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Chertsey

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  1. Has anyone drawn to their attention that a number of potentially interested people will be otherwise engaged that day, and that they might like to take that into account when organising future conferences?
  2. I'm certainly not looking to buy another historic boat but I love reading this thread for all the snippets of info about them whether for sale or not. Its ramblings are always drawn back on track whenever a 'new' old boat comes up for sale.
  3. Do you know who owns Michaelangelo's David?
  4. I must dispute that! Surely I am not the only person who can go for more than a day without a shower? PS. There is only one non-historic tug I'd be tempted by (and sorry, it's not Warrior) - Ian Kemp's Gazelle.
  5. Why do people say things like this? Who else's views do they think we are going to think they're expressing in such forthright terms?
  6. We've used a Perrago and were most impressed, but wouldn't try doing a whole hull with one. No one has mentioned shotblasting... A lot of grief, and not many places to get it done, but unbeatable if you want to get everything off and make a really clean start. Having said that, I think the moonscape effect looks pretty good. Even if you've got lovely shiny cabin work, a workmanlike looking hull is no bad thing.
  7. I am very fastidious, but find a handbowl wash perfectly acceptable and even superior in some ways to a shower (and no I am not going to elaborate).
  8. Oh that's much too complicated. Thinking of doing something like that into the hold though.
  9. That's interesting, because it really took me by surprise how terrifying I found Edstone, and I thought I'd never be able to face Pontcysyllte. My two scariest boating experiences in sequential threads.
  10. The one time I fell in I ended up under the counter and that was scary (even if I was tied up and the engine off - wasn't immediately clear how to get out from under). It was at least in summer and I was able to scramble up the bank, with help. I'd been stepping on and off all day and must have just got a bit blase and misjudged it. I sent out for antibacterial coca cola (that I believe is a canoeists' trick, for ingestion rather than wounds) though someone subsequently told me that as it was in Droitwich the salt keeps the nasties down. I didn't admit at the time just how scary it was. Also, even though I now have a waterproof cover for my phone, I never carry it in my pocket when boating as I think that would be guaranteed to make me fall in again.
  11. I do indeed find it useful although I admit that I only have to go into the back end to fill it from the 2 x 100 gallon tanks I've got there :-)
  12. Not even inside the cabin? I have a nice little one and someone said 'that'll make a nice cabin can' as if that was a known thing - and indeed it is very useful as such.
  13. Quite an old video... I don't recognise any of the people (in the first couple of minutes).
  14. Yes, I've always understood it to be from 'helm' hence the apostrophe would be for the dropped 'h'. I wouldn't bother with it though; I think 'ellum' is sufficiently established as a word in its own right.
  15. But I suspect that it is the boat, not the person, who is being refused a licence.
  16. But surely CRT could still refuse to license a particular boat (e.g. if it was subject to a s.8) regardless of who applies for the licence? I'm struggling to see how having someone other than the owner license it would help. Slight aside, I was somewhat amused by the security and complexity of password CRT require to license online - just to prevent anyone else from paying for my licence!
  17. I can't say I've noticed it, but the Sheffield East End History Trail No 1 guided walk book The Sheffield and Tinsley Canal (1997) says that it was filled in to become part of what's now Greenland Road. It's to the right of Broughton Lane Bridge and connected the canal to the Duke of Norfolk's mines at Darnall, according to the book.
  18. It did seem rather odd that they would be the first to go.
  19. Scary if true. But possibly an argument *for* transfer to CRT, who are at least primarily interested in navigation and arguably less obsessed with pointless health and safety. Can people on here identify the locks which have been closed? That might or might not lend credence to the claims.
  20. But do TfL have any jurisdiction over the waterways? I suspect not. They could no more charge a boater for running their engine than they could a house owner running a generator. Some other legislation might cover it, or CRT could be persuaded to come on board, but TfL alone can't do it.
  21. But why would you choose a picture that makes it look split, if it isn't?
  22. Definitely looks like a real split to me, and a clean, deliberate one with no rust underneath. I have never seen anything like it before though. My hanging rails are bits of horse harness (hames I believe is what they're called) made of steel (or possibly iron I guess) encased in brass. They're probably nigh on a hundred years old and they haven't split!
  23. I believe some people prefer to leave in in forward on tickover - especially when going downhill in a big boat. Not me though, as it depends on being able to get back on before opening the gates, going downhill. On the other hand, going uphill, it means the boat will make its own way out...
  24. That does sound like a good recommendation.
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