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  3. Well then, that's all you need - obviously an experienced canal user. Did you get the T-shirt or just the key-ring ? You don't need any further assistance, just find boat and get the owner to give you a full legally binding written specification, then go and mither a surveyor, pay over your cash and you are on your way.
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  4. If you feel this is an adequate response then you are even more in need of canal boat experience than I thought. Presumably you had sufficient water under the hull to allow the keel to stay off the bottom. I very much doubt your yachts were bluff nosed steel boxes. Narrowboats that all too often move with their bottoms in muddy slurry or at best with only inches under the baseplate push water up the canal in front of them. The effect of the propeller and the canal bed cause the boat to veer towards one side if you get too close to a bank. When two narrowboats pass going in opposite directions the combination of the water pushed in front, the action of the props and the canal bed often causes them to pull towards each other. The faster you are going the worse this effect will be. Given time YOU will come to master this sort of thing and anticipate it but other boaters will not so it is far from uncommon for boats to bump, sometimes violently. If you cause your stern to swing across the bow of a big Woolwich working boat there is a good chance the bow will meat a stern window. I had prommmised myself that I would not reply to any more of your posts because of your apparent attitude, but now have done it. Please take heed of all the good advice given and once and for all get the idea that your sailing experience is all you need for narrowboating.
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  5. Cornblimey, Is everybody expected to read the whole thread now before jumping in with uninformed comment??
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  8. Can anybody help please? One of our Blackstone boxes (mechanical on HA2) has just stuck in reverse, and it is now not possible to get it out. We don't have any kind of workshop manual, but with lid off, there are no obvious failures we can see. It is well lubricated, and all springs on the clutch (for ahead, I think) seem to be present. I can't contact either vendor or local engineer. Can anyone give any idea as to whether any self help might just be possible, please? There were no nasty noises at the time, and it was not being stressed in any way. Thanks
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  9. It was in my original post: http://www.sykestimber.co.uk/timber/european-elm.html
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  13. Yup. I've never seen that Reg on anything boat related.
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  14. Well that sounds like a Building Regulations requirement, and not applicable to boats. A roof hatch of the sort shown would be a damn sight more use than a mushroom vent in the event of a sinking.
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  16. The lock at Sutton Stop should break you in gently then.
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  18. I've only ever bought sawn kiln dried myself (spent all day yesterday machining some utile) and that's all they list. However they're a huge outfit so could possibly supply it green if you wanted
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  20. We've got a 30' Aintree Beetle. It's compact but cleverly designed and I reckon I could just about live on it on my own. Heating would be the main issue, but I think (?) the bigger Beetles come with a fire. Aintree have been excellent to deal with and we're delighted with the boat.
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  22. If it's a four-pot four-stroke diesel there will always be one of each!
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  23. Thereby categorising yourself as a bodger, first class
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  27. Or as I have just said a view of any boat moored far too close to the bridge on the towpath on the other side. Mike is wrong on this one, as anybody who takes a 3 foot draughted 72 footer through there on a regular basis will know. It is not a lack of skill by those attempting to get through the bridge, it is either ignorance or an "I don't care" attitude by wide beam owners that dump boats in places like that for a fortnight at a time.
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  28. That's us Dave! Wot I should have mentioned is that we are both feeling rather wrung out from work, so I've tried putting only a 4 hour day into canalplan.... which kinda only takes us as far as Braunston, with a day to mooch around before we head back... We'd both love to come down to cropredy - Jon loves it round there and I'd love to have the opportunity to meet mr Athy and buy him a well-deserved tipple of his choice for past help/encouragement/and being a general good egg! ;-)
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  29. I took my old filter with me to a motor factors and they matched it for me. It is a circular one, so they just measured outside and inside diameters and the thickness. Mines a Beta43, so the part number I have may not be the same as a 38. You may have to try more than one factor and explain that it is for a boat engine. Some staff now can't cope with finding parts when you don't have a car registration number they can look up. Jenny
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  31. Right now, so am I... It does seem very un-Odin-like to eat something horrific, given that he is both generally good (I may not have mentioned this before, but whilst setting up for the wake, I forgot about the dogs and went upstairs for a pee... It was only when I was um, fully committed as it were, that I realised I had left two Labradors unsupervised with the buffet. They had touched nothing, as I suppose is self-evident by virtue of the fact that this is the first you are hearing of it... ) and also rarely out of sight of one of you. Are you 100% sure it was shitty vomit and not vomity shit? By which I mean, is the method of expulsion definitely confirmed as a launch from the roof hatch and not the stern gland, because in my professional experience, some peculiar-looking blends can come out of the back end of a dog.
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  32. Given that as far as I know this has never happened, you might as well worry about how to get out if the boat is struck by a meteorite...
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  35. the thought did cross my mind I should paint the boats camo green, to be less conspicuous There's a guy on the Bridgewater who had an allergic reaction to my boat colour..made him keep knocking to tell me I only had a day left...lol
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  39. Why do you say that? From my experience, boats with amateur fitouts quite often end up having other less obvious bodges onboard. Things like badly fitted electrics. That is exactly what they did. Why would you want to buy a boat that has been worked on by someone that knows little about boats?
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  41. We popped in yesterday lunchtime about 1300. Margaret returned to boat at about 1400 ish,I stumbled back at about 1530ish. I do like a pint or two of 6x. Fantastic pub. Unique in many ways. Fully recommended. Martyn.hic!
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  42. Sorry but you have made a spelling error - allow me to correct it for you ;
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  43. He says Canalline 42. I thought Beta called their canal engines "Green line". Is the OP's not an Isuzu? If so it MIGHT have an electric lift pump (I know some do). I which case the priming will be accomplished by turning the ignition on and having a cup of tea. If the engine battery is serviceably it should then self bleed the high pressure side and start. If not I would then loosen the injector unions and crank the engine to see if I had diesel there. If not something is blocked or its a mechanical lift pump that requires the system bleeding.
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  44. Some more than others it seems.
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  45. Sorry Daniel but, if it is within my power, I'm not prepared to let you get away with changing history so easily The facts are that for the number of members banned within that period of 2 or 3 days: FACT - Several of them hadn't posted on the forum for months prior to their banning. FACT - Others had received only one previous warning FACT - some had received no previous warnings FACT - no explanation was given to them because the system didn't allow them to log in to see the explanation because they were banned (obviously!) Now that we seem to have got over that unpleasantness you could at least be straight about it and not try to engineer a cover up. You allowed a major "us and them" culture to develop where posters and the mods saw each other as the enemy, it went on for months before the empire finally crumbled. Fortunately we now have a set of very sensible moderators to whom I give my full support. But that is not a reason to change history.
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  46. From what I have read here (and elsewhere) about previous members on some kind of 'hit list' being banned without a proper explanation , I think your post is very hypocritical. Where was the impartiality and professionalism then? Not even an apology from you. This forum seems to have the feel of an old boys club sometimes. If that's what you want, fine, but I've found some of the members here very rude and it's not very conjunctive to attracting new members, This forum will only ever continue to be a good resource for boaters and other canal users if it is a friendly place to be and not dominated by the few who look down their noses at newcomers.
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  47. I think Mods should have two logins and not mix their roles. By that I mean they can join in discussions if they post without their mod hat on. I have been asked, occasionally, to tone-down a post, but I have never been censored.
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  48. By "2 mark" - do you mean 2,000 rpm? If so that seems very high to me. My boat cruises around 1200 rpm on the canals - or less when passing long lines of boats... If you have to run the engine that fast to make any progress, then either you've got something still attached to the prop, or the gearing is wrong or you'r digging a hole in the shallow canal....
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