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Just a reminder to all you folks, myself included re the dangers of Co and possibly waking up Dead!! Alarm went off on boat next to mine late last evening, proves the worth of alarms. They had left their ash bucket full of hot ashes inside the boat!! Dont do it, they smoulder as we all know for a couple of days even if freezing cold outside. So ashes outside every time please. Thanks and sleep safely.

Good evening i thought it might help to offer some explanation of why I charge a by the foot price for stretches eight foot and over i will stretch by less than eight feet but the price would be quoted and not fixed a boat that is to be stretched has firstly to be cut in half regardless of how much it is to be stretched by. This is required regardless and is a big part of the job. The steel sheets are Eight foot long and so stretching by six foot for example leaves two foot of spare steel which is not always used immediately i am happy to stretch by any size but it cannot be done by the foot price under eight foot as it is uneconomical i hope this answers any questions Martin

Crikey, this is a long thread for a duff oil pressure sender! Poor old OP is not mechanically minded so he's probably bamboozled now! Four pages and much hand wringing about a knackered engine, plus a debate about whether modern engine manufacturers know what they're doing when they specify their oil, all for a simple ten minute job. Granted, if the fault persists thereafter the landscape changes, but first things first, eh?

My 18 year old body back (with my 63 year old head on it)

Or has gone on holiday with his latest pay packet. In this day and age I really struggle with the concept that people are this stupid to just hand over a wedge of cash to a complete stranger.

I'm tempted to come if I can get it to work. Let me just look at trains from Cambridge/Ely and prices.

We were in Saxilby on Saturday evening. Four boats moored up. Two of which were running generators not only well past the 8pm time limit but also on their back decks under canvas covers with the wind blowing at the stern of the boats. You can not educate everyone!

I thought it was 'the'.

Not quite what you're looking for but this looks a CRACKING boat. My dream boat in fact. Everything seems right about it. https://www.apolloduck.com/boat/barges-luxe-motor/557728

I hear about a new trend in Yorkshire where youngsters are taking Ecstacy by injecting it directly into their mouth. Yuck! They call it "E by gum".

How recherché of you!

Choose steel, choose insulation, choose spray foam, choose a big fracking dehumidifier. Choose brass mushrooms, choose to open them. Choose double glazing, triple glazing, no windows. Choose ventilation, choose vents, opening windows, ecofans, soid fuel heating.choose portholes and insulated houdini hatches. Choose to use less gas, choose solid fuel cooking, no showering, choose pipe insulation, choose external exhaust breathing apparatus. Choose to dry clothes outside, choose no clothes. Choose microwave ready meals and cold drinks. Choose to live somewhere warmer over winter yet still call yourself a full time liveaboard boater. Choose an inside swimming pool. Choose not to live on a boat. Live in a house. I chose not to live in a house, i chose something else.

I wondered why I got glared at by those on the flybridge Tupperware when I opened up the JP in there!! Made me smile as a blew a few smuts out!!

I smell your 2T and I raise you Castrol R.....

Try living in Rural Wales, or any other proper country area, you'll get used to the smell of wood-smoke and welcome the associated warmth ?

You are a GENIUS! The iMac was listed but turned OFF. I turned it on. Mind you 20 seconds later it still not synced. Impatient aren't I?

We had 2 ash pans on our last boat. The fire was used one night and was out the next day. That evening we inserted the spare pan...because it was blowing a hoolie outside we didn't want the ash blowing about plus..the ash in the pan was cold so we stored it under the stove. We sat watching the TV and suddenly the CO alarm started screaming and indicated high CO. I emptied the "supposed" dead ash pan outside..and there in the bottom were a few blazing coals. The ash on top had acted as an insulator and so it felt cold. The CO alarm....saved our lives.

I wouldn't mind a catamaran, I've never heard of a dogamaran.

And now many of us have "Jap" engines in out NBs (Yanmar, etc)

Yes I agree.

Rusty's rice recipe is much better than WotEvers

See post #68 I doubt that very much But of the crime for which you currently stand accused I concur.

Can you both stop talking Greek please? and write proper english like wot we wuz brought up do in Yorkshire.

Am a G.O.A. Wusstee, Grasp of Economics Lol

Like my motorcycle . There is a combined Lucas mechanical regulator and and automatic cut-out, to prevent the dynamo from motoring. The 6V system means it actually gets darker when you turn the lights on.

After so many years of wanting to take part you're doing it? I'm so excited for you! The journey to the BCN will be part of the adventure - I look forward to reading updates ☺️

There was a boat moored a couple or pontoons away from us and whenever we were there it was belching stinking smoke from burning wood, The level of ash on the boats moored around us was obvious and our worktops were dirty. We don't live on board but if we did I would have been looking for a change of berth . For fires there is wood and there is wood, from seasoned hard wood, fresh damp wood and general crap.

I guess its easier to apply a blanket ban than specify a list of species and max. moisture content etc. Or to expect people to display common sense and courtesy to their neighbours.

I was at Mabelthorpe yesterday they were beach racing Castro R perfik took me back years in seconds ? Great engine crap handling, and two steering dampers to stop tank slapping!! I had a Z1A first thing we did was slap it in a Rickman frame before we killed ourselves?

Far fewer than that for those who have a bit of a trek to get there

It will , it could be that i am in for injections in two days for the elbows so hope it will make things easier for me. Just banging my head know as i forgot about zip lengths and and the correct turn button sizes i need once all stitched/sewn up. Will watch through more Sailrite on Youtube to check what i need for the canopy and what what.

Well they must "get away" with ice being pushed against them given the complete lack of sunk cruisers every time the canal freezes over! Last time we took NC out ice breaking it was the steel boats complaining that we would damage their boats!

Not since my last violent evasive manouvre into the trees to avoid the oncoming dayboat.

Action being taken on the Basingstoke https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/cyclists-told-dont-right-way-15452609