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What actually seems to annoy you is that people dare to give their opinon on the subject matter at hand rather than a direct answer to the specific question you asked. I suspect that's a function of the way your brain works. Unfortunately for you the rest of the forum membership doesn't work the way you want it to. You assume that's their fault and respond by showing your frustration far too readily and with a posting style that I think grates with many members. What I think most contributors to this thread will have experienced is that you asked for advice on fenders, they gave you plenty, and then had it rudely thrown back at them. Largely because they didn't take the initial question in as literal a sense as you intended. No one here will be bothered if you choose a long button rather than a tipcat. But they will have noticed how you've used negative descriptions of other people's boats in the course of the thread as a means of justifying your own preference.

He might.... I reckon you were on a train going through Neath, where the railway crosses the Neath Canal, the River Neath and the Tennant Canal in very quick succession - technically all three are navigations, none are used now.

Maybe real boating is where you do more mooring than moving, only moving a few hundred metres over the course of 1-2 month, often mooring on lock landings or sanitary stations???

She certainly doesn’t…..

Andy Tidy's video from the recent Pelsall gathering springy

Hello!! I just joined the forum so there are so many things I don't know yet, I hope to have the help of the boards, and I really want to get to know you all on the forum.

@IanD make sure you're out of the Yorkshire region before @Midnight gets there. Based on his track record there's going to be three breaches, a collapsed tunnel and a landslip preventing him getting back to his mooring! 😁

Look at this one I encountered moored at Linslade today, forcing me into the offside bushes. I’m going to write a strongly worded letter to my MP. Disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells.

The decompressors are the 3 levers that are connected together with the rod, not the oil caps! I think you are out of your depth with this problem. Is there another boater near you who could maybe help? Where are you?

These are the ones I use: (Use the right size, image is just to show the type, Mikalor do nice ones...) Be careful tho, 'cos you can't half get 'em tight!! I also use a little bit of exhaust assembly paste, really helps to stick the parts together...

Thank you for explaining how things look from your perspective but I think part of the reason why you may get what you think of as adverse comments is because of how others on the forum "see" you. Since you joined, there have been many instances of topics where you have given us the benefit of your wide knowledge at great length and this gives the impression that everyone else is wrong. I am sure this is not what you mean but that is how it comes over. This and the fact that you seem to be so knowledgeable on so many subjects does perhaps make those of us with lesser knowledge of many subjects react a bit to your posts.

Experiencing wide beam rage right now. This one turned at Woolfhamcote and is now crawling west slower than the 3 boats following it can go on idle. We cracked in the end and moored for lunch. Cheers Graham

If you want to go back 100 years and use a horse move to Wales. Horses go faster than our speed limits 🤪

That looks like the bleed point in the body of the pump. We painted all our engines green when on the fleet, and about that shade as well. The college training engines were also painted green. I don't think the colour is of much importance in this case.

This is curious as there is no way I can think of to genuinely test a leisure battery for capacity and sulphation without a right load of faffing about over about a ten hour period. Generally cheaper to buy a new battery than pay someone to carry out a meaningful capacity test giving a result you can actually rely on. "All singing" one minute testers are little more than theatre, used as a tool to sell batteries, as in. "Oh look, the printout says your battery is goosed, you need a new one Sir. We just happen to have a row of them of the shelf here Sir." So I'm not sure what went wrong at Streethay, or what it was that their "all singing" tester would actually have been measuring. Did it print anything out? What did it say?

Surely that post by @Ray T was answering queries and comments by @Tonka and @Goliath ?? Not sure why it warranted that response or the little dig at other posters.

I wonder if someone put a note about the correct oil level on the air inlet because it is near the dipstick.

That makes two of yous😂

Vessel interaction is a very interesting topic. The famous Marchioness disaster on the Thames involved a degree of interaction. Canal boats are a bit like tiny ships in confined waters. https://maritime-executive.com/blog/vessel-interaction-have-you-considered-the-possibilities

It is a sad state of affairs - the quality of NB boatbuilding seems to be appalling and yet 'we' put up with it. The price seems to make no difference. I've previously told the story of the £300,000 wide beam that arrived in our marina with dozens of faults, after 3 months and 100s of hours of rectification work, the manufacturer 'walked away' and said "we've done all we can, thats it !" It still had water leaks and other issues. I don't think it ever went out of the marina, and was immediately put up for sale at Offers over £250k, and was still for sale a year later when we left the marina. The fact that it was a special build and hand prepared for the boat show, meant that it was actually built and QA checked to a higher standard than a standard build. I know it is nice to have a toilet than no one has ever used but, have concluded that it is far, far, far better to buy a 'young' pre-used boat where the miriad of little niggles have been sorted and the boat is immediately usable. If anyone was to ask for my opinion my recommendation would be 'don't buy a new boat'.

I love doing things like this when supposed to be doing other things....

A couple of weeks ago I found myself staying in Shefford for a christening - the granddaughter of someone I was at school with, which made me feel old! Whilst there I took the opportunity to have an early morning look at whats left of the Ivel Navigation in the town. The Ivel navigation reached Shefford from the Great Ouse in 1823 and closed about 50 years later. The map shows the navigation in Shefford in about 1900, when it was closed but very much still present. The navigation ran east from Northbridge Street, south and then east again and into a lock cut with the first lock clearly visible on the plan. At this point I will leave the laptop and switch to the phone, so if nothing follows this sentence you have logged on before I've finished the post! Today the wharf is commemorated in the name of a riverside path looking back towards North Bridge the wharf was on the left The river looks a tad small for the barges that once used it but is very pleasant and clearly the footpath users the residents enjoy it. The lock cut has been filled in, although it's course is still apparent There is a watercourse next to the path on the other side - this is not the navigation! Not much left of the lock though A slope in the path confirms the location

Do you really think I'm not aware of that? There are some things on the boat that AFAIK have not been done before, but I'm not going to bother going into that because even though it might be useful in future for those open-minded enough I'm just fed up with the endless carping and nit-picking criticism about everything and anything. All this reminds me why -- in spite of several requests -- I decided not to do a build blog. The sheer endless bloody negativism on CWDF -- especially to anything new or different -- is just depressing. If you want evidence, just look at where this thread has gone when all I originally asked was if anyone knew where I could get a "medium-length" stern button... 😞