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Cast your mind back to November 2018 and some of you may remember that I somehow managed to sell a duck pot noodle to The Biscuits for £23? The thread is here: https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/99045-auntie-wainwrights-fundraising-auction-2018/ He then posted this comment: .....and so the journey has begun.... Yesterday said pot noodle was loaded into the cargo hold of NB Python at Shireoaks Marina on The Chesterfield Canal to begin it's journey out onto the system in the hope we might be able to get the good boaters to CWDF to join in along the route and take this very precious bit of cargo a short distance on their boat. The more people who are willing to share the delivery of the pot noodle, the more the easily outraged The Biscuits will have to dig deep to pay. The noodles will travel down The Chesterfield Canal and out onto the Trent heading to Nottingham and into the heart of the canal system. The Biscuits is already a bit of a moving target to aim for to achieve delivery and so the itiniary of The Epic Noodle Adventure is flexible but we need to be generally getting the noodles to travel in a South Westerly direction. How many boats will we use? ..... and, probably more importantly, how many of them will be willing to provide photographic evidence of being part of the mission! To add a truly exciting edge to this Epic Adventure I am going to throw in a prize of a second Duck Pot Noodle to the person who correctly guesses how many boats will be recorded as part of the Epic Noodle Adventure. The rule for this part of the competition is that you must post on this thread your best estimate of how many boats will be involved and you must have posted your final answer before the Noodles arrive at Fradley Junction. You can only have one guess and the winner will be the person giving the number of boats closest to the final total without going over. No two people can guess the same number (unless they are willing to share the pot noodle if they win!) Here is our first piece of boaty evidence: For those of you who want to be certain what it is he has in his hand here is a close up - the best I could do on my phone without getting wet feet: Now, my mission today is to ensure the 15 volunteers coming to carry out a spring clean on Python do not: Get peckish and eat it Deem it to be rubbish and throw it away We only have a short hop into Worksop today but I won't be around to do much responding on here. Over to the good people of this parish, are we likely to encounter you along the route and would you be willing to carry the noodle for part of the journey? If not do you want to have a guess at how many boats we will total to get the noodle delivered.....

It sounds like a goon show script to me..... "The curse of the epic duck noodle adventure" Starring Auntie rosewater as Neddie Seagoon. The biscuits as Eccles(should be The cake) Rusty as Bluebottle. My guess, Seven. ETA, i highlighted my guess in bold, to, well highlight it.

No he's not he's a very naughty boy!

PEBKAC (I used to share an office with a guy who provided computer support and he often used to scream "PEBKAC" after patiently talking a customer through a problem, immediately after he put the phone down. Apparently is stands for "problem exists between keyboard and chair")

There is no need for that kind of foul language!

I've just had a chat with the chairman of the Nottingham Kayak club. Can I change my guess to 102?

It was mostly spin anyway! (propeller joke)

Thing is about Tony he has forgotten more about our biggest commercial waterway than most people will ever know and that knowledge has been lost to this forum I do think some members get upset too easily on what is actualy only a key board. Anyway stop being so cantankerous you old goat

Don't we need someone who can count?

Which said volockie might find in an orifice if he tries to stop me operating the lock normally in the future!

Sorry I've not been clear enough. It's the boat the other party were buying that has caused the problem. They now don't want to buy it, hence they won't sell theirs to me?

I believe he was found down the back of Tumshie's settee, or was that Rusty?

I bet it can hold up just as much traffic as a new one

Waddya have to say that for? I wasn't hungry before......now I am....and beer required too.....

Slight topic drift:

If you have to ask, you don't know everything... so, by default, it can't be you!

Things I consider a boat. Canoes, rafts and catamarans count, floating a mop bucket and pretending it's a boat does not. One hah hah, two hah hah ... Yes, and yes. Yes thanks. The boat has to move with the specific duck noodles on board. There is no specific mileage requirement, but I would consider just going from your mooring to the service jetty 20 yards away would not be in the spirit of the game. I hope so - the easiest handover point is going to be at the end of the BCN marathon challenge, which by definition is going round in circles for 24 hours. Me too, that's why I haven't said how much per boat I will donate!

That's not surprising. Everything to you is South Howard?

How silly. Pointless caring about the RCD papers on a second hand boat. I predict they will still be looking for a boat to buy in a year or three, so best you give up on this one.

Ask yourself why someone is selling a new boat after just one year.