Hmmmm
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 08:23AM Some of the mystery as to why Misterton was hard to turn when we took her out a few weeks ago has been revealed. I'd intended to do this ever since that day, but I finally got round to drawing out the sweep of the rudder in its current configuration.
Turning to port we have 40 degrees of rudder movement, but only 25 degrees to starboard, which was the direction I was mainly trying to turn in. It should be 35 degrees each way. I'll be able to re-locate the mounting points for the steering ram and hopefully get a more balanced range of movement. Can only help.
Also on sunday, John from next door departed with his tug, pushing a MFV (Motor Fishing Vessel) to Essex. John was then onto Holland with his tug 'Atlas' for the summer.
Lots of other boats out on the river on sunday, but nothing quite as interesting as this.
Reader Comments (2)
There was a recent "Grand Designs" that involved a barge and I expected to see you. However it was not to be... Look how lucky you are... http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/grand-designs/episode-guides/medway-the-eco-barge-08-06-09_p_1.html
Yes, I've seen that one, its quite infamous in the boating world over here :)
We were interviewed to take part in a TV series, but were deemed 'too risky' as at that stage we didn;t know where the boat would end up, and the program creators couldn't get their heads round that concept.
Hope all is good with you.