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I keep an old leaky smelly air bed for guests, they don't stay long.

As a general rule, never go for the electric version of anything that heats up. Heating stuff demands a lot of energy, canes your batteries and 12V heating energy is feeble. Kettles are a good eample. The 170W kettle performance will be pathetic. Use a kettle on a gas ring.

The Yonne agin. The locks get wider, yet more primitive, on the way towards the Seine. The freight barge seen leaving is pushing another, occupying the full length of the lock when inside. To moor up on entering from above, the bow is brought to rest against the vertical bit of wall just before the lower gates, which involves some fine calculation on the steerer's part, being 2 x 38.5 metres back from the point of contact. These boats are built of thinner metal than narrow boats are made of, and they had 500 tonnes of grain on board. On this pair the captain and his wife took turns up at the bow end, communicating through loudspeaker connection as they made their way on.

30k seems cheap to me, it’s a boat I’ve seen a few times, and I’d love it.

It looked freshly dumped of you know what I mean!….had the same at norbury last year….one bin was full…bags were dumped on the ground yet loads of space in some of the other bins…I just put some gloves on and had it tidy in 5 mins. The reality is some people including boaters are scruffy arses that can’t be bothered and hope someone else sorts the mess out.

10/10 for spot the mooring. It was indeed that one -I had a jolly pleasants nights kip there after they had all left for the night 😀

I sent Jason a link to the thread and told him he can't afford it 😃 - he's too busy with his yacht repair business in Mallorca anyway though. A couple of views of Jason and Mike Carter at the bottom of the Hanwell thick taking two joeys for a job on the river. Johnny Dakin is on the hopper behind. Also coincidently we saw Silverlit at St Symphorien last week - Silverlit won the tug of war between the two at Brentford as I recall. Tam

I've got an inflatable mattress as a guest bed. They're all much of a muchness and really only suitable for the occasional night.

Today in 2006 on the Voges canal. Lots of duckweed about so pleased we’ve got keel cooling. The crew had a walk between the locks.

On this day 2016 Sunset cruise on the Witham On this day 2014 Sunset cruise to Torksey Lock On this day 2012 Newark

At over 10 amps draw, I bet the socket and plug will get hot and suffer a shortened life, quite apart from the effect that current draw would have on the batteries. I would suggest that you probably only have one domestic battery on a boat that size, so stick with the kettle on the gas.

For hair?, I know you didnt have a lot up top, but Mrs Hound had a fine bob.

The fact that both sides are complaining about too much coverage of the other side's views suggests to me that the BBC is generally pitching things about right.

I have to say I do take my hat off to Sheila Hancock . She is only about 5ft odd and its not easy steering a narrowboat when to start with you havent had much practice and then to top it all you have two bloody great cameraman sat on the roof right in front of you and you have to make up the dialogue as you go.

Probably some of the barely floating wrecks that have been shipped down there have finally succumbed to the whitewash inside and no blacking outside maintenance regime and are now in danger of sinking and hence becoming worthless. So the graspers are trying to sell them to the next tranche of gullible city migrants.

Ahh the good folk of Worcester had a shock many years ago when the local posh restaurant listed "Chateau d'eau" on their wine list, it fooled a few young suitors choosing the cheapest wine option, but it fell foul of some reg somewhere sadly.

The overplating around the stern is adding weight where typically there wasn't any ballast before, so even if the same total weight of ballast is removed as steel added, the boat will be lower at the stern than before. You may need to add a bit of ballast near the bow to lift the stern up.

Up to 98% for some I believe. But with taxes that high it just isn't worth the effort of pushing your business to earn you even more money, but it is worth spending quite a lot on lawyers and accountants to find ways around paying all that tax, neither of which is very good for the wider economy. Which is why those very high tax rates were abolished. But I am minded to agree that maybe the pendulum has swung too far the other way. Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me 'Cause I'm the taxman Yeah, I'm the taxman

Ah, the Red Hill Field of Broken Dreams auctions.... All I can say is those boats are on land for a reason