NeilT
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The survey report was excellent so looks like we really are coming to play !! 
Be afraid ................ very afraid!
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boatone
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If we need to be afraid would you please be kind enough to give us enough information to permit us to manage our fear - where, what , when etc. ?
Actually, I'd rather not be afraid - the Thames is a peaceful, relaxing sort of place and we can do without aggro if you don't mind
Where the hell is No Regrets when we need him ..........?
Actually, I'd rather not be afraid - the Thames is a peaceful, relaxing sort of place and we can do without aggro if you don't mind
Where the hell is No Regrets when we need him ..........?
Bassplayer
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oldgit
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Black spot or worse !
But the thing they really all want to know and your social standing in the dog eat dog world of the Thames food chain depends on this,
A/do you have a bowthruster. ?
B/and are you prepared to use it at every opportunity.?
The survey report was excellent so looks like we really are coming to play !!
But the thing they really all want to know and your social standing in the dog eat dog world of the Thames food chain depends on this,
A/do you have a bowthruster. ?
B/and are you prepared to use it at every opportunity.?
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apollo
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...and how to you stand on Fenders Up???
Nah, the big question we all want to know is.....WHATS THE BOAT?
jecuk
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Thames Forum New Member Quiz
1. You are approaching a lock. Your boat has two functioning engines and a rudder. As you come into the lock for a port side to mooring do you:
a. Use your engines and helm to position the boat alongside the lock edge preparatory to tying up.
b. Sit in the middle of the lock and use your bowthruster to yaw your bow around while shouting at your wife to throw the bl**dy line
c. Use both engines and bowthruster together to create an aquatic, auditory and smelly display to entertain the lockkeeper and those watching.
2. You leave a lock and have nearly 4 miles until the next lock. You have plenty of competent crew. Having spent many many thousands of pounds on your boat you are justifiably proud of it and the envious looks you get from onlookers. Do you:
a. Lift your fenders as this makes the boat look as sleek as she was the day you bought her
b. Leave them down as you and the crew can't be a**ed to put down your beers
c. Think of the fenders as part of the hull much as narrowboats do with their rubbing bands and hence why should you lift them. You will only have to put them down again later.
1. You are approaching a lock. Your boat has two functioning engines and a rudder. As you come into the lock for a port side to mooring do you:
a. Use your engines and helm to position the boat alongside the lock edge preparatory to tying up.
b. Sit in the middle of the lock and use your bowthruster to yaw your bow around while shouting at your wife to throw the bl**dy line
c. Use both engines and bowthruster together to create an aquatic, auditory and smelly display to entertain the lockkeeper and those watching.
2. You leave a lock and have nearly 4 miles until the next lock. You have plenty of competent crew. Having spent many many thousands of pounds on your boat you are justifiably proud of it and the envious looks you get from onlookers. Do you:
a. Lift your fenders as this makes the boat look as sleek as she was the day you bought her
b. Leave them down as you and the crew can't be a**ed to put down your beers
c. Think of the fenders as part of the hull much as narrowboats do with their rubbing bands and hence why should you lift them. You will only have to put them down again later.
NeilT
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It's a whizzy soapdish with a pair of egg whisks on the back (as described on this very forum). Fairline targa 27.
Shes a little tired in the upholstry and hood dept but engines, O/D's and hull all fine & dandy
There will be no thrusting either front or rear so I will be feeling left out in the locks.
Fenders will be deployed at every oportunity so as to save you all from the rusty driving skills.
But seriously I have got some "refresher lessons" in it booked before I come to cause complete chaos.
Cheers
N
Shes a little tired in the upholstry and hood dept but engines, O/D's and hull all fine & dandy
There will be no thrusting either front or rear so I will be feeling left out in the locks.
Fenders will be deployed at every oportunity so as to save you all from the rusty driving skills.
But seriously I have got some "refresher lessons" in it booked before I come to cause complete chaos.
Cheers
N
NeilT
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1. As no bowthruster is fitted I'm afraid the best I can hope for is using the twins to spin very fast on the spot without actually achieving anything whilst causing SWMBO to up-chuck her brekkie all over the whippet!
2. Whats a fender ?
HTH
N
CX54WEK
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Ron Dean
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Afraid of what?
I'm getting really worried - not yet afraid.
I'm also not sure about this "Fender" thingy. (We have one in the fire hearth to stop the house catching fire on those cold winter days).
Some 40 years ago i was sailing with a friend who was fairly new to the game when a fellow yachtie shouted something like "Your skirts are showing", or it could have been "Raise your skirts" (or both).
We didn't know whether to "raise the sails", "furl the sails" or what else.
Could it have been something to do with the Fender thingy?
After 40 years I'm still wondering about this. Can anyone put my mind at rest?
Ron Dean.
1. As no bowthruster is fitted I'm afraid the best I can hope for is using the twins to spin very fast on the spot without actually achieving anything whilst causing SWMBO to up-chuck her brekkie all over the whippet!
2. Whats a fender ?
HTH
N
I'm getting really worried - not yet afraid.
I'm also not sure about this "Fender" thingy. (We have one in the fire hearth to stop the house catching fire on those cold winter days).
Some 40 years ago i was sailing with a friend who was fairly new to the game when a fellow yachtie shouted something like "Your skirts are showing", or it could have been "Raise your skirts" (or both).
We didn't know whether to "raise the sails", "furl the sails" or what else.
Could it have been something to do with the Fender thingy?
After 40 years I'm still wondering about this. Can anyone put my mind at rest?
Ron Dean.
boatone
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I'm getting really worried - not yet afraid.
I'm also not sure about this "Fender" thingy. (We have one in the fire hearth to stop the house catching fire on those cold winter days).
Some 40 years ago i was sailing with a friend who was fairly new to the game when a fellow yachtie shouted something like "Your skirts are showing", or it could have been "Raise your skirts" (or both).
We didn't know whether to "raise the sails", "furl the sails" or what else.
Could it have been something to do with the Fender thingy?
After 40 years I'm still wondering about this. Can anyone put my mind at rest?
First of all, please don't worry about this - though I can assure you we are not talking fenders of the fire hearth variety. We are indeed 'discussing' (well, having a totally peurile, pedantic, self-opinionated and interminable ongoing interchange about the dangly plastic thingies that hand down the side of boats and which never seem to be in quite the right place to actually stop damage occurring - unless you've got zillions of them when it might be better to have an inflatable boat or a bouncy castle tied up on each side.
After a lifetime spent on and around ships and boats I have never heard the expression you quote - although I vividly remember the era of telling a girl that 'Charlie is dead'. I would hazard a guess that your novice friends fenders were still out and dragging in the water which the other twit couldn't resist drawing your attention to. The other explanation 'might' be something to do with the sails not being set properly and flapping in a performance reducing manner - I know knot
Just had a thought re a new approach to fenders on the Thames - why not have inflatable narrowboats that we could raft alongside our cruisers ------ discuss !
rr_123
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It's a whizzy soapdish with a pair of egg whisks on the back (as described on this very forum). Fairline targa 27.
Shes a little tired in the upholstry and hood dept but engines, O/D's and hull all fine & dandy
There will be no thrusting either front or rear so I will be feeling left out in the locks.
Fenders will be deployed at every oportunity so as to save you all from the rusty driving skills.
But seriously I have got some "refresher lessons" in it booked before I come to cause complete chaos.
Cheers
N
congratulations on your new boat, although...
Don't listen to all the fender lifters on here (I grew up in Brighton, I'm sure we used to call them shirt-lifters), on a river with lots of close manouvering and proximate obstacles and craft it is perfectly acceptable, indeed preferable, to keep fenders deployed, just try not to have them dragging in the water - or at least if you do, you should display a Hoseasons logo prominently on the bow
apollo
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I like this guy!
the_wanderer
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Ever herd of a stern thruster?
I have just returned from two weeks on The Norfolk Broads.
Apparently some boatyards are fitting stern thrusters too. The blighters up there can't control the lumping great things in forward and reverse, what hope is for them to move sideways?
Regards.
Alan.
Ps, sorry for being off topic.
I have just returned from two weeks on The Norfolk Broads.
Apparently some boatyards are fitting stern thrusters too. The blighters up there can't control the lumping great things in forward and reverse, what hope is for them to move sideways?
Regards.
Alan.
Ps, sorry for being off topic.
NeilT
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Andrew_Fanner
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Let's cut to the chase. When and where is the boat warming pis... er party?
No Regrets
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TA DAAAAA!
You called?
Oh I see. Another piece of forum fodder brave enough to perilously float upon a piece of well garnished plastic full of highly flammable liquid and potential huge bills!
Welcome, you poor sod!
You called?
Oh I see. Another piece of forum fodder brave enough to perilously float upon a piece of well garnished plastic full of highly flammable liquid and potential huge bills!
Welcome, you poor sod!
NeilT
Well-Known Member
Thanks for the welcome (I think)
But its a good looking piece of plastic though
And the garnish is very tasteful
And just think if you didn't have a ready supply of fresh blood to keep you all entertained you'd be bored - so we are supplying a forum service
Cheers
N
CX54WEK
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Just ignore him,
If it aint a caravan over 30 years old that just about floats he doesnt understand it. Must be his age
If it aint a caravan over 30 years old that just about floats he doesnt understand it. Must be his age
