Author Topic: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.  (Read 155922 times)

Pingu

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #350 on: 16 September, 2017, 06:11:35 pm »
Frigate Sachsen in the harbour today.


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CrinklyLion

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #351 on: 24 September, 2017, 07:56:19 pm »
Not necessarily unusual, but interesting (to us at least) by virtue of who got to pilot....




Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #352 on: 24 September, 2017, 11:49:45 pm »
Looks like the elder cub had a bit of a birthday treat.

CrinklyLion

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #353 on: 24 September, 2017, 11:52:40 pm »
Yup :)

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Wowbagger

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #354 on: 25 September, 2017, 12:26:00 am »
The boaty type think that fell off its trailer on the A127 this afternoon, blocking the outside lane.
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Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #355 on: 12 November, 2017, 02:11:05 pm »
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Spotted at Faversham creek. I am guessing, but it seems as if late Octobers very high tide, floated t onto the mud bank, but when tide went out it keeled over, damaging the keel and rudder, there was evidence of expanding foam around the rudder area, in a diagonal line, and there is a large bore pump hose going in thro the side. presumably its so far over that its filling up before it can float.  Chap standing in a small, boat as mud is just too soft, he was looking for something in the mud, a large bolt that he had dropped I think,and had a metal detector as well.
To make matters worse 50 yds upstream is a small 'outlet' from the adjacent poo treatment  works......nice!

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #356 on: 13 November, 2017, 11:17:10 am »
Surely with a Blodwyn Pig present the lost bolt was easy to find?
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Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #357 on: 13 November, 2017, 02:13:50 pm »
Surely with a Blodwyn Pig present the lost bolt was easy to find?

ah! I was with swmbo, and had my best....(ish) shoes on,  and was NOT abouut to dive into that cack. ::-) ;D

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #358 on: 18 November, 2017, 11:42:16 am »
Some vandals let all the water out of the Kennet and Avon canal near Thatcham a few years ago (this is actually quite hard to do, as most of that section is a canalised river, so, unless you can work the river sluices as well as the lock paddles, you have to drain a pound with no river ingress/egress between locks).  Luckily, narrowboats don't have a keel and will just sit in the mud.  A bit annoying, though.
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Pingu

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #359 on: 18 November, 2017, 04:47:11 pm »
The Vikings have landed.


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Pingu

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #360 on: 18 February, 2018, 10:59:40 pm »
The Vikings have not landed.


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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #361 on: 24 February, 2018, 11:40:42 am »
It's unusual to see icebreakers on this part of the canal. Also kayaks with outriggers.

She made a loud crunchy noise while passing under the bridge I was on.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #362 on: 24 February, 2018, 11:49:24 am »
So unusual that the NSA has taken away the photo!
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #363 on: 24 February, 2018, 02:28:50 pm »
The Vikings have not landed.


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That is beautiful. Please tell us more.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #364 on: 24 February, 2018, 02:47:54 pm »
Aunt Maud been up there?
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Pingu

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #365 on: 24 February, 2018, 06:57:30 pm »
The Vikings have not landed.


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That is beautiful. Please tell us more.

It's a burial ship that contained the bodies of two women. It's in the the Viking Ship museum in Oslo.

http://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #366 on: 24 February, 2018, 07:37:58 pm »
That museum is awesome - like a cathedral.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #367 on: 26 February, 2018, 06:47:26 pm »
I liked the cart that had loads of cats carved into the back of it.
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #368 on: 21 April, 2018, 08:57:35 pm »




I didn't get a close look (wrong side of canal) but I really hope the tiller and throttle have been connected up to the car.

Saw it again the other day, it's been painted now.


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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #369 on: 23 April, 2018, 09:17:34 am »
That's brilliant!  Presumably the car is the boat's wheelhouse?

Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #370 on: 23 April, 2018, 11:09:32 am »
That's looking good now .It was unpainted when I last saw it about a year ago  :)
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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #371 on: 23 April, 2018, 07:29:20 pm »
That's brilliant!  Presumably the car is the boat's wheelhouse?

I can imagine it being reversed, driver with elbow and head out of window, left hand on the wheel (the interior of the Touran is still in place, steering wheel and all that)

I think it's at the other end though. Only now I'm replying to this I realise I'm not totally sure, perhaps I'll pootle off on the Elephant Bike and see if I can find it again next weekend, always need an excuse for a mini-tour.

Torslanda

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #372 on: 24 April, 2018, 09:07:22 am »
Just goes to show that anything can be chavved up.

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #373 on: 07 May, 2018, 02:40:51 pm »
Shoreham-by-Sea has some interesting houseboats, cobbled together from transportation that was never intended to float on water....
 

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Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
« Reply #374 on: 08 May, 2018, 07:57:19 am »
That's brilliant!  Presumably the car is the boat's wheelhouse?

So I had a nice canal commute this morning and now I have the answer. The car is at the steering end but there's no rudder on the boat, it's attached to the narrowboat alongside it with scaffold poles and that one does the steering.