Alan de Enfield

The new owners of a picturesque marina in Nottinghamshire want to expand the site, including potentially adding "floating lodges". Farndon Marina, located on the River Trent near Newark, has been sold after almost 60 years of being owned by the same family. The 25-acre site comprises over 300 private berths and moorings, and also boasts a chandlery and a range of visitor facilities. Following the announcement of the sale on Monday, June 23, managing director Paul Ainsworth, whose dad Mark bought the marina in 1966, described it as the "end of an era" for him and his wife, Janet. "It has been an emotional journey to come to the point where we will hand the business over to new owners," he said. "We have made many friends with our berth holders over the years, and we are confident that the success of Farndon will continue with the fantastic team we have on site, who will continue to be great assets to the marina." The marina's buyers, the Tingdene Group, have teased a "number of investment opportunities" over the coming months. Managing director Ian Collier said this could include a holiday park, motorhome and touring caravan facilities or floating lodges. "As a family business ourselves, we immediately understood the great opportunity Farndon Marina presented and the work that Paul and Janet had put in over the years," he said. "Location-wise, the business extends our marina network northwards, but from a wider group perspective which includes both holiday and residential parks, it is very centrally positioned in the East Midlands which works well for us." Jon Patrick, head of leisure and development at Christie & Co who handled the sale process, added: “Farndon Marina attracted a wide range of interest from inland marina operators, as well as holiday park operators and investors, resulting in a competitive bidding process for the business."

You should hear them when they cock their leg and 'hit' the fence !

Thats fine, they are both ELV Thats fine, the 230v cable is 'twin insulated' and is rated in itself as being in a conduit (the sheath) You can even fasten it directly to the gas pipes with cable ties and it'd be acceptable.

Stainless steel wires are used in animal electric fencing (normally 5 individual wires in a 2" wide tape). Our electric fence unit currently has around 5000 .metres of tape and is running at around 6-7000 volts and around 8 miiliamps, It gives you a good belt if you touch it, even after 5km of 'small wire'.

Is you long term plan, once you have decided to buy, to have a 'weekend leisure boat' or a '6 month' usage, or permanent, liveaboard ? I think that you may find that at that price range you will be right at the bottom end of boats that are 'comfortably liveable' It obviously depends on your personal standards, aspirations and willingness to 'do work' but a liveaboard boat for two - needs to work for both people and it is not uncommon for 'the wife's' expectations to be different to 'the husband's'. A liveaboard boat is fitted out quite differently to a 'leisure' boat - typically bigger battery bank, different wiring systems, washing machine, more solar panels, larger water tank etc etc.

Roller on the large flat areas and brushed on where the roller wouldnt fit, angles, corners etc. A VERY light sanding, and then wiped down. It went down well and as the top cost is quite 'thick' any small imperfections were lost during the 2 coats of top-coat Edit to add : Make sure you are working at well above dew point, ask the bidges and corn flys to 'go away for a day or two and make sure it is not too hot and preferably try not to work in direct sunlight so it doesn't get 'baked'. Midge attack - had to sand it right back and start again.

But it is a non-compliance within the RCD/RCR

Boats are 3 dimensional all at the same time - the air-draft is linked to the beam - hope this helps, a picture is worth 1000 words.

And in Autumn a single leaf can block the drain, the bottom of the stairwell then floods to such an extent it overflows the step, and into the cabin, the boat then slowly sinks unless regularly checked. I know because I bought a 'sunk and recovered' 3 year old boat for a pittance that has suffered from the problem.

It could be a licence registration from any of the other 20+ Navigation Authorities M = Manchester ship canal maybe ?

A 'squiggle' (a wave produced by speeding boats) was the BWB symbol.

And in Autumn a single leaf can block the drain, the bottom of the stairwell then floods to such an extent it overflows the step, and into the cabin, the boat then slowly sinks unless regularly checked. I know because I bought a 'sunk and recovered' 3 year old boat for a pittance that has suffered from the problem. Edited for system glitch of multiple posting of the last post on a page.

As we know, a post 1997 boat SHOULD have a CE marked hull plate to comply with the the RCD. Without it it is non compliant.

I take it you are either trying to make a joke, or have a very poor understanding of mains electical teminology

I think you may be one of the confused, Maybe you are not old enough to have been educated in the avoirdupois system Table of Units Unit Abbreviation As Pounds As Kilos Notes grain gr 1/7000 0.0000648kg As troy grain - introduced by Elizabeth I dram dr 1/256 0.001772kg Defined as 1/16th of an ounce previously known as the "part" ounce oz 1/16 0.0283kg Commonly used in US and UK recipes pound lb 1 0.45359237kg Base unit of avoirdupois system stone st 14 6.35kg Not used in the US customary system quarter qtr 28 12.70kg Equivalent of 2 stone or a quarter of a hundredweight hundredweight cwt 112 50.80kg Defined as 8 stone in the British Imperial system ton t 2240 1016kg Known as the long ton to differentiate from the US short ton Tonne 1000 kg is called a tonne or metric ton, which is approximately 2,204.6 pounds. 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) The ton is a unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg). It is a statute measure in the United Kingdom. Seeing as we are not in America, the 'American' (or 'short) ton at 2000lbs is not relevant

They were very different days. Sticking your thumb out was an accepted way of achieving cheap travel - even the RAF did it - go by any RAF base on a Friday afternoon after they closed down for the weekend and thre would be dozens of then with thier thumbs stuck out

If you had deleted it before I posted I would not have been able to quote it.

Did you read what I writ ?

Not much fun when you purchase a ton of something and find you have been supplied with a tonne and you've been diddled out of 40 lbs of product.