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just tell them its bloody cold in winter, you dont know how the bog works when its full, and have a part cooked chicken on the oven and the gas has gone on a Sunday at 4.30 and you cant get another until Tuesday as all the boatyards are shut until then. Add on that you have to keep moving on a continuous journey every 14 days and dont fancy the bit where you have to go up to Scotland via the sea to do the authorised route. hope this helps us all..

Yes. He pushed the grease up his nose.

My gut feeling is this is a wind up

70 years of lumpy water sailing experience + a trip up the Crinnan Canal

But you only get the benefit of using street light if you have paid council tax - if you don't pay CT then the light produced is blocked from being used on solar / lunar panels.

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You have a few choices and it depends on how important the rest of the boat is to you. Quite a few boats have issues in this area, some less than 10 years old, as some of the lower end companies don't even black it before it goes into water. Spot welding the tube will be very difficult and will probably miss pits, you will also find the worst corrosion will be where the thruster prop turns, spot welding here may well jam the unit. Get the tube blasted and epoxy coated...get the hull done at the same time. Weld plates over the end and learn to steer the boat properly.

The two are not automatically mutually exclusive.

Where has all the Green gone?

you bacckstabbin bastrd, !!!! just cos there are no pics of the Thorneycroft does not mean there is no engine

How do you know it's a 10% risk? The SP doesn't accurately reflect the true probability (ask any bookie). Here, for one. The boat is out of the water at present, the third coat of blacking has just gone on, but not on the baseplate. No visible problem.

Apart from anything else, £1.11 is pretty close to the price paid in a garage forecourt for 100% propulsion. We just filled up at Norbury, 59p domestic. And Wheaton Aston was 57p.

Too late, i just bought it to use as a tender

Yes unfortunately an intermittent isolator could well have fried the diodes in the alternator. There are some pretty awful isolators out there. Tell us your specific make and model of isolator and we will be able to tell you if it's any good - or not. Good makes are Blue Sea Systems, BEP Marine amongst others.

I think your first quote missed off the pertinent bit about increasing cycle speeds. Faster cycling does endanger other users.

agree its the same with any major purchase, in fact any purchase, from a pizza to palace, je suis OP, I like to make sure l have not missed something glaringly obvious, ty

It's a gamble, no more, no less. Forget how much you might win: the only question is how much you are prepared to lose.

If the boat is relatively short you don't really need a bowthruster, say up to 45' any longer and they are useful but they are really a luxury item on British canals. You might also find that the tube is very thick walled and a few pits don't matter (Or the opposite...) I haven't got one and I would like one but when I get a manoeuvre totally wrong I just shout at my wife and blame her.

Put the bow thruster on ebay and you should more than cover the cost of getting plates welded over the ends of the tube. Being new to the narrow boating world you may not know that the bow thruster "debate" is like the cassette v pumpout one. Strong emotions and opinions held and no one is ever going to convince anyone on the other side. I am of the no bow thruster and learn to steer school. Jen

Glad you like it Chris. Most of the credit must go to one of my team, Wayne Bucknall (you'll have spoken to him in your past life), who has spent more hours than I'm ever going to dare admit patiently making and tweaking patterns and tooling. The assistance and encouragement of everyone at Brinklow Boats deserves a mention too - you couldn't ask for a better quality control department. Forget Buckby, they're now known round these parts as Bucknall Cans.......

mine is 14 years old and I am sick and tired of re-sewing zips, and other stitches, holding together bits with tape, most of the elastic bands are perished to buggery along with the fact that most of the press studs are either ripped out/ are bent after numerous replacements or only hold in a 3 knot gale. I am buying a new one this Summer. The canvas is still quite good.

That's why we didn't take a share in a boat. We couldn't guarantee that we could use the time slots available to us And managing a boat by committee didn't appeal to us either Richard Your second Bumble Hole of the week You'll be becoming real boaters if you a/. choose a pub because it has free WIFI and b/. plug your 'phone charger into a mains socket in the pub while you eat Richard

Bizzarre! I regularly go into London and I have always found a mooring at (or close to) my chosen location every time I go. That is four or five trips a year for the last ten years.