What to do?

[nigel carton]

Picking a boat up on friday and delivering to Newbury, the boat is moored on the North Oxford about a mile up from Rose narrowboats. Now the problem is the pointy end is facing north, (50') so its an 8 mile round trip to the nearest winding hole or reverse it a mile to Rose's, what to do!!

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Picking a boat up on friday and delivering to Newbury, the boat is moored on the North Oxford about a mile up from Rose narrowboats. Now the problem is the pointy end is facing north, (50') so its an 8 mile round trip to the nearest winding hole or reverse it a mile to Rose's, what to do!!

 

 

Backwards matey, it'll be a laugh if nothing else!

[carlt]

Reverse it.

 

Chuck a mud weight off the bow (tie it to the t-stud first) and it will help keep a straight line.

 

I'd spin it round for you, before you got there, if the keys were available, but, as we've never met...

[nigel carton]

Backwards matey, it'll be a laugh if nothing else!

 

How about backwards if you leave me a Tangle foot at Rose's narrowboats? bit of incentive!!

 

Reverse it.

 

Chuck a mud weight off the bow (tie it to the t-stud first) and it will help keep a straight line.

 

I'd spin it round for you, before you got there, if the keys were available, but, as we've never met...

 

Thanks Carl, I've not met the owner either!

[Bob18]

Reverse it.

 

 

 

It will be quicker, and more entertaining for those that see the video...

 

Certainly well worth the donation of a Tangle Foot at Rose's

[Victor Vectis]

Reverse it.

 

Only if you can be sure no one is watching

 

BTW Any ideas as to where I could get hold of a mudweight?

 

SAM

Ryde

IOW

[Bob18]

Any old lump of "iron" weighing about 56lb will do, so long as its got a hole in it and a good enough bit of chain and rope.

[richardf]

When we first bought our boat we moored it at Brinklow Marina and on our first trip I happily chugged past the Brinklow Arm and then realised that it was a hell of a trip to turn around! It was winter and very nearly dark before we got back. I would reverse it, it's not the most interesting bit of canal!

 

First place to turn is the basin on the LHS by the motorway

[Bones]

reverse it - or hitch a backwards tow from someone going the other way.

[nigel carton]

reverse it - or hitch a backwards tow from someone going the other way.

 

Trust a female to come along with a good idea! a tow backwards! Bones have a beer on on me!

anybody going south on the Oxford on Friday?

[David Mack]

Any old lump of "iron" weighing about 56lb will do, so long as its got a hole in it and a good enough bit of chain and rope.

 

Or fill a bucket with some concrete and a bit of old chain part buried in it.

[ditchcrawler]

Backwards matey, it'll be a laugh if nothing else!

Especially the bit before the bridge with the moored residential boats on the off side and all the others on the towing path side

[nigel carton]

Especially the bit before the bridge with the moored residential boats on the off side and all the others on the towing path side

You meen the happy go lucky give you a wave boaters on the off side! SLOW DOWN GRRRRRR

[nigel carton]

I'm actually looking forward to this trip, Oxford and Thames and a bit of the K & A ... happy days

[bottle]

As for the mud weight, saw a lorry tyre being used to the same effect on an unmanned butty (no tiller/rudder for some reason).

 

Seemed to work.

[ditchcrawler]

As for the mud weight, saw a lorry tyre being used to the same effect on an unmanned butty (no tiller/rudder for some reason).

 

Seemed to work.

Bucket with the bottom cut out, called a drogue.

[onionbargee]

Any old lump of "iron" weighing about 56lb will do, so long as its got a hole in it and a good enough bit of chain and rope.

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you can use a tyre on a shortish rope as a towing anchor ( that's my name for it )to keep the bow in line, a mud weight will be asking to get caught up on a trolley or old stump you'll end up dredging the cut.

[Bob18]

Getting caught up on things?

 

That's half the fun....

[cotswoldsman]

Or fill a bucket with some concrete and a bit of old chain part buried in it.

 

Don,t fill the bucket, an empty bucket works very well for a long reverse

[The Bagdad Boatman (waits)]

If you have a stout long boat pole then crew in the bow steer with the pole.

[Proper Job]

reverse it - or hitch a backwards tow from someone going the other way.

Yeh.................

 

Like that always works

 

[Bones]

Yeh.................

 

Like that always works

 

 

[hangs head in shame] we had great fun though! just make sure your favourite mug is safely indoors!

 

If you have a stout long boat pole then crew in the bow steer with the pole.

 

or do what the single handers around us do which is tie the tiller straight (well, they say they do but I don't know that they do) and then put it in just tick over in reverse and stand on the bow and steer with the pole... PJs stories are great!

[Bob18]

Effective, but not as good a video as the trying to steer backwards for a mile using the rudder, in a howling gales with abuse verbal assistance being offered from all parties around.

Edited October 12, 2011 by Bob18

[larkshall]

Nigel, if reversing, do it at about 1am nobody will see you !

 

Ps I'd use a drogue, or a see anchor (Holey bucket on a chain)

[Nine of Hearts]

Nigel, if reversing, do it at about 1am nobody will see you !

 

Ps I'd use a drogue, or a see anchor (Holey bucket on a chain, Batman)

 

You missed a word from that sentence, so I put it in for you.