Just Watching at the Slip

[Lakesailor]

Went for a little wander today and watched the happenings at the ferry Nab slipway. One family recovering their boat took everything very slowly and checked and double checked. made a bit of a meal of it really, but nothing wrong with that. The boat sat on the trailer and came out smoothly.

Gradually out

Slowly does it

Phew, what's that smell? Where's that smoke (blue arrows) come from?

Oh bugger. It's the clutch.

 

[cameronke]

Cant beat the reek of cooked clutch! And with that much smoke it must be really well done. Car will smell of it for weeks too.

Cameron

 

[BrendanS]

one of the better reasons for having an automatic /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Helina]

Quite an expensive way of lifting the boat: I guess the bearings of the wheels woun't last many seasons either.

 

[tcm]

um you can cook the torque convertor by sitting on a hill in Drive - but it's white smoke, not blue. Also more expensive to fix...

 

[Lakesailor]

I didn't bother them in their hour of dark despair, but unless they are going to Barrow I reckon they'll have some long steady climbs to negotiate with that newly cooked clutch. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[bigwow]

Is that a winkle brig they are hauling out?

 

[Achillesheel]

Looks like a Shrimper.

 

[KREW2]

If you are really into sniffing cars, some of the best smells come from traffic on the Wryenose and Hardknott pass, but I'm sure you already know that.

 

[Lakesailor]

Yes but the risk of getting your head run over is quite high.

It's a Shrimper set up as a motor boat. It had a little mast in place of a big one.

 

[KREW2]

When driving either up, or down one of the passes you quite often sense the smell burning clutch or brakes, you always hope it's the car in front of you.

 

[fluffc]

Good to see that they've got the required 1m vertical seperation between all-round white and port/stbd light (sic.) Although I'm guessing that the boat is small enough not to need this configuration when motoring??

 

[Lakesailor]

On the lake it will only require an allround white light. Same as my boat. I just hoist a camping light up my forestay if it gets murky.

 

[BrendanS]

you might on smaller engined automatics, but most large engine automatics (thinking 4x4's here) have never had many problems in that regard. Certainly of all the problems listed on 4x4 forums, cooked torque convertors have barely registered in the time I've been following them.

 

[jonathankent]

You mean you have time to frequent other forums too..... you must be a very busy chap /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BrendanS]

I run several, frequent many.

It doesn't take more than minutes to run through latest listings on most. ybw has become more of a handful in recent years, but still only half hours work to read if away for weekend.

 

[jonathankent]

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half hours work to read if away for weekend

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Wow.... I spend an hour or so each evening just "catching up"

 

[BrendanS]

speed reading helps. Much easier than when I was on dial up only a year ago.