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I know this, but I was poking fun at Peter's bald assertion with no evidence, by responding with more of the same. But you knew this really!

Maternal grandma Elsie Young (nee Abberley) was born in Sandbach, and one of her brothers worked for Fodens, so dad may have been invited to some special event. You lot are incredible with your collective knowledge! Thank you all !

It doesn't really matter what's in the T&Cs, contracts or anything . If there isn't enough money, some canals will close to navigation permanently, rather like they did temporarily last year. You only get what you pay for, and nobody wants to pay for anything - it's always someone else's problem.

Most Beta engines end up with extra tape, cable ties, or other methods to hold the multi pin plug/socket together after one, or more incidents like this. I learnt which bit of the engine to move to make it stop, but it is closer to a whirling house alternator drive belt than I like to be! Why Beta have never changed to a more reliable connector is beyond me. It's the most common weak spot in an otherwise excellent marine package.

Sorry late reply, yeah there the sliding glass in aluminum frames, I think I'm gonna try drill out the pop rivets, as it the only way I can see to get the old glass out and new in, still not sure what material tio use for new windows.

Yes and it beggars belief that CRT give these diesel-electric boats the 'electric boat discount' for being supposedly less polluting.

Sorry there were a whole series following it on FB, I will try and grab another

From Facebook

I do know of a boat that was damaged due to not having a light on the front and bumped by another boat. My own experience was meeting a tug with a light pushing a full length flat with no light that I didn't see. Fortunately the tug driver shouted and I took evasive action (moved over). Subsequent conversation in the pub suggested that I should look down at the water from time to time but I'd been taught to steer in tunnels by watching the illuminated roof.

Parglena didn't have a handrail so water ran down the roof and dripped on the windows so I fitted some angle to prevent it dripping

Yes, i overlooked the obvious cause! A roving band of teenage delinquents with bucket & spade, dismayed at the lack of sand to build castles on their break from education, decided to bail out the canal and build a scale model of the channel tunnel No doubt to the untrained eye this would look like a breach at first glance.

I had a friend who made a type of cider called "apple jack" by fermenting the apples and freezing the mix to extract the alcohol. It was an acquired taste that after the first sip I decided not to acquire...

Just providing as an example of a narrow boat used as a fire boat.

I filled both the engine and the Webasto central heating of my boat with Ford Premium 10 year antifreeze at a 50/50% mix. The radiators refused to get hot unless I heated the radiators with a paint gun first. They then worked normally until the heating went off and they cooled down when I had to repeat the process. I drained the antifreeze and diluted it to a 25% mix and all worked normally, so too strong a mix causes heating issues.

On this day 2020 Sunset over the River Witham

Unusable by whom? If a canoe can go down it, it's by definition navigable. Doesn't have to be a hunk of steel with a heavy chunk of engine in the back. And any agreement would have been with BW, not CRT. And, of course, contract law only works in one direction - try telling your employer they can't change the terms of your contract whenever they like, then watch them laugh when you try it. The majority of lottery funded projects, especially the millennium ones, have closed as money was given purely for capital expenditure with no provision for running costs. The canal restoration societies are, to coin a phrase, in the same boat. As far as the housing thing goes, that's about the only new income stream available to CRT if they can work out how to monetise it.

For F**ks Sake That's great news. So you're sure he's not dead?

The trouble with all of these paints is that they are suitable for wood stoves but mine is made of metal.

I've told you about going out in that in this weather....

The van door locks can work but they are not pretty. I always thought of padlocks as 'flags' indicating an unoccupied boat. Also you can get lazy and end up blocking an emergency exit route.

On balance, it is probably better to encourage the opening of the second gate. No one is on top form all the time, and there is more need to protect the equipment than protecting the convenience of not opening the second gate for the boater.

Or, of course, for the constant downward trajectory of virtually everything over the last ten years. I'd be intrigued to see a list of how most of us are better off.

Hi Ive been asked by Jim's wife, Annie, to post his funeral details on here in if anyone would like to pay their respects. Jim’s funeral will take place Monday 7th August 12pm Vale Royal Crematorium Shurlach Lane Davenham Northwich CW9 8RP and after to raise a glass The Boars Head Kinderton Street Middlewich CW10 0JE All are welcome, I would be grateful if you could pass on the details to others who are not on Facebook. Donations to the Alzheimer’s Society Annie x I truly hope we can give him the send off he so deserves.

Oakums have won best boat at Crick twice in the last few years. They have made traditional boatfitters wake up and take notice. Nothing scammy about it, it's a modern way of raising finance to enhance a business.

The thing about buying a boat that needs restoration is the initial cost, which maybe is affordable. Even though the complete cost of restoration may exceed the cost of a similar boat in better condition at the outset, the cost of restoration can be stretched out to allow for funds to do it in stages over time. More expensive, but a boat in the hand, nevertheless. Just need to keep the motivation going, to stop it turning into a mill stone.

All J3's are basically the same. Some are petrol start and some are diesel starting. The cylinder heads and intake pipework/starting valve/petrol combustion chamber are different. The direct diesel start heads have a different shaped combustion chamber ( venturi in Kelvin speak) and are scarcer than petrol start heads. There are two sorts of governor. They are interchangeable. The vertical piston one is made in bronze so is prettier if polished up. There are two sorts of water pump. They are interchangeable. The double acting one is probably better for prolonged high power work, but has a leather plunger. Which you have to make. There are two sorts of gearbox. One with lined male cone clutches and the earlier style with metal to metal clutches. There are lots of different magnetos........... N