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Thats it slag em down dont forget their the ones who decide what happens to the lonely pensioners and helpless kids

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Did I do that? Don't think I did but i will now. Well heaven help the lonely pensioners and helpless kids if he's in charge with his inflexible attitude. And the boat was an awful mess.
 
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This is the way I'm doing my barge

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V smart it looks to!
Why didn't they just buy a narrow boat or wide beam?
Could've got a nice one for £80k!
 
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Another sad old Medway liveaboard, currently lying on it's side in the floating dock at Gillingham Pier.

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too late to get Kevin involved, they've done houseboats now. I hope you've got all your reclaimed materials collected already!
It looks nice in the visualisation. Hope you can do it justice.

On the programme I spotted the little girl preparing for a nose dive into the gloop. All it needed was a few reclaimed tennis nets around the salvaged scaffold pipe guard rails.

I knew when we saw the state of their house when the programme started that we weren't going to be seeing a tour-de-force, more of a tour-de-farce.
 
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That's what I thought too , but at least we have a bit more of a clue . No way can it be done with a bit of class out of a load of junk
 
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Can we expect some great 'bump in the night' posts, with lots of cryptic questions, major tantrums, and you finally getting evicted and thrown off forum to boot? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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In your dreams B /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif nobody on here late night anymore /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif



ducks and hides /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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"Another sad old Medway liveaboard"

No No no........It is a early version of a ******** from the drawing board of the classic designer********** and was built by the famous yard of ********.
The forum will/ should now instantly decide,over the next 50 posts or so to buy it spend £1.000,000 to restore it and thereby save it for future generations to admire.

*Fill in the names yerself.
 
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It's not a true Medway liveaboard. It's missing the greenhouse.

From what I have heard. It was on it's way from Strood to Otterham Quay. Where the owner was going to get it ship shape so he could get a survey and then insure it! On it's way down river it started taking on water, so the chap towing it dumped them on the wall at Gillingham Pier. Where it fell outwards hanging on it's ropes. (string). It started taking on more water and a few days of heavy duty pumps running and furious caulking at low water followed. That didn't work so eventually it went into the barge, where it fell over as soon as the tide went out and got itself wedged in. It's likely to be there some time as I understand the boat owner is sueing the barge owner for loss of his home.

Did you spot my avatar in the background?
 
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be ye blind man? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif clearly visible in the first picture... hadnt noticed till it was pointed out..
 
Doom & Gloom Kev and his producer obviously thought they had a good project but they should have called time as soon as they noticed that things were going from bad to worse.Don't think the programme should have been transmitted.
 
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Have in a past life been involved with the moving of classic olde woodene boats.
They sit on the mud for twenty odd years with the owner spending F/A on maintaince.The owner either dies or realises the thing is a heap of shite and sells it to a keen young mug( see some forumites previous posts on restoration projects /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif).The barge yard owner seizes his chance to evict the old pile of tat taking up valuable boat space.The new owner in order to take his prize elsewhere will have found a mate or dodgy outfit to move boat.All the reputable companies will have put the phone down a few secs into the conversation.
Anyhow the boat will be well wedged into its berth and much pulling and twisting will be involved in breaking it free.This allows all the mud filling in the gaps and keeping the boat afloat to drop out.
As the boat proceeds along its way all the mud will be being washed out and the tow will become more and more sluggish and impossible to control as it fills with water.This will be worse for the fact that the dodgy towing co.will only have some sort of toy tug or weedy boat doing the towing and as for having any pumps on board......... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.
Most of the leaky stuff will get a few miles before going tits up , but a few make it to their destinations.
Real biggy sunk about 2 years ago on passage one dark night from Hoo to Otterham.There is a BIG bill awaiting the strangely absent owner.
Took the conservancy about year to spot it on the sonar.
 
I disagree - why should we always get to see the gleeming examples that they manage to produce week on week - it is good to remind ourselves that it doesn't always go that way .. and it is prudent to have a good idea of what you want before you start building it!
 
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