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  3. Plumbed the Thetford loo into the hot pipe (by mistake). The resultant hot flush was rather comforting on a chilly morning.
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  5. On several occasions I have started the engine .... cast off .... jumped aboard ... and reached for the tiller ........... which I forgot to fit.
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  6. Not boat related but have, on no less than three occasions over the years, caught the water from a U-bend in a bowl then emptied said bowl in to the sink I've just disconnected. Edit to add .. and whilst attempting to sort out an unshipped rudder, undid the huge nut on the swan neck, to watch the rudder fall out of the back of the boat and effectively nail us to the canal bed. To this day I'm not sure how I thought undoing the nut was going to help.
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  10. You are right to describe CaRT as " a navigation authority" but would be wrong to say that it was only a navigation authority". To sustain its financial position it has to fulfil a range of KPIs which encapsulate the government's view that the canals should be enjoyed by more than those who boat in the water. I have yet to see any significant evidence to support the description 'financial mismanagement' (be careful regarding libel!) which is not a conclusion justified simply because you disagree with their priorities and budgets. Given that they are trying to achieve the impossible (a funding package that is, by all authorities, considered inadequate, set without any effective plan for how they might magically close the gap) it would be reprehensible if some of their initiatives did not work out. "Anyone who has succeeded at all they do has never done anything much" If there really had been financial mismanagement over the timescales you imply then any responsible auditor should have qualified the accounts by now. (But they would not be first to fail to do that!)
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  15. Put the tiller extension on the tiller, started the engine, untied the mooring lines, set off, kersplash! Forgot to disconnect the shore lead from the electric bollard. It pulled the bollard from its base and sunk it in five feet of water. Fortunately for me, the bollards were then due to be replaced soon anyway, so I didn't have to pay for a new one. Jen
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  24. If it helps NABO have objected to the recent award by the EA of a contract to the management of its visitor moorings to a car parking company who are wanting a lien of your boat in the event of non payment of a penalty ticket.
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  26. Lurv it - its amazing how 'leaky' some of those old cables can be.
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  29. Removing a gearbox, pushed shaft and prop right back into the stuffing box, finished job, used scaffold pole to lever shaft back into position, tightened everything up, started engine, engaged forward. hell of a banging and clattering, forgot to remove scaffold pole, prop a different shape than it used to be.
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  30. From your pics, I would suggest this is not 'kids' or petty thieves who had the heavy steel away instead of the easier to nick and possibly more useful wood planks. They would have been more 'fun' to throw in the canal or build a boat with. More likely a stolen to order or 'we need some steel plate' kind of theft maybe?? You could build a deep pit type of trap by covering the exisiting hole with tarp and leaves so they fall in when they come back to nick the second one ? Better still wire it up live to 240v instead.
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  35. This verse was published in a book written by a Railway Guard, and composed/written by Raven & Raven in Folklore & Songs of the Black Country Twas up in Brummagem so I do hear say, A boat by the name of the Rosemary lay, She was clothed up and painted in traditional style, But she hadn't carried for a very long while. Along came a boatman the old boat to see, Says he here's a craft that is useful to me, "I'll load her with coal and to London I'll steer". said the boatman to the owner, "If I take her from here". The owner said "Yes" the boatman "Okay", And into the cabin he went straightaway, He lit up the stove, cleaned cobwebs and mould, And he polished the beam till it shone like fine gold. He sang as he laboured far into the night, Got up in the morning before it was light, He put the rusty blowlamp on the cylinder head, "Tis a fine day for boating" the old boatman said. He primed up the engine, a prayer in his heart. And kicked on the flywheel to see if she would start, With a bang like the noise of a ten-pounder gun, The aged Bolinder started to run. He cast off the fore-end at the counter he stood, As Rosemary shook herself free from the mud, With tears in his eyes says the boatman, "We may Get right down to Coventry for the end of the day." On dark stormy nights round the fall of the year, If the beat of a Bolinder distant you hear It's not Claytons Stour, Youmea or Tay, It's the ghost of that boatman and the old Rosemary.
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  36. Whil sorting out the photo of the canalside distillery on the C de Garonne I came across further photos of the Sirdar, the last working berrichon (vessel from the Canal de Berry), the nearest thing in France to a narrow boat. Here she is working through the staircase locks at Le Guetin, on her way with a cargo of cement to a factory at Digoin. The horse and mule that towed her had to go by local road while a tractor pulled the vessel along the aqueduct over the Allier at the top
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  40. How the heck did that happen?! I'm suitably mortified and it's too late to edit. Perhaps you could oblige sir? Thank you in anticipation.
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  43. I dont see NABO as anti CRT at all, maybe trying to hold them to account or reminding them that without boaters, the canals would be a barren ditch.
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