How not to moor a narrowboat (2)
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Just encountered this incident again on YouTube, but this time as part of a global compilation...
https://youtu.be/-5CVjEZf-b8?t=17
And it's had 2,153,223 views. Whatever happened to that silly man?
https://youtu.be/-5CVjEZf-b8?t=17
And it's had 2,153,223 views. Whatever happened to that silly man?
Arnie Cunningham said:
The narrowboat owner was a contributor to some boating magazine or another and had been a bit of a dick in the past from what I understand. Was dropped by the mag following this video being released. Condi said:
The narrowboat owner was a contributor to some boating magazine or another and had been a bit of a dick in the past from what I understand. Was dropped by the mag following this video being released.
He had the audacity to defend his actions too. A blustering arrogant cock, exactly the kind of person the waterways don't need.
That Broncos Guru YouTube channel is just one of a number of channels that amongst other stuff seems to spend a lot of time filming asshats leaving and entering a number of the trickier rougher inlets on Florida's Atlantic coast, Haulover, Jupiter, Boca Raton.
Clearly with many all the gear, no idea, and seem to substitute skill for sticking another Mercury on the stern.
I've seen up to 6 Mercury 450R's on the back, 60k a pop those last time I looked. Equally you have the families out for the day in their little boat, kids and others sat up forwards in the well then hitting the waves on the bar and shipping it green over the bow. Not a buoyancy aid in sight.
Some of the video bods are a bit creepy too, concentrating on totty not wearing much.
Just one compilation of numpty time, plenty others with fast boats imitating submarines.
https://youtu.be/lrLXFSRqdD4
Clearly with many all the gear, no idea, and seem to substitute skill for sticking another Mercury on the stern.
I've seen up to 6 Mercury 450R's on the back, 60k a pop those last time I looked. Equally you have the families out for the day in their little boat, kids and others sat up forwards in the well then hitting the waves on the bar and shipping it green over the bow. Not a buoyancy aid in sight.
Some of the video bods are a bit creepy too, concentrating on totty not wearing much.
Just one compilation of numpty time, plenty others with fast boats imitating submarines.
https://youtu.be/lrLXFSRqdD4
FiF said:
Some of the video bods are a bit creepy too, concentrating on totty not wearing much.
Is looking at legal age women in a bikini now "creepy"?! The girls wear not a lot on purpose and often love the attention of the camera. If you watch enough of Wavey Boats then you're sure to come across a few videos where the girls get their tits out when they know they are on film. Men have been looking at pretty women since the dawn of time. If we didn't then the human race would cease to exist - nothing creepy at all.
bigandclever said:
and off topic but just up and right from where is says Green Isle is a huge bunker built in WWII.https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/henley-ww2-shadow...
Condi said:
FiF said:
Some of the video bods are a bit creepy too, concentrating on totty not wearing much.
Is looking at legal age women in a bikini now "creepy"?! The girls wear not a lot on purpose and often love the attention of the camera. If you watch enough of Wavey Boats then you're sure to come across a few videos where the girls get their tits out when they know they are on film. Men have been looking at pretty women since the dawn of time. If we didn't then the human race would cease to exist - nothing creepy at all.
robemcdonald said:
I’m pretty sure there was a thread about this at the time.
Bloke was a known bellend.
The guy is a bell for sure however I have a far bigger problem with all the freeloading off grid hippies that now seem to inhabit the Thames in vast numbers permanently mooring unlicensed boats everywhere. The islands where I used to camp as a teenager and still go camping once a summer must have 50 hippy boats permanently moored round them.Bloke was a known bellend.
croyde said:
Scantily dressed women and Narrow boats. Now I have seen everything.
(Actually I have never seen that combination, what's the web address)
My waterway seems to be a bikini-free zone, regrettably.(Actually I have never seen that combination, what's the web address)
RobbyJ said:
The guy is a bell for sure however I have a far bigger problem with all the freeloading off grid hippies that now seem to inhabit the Thames in vast numbers permanently mooring unlicensed boats everywhere.
Same here. All I have to do is not have my reg number on show and the EA trespass into the marina and slap a warning notice on the boat; next step a juicy fine. Those wastrels never display even a river licence, yet oddly the EA seems powerless. Win to the hippies, complete with s
te on the bank and lemonade bottles of piss on the catwalk.RobbyJ said:
The guy is a bell for sure however I have a far bigger problem with all the freeloading off grid hippies that now seem to inhabit the Thames in vast numbers permanently mooring unlicensed boats everywhere. The islands where I used to camp as a teenager and still go camping once a summer must have 50 hippy boats permanently moored round them.
Considering that if I wanted to live on a boat on a mooring on the Thames, it would be pretty costly. I'd expect people to check that I had the right paperwork and licences etc. So why aren't these tramp boats moved on?
https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/The...
It sounds complicated (surprise surprise) when it really shouldn't be.
I sold the guy in story, Nick McKie Smith an outboard a few years ago and he gave me his business card, wish I still had it..........
It sounds complicated (surprise surprise) when it really shouldn't be.
I sold the guy in story, Nick McKie Smith an outboard a few years ago and he gave me his business card, wish I still had it..........
RobbyJ said:
https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/The...
It sounds complicated (surprise surprise) when it really shouldn't be.
'Leighton Lewis was found guilty of breaching the Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010. He was fined £400, and ordered to pay costs of £85 and his outstanding boat registration fee of £186.39 for 1 January to 31 December 2019.'It sounds complicated (surprise surprise) when it really shouldn't be.
But did he just add the CCJ to his collection and carry on I wonder?
Where does Nick Smith come into it?
Simpo Two said:
'Leighton Lewis was found guilty of breaching the Environment Agency (Inland Waterways) Order 2010. He was fined £400, and ordered to pay costs of £85 and his outstanding boat registration fee of £186.39 for 1 January to 31 December 2019.'
But did he just add the CCJ to his collection and carry on I wonder?
Where does Nick Smith come into it?
Nick is the Head of Enforcement for inland waterways for the EA. When I sold him the outboard I chuckled that it was a strange contact to have as I spent most of my teens running rings round the EA patrol boats on the Thames.But did he just add the CCJ to his collection and carry on I wonder?
Where does Nick Smith come into it?
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