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Nige1912
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 Jun 2012 : 11:02:45
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This is what the EA have on me:
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LEO MAGILL Built by Unknown in 1979 - Length 31 metres (101 feet 8 inches ) - Beam 9.1 metres (29 feet 10 inches ) Petrol Inboard . Registered with EA Anglian Region number 1000523 as a Motor boat. Last registration recorded on 11/07/2007.
That petrol motor runs well on diesel and it does very well to fit through the locks on the gt.ouse.
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
Visit leomagill.co.uk
Which company makes 101 ft canal cruisers that can fit through all the locks? - I want one!!.........I know, its called "Tardis Canal Boats - we fit where others cant" |
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01 Jun 2012 : 11:07:10
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I'm offended! Canal cruiser indeed!!!!!
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
Visit leomagill.co.uk |
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Nige1912
United Kingdom
43 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 15:20:52
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Originally posted by df
I'm offended! Canal cruiser indeed!!!!!
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
Visit leomagill.co.uk
I should have looked at your link!!!
Grovelling apology herewith offered for insinuating such a gorgeous seaworthy lady should be confined to the inland network |
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df
United Kingdom
5994 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 16:34:42
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Not so sure of the seaworthy bit, almost got knocked on it's side entering wells harbour earlier, came in early as it was getting very lumpy as a wave crashed over the sand bank and hit us side on as it broke, the guy on the boat following recons he just saw a wall of white spray and a set of davits seriously on the wrong side of 45 degrees, adrenalin definatly has a goey texture and a funny smell cleared the stuff on the dash pretty quickly...
NBAS--The communal colostomy bag of the boating community.
Visit leomagill.co.uk |
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Nige1912
United Kingdom
43 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2012 : 10:17:33
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Now THATS the kind of boating id love to be engaging in!!!
The only time it gets interesting on the inland network is when your trying to moor in a force 7 and you get blown all over the place!
"Batten down the hatches No 1 we're in for a bitof a blow!!" |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 05:25:08
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Nige1912
I suggest trying to navigate through Blisworth tunnel when the hirers are out. Even being 6 inches off the right-hand tunnel wall, a "tin lizzie" managed to hit us the other week. Contact sport I presume.
Just been down to Stroud for the IWA festival and got chatting to an American couple "doing the old things". The couple and his partner hold master certificates and at the end of their trip the male half was hiring a boat with a couple of friends and sailing back to the US! This will apparently take about 30 days and when I asked his female partner if she was accompanying him she explained that the lack of a galley and a latrine had convinced her that flying was preferable. In respect of the latter, even my pointing out that the ocean was a fairly big place was insufficient to convince her of the desirability of the boat alternative! |
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Nige1912
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 11:13:05
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Originally posted by Stan the Man
Nige1912
I suggest trying to navigate through Blisworth tunnel when the hirers are out. Even being 6 inches off the right-hand tunnel wall, a "tin lizzie" managed to hit us the other week. Contact sport I presume.
Just been down to Stroud for the IWA festival and got chatting to an American couple "doing the old things". The couple and his partner hold master certificates and at the end of their trip the male half was hiring a boat with a couple of friends and sailing back to the US! This will apparently take about 30 days and when I asked his female partner if she was accompanying him she explained that the lack of a galley and a latrine had convinced her that flying was preferable. In respect of the latter, even my pointing out that the ocean was a fairly big place was insufficient to convince her of the desirability of the boat alternative!
Im kind of with her on that - I think 30 days without a galley or toilet would wear pretty thin, pretty fast!!
The narrowboaters only aim at us because they know we can outrun them!!! |
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Stan the Man
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Jun 2012 : 01:48:17
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Nige
I'm with you on that. It is possible to be too natural.
Any idea where I might find some pre-owned torpedo tubes? |
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Nige1912
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Jun 2012 : 18:32:50
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Originally posted by Stan the Man
Nige
Any idea where I might find some pre-owned torpedo tubes?
Meet me in the laybay at the end of the M-65 at midnight on wednesday next. Wear a red carnation. Flash your headlights three times if all is well. Bring £500k in used one pound coins and a 70ft artic trailer......no questions  |
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Deano
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Jun 2012 : 16:15:58
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It just so happens that my first experiences of motor boats was in a Torpedo boat.
It was 1979, I was 10 years old and newly invested into Sea Scouts. Our troop was at that time the owners of MTB 102.
http://www.mtb102.com/
We spent many happy weekends and summers cruising the Norfolk Broads and the North Norfolk coast. Learning to navigate and using her as a sail training base.
At that time, the torpedoes were not real, what a surprise!!. But they did slide out and allow for the storage of canoe paddles and masts and booms for the sailing boats!!!!
You may have seen her on the Jubilee Pageant along with the other Dunkirk Little Ships.
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
Freeman 30 "Silver Gem"
See the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/54758027@N00/ |
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