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Post by Telemachus on Apr 28, 2024 15:38:19 GMT
Maintenance should be massively increased and boat licences made significantly more expensive to fund it. Don’t disagree, but those increases should be the same for all licence holders. That is a perfectly valid opinion. Another perfectly valid opinion is that those who use a facility more should pay more. Both are just opinions, there is no correct answer.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 27, 2024 20:51:32 GMT
I should possibly have mentioned this before, but the gliding club clubhouse does show off the whiskys provided by the members and consumed on site, in terms of the empty boxes. Apparently they are all arranged in some sort of order but exactly what I am not sure, bearing in mind I never drink whisky.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 27, 2024 20:45:18 GMT
It worked Telemachus 🤗 A tad strong and I've never tasted it, so jealous for sure ... although I see it's a product of Bruichladdich on Islay and I have tasted their whiskies . Slainte mhath Is it good ? Rog It is very good. Not really drinkable neat, but with 30% added water it is still quite strong and a lovely taste, quite chocolaty. I did have to have a second one! The story is that the member (Craig) who brought it to the club was given it by way of appreciation for him carrying out the annual maintenance on an aircraft owned by a syndicate, and the same syndicate had a whisky syndicate whereby they bought a barrel of whisky between them. Craig seems to have several such bottles kicking about his house and decided to bring one to the club. Note the date of 2004, the 10 year badge, and the current date of 2024. So presumably it’s been kicking about in the bottle for 10 years. Anyway, it was very nice. Did I mention that before?
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 27, 2024 19:36:36 GMT
I’m not a great whisky drinker but someone has left this bottle in the gliding club for general consumption. Note the strength! Added water is definitely required to enhance the flavour. And put out the fire! Posting mostly to make Dogless jealous!
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 27, 2024 9:38:42 GMT
Yeah I spose. It's just that I think he had some effing cheek sending such obvious shit. Somebody else is going to get badly burned. I would leave honest, factual and non-emotive feedback. Neutral maybe, rather than negative since the issue was wasted time rather than lost money.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 26, 2024 20:15:07 GMT
The SNP didn’t get enough MSPs so were a minority government. They needed someone to add a few votes to give them a majority. The partial PR type voting system gives the electorate an opportunity to vote for a party as well as an MSP. The party candidates are on a list and they get into parliament in proportion to the “list vote”.
The other big parties are all against independence so the only choice was the looney greens. They got 2 MSPs in the cabinet despite having a tiny proportion of the overall vote. They have had various barking mad ideas, most of which have failed. They obviously were into cutting carbon emissions and forced through a policy that would see Scotland impoverished - and as a tiny country, its carbon emissions are globally insignificant anyway.
Eventually SNP, realising there was no way they were going to meet the fast approaching interim targets, decided to ditch them. The looney greens got a sulk on and threatened to remove support for the SNP. So in the end Humza Useless found his balls and told them to fuck off. Which was good (if far too late) but of course now means that the weak and incompetent SNP government no longer have a majority, interesting times! And it will be more interesting once Nicola is arrested for being a thieving bitch.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 21:08:38 GMT
Pete Gilbert’s opinion about what? The condition of my boat's hull. Fascinating, but I didn’t comment on the condition of your hull. I just commented on the globs of rust hanging off it.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 19:52:27 GMT
I guess it'll see you out 👍🏻 Rog I'm sure it will. I could probably never get it blacked again and it would still be afloat on the day they carry me out in a wooden box, but it's just nice to come and spend a few days with Pete and have a nose around Charity Dock. And then you can put on your CV that you have been working with a charity - very good for virtue signalling.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 19:51:16 GMT
They are decorative rivets. What are those round things on your boat? Oh yes, lumps of rust. With all due respect I'll take Pete Gilbert's opinion over yours, thank you anyway. Pete Gilbert’s opinion about what?
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 19:11:23 GMT
What are those round things? They are decorative rivets. What are those round things on your boat? Oh yes, lumps of rust.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 19:05:16 GMT
Boat's been pressure washed now, the hull's in pretty good condition, all things considered. First coat of bitumen going on today. Going to need four new anodes though, so that's another £300 on top of the bill. Break out another thousand. This is our hull 6 years after last blacking, post pressure wash. This is the difference between bitumen and 2-pak
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 24, 2024 7:53:01 GMT
Thanks for the responses. It seems generally that there's more concerns about the future and dissatisfaction with the number of boats, and the temperament of other boaters. Is that a fair assessment ? Rog Maybe it’s just that as we age, we become less happy. I have noticed that when I’m out with my children and friends, or out with the car club, that there is generally more fun and laughter to be had. I’m sure this is true - Jeff and I don’t go around laughing and having fun. Well not in public anyway! But we are always courteous and friendly towards other people. However there do seem to be an increasing number of grumpy miserable people on the canals - not hirers, but private owners.
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 23, 2024 21:49:52 GMT
Boating since the 1960s. Well, from say 1966 to 1976 when my school chum's dad had first a day cruiser, then a centre cockpit cruiser, then a bespoke woodentop narrowboat built by Rugby Boatbuilders (Colin Payne). Notable events were, aged 12 (and me being 6' tall) we were let loose by the parents to take the centre cockpit cruiser away for a 1/2 term weekend from the mooring at Lapworth into Birmingham. That was quite an adventure, and you can imagine parents of the 2020s letting their 12 year old kids do that! And then there was the trip up to Ripon on the narrowboat when I was around 18, a group of us (with no adults). Kids were resilient and competent in those days! Also a trip to Ely for an IWA rally with Chris' dad. I nearly sank the boat by leaving it on bottom lock gates in fwds tickover (outside the lock, waiting to go up) whilst the lock filled for the boat ahead - and leaked like buggery into the well deck and into the open front doors! Chris' dad was most displeased. Then a long hiatus until I introduced Jeff to narrowboating around 1992, on Chris' new narrowboat. In the 16 years from 76 to 92, a big difference in the number of live aboard boats (virtually zero before), a big difference in the number of incompetent private owner boaters, but I would say the system - and certainly the Birmingham area - was much improved. Central Brum having gone from a grimy dingy back-of-factories, to the Brindley Place etc we see now. Canals were cleaner. Between 92 and now, even more boats, many more moored boats, too many people who don't know how to tie their boats up and shout at you when you pass at tickover, even more totally incompetent and prissy private owners, too many "one click wonders" operating paddles, control-freak volockies, and generally a massive dumbing down of boating. But masses more piling which makes mooring much easier. Recently I would say more lock gates and beams in dire condition, held together with bits of steel etc. And those ridiculous yellow bags over paddles which say "this item is undergoing repair" when what they actually mean is "this thing is buggered and we can't be bothered to repair it until the other one breaks too"
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 22, 2024 21:49:10 GMT
The light cruiser has two engines each of which have A127 alternators. One of the alts doesn't work the other was working but stopped working and both the ind light and the oil pressure light illuminated even with the key switched off. No oil problem. There was also a parasitic drain. I am not that concerned as I have the godlike LTO batteries which would start a Diesel truck in a blizzard but it is slightly interesting to consider the reason for both of the lamps being illuminated. I think its a diode. The parasitic drain was really bad. I was shocked. Yes I would say a diode, that is allowing battery+ into the stator which then, via the field diodes, finds its way to the D+ terminal. Then back via the alternator warning light to the isolated panel +12v supply (ie the circuitry the non-battery side of the ignition switch) which is thus powering the oil light, the other end of which is connected to ground via the oil pressure switch. With the bulbs in series I’d expect them to be rather dim, but none the less visible. Doesn’t explain how the lights would be on with the engine running though - but perhaps you only noticed after you’d stopped the engine?
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Post by Telemachus on Apr 22, 2024 19:42:04 GMT
Just so all you people pretending to ignore Tony can read his post. Except that they have you on ignore too!
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