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Thanks Dave and Louise, very helpfull

Dont get to go boating often enough so we always make early starts/finish late, to make the most of it. Can lay in bed when we're at home and go sight-seeing any weekend by car.

IIRC there are more locks on the Stratford way plus you still go via hatton

As much as i dont want to change the direction of this thread i have to ask why not a boat yard?

Intresting small boat project, or great garden shed. My link

Just reserch stage at the mo, have been looking into buying a shell to fit out, have spent last ten years in building trade, mainly plumbing and electrics, but was motor trade before that. but grew up around steam loco's and did steel fabrication when first left school so thought it worth looking into building my own boat from scratch, the boat bug bit a few years ago but to be honest, the prices for new boats and ok quality second hand ones is prohibative, especialy when i have a lot of the skills to build my own.

Thanks, do you know of any photos? I have recently read your thread about your build with no plans, doing it from memory, most impressed!

What no-one? ever? someone must know someone

Hmmmmm but i only need one

Does anyone have any experience of building a shell with the plans from Acorn Engineering or Selway Fisher? How did you get on? were the plans of use? Also does anyone have any photos of the finished boats?

The boat that guy built?

Many thanks

Thats the one, thanks. how did you do that i've been looking for ages

There was a thread running a year or two back where a very clever chap was building his own steel shell, he was building the bow and stern sections at home and then planned to transport them to a yard and put the whole thing together there. I have been trying to search for this thread to read again but having no luck, any ideas?

willow wren and clifton cruisers at rugby do them, would think it worth while but have never done one myself

Agreed. If you still wanted 2 onboard RCD's maybe a consumer unit with a split load (many available screw fix ect) could be set up this way?

I guess the brighton and hove references gave away the Van Hoogstraten link (are you really sure your not him?) I do really feel sorry for anyone who has the misfortune to end up as one of your tenants, with any luck one of them will end up paying you the same sort of visit you arranged for your students. ETA i cant belive you would say he was o.k.! he got done for manslaughter and for having a hand grenade thrown into someones house!

Well you sound like a great landlord. NOT. Your names not van Hoogstraten is it?

What they said

Have seen both spellings used, but imo it's as you say, gunwales pronounced gunnels

My personal choice would be clifton cruisers near rugby, very well presented boats, a lot of which are quite new, good value and good choice of routes including the Warwickshire and Leicester rings.

It's on their profile

This all does seem to have gone a bit overboard dosen't it. homer i dont blame you for not naming your boat, it seems the chap in question has many friends here. Only the people present will ever know what realy happened, but i too think it odd that it caused 2 supposedly seperate people to join the forum just to join this debate, were they avid readers who never felt the need to join until now? or were they directed to comment by someone? or are they figments of someones imagination with nice new hotmail accounts?

What type of engine was it that gave you so much trouble?