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J R ALSOP

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  • Location
    Hemel Hempstead, when not on boat
  • Occupation
    Marine Engineer (Retired) Boat Safety Examiner
  • Boat Name
    COMET
  • Boat Location
    Grand Union Hertfordshire & Coventry Canal Warwickshire

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  1. I always was led to believe the fitting on the top of the stern gear was to connect the cooling water outlet from the manifold on the engine. On old Venus engine / stern gear literature it certainly showed pipe from engine and not stern gear to weed hatch or overboard.
  2. After Ian sold the boat, it went to London, owner had a fire on board but I don't know what happened to it afterwards. But I will ask a man on Saturday who might know.
  3. The owner of City of Gloucester was top man at BWB, David Fletcher so he had pick of numbers, we all have a lot to thank him for, free passage through Standedge tunnel, Anderton lift and few more that BWB wanted to charge for.
  4. Watch this space, all is not lost
  5. Passed you in cutting above Tyrley this afternoon, you were enjoying a little drink.
  6. Looks a bit fumy / hazy in there. Do you have CO2 alarm
  7. You have missed the "s" out of Battlesbridge.
  8. Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?
  9. I have a Bukh 2G105 a two cylinder long stroke 29 HP water cooled engine, originally it was raw water cooled but got fed up with all the weed and rubbish getting drawn in, so 20 years ago i fitted a skin cooling tank system with anti freeze. It took about 2 years to stop looking over the side for the water outlet. All Bukh"s are good engines, I installed lots when I worked for Coles Morton Marine in the 70's.
  10. As a youth club we hired "Shirley" from Deans in about 1958, only we had a bucket and chuck it loo, we were told to chuck it over the back, best not do it in a lock. We too went to Llangollen, I never drank water again in Crewe or Chester.
  11. I have a Jabsco 12/24v that increases speed as more demand is needed, pressure out of taps remain constant even with 6 taps on. Will be at boat nest week so will get model no. off it.
  12. The two sanitary stations down the Montgomery are they best I have seen for many a long year.
  13. Very nice ( and a helicoptor ). I am still waiting to see a Bukh tractor as I have a 2G105 in my boat, same as in tractor.
  14. I thought that the Chesterfield had just been shut with low water levels
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