Lysander
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Watford's not nearly so pretty now. ?
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Yes - I also have had one from Braks. I don't know how to report a PM but consider it reported now!
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Boat life newspaper article. This has to be a wind up?
Lysander replied to doratheexplorer's topic in General Boating
The maths is defeating me. She was earning £90k a year but only managed to save £2000 a month. At the end of 2 years she only had £20k (she seems to have lost £28k on the way). Then with that and £10k from an inheritance and £10k from her family she has bought a boat with a broken bog... -
We have exactly that system and the only times it has failed in that way was when our batteries were knackered.
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Lysander had 'Hest Bank' as the home location when we bought it. We also got a lot of "Ooh, you've come a long way!" so since it was simply vinyl lettering I was able to strip it off. When we had the boat repainted and signwritten, my other half wanted Lady Capel's Wharf on it so that's what we have. She balances out Lord Vernon a little...
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Downsizing Temporarily to a Boat; where to store my stuff?
Lysander replied to kellyjllek's topic in New to Boating?
Big Yellow Storage in Watford is close to the canal. -
Cheap cat litter in an old pillowcase does the job just as well and doesn't disintegrate!
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Saw a sign at Paddington Station last year which made me laugh. I wish I'd taken a photo of it. It stated that there were no toilets on the Heathrow trains and apologised for the inconvenience...
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The Itchen Navigation. I have no idea if it's still navigable, having only walked the upper stretches of it, or whether there are trip boats on any part of it.
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We live within spitting distance of a canal but have chosen to moor in a marina quite some distance from home. If we want to explore the canal close to where we live we can simply walk the towpath. We used to moor on the GU but being leisure boaters we found we virtually knew every blade of grass within 2 or 3 days cruising time of our mooring. We now moor in the centre of the country with the option of a number of directions in which we can travel.
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Have we met?
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Interesting to see quite a number of steel narrowboats in your photos. We hired a boat from Pennine Cruisers in Skipton in 1974 and most of our photos show the vast majority of boats were cabin cruisers.
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How Much For A Signwritten Name
Lysander replied to TheSaintlyOne's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
Last year we paid £235 for boat name, scroll and home port, CRT numbers and logo, and bow flashes. This was not London though. -
LOL. So should mine - 38 years now...
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Water pump for cleaning engine bilge?
Lysander replied to RichM's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
We used cheap cat litter in an old pillow case for the last remaining traces of liquid which we couldn't scoop out. Worked a treat. -
Our cooker is located in front of a window - it helps to see what you're cooking - in the daytime of course! You can't have any window covering such as curtains or blinds though which might be an inconvenience.
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For the record, and because it may be of interest, here are two photos of Prince's Dock before it became a shopping centre. The black and white one is from 1960 and the one in colour is pre-war.
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Well it certainly saved me a bit of time travelling between Watford and Hull.
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Originally planned in the 1930s
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Look how long it took to get round to building the Humber Bridge...
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Yes, Bolton.
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You can't have grey with Eye of Horus. We got there first...
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I had exactly the same. Most of the problem had righted itself by the time I got my appointment!
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The family are heading the other way down the South Oxford instead!
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Uh-oh - family heading that way today on Lysander. Have passed on the warning.
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