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Butty’s on cross straps. The range is glowing with bread in the oven and a casserole on the hot plate. I may be fake boatman but I make a good boatman’s wife. JP

Yes. We took out the 'lengthways' bed as it wasn't wide enough. Built a cross bed which was 6 foot wide (King size) and just over 6 foot long. If you lie 'straight' and are tall you may need to have a slight diagonal but I am 6 foot and managed fine - I am a 'side sleeper (with my knees bent) One of the best modifications we did to the boat. Folds up and away in seconds complete with mattress and quilt and you have the 'corridor' back.

Not seen the duck but we landed a pigeon...

Look behind you ??

We’re trying for some extra points for decoration this year.

Excited is not the word. Bloody extatic mite do it. Will have to book the BSS chap in now for asap. Only got two weeks that i can do anything before the launch. Just out today to see about a job and then bellw water line this weekend all done i hope.

@Dr Bob How about now

There is a line of though that says if you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space ?

No idea. I have the small Vacuflush where the pump is part of the cradle which holds the cassette, these do not have duckbill valves. I assume you have the vacuum generator and a large tank?

Done deliberately to give the butty steerer something to do otherwise the weekend is a bit boring. @tree monkey stopped for a break...

Found this for Narrow Boat "The Stokie", built at Stoke Prior by Pinder.

Lol surely that is Mrs May without her make-up on.

We used the spare 'porta-potty' on the 'non-toilet' side. Any boatyard or 'chippy' should be able to do it - you'll need to think about the mattress as you'll need a new 'split' mattress in 2 pieces (2/3rds and 1/3rd) of the width of the boat (ie the length of the bed). Quite a few 'marine' custom mattress manufacturers advertise in the boaty-magazines.

I don’t have a recommendation for a maker but bear in mind who sleeps which side, assuming you’re sharing your bed. If one of you visits the loo more in the night, you may need to swap the “headboard” end, so they can get out with climbing over the other person!

Not quite the D+ provides a path to -ve when the alternator is not energised When alternator is energised and working the D+ is at 12v hence the light goes out Same voltage either side of the lamp.

Prehistoric boats

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Well I do. Yes.

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There's a few marinas that do that, if it's not optional it should be part of the up front mooring fee. Marinas seem to be taking lessons from the hire boat business where the initial hire fee is just the starting point.

Shire are a good company to use, they actually take you through locks when you first start. They have 2 bases one at Sowerby Bridge, one at Barnoldswick (Barlick). The boats are good and well equipped. Also,its Yorkshire... So a win, win situation. I might be a little biased. ? 8HF

Fun, you think traveling around the BCN can be fun.

Caretta Carrie~Lou CharlieB Clarrie Corolla Dotterel Firefly Free Spirit Good Times Goosander Joanna + butty Joy Kharis Mary Beth Misbourne No 3 Peckham Poppy Rebellion Rhiannon Scorpio & Leo Tatty Lucy The Cat who Walks By Himself Umpire boat is NB Sundance in Rose Narrowboats livery. Currently at Star City, will be in the centre of Brum tomorrow (ish) We would be delighted to have any updates on locations, scandal or gossip Richard

This might help a bit ... http://www.thecatwhowalksbyhimself.co.uk/bcnChallenge.php

Apparently we have to take you so you can get together with moominpapa and Tom from Tatty Lucy and while away Sunday night talking lithium batteries

One of our boat, and a couple of others. Says Gas street in the 50's but i think 1965 would be closer.

I can only speak as I find. When the roving winter moorings were in place we chose Trentham for two winters with our car parked in the lay-by nearby. We had zero incidents over quite a few months, absolutely zilch. We took a mooring at the Black Prince marina one summer when I needed to work, not being over keen on marina life but constrained by my job to staying in a small area we spent a lot of time moored in various locations in and around the marina. Again no incidents. We also took a winter mooring at Westport Lake once they'd done away with the roving winter moorings - absolutely no problems at all. I'm very surprised to hear about two incidents, one serious here. It's outside Stoke in an affluent newbuild area. Are these first hand reports? Selfish cycling - endemic over the whole system - Birmingham was probably the scariest place for risking being mown down by the lycra brigade but the Leeds and Liverpool near Chorley was pretty grim as well. Same with motorcycles on the towpath. Trouble is if a motorcycle makes a nuisance of itself on the towpath in Braunston (where Carlt had his boat set on fire) they think lordy what an anomaly. If it happens in Stoke the think bloody Stoke - should have known not to moor here. Must tell everyone I know how horrible it is. My point being that I am very familiar with the area - after we sold the boat we bought a house in Burslem which we lived in for two years. It was my health and the need for family support that brought us back to Kent - I miss our Stokie friends. I'm sure people do have problems in Stoke, just as they do in many built up areas and occasionally in rural places but Stoke doesn't deserve it's dreadful reputation. Too much credence is given to second, third or more hand stories that have a huge element of Chinese whispers.

Thanks for the input both and sorry for not responding sooner. Given that there doesn't seem to be anyone obviously to hand without paying travelling time I took a last look at it myself before biting the bullet. I thought the problem couldn't be air locks but over the last week or so I completely drained the system and refilled it using an antifreeze/inhibitor solution so that we can leave it commissioned when away over winter. This certainly did create air locks, and I bled them out from the towel rail. On retrying the eberspacher I found it now works fine, so I guess the problem must have been due to air in the system collecting in the heat exchanger. The smell of diesel has also largely dissipated so I'm hoping it was from spilt fuel being burned off the heater. I put a co alarm with a ppm read out into the bedroom just the other side of the bulkhead from the heater and it's showing no sign of fumes. The heater is now coming on faultlessly to the timer in the morning, and we wake up to a warm bedroom and hot towels. I know these pieces of kit get a bad rap, but right now I'm loving it. I think most of the problems come from using them for something they were never designed for ie 24/7 heating. For a quick burst to take of the chill they can be great.