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...and yet that someone has far more chance of sinking and drowning if he sits in the cabin of a modern hire boat crewed by inadequately trained holidaymakers going down a lock flight. That someone's chances of dying will also increase rapidly if they fit a woodburner badly. A lightweight shed built on an oil drum raft is very unlikely to capsize. People have been putting sheds on pontoons and rafts for decades and I cannot recall a single death by capsizing.

I've just done a quick Google and if you search "dolphin 16 forward drive" there is a thread on the YBW forum that can tell you more.

It's a "Dolphin 16 forward drive" which I believe they stopped making in 69 but I know more about their wooden boats I'm afraid so I may be wrong. Definitely 100% Brooklands though.

Likewise the Ashby.

Hey... Don't you diss Nanette. She was a Stepford Wife so of course she did the washing up.

It is also worth bearing in mind that hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid. I've never heard Ecover make that claim... Mind you I've been on the boat for a week and left my razor at home so my face is as rough as a Badger's bum so the bar is set pretty low.

I'm truly stunned...

Not according to Nanette Newman it doesn't.

Licence to roam?

I hope it wasn't the same mod who found the word "b***" offensive because it once, many many years ago, had a less savoury meaning than the mild term it has become.

I'm not entirely sympathetic to their cause because, like most single issue organisations, they fail to see the bigger picture but that doesn't mean that they are always wrong or deliberately misleading. This case may or may not have merit and neither side are pure as the driven snow. It will be interesting to follow though.

Thank the boris that we can go back to good old English water on Nov 1st. I'm sure this pollution malarkey is down to the Eurowater rubbish they've been putting in our washing up liquid. (edited to add : How did mrsmelly get my login details?)

Yes of course Mike...and anyone who hasn't seen your many snipes at NBTA will accept your waffle at face value. Just my opinion of course.

Not just canals but boating in general. I was chatting to a neighbour at the marina the other day and he remarked that he loved my boat but wooden boats were so expensive to maintain. I pointed out that his Fairline Targa 50 cost more than I've spent on boating in 30+ years and the guy who sells the Big Issue who is mooring his little yacht here for the summer is going to teach me how to fly fish for bass at the weekend.

It may also be worth considering the unprecedented heatwave we had which may have deprived the fish of oxygen. A one off event usually has a one off cause.

As I said in another thread... I have no problem with the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" Saying that you do not believe the words said by someone is pretty much calling them a liar by the way. Parliamentary type euphemism doesn't work here.

I'm sat in a marina which has no pump out facilities and no elsan point so I have opted to use the marina toilets. As there are 300 boats and never a queue for the bogs I can only assume that they are using their sea toilets and emptying straight into the river along with the grey water. I can only assume that mullet and whatever they eat are made of stern stuff because the water is teeming with them. No frogs though.

You're just bitter that your rant about how rubbish CRT employees are didn't have the same staying power...

Hey there's a name for it! Do you think I could claim disability benefits?

Whilst not disputing your uncited academic research I do know that the canals and rivers of the UK are no longer the stagnant open sewers devoid of life that they were in my youth. It is unlikely that the infrastructure required to deal with grey water tanks will be installed any time soon.