grendel

its under the 3 dots top right of your post, but you only have 10 minutes.

coiled in a nice flat spiral

doug, it doesnt rain so hard you get feet of water onboard, or it could just be manxman syndrome. ie the timbers had dried out from sitting so long

the one with the blue barrels would be the yard getting the boat through, thus they accepted the damage to get the boat under, they will have polished that out before the next hire.

the water could have been as simple as wave action causing water to get in, and once you start shipping water, it tends to keep coming in as the boat gets lower in the water.the thing to do is keep an eye on things and see if you can see where its coming in under different conditions.

everyone has different degrees of confidence, its much better to ask questions and learn from the answers than it is to ask none and go out there all gung ho and get things wrong.

the canal and river trust advise

so your hypothetically 'trained' helsman knows better than the RYA advice give me an untrained helmsman following RYA guidance any day I fall in the water. for someone supposedly concerned with safety, you give out the most dangerous advice I have ever heard.

ditto, if i see swimmers its into neutral and ghost past as far away from them as i can manage, ditto paddle boards and canoes.

well we were told we should not just stand by and watch someone get into trouble, after all even experienced helms can get it wrong. After all the important part of this topic is people getting mixed up with propellors, so we wouldnt want the incorrect advice to be promoted as the right thing to do. even the RYA say stop the engine if someone is in the water near that part of the boat.

surely if someone were under the hull, the very last thing you would want the helm to do would be to use that big choppy thing under the boat, out of gear and no prop turning would be my thought. my training has always been to make the environment safe first, then attend to the casualty.

Timbos version of track and trace - Trace and Grace

as i previously stated naming and shaming falls under the safeguarding section of the TOS, nothing stopping people filming what they want and posting wherever will let them post it, but that place isnt here. We have examined the current and up and coming legislation and comply to that. fail to comply to our TOS and you end up on pre-authorisation, carry on and it could lead to a ban, simple, everyone has signed up to the terms to be able to post here.

which laws do you suggest we break to relax the TOS? the TOS are structured around the minimum necessary to comply with the law.

basically what you want to avoid is a sort rope that is tied too tight, so as a rule where there is a high tidal rise and fall, i use the ropes from the other side of the boat to the key heading, this allows more room for the boat to rise and fall without hanging from the ropes, to keep you in place front to back the rear line can be attached to the key near the front and the front line attached near the back. a bit like the image below

the video is out there if you want to search it out, so not necessary on the Forum, as Meantime suggests what is being shown elsewhere is not the whole story, giving a different perspective to the incident.

Thanks Tom, this thread has been busy over the weekend so the post concerned will be pages back now.

the scenario is thus, you post a video naming and shaming on someones first day of their holiday, then all through the holiday people are coming up to you and saying - you are the idiots that deliberately crashed into that other boat. or they are at the end of their holiday and hand over to the next hirer, who goes out and is tarred with the same brush, despite having nothing whatsoever to do with the incident. would you then in either case come back next year. this is why the rule is in the TOS, it comes under the aspect of safeguarding. I am surprised it is being allowed elsewhere as it definitely falls foul of several safeguarding regulations, in case you didnt already know we have a team that checks the current regulations in force with regards to all forms of social media and what is allowed legally and what isnt, and then makes sure that we comply with these.

it breaks the forum naming and shaming clause as both the boat registrations and boat name of the offending vessel are clearly shown, what is allowed elsewhere is beside the point, its not allowed here.

i always do the rushing after christmas when the tat is reduced to 25%

MM have a look on amazon for Albion Alloys, they sell a pack of interlocking tubes, the smallest it 0.5mm od, 0.3mm id, so the next size up will be 0.5mm id

usually the brass tube is im mm sizes with 0.5mm wall thickness, so a 2mm od tube will fit inside a 3mm tube and have a central hole of 1mm, model engineering websites may have 0.5mm id for steam enthusiasts

We have moved this thread into speakers corner, where the tighter adherance to TOS are in force, remember tos apply as do the following we have taken this step because this thread is important, but members have been getting a little bit personal in their comments, so we are giving notice that this thread is being closely watched, and any comment that is deemed by the moderation team to be breaking the TOS in actuality or even in spirit will be removed, without explanation, and that the moderation teams decisions are final and that we will not enter into discussions over them. this thread has already caused the team more work than it should have so please behave, so we can discuss calmly these important issues. Thank you

i have a lidls one in the car, the handle extends so you can do the other side of the screen

would you have wanted him to come back and have a second attempt to talk to you though.