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Thankyou for your kind words Brian. when I joined the forum some 9/10 years ago, I was told I had a couple of years due to cancer, the forum and boating gave me somthing to focus on. having vast amount of chemo, 2 operations then. Life Saving 6hr op, Since then have another 3 operations, and yes at the time my wife let me have a boat to live on, and we’re still here. Still living on a boat. I do ask and have been let down many a time. In the end you have no one to ask, so you have to have ago. And yes I do get a lot out of the forum. like many do if they tried. and boy I know I’m trying lol thankyou all Tony’s x 2 Alan, blizzard, Sam you know who you are, and anyone else that sees my posts, give up then and there, ? or get stuck In, ending up tearing your hair out.. Lol Thankyou Making another small donation to the forum thankyou guys

Looking to transport a barge from North Holland (Sneek) to Ireland! Please note - I only want replies that I want to hear, anything questioning my intentions, or requesting further information will be treated with contempt. Please only answer the question and give me a list of freight companies - NOTHING ELSE. Thank you. Petisa

It's part of the plan - to burn excess lardy kids in a few years time.

There's quite a difference in a reputable boatyard or broker having a list of reputable surveyors for the potential purchaser to consider and a less reputable boatyard or broker pushing their own tame surveyor to their own ends (particularly if, in truth, they own the subject boat). A reputable broker would look a bit daft if they were unable or unwilling to furnish a less experienced customer with such a list and any findings from a genuine survey simply become a point for them to factor in into the negotiations, hence should not have any significant effect on the broker. I'm not suggesting you're wrong to sound a note of caution about needing the surveyor to be 100% in the buyer's camp: rather that not all brokers have such a list for nefarious purposes. The trick is in telling the difference!

For those of an electronic disposition I will just mention that the PCBs I designed (using free DesignSpark software) took 6 days to turn around from Elecrow in China. Total cost for 10 boards, £29. Which I think is exceptionally good. Quality is fine. So getting proper PCBs made up for home projects is perfectly feasible. I chose to use mostly surface mount as I’ve found it easy to solder components using a hot air rework station and solder paste. and here with some components soldered on...

I'm sure i have one of them for squeezing lemons...

I'm not sure how surprised I am that there's a website for the OP's question, i.e. http://www.whatshalfway.com It does seem rather a niche site, but that's the Internet for you. Perhaps matty40s used it, because the answer it seems is postcode M42 B79, on the M42 a few miles NW of Alvecote Marina near Tamworth. So there's your answer. Please bear in mind that when you're only halfway up to York you'll be neither up nor down.

Did you tell him to take off the weedhatch lid, then bail out the water he will find under it?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6602075/Pictures-1940s-reveal-children-lived-canal-barges-went-school.html

If you can restore classics you can change the belts. I do mine every couple of years at the same time I do the annual oil/filter change. The whole lot would be done in about 8 hrs depending on how often the tea lady arrives. please dont tell her I said that. Do not pull the engine out, do in situ. Once my alternators are removed I have about ten inches between the engine and the bulkhead and quite a bit of room down both sides making the job a little irksome but definitely not difficult. Regards Johnh

I’ve written up the tale of our 2018 canal journeys, with once again plenty of photos. This year we travelled down to Gloucester, then up to Llangollen, and by a long route via Wolverhampton to avoid the embankment breach at Middlewich we went back up to Macclesfield before heading south again to spend a month on the River Thames. I do hope you enjoy reading about it all. I also hope you enjoyed reading the tale of our earlier 2018 epic cruise across Europe; thank you to all those people who replied back to me with such positive comments. Some people reported difficulty in viewing the videos that I’d included on those pages (particularly the amazing video of the automatic violin player) when using tablets or mobile phones, following a software update within YouTube. I have re-written those pages now so that the videos will play properly, so please take another look if you had any difficulties before. Older pages with videos will also be re-written over the next few days.

You change the idler tensioner pulley as well as the belt, especially if its the plastic one! If you buy the kit, but a lot of aftermarket suppliers just sell the belt alone, I just thought it was worth mentioning.

Except a broken fan belt will not stop the engine dead. In a dangerous situation you can continue to run a boiling engine for a short while even if you do end up wrecking the engine but probably would not for a a few minutes. Although I do not like them I do drive a car with a cam belt that VW say must be changed every four years or some mileage I never hit. but that has a great big hole underneath the engine that allows water, fuel and oil to leak away - unlike on a boat where it is all retained until the owner removes it. The car also has plenty of ventilation around the engine so I do not recall seeing car engines regularly dripping with condensation like I see every winter on the boat engine. Then there is the danger that a belt (be it cam or fan) will rust onto the pulley/sprocket when the boat is laid up for weeks/months so when the engine is started the belt suffers a snatch to free it from the rust. Cam belts are a failure point that if it does fail is likely to be very expensive to repair and can be so easily avoided so I do not like them in boats and walked away from an otherwise suitable boat wit a Lombardini engine for that very reason. My advice to the OP is to let those who seem pro-cam, belts take the risk with their money and then avid engines with a known failure point that is easily avoided.

Victron’s GIs have a 3200A failure rate which is good: https://www.victronenergy.com/isolation-transformers/galvanic-isolator

But all those do gooders (daft phrase) have been warning about global warming for a long time now, it's the do badders (!) Who have ignored the issue that have caused the problem. Anyway this particular isn't about global warming it's about particulate pollution. Oh and burnt toast thing is media hype, as is much of this type of nonsense https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nhs.uk/news/cancer/warning-over-burnt-toast-chemical-acrylamides-cancer-risk/&ved=2ahUKEwihh8iupPLfAhXsSBUIHdxZAncQFjAMegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2INvqiBd0CiOsRPym1WpSs

Have you tried having the engine running but not moving the boat? Build up the time it is running and see if it helps him any.

How come any humans found in the Channel are ours, but any fish belong to the French?

I love that whooshing sound that some jokes make as they fly past my head...

Gotta be the Alimentary canal, there are no boats on it at all.