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CAT IS HOME tx to all concerned. He had made his way back to the place where the idiot let him out of his basket, I don't know where has been all day. Hungry, so not indoors.

If only there was a T**t emoji

I'd leave the boat where it is. He was carried in a carrier so will have picked up smells en route and they do generally have a good sense of direction. I wouldn't count on him not making it back, especially if you've been moored there a little while. I assume you have called all the vets in the area? If not do so now before they close. Especially if he's not chipped and/ or the chip details aren't up to date. I would be searching in the area of the cafe (including leaving something that smells of him nearby as I suggested earlier) and leaving the boat where it is. If he finds the boat then great. If he doesn't, you'll be in the other place where he's most likely to be. Apart from anything else people will see you looking and ask what you're doing, you can tell them and the nicer ones will then be looking too.

Well Fenny passed survey and has gone to new owners. End of our second era of boat ownership,1981 to 2005, then 2012 to 2025. It feels strange.

Opened the cider Fernando has has dish of kibbles followed by a sachet of finest fish.

Hmm usual pointless arguements and nit picking pedantry, 1st post clearly said cat was in basket when taken. Get a grip. Hope the cat turns up. Dons tin hat. Should I have put an apostrophe in there somewhere?

i can assure you they do NOT!

I'm forgiven, On lap, . Maximum purr.

I think its risky, I had thought about it, it's not a great bit for mooring, I don't think the cat is still in that place, or he would have come when i called. There is only a a few bits of grass, and small shrubs dogs etc. Where I am there are big trees, and walls that he uses to survey the area. I will have to go and try again. Put up more posters. I will try with litter, but he doesn't often use it.

How about going to the place he was let out with something smelly of his or yours. Drag the smelly thing along the ground to the towpath then back to your boat. If he has a litter tray put it outside the boat and he might pick up the scent.

Many years ago l owned a cat that went missing. Four years later a friend was driving home and saw what they thought was a dead/near dead cat on the roadside, so they stopped to check it out and take it to a vet. It was in fact our cat which they recognised when they got closer, he was always a very scruffy cat and looked like he was a stray. We had no idea what happened to him during that time but he was found around 200 metres from home. After a check up from the vet and a really good clean he slotted right back in so don’t give up, he might well find his way back to you.

True enough but in your case it's only been a matter of hours so a bit early to give up hope. It's very common for cats to go missing for days or weeks and still turn up eventually. I should think if you ask nicely CRT will let you overstay for a while if it improves the chances of being reunited with your much-loved cat. Move away and the chances of that happening are surely much reduced.

West India Dock today....

And safely back at Goole moored up👍 And below “Salt and Pepper” Goole’s famous Salt and Pepper water towers. The thinner, red brick tower came first, rising to 43 metres in 1885. It was joined by its neighbour, a white concrete structure a metre taller and more than double the girth, in 1927. Both were given Grade II-listed status by English Heritage in 1987. In 2026 Goole will celebrate its 200-year anniversary since it was purpose-built as a “company town” by the Aire and Calder Navigation Company, which constructed a canal from Leeds to Goole and docks leading into the River Ouse.

Too late, but ty, they took a cat to this Canine Cafe then let it out its carrier. I have been given their number by WY Police, and texted them as polite as possible in the circumstances. WYP - 202505070441

If you think you know where he was released (possibly by George at the cafe mentioned previously- I assume you've spoken to him) leave something that smells of him and/ or you nearby like his cat bed and keep an eye out for him. Do the same by the boat (and make sure he has a way to get back onto the boat). They're quite good at smelling their way home normally. Whilst it sounds like he was picked up with the best of intentions, it doesn't seem like whoever it was was the sharpest spoon in the drawer. I hope he finds his way back to you one way or another. Edit- more posts since I started writing that. I take it as "person X sees cat in carrier on towpath and automatically assumes the worst, sees George walking to work and says look at this poor cat that's been abandoned, George takes cat to work (which appears to be a fancy dog food place and dog friendly cafe), lets cat out, cat predictably goes "sod this" and runs away." He's most likely to either be somewhere near the cafe, which is where I would be looking for him if I were you, or trying to find his way back to the boat.

I've found that for you. Does Don know you have got it...

I don't expect they have the same underwater and stern shape as a Sea Otter so probably the prop would be nowhere near as excisable

For that job I'd key the steel, clean off the dust and stick a piece of 12mm or 18mm plywood or perhaps heat resistant board onto the steel with your choice of polyurethane sealant/adhesive: CT-1, Sticks Like Sh*t, Stixall, etc. There's a variety available at Screwfix and Toolstation. After 24 hours you won't be able to get the ply off the steel and you can just screw your parts onto the ply. The advantage over JB Weld is that it stays flexible and should cope with thermal expansion/contraction better. I have used JB Weld before but only for plugging a couple of small leaks in skin tank welding, rather than as an adhesive.

Good drive down ( 220 miles in just under 4 hours ) and decided to set off rather than spend a night in the marina charging the batteries on shore power. Plan is down the Shroppie and back up the T & M which will be a lot longer than we have gone for a few years. Saw my first goslings and cygnets today but no moorhen chicks. In fact I didn't see any adult moorhens either which is odd as this stretch used to have lots of them. Lovely weather just the same as we have been having at home.

So pleased that you are reunited . I expect the cat might be a bit cross but he will have forgiven you by breakfast . We have next doors cat in quite a lot. He is on the sofa looking at me now. If we go away boating for a week we get a good telling off when we return.

Ha - this has really made my day (c: When I read the first post I was worried that some random had kicked him into the canal, then the twist of the facebook post with the (well meaning) pillock, the anxious waiting, and then the return of the cat.

Really sad. The scenario is often cold water causing an involuntary deep breath in. Lungs fill with water so the poor person fails to surface, loosing oxygen quite fast. You are quite right someone who enters the water dead tend to float due mainly to air in lungs. Bodies (human or other) dead in the water for a while rise with decomposition gasses. Friend who is a pathologist told me this. Forensics of drowning or death prior to entering the water are obviously important for crime detection.

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Pleased to hear it.

Milk 😃

I was just thinking of the time our cat leapt from the boat (mid channel and cruising speed) disappeared into the undergrowth on the towpath... swmbo insisted we moor up and wait... 10 pm meowing from nearby and cat returned... very stressful at the time. So glad the cat has been found.

You will be surprised how well animals can find their way home wherever that may be. They have much sharper senses than humans. I wouldn't be surprised if just comes strolling up to the boat like nothing has happened in a few hours.

Hopefully Lady G has been moored there long enough for the cat to feel that is home. Cats have been known to make their way home over long distances, in one case from france to Finland. Hoping for good news soon.

I had a cat go missing after relocating due to a house fire once. We searched for him on the assumption he may try to make his way back to our old house. In the end, he was not far from where we relocated to. Found due to posters we put up (this was pre-facebook). Obviously speak to local vets etc so if someone brings your cat in they will contact you. When a cat randomly goes missing - the worry always is that they haven't returned due to death or injury - you know this is not the case with yours. Keep searching, my bet would be around where they were let out. I am sure you will be reunited.

I am so sorry for you Lady G and I can just imagine how I would feel if one of my pets was missing. Animals do have good homing instincts so hopefully he will find his way back to the boat. Fingers crossed for you

I must be mis reading as it sounds like the cat is presently lost since he has been released a mile from where he was picked up by the person who took him.

This was our kit for a no-weed-hatch boat

I read an independent test of fuel additives in PBO some years ago which I posted and is in the archives. Some additives are snake oil and some aren't and the reason Marine 16 became much more popular was because it isn't. I suggest you read the article otherwise you're basing your views on feelings and heresay rather than data and evidence. https://www.pbo.co.uk/gear/12-diesel-bug-treatments-tested-43353 __________________ I had my integral tank grit blasted late last summer in preparation for painting with Jotun water-potable epoxy, but then I was away for a few weeks and by the time I got back the water/steel temp was too low to paint. I sealed it up for winter - stupidly leaving 2 angle grinders inside! I'm just going to go over any gingering that's bloomed over winter with grinders, wire wheels and give it all a good key with a coarse sandpaper before giving it a good few coats of the epoxy. I don't know much about fibreglassing but my worry in coating the inside of a water tank would be the bond between the steel and resin. As we all know, materials react to changing temperatures differently, expanding and contracting at different rates, so my concern would be separation. I might be wrong, perhaps coating steel with fibreglass resin is a standard method. __________________ I think the idea of sticking a physical liner to the steel is interesting. If those hovercraft bladders fail prematurely because of all the repetitive inflating/collapsing as you fill and drain the tank, then why can't the lining material be stuck to the tank using the tank's breather pipe as usual? I guess the problem would be that unlike a one-piece bladder you'd need to stick it to the inside of the tank in sections and unless you can get a good overlap seal between edges there's the risk of water getting behind the material.

^^^ This ^^^ My reading of the OP is he is simply seeking to understand. It was Gybby who advised not buying the boat unless the seller provided first class answers to the questions. My advice to the OP is buy the boat if you like it, a lot. Sort out the (probably trivial) heating faults (if any) once he is the owner.

Saw our first cygnets this year at Alvecote Marina yesterday and today the proud patents brought them to our mooring to show us.

I have the cheap ones so berated on this forum, I have at least five cheapos, and I have never had a problem, though I would not have bought them myself, and they are definitely not marine standard

I think so too and it's been on the market for yonks. Its a good illustration of how difficult it is to sell a boat that isn't vanilla cruiser stern, reverse layout with a Beta 43 and lots of blue boxes. I have to say though if this boat were mine, that fore cabin would have to go, on aesthetic grounds!

Next time you see a boat that seems to swim really well, without a lot of wash, ask the owner to lift it out, or turn it upside down so you can take a look at the hull shape. ?