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cuthound

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About cuthound

  • Birthday 19/01/1954

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Staffordshire
  • Interests
    Boating on Britains canals
    Motor sport (especially Formula One)
    Listening to music
  • Occupation
    Retired (critical power & cooling project mgt)
  • Boat Name
    Delta Queen
  • Boat Location
    Staffordshire

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  1. And of course they are just as dead. It is almost always those who have never actually worked in a previously dangerous industry who complain about H&S.
  2. The red bits on my boat are International Rochelle Red. It is a bright red with a orangey tint and resisted fading well. I took this photo today and the boat was last repainted almost 5 years ago. I recently touched up the edges of the handrails and the new paint is shinier but not brighter than the old paint.
  3. According to Google Lens: The image shows the Rodington Swing Bridge on the Shrewsbury Canal in Shropshire, England. This historic photograph captures the bridge before its abandonment and subsequent uncovering by restoration efforts. The Shrewsbury Canal, authorized in 1793, connected Trench to Shrewsbury and later linked to the broader canal network in 1835 via the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal. The canal was officially abandoned in 1944, and many sections have since disappeared, though some structures like this bridge remain. Recent work by the Shrewsbury and Newport Canals Trust has involved uncovering and exposing the buried structure of the Rodington lift bridge, revealing much of its original brickwork and metalwork.
  4. Supermarket delivery trucks surely.
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  7. My boat has a pump out tank with a "tank full" light. Coming from an industry where anything important was duplicated, I worried about what happened if the bulb failed, so I fitted an MCS waste tank gauge. It revealed that the light came on when the tank was about 50% full, so soon paid for itself by reducing the effective cost of pump outs by half.
  8. Lets face it, I though his apprenticeship at a watch and clock maker was a wind up...
  9. We hired from Concoform Marine on July 1976, intending to go to Market Harborough. However come the holiday the Leicester Branch had been closed and partially drained to keep the GU mainline open, so we explored the southern GU instead.
  10. How old is the Vactan? IIRC it has a shelf life of only 12 months. That said it is good of them to replace it without question.
  11. Yes, too early to be dyslectric...
  12. That is exactly what we have done. Replanned our routes to avoid anywhere where there is a strong possibility of getting the boat trapped a long way from its home mooring. We have taken shorter more frequent trips rather than one or two longer ones.
  13. Many ex-working boats are 80 plus years old, made of thinner steel than modern steel narrowboats and never had any anodes, but are still around.
  14. Aqua cows, love it. Many years ago we had a holiday on the Llangollen in our second shareboat. We moored up and a little while later some cows came down to a beachy area opposite the boat to drink. One adventurous cow waded across the canal to inspect our boat. When it began licking the saloon window our dog went absolutely mental, barking loudly, which resulted in the cow returning to its compatriots in the field.
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