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Neil, if you get stuck or need advice on how stuff works on your boat etc I am only about an hours drive away and dont mind popping up if thats any help? I am busy most of tomorrow but then am clear between sort of 10 and 3 each day after that. You can reply on here or pm if you prefer. Tim

House completion date set for February 28th so I’ll be paying balance on my boat same day just 24 days to go.....yeeeeees

Thanks to all for the offers of help, I’ve managed to have sight of the review now. The lads at CTS and myself reckoned that the finished boat was so vivid that a commemorative beer called Swandazzler should have been brewed to celebrate the completion. Truly, it was a marathon!

Of course you can’t see it. That’s the whole point of magic!

I think it needs to be fitted to the offside of the A45 bridge in Braunston, Bridge 90, to stop any more widebeams travelling the N Oxford.

Hi I own a small business servicing an repairing all the main makes of night heater and i am Eberspacher accredited. I have been told by some of my canal customers that they had a hard job trying to find anybody to repair them. if it's any help to your forum i am quite happy to give out free advice where possible and of course offer a repair service if needed. I cover most of the west midland and offer a bench repair service outside this area. My website is nightheatersolutions.co,uk

The canal will be closed near Barton aqueduct from 8.00am on Wednesday 5th February 2020 until further notice. As yet no reason has been given for the stoppage. Info from the Bridgewater Canal Company.

Well that takes me back! Last time I used a sun compass was in Antarctica when I was surveying the uncharted Balleny Islands in the Ross Sea. The South Magnetic Pole was only two hundred miles away so the steering compass spun in lazy circles. Mostly we used the GPS but the sun compass was our fall back navigational tool. I agree that mostly the Wash crossing is a visual pilotage exercise although there is a lack of useful landmarks when you are out in the middle. We left Wisbech at 0200 so it was dark until we cleared the Nene. In some ways that makes it easier as the buoys and beacons are much easier to identify by their flashing sequences.

Some years ago my son came up with a theory that the reason warm-air hand dryers work is that they force you stand still rubbing your hands together for 60 seconds. Experience suggests he was right -- but if it's one of those horrible vortex things you'll get noise-induced deafness into the bargain. Not come across that, but if the performance of our cheap-as-chips Beko dishwasher is anything to go by, it'll be a good 'un.

WoW! Thanks ...... It all sounds so painless. I hope that my boat will be just as easy! ha, ha! Neil – NB huami

You started it!

What a great offer, Tim

A minor edit to satisfy my pedantry.

Those rubber tubes are next to useless. Replace them with 2 or 3 rope fenders, with ropes which are long enough to tie to the roof handrail. Rope fenders are fatter and will do a better job of keeping the boat away from an irregular bank. Deploy them only when mooring, and then only on the bank side (which is why 2-3 are enough). When under way you can leave them on the roof, but tidier to put them away in a locker until the end of the day.

Sort yourselves out boys, poor old Dave is nodding orf!

A simple illusion.....

6 inches is better than 4 inches ?

If you have a caravan on you will not be overtaking me! Say it however you like but hard shoulder running is a death trap supported by the number of people who have been killed on them recently

Johnv doesnt, and should never have left this forum, CWDF was in a bad place at that time with rogue moderators and a lack of consistency and sensibleness from the top down.

It has been suggested a couple of times here that you look in at the DBA site www.barges.org where you will get a lot more useful information from those of us who've done what you are contemplating, such as dave&pen. Even better would be to join the DBA - a very moderate fee. There are several American/Australasian contributors who explain what they have done as non-EU visitors, both short term and long term, giving clues to how UK nationals will have to act once we become third world inhabitants. DBA is also very useful for practical matters of life afloat in its widest sense. DBA members are as diverse as here, but at least If you ask such a question you won't have it turn into a jibe-fest by crass bigots as on this thread. Tam

I would say the key is John's last line, do you want to sell yourself to Apple or Google. Once you have made that decision then look at either an iPhone (Apple) or Android (Google). For Android there are lots of makes and models from relatively cheap to iPhone comparable expensive. I use a Moto phone (Android) as I dislike Apple and don't wish to use any of their products although through work I have had to use iPhones and iPads. I wouldn't say either Apple or Android are any easier or harder to get used to, both have their ways of doing things and some are easier on one platform than the other.

You would do well to give your position within 100 mt by compass bearings and its just as easy to miss hear 8 or 10 numbers