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Hider Sam has said a lot of things to try and dig himself out of a hole of his own making tonight. ?

Oops, wrong log-in! I think you have just busted yourself, Hider Sam!!

I'll go and look for some red and blue pipes on the sluice controls MP.

Anyone who owns a 'Traditional Working Boat' should load the dam' thing with coal, and I mean Load, and take it up a badly silted canal and learn something about handling it. Play acting with a spotted neckerchief is not boating.

You are on Swift's usual round: https://www.facebook.com/TheOilBoat/ If you fancy supporting a boat based business then give him a call and find out when he will be in your area

They have that effect on you as well then...…………………….

This thread just keeps on giving

Its not that difficult if you can drive (helm) a boat.

I heard that too. He was a GENIUS... unlike his brother Frank, who was a bit of a monster.

I find the sneering re hire botes the most divisive. I hired for years and was astounded when I hired a hire bote that had no sign of being a "hire bote" and all of a sudden everyone treated me differently! A bit like motorcycles. I make a point of nodding to the moped riders etc when on the hyper bike for similar reasons.

Actually the entitled drivers have moved to mercedes. Bmw are old hat and you cant drive a vag car after dieselgate, your children become anxious, go on strike at school , fail , and become politicians.

My mistake. I assumed this was a public forum. Oh, hang on a minute ............

A few years ago I was waiting to go down at Maureen's lock (Wardle lock) in Middlewich. It was quite busy with a few boats waiting to go up. A "working" boat turned up and the crew put the boat straight into the Middlewich Branch under the bridge, just below the lock. As one of them came up all smiling and swinging his windlass, complete with waistcoat and neckerchief, Maureen told him in no uncertain terms to get to the back of the queue and don't ever try and pull that "working boat" stunt again. Crew went back sheepishly to the boat and it backed out to wait its turn. Lovely to watch!

I know that now, I didn't know that when we did the BCN challenge

Are you sure it's not an outside influence, some sort of malware or virus? I carn't imagine any of the members making the effort tbh

For those not so keen on facebook they do have a non-facebook landing page with contact details. I won't print their details here but this is their webpage. http://oilboat.co.uk

I did have two quite chunky engines and a boat shaped boat to play with . Spring tides are fun on a narrowboat, they certainly strengthened my buttock muscles over the years ?

The most likely culprit is the 15A breaker. They fail just like all other electrical stuff....