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Remember its best to paint it white, you may want to sell it later to someone in London.

North, as I'm in the south and there's already too many of 'em down here. Hope that helps....

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More has been happening! I managed to put in a couple of decent evenings last week and a day over the weekend, so consequently the welding is neeaaarly done. If you're thinking of building a narrowboat, liking welding is a good thing. Liking angle grinding is a must! (Unless you're just happy to leave welds as they are and not make them seamless to the area around). Probably done about 12hrs of grinding to get the welds flushed off, but it's looking fairly good now Night welder! Due to other stuff there won't be much of an update for the next month or so (more work will happen, but it's all dull, non photogenic stuff), then hopefully a big dramatic change will happen in mid September

Take the 6 bolts out and put some of them in the unoccupied holes to jack the collet open and it will slide off. I think some of the couplings may need to use longer bolts than the ones there. Try with the existing first, screw them in and tighten them. You should feel the collet release. It is a Centraflex, https://www.rexnord.com/products-services/process-motion-control/couplings/torsionally-soft-couplings/centaflex-a Check the engine alignment to the prop shaft, a failure like that is usually a sign that the alignment is way off and you have exceeded the allowable out of alignment. Your engine mounting may well have settled down too much.

VW restoration company posted it! I put on there that's it an improvement in performance and reliability 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It would also likely be cheaper to get it moved by truck and craned in/out each end. Middlewich to Rotherham is many days by boat, even going at the dawn to dusk pace that professional boat movers do. That time costs money, 'cause boat movers like to eat food, sleep under a roof and be warm in winter (this winter pick your favourite two at most), so their pay soon adds up. Compare that with a days time for a lorry and driver, plus two sets of lifting. For longer trips, the sums only go one way. Canalplan.org.uk says 84 hours for this trip. Assuming no delays, stoppages, water shortages, Those 84 hours will be over 10 to 12 days, possibly more, as the tidal section of the river Trent will only be navigable on an ebb tide. Vazon Sliding Rail Bridge at Keadby has limited opening hours. You'll be paying a boat mover while they are twiddling their thumbs waiting. Stanilands Marina in Thorne crane in regularly and are probably the closest to Rotherham that are likely to do it. About a days cruise from there. Welcome to the forum by the way.

Not the North Oxford, please, not the North Oxford.

If it's varnished Zinsser do some good paints (shellac based) that will stick well as a primer...

Where's that then? 😉

I’m sure you don’t mean that This is the stuff that makes boating about worth it. Once gone they are gone. But these bits are not being preserved by CRT who should be preserving the Navigation and can’t but by independent bodies that do it because it’s the right and proper thing to do.

In the present drought situation you would be better to get it trucked. There are lots of ongoing restrictions at locks all the way. You could get a lift out at Wincham Wharf on the T&M not far from Middlewich. Don't know the Sheffield end well enough to advise.

Leyland, oil based paint. Water based is muck.

Why go vegan? If you've killed them all, we need carnivores.

Utter madness! They'll be stopping the railway ticket office staff from driving trains next...!

First time I've seen this thread. Brilliant stuff and good to see someone who can see the potential in an old boat and then get on with the job. It is amazing what you can do with wedges and levers and stuff like that (plus determination and skill of course)

The closure of the canals to boats, and the focus on walkers, cyclists and fisher-folk and towpath maintenance. No doubt you will have noticed in the DEFRA KPIs for C&RT there are requirements to maintain towpaths and increase 'traffic' but there are no such requirements for the actual 'navigation'. These are the KPI's which C&RT must report to DEFRA to maintain the grant :