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Some early Hotel Boats and others had clerestory roofs largely to contain water tanks. A lot to be said for it if the boat is designed around them - gravity feed, no pump needed, space freed up elsewhere, etc. They do need to be insulated, and don't aim for a massive capacity or it could reduce stability - the Hotel Boats needed to be filled up every day, more or less. Tim

I never said you stated anything I just made the statement myself. If I felt the need to tell someone to ''get off'' that's my prerogative if you all want to waste your lives talking about someone being told to f off knock yourselves out I've got better things to do with my time.

A general, not a specific, observation: how paradoxical that "adult" language so often goes hand in glove with childish behaviour.

We all all have our opinions Phil and I don't have a problem with that but from time to time while in the pub or out and about when shooting off our opinions especially when being rude we may find ourselves being appropriately called a Goon and told to ''get off'' in so many words. I'M not a drama queen so don't feel the need to toss off my ego for an audience. Thanks. You are judging with only half the facts it is far from bullying. Have you never told anyone to F off?

do the customers know you are using their wine cellar? And as for the debate about suitable glasses, as a proper boater, one would use the glass that the wine is already in...

Ah yes, we saw him at Cropredy Festival a few years ago. Maybe he'll learn to make tea for the tillerman, then.

Thought this might be the right place for this. Lynn does NOT like stuff strewn on the boat roof LOL even the solar panels, but I'm getting away with that as they allow for a hair drier LOL Anyway I noted we had lots of items that were quite long and thinish, and noted many plumbers vans with tubes for storing & transporting pipework. So I thought of something similar. Finding a decent size tube though is tricky. In the end I went for 160mm plastic Terracotta drainage pipe, this generally comes in 100mm / 4" for regular household drainage. As luck would have it I visited a local builders merchant and they had a load of 3m lengths of the stuff. Some of the pipes had turned Grey and I managed to get a good discount and paid just over £20 each inc v.a.t Lynn didn't like the colour though so they were painted Grey as we thought the plastic might go wobbly if in a dark colour in the heat. Anyway pipes back at the depot and work begins. We had half a sheet of 12mm ply left over from the gang planks project, so I cut to shape 4 frames for the tubes then bonded them together with Gorilla Glue to make a pair of 24mm thick frames. Each frame needed 5 holes, 4 for the tubes and a bigger central hole to hold The Whirly gig washing line which is a bigger diameter than the tubes. These were all routed out with a small Bosch router and painted with several coats of decking stain left over from the gang plank project. The routered circular off cuts were used as stop ends and glued inside the end of each tube. Proper end caps will be purchased for the removable fronts. With pipes now painted and frame stands ready it was back to the boat to assemble. All went together eventually, a couple of holes a bit tight, we'll just need to seal around all the frame holes & pipes with some clear Stixal to completely weatherproof the ply. The front caps are just standard stop ends with the inner edge polished so it slips on and off the pipe easily. The S/S knobs are just some stuff left over from the boat build. The tubes hold as follows. Whirly gig drier 9 f/t span sun umbrella. Telescopic aerial pole. 2 fishing rods & reels broom & mop handles. Large Fishing Keep Net Costs Tubes £41.00 End caps £20 inc delivery 1/2 sheet Ext ply £15.00 Basically everything else was in the workshop so total cost just under £80.00

The protected status is there to (hopefully) prevent the structure being altered significantly or destroyed altogether. Somehow I can't see this happening at Hurleston Locks.......It would need listed buildings consent from the local authority, though I would say obtaining it would be a formality. I was for several years a canal society's work party organiser at a lock that was a listed building so have first hand experience of it this. Rebuilding the insides of a lock chamber a couple of inches wider would make little difference to its appearance in my books. The regulations will allow the under water and working parts of a brick chamber to be reconstructed in engineering bricks. Inside the chamber of a working lock soon becomes covered in slime and the type of brick used rapidly becomes irelevant from a visual viewpoint. What it does mean though is that visible brick/stonework that is outside the chamber would need to be treated sensitively, that is repaired with reclaimed bricks and lime mortar. I believe this is a good thing and that more heritage structures should be treated with this respect, not just the formally listed ones.