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Title: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 15, 2020, 04:39:04 PM
You live on your boat, dress like a pirate and spend most of your time high as a kite.

You need to get your boat out of the water to repair some damage. That costs munny, so you go to Plan B.

YOu take your boat into an unattended lock, fill the lock up and then secure your boat firmly to the lock. You drain the lock to turn it into a temporary makeshift dry dock.  :thumbsup:  What can possibly go wrong?

Well, the weight of the suspended boat might cause the lock wall to collapse, filling your boat and the lock with rubble and cutting the Trent off from most of the canal and river network in the north of the country, possibly for months, and leaving people stranded all over the country. facepalm:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 15, 2020, 05:56:23 PM
You live on your boat, dress like a pirate and spend most of your time high as a kite.

You need to get your boat out of the water to repair some damage. That costs munny, so you go to Plan B.

YOu take your boat into an unattended lock, fill the lock up and then secure your boat firmly to the lock. You drain the lock to turn it into a temporary makeshift dry dock.  :thumbsup:  What can possibly go wrong?

Well, the weight of the suspended boat might cause the lock wall to collapse, filling your boat and the lock with rubble and cutting the Trent off from most of the canal and river network in the north of the country, possibly for months, and leaving people stranded all over the country. facepalm:
doublefacepalm:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 15, 2020, 05:57:29 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/tnyje2f.jpg)
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 15, 2020, 06:09:40 PM
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/18083-meadow-lane-lock (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/18083-meadow-lane-lock)

2 weeks? No effing chance  noooo:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 15, 2020, 07:12:06 PM
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/18083-meadow-lane-lock (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/18083-meadow-lane-lock)

2 weeks? No effing chance  noooo:
noooo:

So is the guilty party insured?  Going to be lots of blame = claiming
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 15, 2020, 07:25:13 PM
I doubt it. Criminal charges are being pursued.The nutters who did this are a well known menace.
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: apc2010 on August 15, 2020, 07:42:58 PM
You live on your boat, dress like a pirate and spend most of your time high as a kite.

You need to get your boat out of the water to repair some damage. That costs munny, so you go to Plan B.

YOu take your boat into an unattended lock, fill the lock up and then secure your boat firmly to the lock. You drain the lock to turn it into a temporary makeshift dry dock.  :thumbsup:  What can possibly go wrong?

Well, the weight of the suspended boat might cause the lock wall to collapse, filling your boat and the lock with rubble and cutting the Trent off from most of the canal and river network in the north of the country, possibly for months, and leaving people stranded all over the country. facepalm:

Is it in pieces of eight .. rubschin:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 15, 2020, 08:24:19 PM
I doubt it. Criminal charges are being pursued.The nutters who did this are a well known menace.
is this the idiot with a boat improvised dry dock incident or another one?
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 15, 2020, 08:26:34 PM
That one! Boat is/was called STEALTH and is  a well known menace  evil:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 15, 2020, 08:30:47 PM
But you said that was a stupid man trying to repair his boat

This is all so confusing
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 15, 2020, 08:37:49 PM
STOP!!  cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Barman on August 16, 2020, 05:35:31 AM
You live on your boat, dress like a pirate and spend most of your time high as a kite.

You need to get your boat out of the water to repair some damage. That costs munny, so you go to Plan B.

YOu take your boat into an unattended lock, fill the lock up and then secure your boat firmly to the lock. You drain the lock to turn it into a temporary makeshift dry dock.  :thumbsup:  What can possibly go wrong?

Well, the weight of the suspended boat might cause the lock wall to collapse, filling your boat and the lock with rubble and cutting the Trent off from most of the canal and river network in the north of the country, possibly for months, and leaving people stranded all over the country. facepalm:

Is it in pieces of eight .. rubschin:

 drumroll:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 16, 2020, 09:37:42 AM
You live on your boat, dress like a pirate and spend most of your time high as a kite.

You need to get your boat out of the water to repair some damage. That costs munny, so you go to Plan B.

YOu take your boat into an unattended lock, fill the lock up and then secure your boat firmly to the lock. You drain the lock to turn it into a temporary makeshift dry dock.  :thumbsup:  What can possibly go wrong?

Well, the weight of the suspended boat might cause the lock wall to collapse, filling your boat and the lock with rubble and cutting the Trent off from most of the canal and river network in the north of the country, possibly for months, and leaving people stranded all over the country. facepalm:

Is it in pieces of eight .. rubschin:

 drumroll:
drumroll: drumroll:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 17, 2020, 09:05:37 AM
Not the thread I was expecting.  noooo:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/videos/paul-boateng-mp-interviewed-sot-it-needs-to-be-seen-as-part-of-the-video-id684932554?s=640x640)
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Barman on August 17, 2020, 09:41:44 AM
Not the thread I was expecting.  noooo:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/videos/paul-boateng-mp-interviewed-sot-it-needs-to-be-seen-as-part-of-the-video-id684932554?s=640x640)

happy001
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: apc2010 on August 17, 2020, 10:02:55 AM
Not the thread I was expecting.  noooo:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/videos/paul-boateng-mp-interviewed-sot-it-needs-to-be-seen-as-part-of-the-video-id684932554?s=640x640)

happy001

 ;D ;D Thumbs:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Just One More on August 17, 2020, 06:14:40 PM
Not the thread I was expecting.  noooo:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/videos/paul-boateng-mp-interviewed-sot-it-needs-to-be-seen-as-part-of-the-video-id684932554?s=640x640)

happy001

happy001 happy001
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 17, 2020, 06:19:57 PM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: apc2010 on August 17, 2020, 08:23:29 PM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:

TMJs...... noooo:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Just One More on August 17, 2020, 09:57:28 PM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:

TMJs...... noooo:

Avast behind  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 17, 2020, 10:21:09 PM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:

Use phonetics then and call it Sierra Charlie  whistle:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 18, 2020, 05:29:56 AM
 rubschin: rubschin: rubschin: rubschin: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 18, 2020, 08:53:53 AM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:

TMJs...... noooo:

Avast behind  :thumbsup:

 lol:

I appreciate you  lol:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Just One More on August 18, 2020, 12:14:26 PM
AND, radio protocols being what they are, I do not like communicating with some twat who called his boat Sweet Cheeks on open VHF Channel 74  evil:

TMJs...... noooo:

Avast behind  :thumbsup:

 lol:

I appreciate you  lol:

 cloud9:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Nick on August 18, 2020, 01:27:11 PM
There is a boat called Fat Bottom on the Trent  rubschin:
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 18, 2020, 08:49:21 PM
There is a boat called Fat Bottom on the Trent  rubschin:
I should give it a wide berth.
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 18, 2020, 08:51:53 PM
There is a boat called Fat Bottom on the Trent  rubschin:
I should give it a wide berth.

Careful Mr Darwin sir, if Nick thinks you are taking the mickey he may give you a stern talking to..
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: Steve on August 18, 2020, 09:17:00 PM
There is a boat called Fat Bottom on the Trent  rubschin:
I should give it a wide berth.

Careful Mr Darwin sir, if Nick thinks you are taking the mickey he may give you a stern talking to..
;D both

I'd float another pun but you know . . .
Title: Re: More boating idiocy
Post by: apc2010 on August 19, 2020, 07:24:09 AM
There is a boat called Fat Bottom on the Trent  rubschin:
I should give it a wide berth.

 ;D ;D ;D