What an interesting dock! Really appreciate you filming this, it’s this kind of thing that I find daunting but your vlogs are helpful! 👍🏼 looking forward to learning about blacking! Claire x
I've seen a couple of other videos where a boat was pulled ouit of the water for blackening. This is the first time I've seen a dry dock used. Fascinating.
It's a fascinating place Mr C, and amazing to stay there for a few days. All the better because the couple who run it are first-class pros with a real passion for boats and boating.
All I can say is bloody well done Sean. I cleared the rust from the hull above the waterline before I even went into the dock, and that nearly killed me!
I must protest in the strongest possible terms Mr Z. I have noticed a worrying trend in the comments, suggesting that it would be very entertaining to see me doing hard physical work. Of all people, I thought I could rely on you not to join in with this chorus of sadism, Mr Z. I've explained how I have a medical exemption from physical labour due to my long standing hard work allergy. It is the same tragic issue that afflicts me at canal locks. I would be risking a severe shock reaction if I were to use a hammer, or even a drill. For the sadists, I can say that I actually did some hard work on prepping the hull (above the waterline), and I got rid of all the surface rust before I went down onto the river weaver. Obviously my sadistic subscribers won't believe that tale, given how workshy I clearly am. So at some point I shall publish the video evidence of me actually doing some hard work, and of the pitiful state it left me in afterwards. Oh, that it has come to this.
See me do some work??! Ms B, you clearly have a sadistic streak, and it does you no credit. I am too artistic and sensitive to engage in actual work, and I find it most distressing that you should suggest such a horrible thing. Now I need to lie down and be fed some grapes. Peeled.
My dear Ms Ulrich, let me be clear- I love hard work. I love it so much that I could watch it all day long. But it is not a sport in which I wish to actively participate.
They are able to do this because there is another canal much lower just behind the dry dock ? Otherwise they would have to Pump out the boat like normal dry docks . Electricity is not cheap . In the US the technical name for a drydocking unit built into the earth is Graving Dock as opposed to floating dry dock . No one uses the term but shipyard types…
You are 100% correct Joseph. This dock was deliberately built very close to a lock on the river weaver. So when the boats pass through that lock, they are lifted up by about 12 feet. Then they cruise back around a loop in the river, and approach the dry dock. At the back of the dock the water can drain out freely into the river, because at that location the river next to the dry dock is about 10 feet below the dock's full level. It's tricky to explain these things without a diagram!
What an interesting dock! Really appreciate you filming this, it’s this kind of thing that I find daunting but your vlogs are helpful! 👍🏼 looking forward to learning about blacking! Claire x
Claire! Are you suggesting that I have broken my strict rule and made a video that is actually informative?!
How very dare you!
@@theamateurboater5892 I see it as hidden golden nuggets for the few to find! 😂
Aha.. So can I ask- is your rather unusual YT username because you are dreaming/planning to get a narrowboat?
@@theamateurboater5892 Absolutely that! I hire boats for holidays & it’s costing me a fortune 😂 I may as well buy one! 😁 x
I've seen a couple of other videos where a boat was pulled ouit of the water for blackening. This is the first time I've seen a dry dock used. Fascinating.
It's a fascinating place Mr C, and amazing to stay there for a few days. All the better because the couple who run it are first-class pros with a real passion for boats and boating.
done blacking out of water, stripped the hull with a 1300W angle grinder and a brush head, i was black and exhausted 57ft boat in a single week!!!
All I can say is bloody well done Sean.
I cleared the rust from the hull above the waterline before I even went into the dock, and that nearly killed me!
I love the old architecture, must be a pleasure to be using it. Now to roll up them sleeves and get stuck in 😲
I must protest in the strongest possible terms Mr Z. I have noticed a worrying trend in the comments, suggesting that it would be very entertaining to see me doing hard physical work.
Of all people, I thought I could rely on you not to join in with this chorus of sadism, Mr Z.
I've explained how I have a medical exemption from physical labour due to my long standing hard work allergy. It is the same tragic issue that afflicts me at canal locks.
I would be risking a severe shock reaction if I were to use a hammer, or even a drill.
For the sadists, I can say that I actually did some hard work on prepping the hull (above the waterline), and I got rid of all the surface rust before I went down onto the river weaver.
Obviously my sadistic subscribers won't believe that tale, given how workshy I clearly am. So at some point I shall publish the video evidence of me actually doing some hard work, and of the pitiful state it left me in afterwards.
Oh, that it has come to this.
isnt it part of a scouse birth certificate!!
@@theamateurboater5892
This was interesting. Looking forward to seeing you doing some work 😃
See me do some work??!
Ms B, you clearly have a sadistic streak, and it does you no credit.
I am too artistic and sensitive to engage in actual work, and I find it most distressing that you should suggest such a horrible thing.
Now I need to lie down and be fed some grapes. Peeled.
I really do believe that watching you do some ‘actual work’ would send your subscriber numbers sky-high. How’s that for incentive?😅
My dear Ms Ulrich, let me be clear- I love hard work.
I love it so much that I could watch it all day long.
But it is not a sport in which I wish to actively participate.
@@theamateurboater5892 😂in that case I look forward to seeing your artistic and sensitive side, and peeled grapes, well in your dreams!😂
They are able to do this because there is another canal much lower just behind the dry dock ?
Otherwise they would have to Pump out the boat like normal dry docks .
Electricity is not cheap .
In the US the technical name for a drydocking unit built into the earth is Graving Dock as opposed to floating dry dock .
No one uses the term but shipyard types…
You are 100% correct Joseph.
This dock was deliberately built very close to a lock on the river weaver.
So when the boats pass through that lock, they are lifted up by about 12 feet. Then they cruise back around a loop in the river, and approach the dry dock.
At the back of the dock the water can drain out freely into the river, because at that location the river next to the dry dock is about 10 feet below the dock's full level. It's tricky to explain these things without a diagram!