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I have a 12ft barge pole for things I wouldn't touch with a 10ft one.

Don't tell em it's name pike.

Oh please don’t talk sense it doesn’t suit the narrative of many of the posters on this forum!

Instant gas water heaters are brilliant. You don't have to run the engine and piss off all the boats moored nearby to get hot water. And despite what people imagine, they only sip the gas. Probably way cheaper on fuel than heating water by running the diesel engine.

I can still hear Crystal saying "Red before white - you'll be alright; White before red - you'll wish you were dead" 🤣🤣

On this day in 1980 IWA National Rally Lea Bridge Walthamstow River Lee

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has responded to my queries - so helpful and very much appreciated. We're off tomorrow and have decided to go to Chirk, Montgomery and onward, finishing up with Llangollen as @IanD suggested. When we plotted it out it made a lot of sense and felt right... Looking forward to it - let's hope it all works out!

Whatever you do don't join Thunderboat 🤣

You could always scumble the aluminium shaft... 😂🤣

Alan, please look into the difference between timeshare and shareboat - they are different, in important ways. I am sure you just made a slip and didn't fully read the posts, though. Share boating makes a LOT of sense if you want to do more than just occasionally hiring, but you can't see yourself using a boat for more than 4 weeks/year - for example if you work full time, and don't have the holiday allowance. But beware of comparing their costs to other boats, they get absolutely hammered (more than hire boats) and their life is like "dog years" for things like engine replacements, repaint, etc. An older shareboat is likely to be like trigger's broom, re-engined and re-painted and most of the important components on their 2nd or 3rd iteration.

I've got one of these onboard - as long as it is on board I haven't needed it, so works perfick

Depends what you mean. I carried 2, an 8’ long ash cabin shaft fitted with a boat hook and a 16’ long shaft with no hook, again ash, both used to help manouvering, mooring etc. Most Chandlers will stock the shorter, Brinklow Boat Services usually have the longer option.

The best kind.

Please post how you get on-such a intermittent problem and would love to know the cause.

It is possible to discuss without slagging one another off, some however don't seem to have realised/be able to.

🤷‍♂️ Oh, all right then - I told myself to ignore it, but it's the narrowest narrowboat I've ever seen, with very mean top planks, with no chimney but with a porthole in the bedhole space, no towing mast and a very odd T-stud - though the whole front deck is rather strange. 🤷‍♂️ Authors don't often get much of a say about the cover design, but I'd be ashamed if it was my book purporting to be a history of boat life. Tam

Ours is in a cupboard, has been for 25 years. Its a large cupboard, I dont know about the square footage but its around 6 foot high going back 4 foot at the bottom and 2 foot at the top where the Paloma heater is. Its around 2 foot wide. There is a vent /chimney going through the roof. It has bikes and washing stuff in the cupboard too . There are two large decorative holes in the cupboard door for ventilation which arent ever covered. Never failed a BSS yet.

Not so odd, as 6' 6" is more or less 2m of course. Tam

I actually think this would suit me battered and bruised, seen better days, rough around the edges and , if it doesn't get some tender care soon, might be on its way out.

Thanks Tracy- rang them- spoke to Joe- he'll be sorting it out (hopefully). In the meantime if anyone has any further info on this engine and where to get parts- would be gratefully received. Many thanks