Buddhas on widebeams

[pquinn]

There are no narrow canals in Ireland!

Whats that got to do with the aesthetics of a widebeam?

[BargeeSpud]

Aesthetics my a*se, Its called space.

 

Brilliant!

 

[FadeToScarlet]

 

But not Godmanchester

 

Richard

You can get a 10' widebeam there- once you've got it onto the East Anglian waterways... Edited July 20, 2016 by FadeToScarlet

[David Mack]

 

 

Why does he have three legs?

Perhaps he's a Manx Buddha.

[JamesWoolcock]

Curses.

 

Beat me to it!

And me !

[Alan de Enfield]

Whats that got to do with the aesthetics of a widebeam?

 

About the same aesthetics has to do with widebeam 'narrowboats'

[pquinn]

 

About the same aesthetics has to do with widebeam 'narrowboats'

I'll say it again.................Aesthetics my a*se, Its called space.

[Alan de Enfield]

I'll say it again.................Aesthetics my a*se, Its called space.

 

Agreed - my Inland boat is 14 foot beam, and my Sea-going boat is 23 feet beam so I'm 'on your side'. I can still be of the mind that Fat-Narrowboats tend to be Fugly.

[BargeeSpud]

My widebeam "narrowboat" looks just like a trad narrowboat, only wider. Therefore I have both beauty and space.

 

Perfect!

 

[bag 'o' bones]

Seems that they are all the rage at the moment there even selling them in sainsburys!

[captain flint]

There's a Hindu festival once a year where statues of Ganesha are traditionally thrown into waterways. Ganesha is the elephant-headed Hindu god, so you'd have thought not easy to muddle up with Buddha (!), but I've that (unsuprisingly) many end up in the GU around the Wembley/Neasden area at that time of year (I forget when), and I saw a FB post asking the same question - why so many barge buddhas? - which ended up actually being about Ganeshas, which has been pulled out of the canal. Probably not traditionally the luckiest thing to do, removing a holy offering, but of course, on the other hand, a free ornament, and hey, Ganesha was a big hearted kind of god, who's to say he'd really mind? Or that the whole religion thing isn't hogwash in the first place....Then again, I remember a story Nils Bohr, the famous physicist: someone saw an upside down "lucky" horseshoe on the wall of his lab, and said, "surely you don't believe in all that, Nils?" - to which Bohr is said to have replied, "Of course not! But they say it works even if you don't believe in it...."

ramble over

[Alan de Enfield]

[Wanted]

I kept the figure head from our boat when we sold it. Proudly presiding over things in my trailer living room.. 

 

[blackrose]

On 19/07/2016 at 21:21, Lizzy said:

A vey random question, but it's been bothering me and I'm sure the hive mind here knows the answer. I am cruising down the GU and there are lots of massive widebeams here. At least every second boat has some type of buddha statue on deck. What's up with that?

Buddhism is an Asian religion that also has a significant following of annoying white people.

I wonder how they are feeling about their religion of peace now when they see the Buddhist nationalism, violence and genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar? I'd be taking that Buddha statue off the roof if it were me.

[peterboat]

On 9/14/2017 at 22:17, Wanted said:

I kept the figure head from our boat when we sold it. Proudly presiding over things in my trailer living room.. 

 

A farseeing figurehead far out man