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  1. I am sorry (ok totally not) but why don't you just stay in your lane. There is no shortage of experienced boaters here who can offer well informed and locally/craft-relevant advice to the OP, and you are not one of them. You literally know no more that the OP and demonstrate a much poorer propensity to be able to take advice on board and listen, so why are you doling out advice yourself when the thread has already received (and likely will continue to receive) many useful, relevant comments from highly experienced boaters within the environment in question? At the very least if you are going to "advise" others from your position of not having even got started yet, add some sort of disclaimer to it, otherwise it simply reads as hubris.
    4 points
  2. I have to say that you and I arrived on the scene in this forum at about the same time...and whilst I would normally bite my tongue and reign my neck in, I am flabbergasted by this and many other responses!...this one inparticular is unfair & totally incomprehensible....a car hitting another car head on at 30mph with no seat belt compared to not wearing a life jacket!?....as a strong swimmer I am not being slammed into the water at a combined speed of 60mph and with an over sized knife style steering wheel in my midriff!.....if you fall off a ladder onto a boat because it catches then I look forward to seeing your belated inflation device! You really need to tape your fingers together and heed the advice of this forum, I came here as a student, you seem to think that as you taught PE on a sailing yacht that you need to answer every answered question on Sporting Fitness, Geography and German with a 'Yes but I think!!....' - if you don't value these gracious people's advice due to your undoubtedly experience in other waters, don't ask, go read a book - if you truly want to learn then listen, listen, listen, and then compare advice with a comparable effort in looking into what your expectations were! PLEASE!!!!!....show some respect, I value people's opinions, it is their experience and they gave their advice willingly, you don't HAVE TO take it, but you SHOULD respect them as people, as boaters and most importantly as unpaid, voluntary posters trying to HELP YOU!!....don't ruin it for the rest of us! ...you're not a bad person but I do feel you have got into a me v them scenario, and you are the one stoking the flames at the moment.....I said it before, take a break, think about it and then stay-on-topic!
    3 points
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  4. Putting cyclists on the towpath because it's safer than being on the road is not a solution to that issue. They then become a problem for all other towpath users. You do not resolve one problem by allowing three others to replace the one. First deal with the original issue i.e. how and why cyclists feel the roads are dangerous for them. You don't resolve an issue by ignoring what is behind it and then creating more problems in exchange.
    3 points
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  6. Unlike the railways and the locomotives that ran on them carrying millions to their destinations over the years, narrow boats and wide boats never created the same attraction, nor do ordinary folk have recollections of being conveyed to anywhere, save maybe an odd Sunday school outing so the romance is not there. Further, Ex working boats attract a clique society that today has little to connect with the boating families that worked them, and more to do with the owners of fairground stalls vying for comments on how nice their boats/paintwork/brass look. So those boat museums have an uphill struggle to pull in the punters, and are not helped by a 'traditionally' myopic controlling organisation that cares more for the balance sheet than history itself.
    2 points
  7. Available shortly, fully air conditioned trailer unit project with towering views of the local area. All facilities available , soft suspension as standard and secure parking available.
    2 points
  8. I disagree, you don't defend a problem by turning out your handbag and adding everything inside it to the mix regardless of irrelevance. When I have a problem with drunks, druggies, thieves, whores and those wanting a fight I shall address those issues. I don't anticipate problems with pedestrians as they don't travel faster than jogging speed nor do they wield a metal undercarriage capable of putting me in hospital. I for one don't give a jot for the material used in their clothes. I do however object to the demons in the head of someone who brings a vehicle onto a footpath which has been used for many years as a sanctuary of safety by people young and old.
    2 points
  9. It would be interesting to have an analysis of actual Vs perceived risk. Obviously people on here perceive cyclists as a risk, but I would think that the real risks lie elsewhere. By far the greatest risk on the towpath is certainly pedestrians, drunk, high, selling drugs or soliciting, or actively looking at nicking stuff or just looking for violence. This group includes fellow boaters moored next to one, and as demonstrated upthread, oneself 'losing it' from time to time. However this group is not recognised as a group, so people's brains don't see the risk. Instead cyclists, identifiable by conducting a non-shared activity and possibly dressed differently, and perhaps enjoying healthy well being denied oneself, are seen as an 'out' group and the first response of the primitive part of brain is to search for danger in such a group, or interepret their activity as a danger that should be stopped. And ideally punished. Once the idea is there people then search for reinforcement of that belief, and interpret every cyclist passed as a near miss, in which they narrowly escaped being 'mown down' by a member of 'the lycra brigade'. The language used reveals the demons in the head of the speaker. It is a bit like all those people constantly making cups of tea as boats 'speed' past. I suspect it may have something to do with too much time alone in a small space, with one's own thoughts.
    2 points
  10. Bear in mind LadyG in handing down this advice has NO experience of narrowboating or canals.
    2 points
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  12. I can't tell you how many times this forum has advised the above. I'm glad you did just that; viewed a whole bunch of boats and then finally one found you. And as in your experience, it often isn't what you thought you wanted
    1 point
  13. That sounds mmmmmmm.....white bread and butter and salt are all back in vogue again and healthy ...so they say! not that I fully stopped any of them. I think I will have to try it!?....get back to doorstops I say!
    1 point
  14. I recon its a Dad thing because mine used to do it as well
    1 point
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  16. I think people are being a little harsh on LadyG Her first bit of advice afterall was "I would most certainly pay an instructor to help me for half a day, a lot of things could go wrong in the first few hours.." Seems to make sense to me!
    1 point
  17. So, how does a single-handed boater raise the paddles and open the gates ?
    1 point
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  19. Don't blame you, if I were a potential buyer I wouldn't want the bloke on the deck included. He's not much use as crew if he's lying down.
    1 point
  20. Congratulations for saying it like it is. Dave himself I know was never going to say in a public forum what had happened but I know how upset he was. However remember one thing with what he can teach the skills are maintained and people who he teaches can carry the standard forward when the current generation of skilled artisans stop. And that won't be long.....
    1 point
  21. What a day it has been. With the brew lady going away for the weekend with the girls and me not feeling to well with getting dizzy and faint etc , mite be blood pressure all to cock i dont know, and funny do`s with the diabetes, prob doing to much, then the castors buckling under the boat.......sat down now for an early night to watch a film if i can work out how to turn the bloody telly on.But for that it is all going good. Not sure ifi have mentiond but i ma going to make the canvas canopy myself......oh yes i must of as the reason i mentioned that i had started to make the cradles to move the boat.I come by a Reads Sailmaker sewing machine for the job and that will be here next week, that was a task in itself to pay for it as it is comng from down south and i thick when it coms to banks and online lark, i managed to block our online bank account so this morning i shot down to the bank to transfer money for it. The bank clerk started to try to help me with the mess i made. OMG i didnt have a clue so i said T will sort it when she gets home...yes another mess up lol.So the boat is mow movedt took some faffing aswell. I finished the second cradle during the week after work and today i braced it up to keep the both together. As i was let down again by so called mates i got my old faithful block and tackles to pull the boat around. Infact it was a lot better than man handling it around. Nice smooth and steady.First strap to a brick pillarIt was going slightly out on line so then i strapped the the car wheel to bring it more level.But it still needed to be held back a bit so i strapped the transom to the workshop......the hitch came in handy againNear thereI had to use the gate post to pull it back a bit so i have room around the bow but after an hour or so faffing with it as the castors are crap cheap stuff and two buckled and one shredded its rubber ( well i got sick of jacking and turning the castors and this was its last turn ) I had to keep jacking the corners up to turn the castors in the right direction to help them.I tied some 4x2 timber under the cradles incase the castors fully give way then there would only be 10mm to fall. I jacked it all up and sat the cradles on blocks so it sits solid. So sat in its new spot so i can measure up etc for the canopy. Looking forward to making it really. good to learn a new thing
    1 point
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  24. Funding didn't run out, they raised £27k, what happened is CRT are a bunch of ******. Our (trainees) scheme was only ever 18 months and paid for by the heritage lottery foundation. Started off fantastically with Dave Linney at the helm and we had done a number of recording exercises with Ferret, deconstruction etc all in accordance with the national historic ships guideline (and pressed upon them that Ferret wasn't the boat we should have been doing being fairly ununique). Rebuilding Ferret was going to give us the opportunity to get experience in a number of different skills. It is a fairly long winded story, but to cut to the chase, a fairly horrendous member of staff decided he didn't much like Dave or the liability of the boatyard and spent a few months trying to push him out with aborhant bullying tactics and then took us off working on Ferret and told us we would instead be learning woodwork by hanging new gates around the museum. As I objected to this as I had signed up to learn historic boat restoration, the bullying tactics also turned to me. They eventually pushed Dave out and gave him a final written notice for smoking a cigarette whilst sat on a bench in the top basin at 7 o'clock at night after he had started working at 6am to crane a number of boats around. After Dave left, we were permanently pulled off Ferret as due to health and safety regs we couldn't needlegun and could only do 1 rivet a day due to vibration. After we the trainees left, Ferret sat doing nothing until they shot blasted her to within an inch of her life (despite EVERYONE telling them not to) and then threw her in a shed. I could go on, but I'm currently on holiday in Turkey and just thinking about it makes me shake with anger and sadness. It took me a long time to get over the way I was treated there and I didn't experience half Dave did. Thankfully I am working with Dave again at a proper boatyard and now doing a proper restoration job on my own boat, Canis Major. None of the £27k was spent by the way. Most of it came from the People's Postcode lottery which was donated to CRT in general. A friend of mine donated £1k and after many complaints, he got his money back and donated it to a more worthy cause
    1 point
  25. I have every intention of bothering for some time to come, it is just a little frustrating sometimes - but thank you for your kind words
    1 point
  26. Kris 88 did you by any chance use non drying anti-burglar paint by mistake, only unless you did the painting at about 4 or5AM it should have been at least touch dry. Almost all paints are air drying, a little warmth will only speed this up a bit. Not being touch dry after a dry, mild and mist-dew free night for perhaps hours on end suggests to me that dampness or a dew settled on it whilst wet in which case I would expect it to have bloomed badly and will possibly need repainting.
    1 point
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