Leaderboard

Fit a cassette ?

Hey! The number of times I've threatened to turn his monkey nads into earrings... I need a new threat. Or maybe just to follow through on the previous one ? Trouble is I've got 14 earring holes and only one pair of monkey nads... ?

It's more me being picky I am going to Zinga it so just gone over it over the top I expect. The plated section was just a large area of pitting so chopped it out. Couple of 2mm pits around but most was at 1mm. 6mm sides. It's in our yard easier to do it now than later ?

Will do ?

Return fire using a catapult loaded with gobstoppers. If challenged you are simple throwing them sweets.

Hi everyone, new and old :) Just wanted to pop in and say hello, Emma and I got married this weekend and were having a boating mini-moon. We've hired hector and we are going from falls Bridge to crick and back. We are currently moored South of Hillmorton locks for the night and will be going through Braunston tomorrow. So if any of you see a couple on a small boat with a tug deck and a just married sign on the rear fender please stop us and say hello! Happy Easter everyone x

Could've been an angler grinder......

Just have a go and don't worry, have a look at an empty lock, that big concrete ledge that the top gates close on is the cill, don't get the back of the boat on it as the lock empties. That'll do for now, all the rest of the stuff will follow. Single handed boating is tiring but that doesn't matter, we all have to do it from time to time. The lonely part is in the evening but its not so bad if you have a big useless dog to talk to and its surprising how many people will stop and talk about their dogs to you if you have a dog. Good luck.

This thread and discussion is almost as varied and controversial as "marine sanitation". If anyone now (and those few actually researching later - Just my penn'orth and actual experience. Before I built my boat I hired from "the Squadron Leader" and did the Thames ring. Lovely boat and great on the canals. However on the reach above Putney the engine (standard skin tank) overheated and we slowed down (folks treated their hired boats kindly in those days) we were not racing, nor punching the tide - just moving comfortably on a wide river. It made me wonder whether skin tanks were a good idea for anything more than pottering around the Brum canals.. In later years we always hired from Teddesley, and Peter M was an advocate of heat exchanger cooling. Quiet running, no smokey exhausts and no overheating. Seems good. Thus 'our' hull was built with a girt big mud box which not only traqps the mud, but leaves and crayfish and even of partially blocked with leaves (!) still keeps the engine cool. As with all things on a boat, if the facility is sensibly planned and designed - then it works. Just translating something land based designed - or not even designed at all (i.e. not practical) invariably ends in tears. If adapting domestic equipment to a 'marine' environment you should look at the constraints that such an enviromnent puts on you For example:- Butler sinks Large screen TVs domestic cookers lots of high power interior lighting Poor storage Inadequate off-grid power capacity Ditto power replenishment Composting loos loos with rubbish steel tanks under your bed... et al.... Methinks too many folks coming on here with impossible and inpractical requierments trying to have what works in "bricks and mortar" situations into what is fundamentally a glorified water based environment. Some have done it A helluva lot of newbies on here haven't. A shame 'cos it can be done.... with care.... Enough (a Large Whisky already consumed with the promise of an aged beef joint (long dead cow )magiced by SWMBO awaits here on land and I have every confidence that She will replicate that when on board...

PLOVER, nearest, in Nov 1974 at Gopsall. Others are CAPELLA and JAGUAR.

I have several, 36" and 48" Well used, most a bit bent with using a scaffold pole on the handle. Bit too big for use on a paddle gear!

The problem is each time I go in the chandlery or in to Tradline I spend money where as I go in MC for an item which they don't have so I leave without spending.

So you’re saying pigs can fly?

Great, just when I thought I'd made a decision someone comes along to make me doubt it. Thanks to DrBob for the link to the radar, I checked it after we had lunch and it showed nothing heading North between the South coast and Banbury so off we went. Only needed 1.2 hours and it stayed dry and mostly sunny. We're now sitting in lovely sunshine at Cropredy. I'm happy, the solar panels are happy, the duck's happy (no, not that one! I'm not a kidnapper).

I did my front and back decks just like this, back to bare metal, surface tolerant epoxy primer, gentle sand to take off the shine, couple of coats of raddle, then (unconventionally) a coat of red oxide primer which is less slippy than raddle. So far it has lasted very very well. Epoxy is just superb at coping with standing water. Its hard to get a good smooth finish hand brushing epoxy, I am happy with a bit of "texture" but you might not want it on the roof. If you do chip it (by dropping something very heavy on it) then because the paint is thicker the repair is a bit more complicated if you don't want an obvious dent. .............Dave

Yes, both being delivered together on 08 November 1935, both inspected for health registration on 11 November 1935 then health registered as Brentford 552 and 553 on 18 December 1935 and gauged as GJ12474 and GJ12475 on 13 March 1936

Doesn't sound like a metallic knocking, can't really identify much of a knock at all really. Might be an idea to get the injectors checked though. Before you get the spanners out just check the engine mounts are bolted down well and that one or more is not perished or moving around. Same goes for everything else that's attached to the engine. Does it make the same sound at different revs? if you grab the top of the engine whilst its running and try to stop it vibrating does the noise stop? And if the engine is not running can you rock it and does anything knock. Others will know more.

I see her all the time, it's nice to have a break

It wouldn't hurt you to be nice. But I'll be charitable and ignore the snark. Yes we are liveaboards - we both work and live on the boat. We plan to slowly do every waterway that will fit a 65'er, starting with the Lee and Stort. We want our water supply to last two weeks, which 500 litres does, but not comfortably. And we don't have a washing machine yet - which we definitely want. Of course we could fill up more often, but it's a hassle. Our water supply is the limiting factor for us right now. This is my concern as well. 600 extra kilograms about a foot off the waterline doesn't seem like that much on a 20+ tonne boat though. It's not as if it is on the roof. Perhaps I should test this by getting 600 kg of weight, loading the bow and going for a cruise? Or do you think the sloshing of the water will have a significant impact on stability as well? I suppose I could re-think an internal extra tank, it just seems like a less clean solution that will encroach on our living space. Yes I would certainly take great pains to make sure that the load stayed balanced, partly why I want two tanks. My current thinking is independent tanks with a pipe connecting them, with a stop cock so if I want to fill one more than the other, I can do that.