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  1. Wow, thanks for the positive feedback. I was one of the lockies on today and we started with a queue waiting for us when we unlocked a little before 10am. Three boats arrived between 3 and 3.20 and we got all through by 4 and were pleased to help even after being out in the rain all day. ETA: 25 boats through in total today
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  6. Fantastic work by the lockies at watford today 10 boats in front of us and pouring with rain. went up locks like clockwork, with 2 single handers in front. Cheerful and pleasant shame in those in queue wanting to ring crt about them ‘ wasting water by not bringing boats down at the same time’ these locks have always caused delays and the lockies were fabulous.
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  20. THIS is the bit.... that worries me.....!
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  21. We have our own special technique. I come in slowly at an angle and swing the stern in, give a burst of reverse, and the missus jumps off at the stern holding the centre line. Then the boat starts drifting out either at the bow or at the stern, or sometimes both. My wife tugs ineffectually on the rope for ten or twenty seconds before asking me if there's anything I can do from my position on the back deck a few feet out into the cut. Then I go forwards a bit, back a bit, forwards a bit, back a bit, while she walks up and down alongside, until the stern comes in again. Then I step off, take the centre line, and pull the boat in from wherever it's ended up this time. Never fails.
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  22. Such grace and eloquence.
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  23. Solid steel covers welded on, saves electricity, noise, broken props, reblacking and daft boating practices. You can then make better use of the batteries. Shame though that they will no longer capture plastic bags.
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  25. Can i suggest not getting into too many projects too quickly. Try to enjoy the boat as it functions now and see what needs to be done after living with it. Enjoy.
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  27. Yes we know that, but do you have a BOAT TOO?????!!!!
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  31. Its not the double bed you need to get fixed...
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  33. Whilst this is an old thread I think I need to help people out regards beds. Our boat is 68 feet long, we have five kids and nine grandkids. There is ONE double bed, we do have a dinette but non of the kids know this. Do you get the point now
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  34. Just aim more accurately then you won't need a marine ply loo floor.
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  37. Contacted nearby Marina who sell 5 litre tubs of blacking paint for £36. Not as cheap as £18.00 per 5 litres at Toolstation but I would rather not pollute Canal with harmful chemicals. Got to keep the fish and ducks happy ?
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  40. Always a topic to trigger the armchair admirals this
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  42. Looking at your website looks like your a busy lady but with the heart to think about others, whilst I can't help you directly I wish you well with this project.
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  43. Well done on the boat about time but... This quoted above, live with the boat for a while, obviously anything dangerous needs sorting but that aside, take a breath and relax, live with it and see what works for you, living amongst a mess of unfinished projects will be bloody depressing
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  44. I rammed a boat on the Thames years ago in a narrowboat. Lots of those single seater sculls (Is that what they're called)? milling about. No really clear way through so I just carried on dead straight. One of the boats which I was clear to pass in front of just gave a little flick on the oars and went right under the bow, shoved it in reverse, ran along the roof to see what the hell had happened just as my boat was backing off, the scull thingy righted itself, no one hurt, my boat still going backwards heading for other boats. What a mess. Never forgotten it and I doubt if the young bloke in the scull thingy has. (probably some Tory MP now, could have been Gove out of his head on coke I suppose)
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  45. It's beginning to look like she has. Perhaps she has purchased some fugly fat boat and is to embarrassed to tell us especially if mrsmelly had something to do with it. There is a 55'x10' Collingwood called Caledonia listed on the boat listing.
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  49. With some boat owners, they think the best way to pass them is for you to take another route.
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