IanM

It does seem a little odd not finding the forum "useful or suitable". Their only obvious interaction has been a good topic in an interesting part of the forum which has produced good replies.

I did have a conversation with Phil Trotter back in the late 90s about them. He said they were “coffee stained original drawings that they’d been given”. I was building a model and asked if I could see them but he refused. I was about 20 and had never really chatted to him before so didn’t push it any further.

I would think the rowers, assuming that the other boat didn’t reverse into them.

Weren’t they the ones who started work on Gorse but then decided to move on to building new ones so sold it on and the work was finished by WFB? I’m sure we would have heard about it if one had been built.

I've had similar with an online shop recently. Showing in stock on their website so order the item. Email later that day saying that their supplier couldn't get any more so they had to cancel my order. So it wasn't in stock then was it?! 😠

I think the boat in question has been mentioned on here before and is near the other A45 bridge furthest from the Stop House. It certainly wasn't between the Stop House and the turn a few weeks ago.

It means they can charge more and the NHS will pay it. Just don't even look at anything remotely aviation certified! Had a small cooling fan motor from an aircraft at work for testing purposes which cost something like £13,000 new. The equivalent non-certified new motor was just a few hundred pounds.

Indeed. I wasn't sure for how long so thought I'd best not mention that in case some pedant pulled me up on it not being "two years" but "two years and a month" or something equally anal which then would descend into people arguing about CRT closures and did CRT have the legal right to do anything as the canals aren't technically theirs due to some ancient act or some other armchair legalese guff. Yes, I am having a bad morning! 😆

Cost.

There is no CRT presence at the Stop House at Braunston. It was sold off last year / year before.

Surely that's Southbound? Or am I missing something?

I was thinking that too

Thanks @Tony Brooks and @Jen-in-Wellies Probably good to get that explained as I can see the OP tuning their pump off, opening a tap, no water appearing and thinking they don't need to pump anything up at all.

I did wonder if that was the case 👍

I'm a little confused by this bit and I have been since @Tony Brooks and others have posted it. If I turn our pump off, no water comes out of any tap so I'm not sure how I would be able to pump up the accumulator until no water flows. 😕