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None of us have to look if we don’t want to, but if it encourages people to get out and boat it’s all good stuff, here’s a photo from a year ago, under Spaghetti Junction.

I agree and i suspect the original post was intended to trigger a row, so ignored it. It's perfectly possible to find a kill trap big enough to take a rat, I actually have a couple, although I tend to deal with rats with the air rifle, the mice on the other hand love peanut butter

Most people wouldn't dream of botching any other piece of navigational equipment on their boats so I'm not quite sure why we have so many suggestions to that effect on this subject? It's not about whether you're going to get into trouble for having an incorrect navigation light, it's a more about making sure the light is the correct colour and brightness to actually be seen and function as a navigation light. For that reason forget about green bulbs, green paint, nail varnish, moulding your own lens 😂, and either replace the lens or the whole light with a new one.

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For a program aimed at Joe Public not canal nerds, I didn't think it was too bad at all...

Dr Mengele was it?

I think that is now an RYA course, but I no longer run them. Check with the to see if they still use my course notes. If they don't, you are free to download them and print them out. tb-training.co.uk

Don't let me catch you sleeping..................................................

Many years ago a good friend of mine subscribed to "Osteopath Monthly" magazine. He says he has a lot of back issues.

Don't forget the Bridgewater six-planker motor conversions. I could only find this photo in the Waterways Archive collection. Note that the counter on Alice is formed by vertical planking fitted around the conventional horse boat stern.

I'll just leave this here for discussion......

good news; https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-struggle-to-shift-black-sabbath-bench-proves-it-really-is-heavy-metal

Makes one wonder why you use a humane trap in the 1st place - why not just get one that breaks their neck - saves you a lot of bovver.

Are you seriously suggesting that you cannot work out why you cannot get water into the tank?

Works for me! 😉

Here's a picture of my old lpsw4 starter. Sadly a knacker but if yours is like this then the solenoid is part of it. This for a standard earth return marine build 47. I'm sure a search using the part numbers will throw up lots of suppliers at lots of prices...

I too have that memory - I was really disappointed when I went through after the works had been demolished! and only black and white . . .

🥱 Well then, how many Lumens/Candela are required. https://boatlamps.co.uk/pages/navigation-lights-led-replacement-bulb-information

Those of us here who are likely to contribute to such topics almost certainly have some innate practical ability, but my time in FE tells me there are people around who do not so appear to believe or do, what to us, look like stupid things. This is a good reason not to keep on pointing out that a post looks like a wind up or a bot. However, when the OP fails to respond to suggestions and question in a sensible way, I think they forfeit such consideration.

There’s a significant history of motorising boats built to be towed. The reality is that a much larger number of unpowered boats than have already would meet their demise if they weren’t converted in some form. Lesser of two evils perhaps. Boats are living things.

This morning 2024 Salvage Turn by the Mailbox (W&B) Compare with 21Aug1990 19Apr2001 (#2) 24Dec2002 4Jul2005 11Aug2006 28Dec2006 28Nov2008

This afternoon 2024 ... and only having seen it from the canal, I walked around for a current view from Broad Street: Lots of police but no branding on the bench ... Looking from Black Sabbath Bridge towards Old Turn Junction BCN

If it helps one person embarking on a sailaway project to avoid one bad decision then it will have been worth my while doing this "rant". I agree its not light reading, I'm no writer. If reading it was compulsory I would not write it but its not. And its not as bad as the personal invective in the Political section. I'm a little disappointed that it is Blackrose of all people choosing to cast solid round objects.