms, should you find yourself in dispute with the Canal and River Trust, accepting the advice of this self-appointed expert is, on any aspect, highly inadvisable. To date, the amount of boat owners Dunkley has assisted in preventing the C&RT from successfully executing a S.8 procedure is ZERO. NADA. NONE. If you are the recipient of a s.8 notice, it's likely already too late. The best advice is probably to remove your boat from C&RT-controlled waters as quickly as possible. Because if you don't, they will. And you won't get it back. Should you find yourself in contact with this lune, the best possible course of action is to immediately reject all further discourse, however it may present. While such matters remain as his core contention, he has also recently focussed on the operation of the 'Ribble Link'. Unsurprisingly only he knows how to safely navigate the partly tidal waters while everybody else is entirely clueless. He would love to test his theories with your boat and your life. Do not become his useful idiot. If those in charge tell you that on any given day passage is either not possible or not allowed, accept their advice. Dunkley will not hesitate to place you and your boat in jeopardy merely to satisfy his own twisted agenda. Despite attempts to claim or suggest otherwise, Tony Dunkley is in no way part of or affiliated to any boatyard or advertised marine services of any sort, and neither is he operating any kind of business relating to marine activities. Perhaps more importantly, he most definitely does not have any type of business insurance, and thus any eventuality arrived at through following his advice will be entirely at your expense. If you wish to spend many hours you will never get back reading absolute drivel peppered with psuedo-legalistic bollocks designed to confuse and impress the credulous, feel free to browse through nearly a decade of posts by this most persistent and implacable of obsessive trolls. However if you still believe Tony Dunkley is the crucible of truth in which C&RT will inevitably burn, then salute. You are clearly a person of great intellect, sagacity and wit. Fortune beckons. For a more positive but tragically laughable perspective of the life and times of Anthony Dunkley, refer to www.narrowboatworld.com, where you will find several badly-written and wildly inaccurate articles authored by his somewhat deluded supporter. Everybody has one, after all.
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Post by dogless on Sept 12, 2024 6:25:53 GMT
Tony Dunkley is a well-known dangerous crank, bankrupt and fraud, and possessed of a most unpleasant demeanour stemming from personality disorders we can only speculate on (although some unfortunate experiences in childhood would seem to be the most likely cause). He offers advice to the unwary on a variety of boat-related subjects that, should you be foolish enough to believe and follow it, will likely see you separated from your boat at the soonest opportunity, or perhaps at the least, possess an engine worth no more than its scrap value, or simply a pile of components. His track-record of interactions with the Canal and River Trust is woeful, having lost two boats of his own to legal action he professes to this day was and is an abuse of authority. Notwithstanding these well-documented failures, he continues to promote the belief that he was and is right in every aspect, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In the strongest possible terms, should you find yourself in dispute with the Canal and River Trust, accepting the advice of this self-appointed expert is, on any aspect, highly inadvisable. To date, the amount of boat owners Dunkley has assisted in preventing the C&RT from successfully executing a S.8 procedure is ZERO. NADA. NONE. If you are the recipient of a s.8 notice, it's likely already too late. The best advice is probably to remove your boat from C&RT-controlled waters as quickly as possible. Because if you don't, they will. And you won't get it back. Should you find yourself in contact with this lune, the best possible course of action is to immediately reject all further discourse, however it may present. While such matters remain as his core contention, he has also recently focussed on the operation of the 'Ribble Link'. Unsurprisingly only he knows how to safely navigate the partly tidal waters while everybody else is entirely clueless. He would love to test his theories with your boat and your life. Do not become his useful idiot. If those in charge tell you that on any given day passage is either not possible or not allowed, accept their advice. Dunkley will not hesitate to place you and your boat in jeopardy merely to satisfy his own twisted agenda. Despite attempts to claim or suggest otherwise, Tony Dunkley is in no way part of or affiliated to any boatyard or advertised marine services of any sort, and neither is he operating any kind of business relating to marine activities. Perhaps more importantly, he most definitely does not have any type of business insurance, and thus any eventuality arrived at through following his advice will be entirely at your expense. If you wish to spend many hours you will never get back reading absolute drivel peppered with psuedo-legalistic bollocks designed to confuse and impress the credulous, feel free to browse through nearly a decade of posts by this most persistent and implacable of obsessive trolls. However if you still believe Tony Dunkley is the crucible of truth in which C&RT will inevitably burn, then salute. You are clearly a person of great intellect, sagacity and wit. Fortune beckons. For a more positive but tragically laughable perspective of the life and times of Anthony Dunkley, refer to www.narrowboatworld.com, where you will find several badly-written and wildly inaccurate articles authored by his somewhat deluded supporter. Everybody has one, after all. Well done ... a well considered and constructed post and an appropriate response in my view π Rog
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Sept 12, 2024 8:16:06 GMT
Yes, . . I'm pleased to say, there are. There's been nothing more from Arnac so far about his boat, and the others, trapped on the Lancaster by the world's premier apology for a navigation authority, . . but I'm still trying to re-establish contact. There is also, as of midnight Thursday 9 September 2024, some significant progress with regard to 'March Hare', . . the second of George Ward's boats stolen by C&RT and Commercial Boat Services, on 11 May 2023, . . and this can be found reported on other Thunderboat topics/threads, such as - Navigation Authority or Government sponsored Scammers ? - The Abuse & Misuse of C&RT's Section 8 Powers - The C&RT Section 8 Notice. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ With Thunderboat's standing, its usefulness, and its effectiveness as an internet boating forum diminished to the extent it is by the all negative efforts of the forum's mindless know-nothing trolls, the owners with boats trapped on the Lancaster, on both sides of the Aqueduct breach, are being contacted by alternative means with offers of passage scheduling/planning and, if thought necessary, the appropriate level of pilotage assistance.
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