Bloody raggies

[Major Catastrophe]

Went for a bike ride on the national cycle route along the canal last night when I spotted this old lady using an umbrella to sail her coracle.

As she was also using the oar should she not be also displaying a motoring cone?

 

[Lakesailor]

Surely, that was a meeting of the Nursery Rhyme Enactment Society.
It doesn't just spring to mind which rhyme.



Nice to see you venturing out of MB corner.

 

[Kilter]

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should she not be also displaying a motoring cone?


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Well of course she should! Shocking bad manners that!

 

[srp]

If she carries on into that gloomy dark bit she'll need to display an all-round white as well. Silly tart.

 

[Kilter]

I wonder what sort of anchor she's carrying?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Anchor? It's a canal. All she needs is a pointy stick, a big hammer and a bit of string.

 

[Kilter]

Ah! But what sort of pointy stick, a big hammer and a bit of string?

 

[jhr]

I wonder if you can show us any statistics to back up this extraordinary assertion?

A mudweight would be much better.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"A mudweight would be much better. "

Only if she wanted to park in the middle. But if she did that she couldn't walk to he pub.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

she could.... she'd just stand on the shopping trollies and bicycles....

 

[jhr]

I was assuming that she had a tender to get her ashore. Doesn't everyone?

 

[Kilter]

Of course and she should have full safety and distress gear too!

 

[DJE]

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pointy stick, a big hammer and a bit of string.

[/ QUOTE ] Not to be used on aqueducts!

 

[peterb]

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As she was also using the oar should she not be also displaying a motoring cone?

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That's not propelling machinery, it's a steering oar. So she's a sailing vessel, and doesn't need a cone.

 

[Evadne]

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I was assuming that she had a tender to get her ashore.

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The preferred tender for a coracle is an upturned umbrella ....

 

[Major Catastrophe]

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As she was also using the oar should she not be also displaying a motoring cone?

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That's not propelling machinery, it's a steering oar. So she's a sailing vessel, and doesn't need a cone.

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When I saw her she was using the oar as propelling machinery.

Very determined woman and as she was four miles from the nearest town and there were no canal boats parked within a mile, she had some work to do in the calmer section in the foreground.

 

[Poignard]

Port tack and not looking ahead.

 

[Bilgediver]

She is a sailing Vessel

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My thoughts exactly.....Typical Bl88dy Stinkpotter who can t tell a spinaker from a Volvo....

Its obvious she is using the Historic welsh mastless spinaker system complete with pintless rudder!!!!!

I agree.....no need for a cone either way up and as less than 7 metres might even get away with a candle in a jam jar as all round white. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[benjenbav]

What a lovely scene. Reminds me of when I lived in Chester. (Two years: law school. 1984-6)

 

[sarabande]

a coracle sailor...

Hmm, are Colregs available in Welsh ?

Kawasaki ?