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Chertsey

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  1. Not in many that I've seen there. They're definitely going to be open at Easter for their do (but I'm foregoing that for the delights of Brownhills and Walsall this year)
  2. Had someone try to nick coal out of the hold in Wolverhampton once before we got the cloths on. They got the surprise of their lives when PB leapt out of a tent hidden under a bit of tarpaulin, wielding the keb. Someone tried to nick the bike in Stone. It was chained to the cross plank and they ran off when we made an appearance. My first boat was broken into when I left it unattended in central Huddersfield. This was when I was just about to leave, having been there eighteen months without incident. Nothing was touched except they stole a gas lighter and a rather nice knife (I do sometimes worry what might have happened to it subsequently). Had to replace a broken window. That's three incidents in twelve years - so on one hand, not much at all; on the other, more than I've experienced re my house or my person. (I had a babysitter steal some money and jewellery c. 1986) On the basis of the above I feel safer in the middle of nowhere than in towns.
  3. Chertsey was sat for years (decades?) with a hold full of mud and water, and the real red oxide had done a brilliant job of protecting the steel. It wouldn't be our old friends the Liver Grease and Oil Company would it?
  4. This all presupposes that fat is the greatest evil, and I think the consensus of nutritional opinion is shifting back away from that position... e.g.
  5. We dream of six feet! (Well, maybe not that much, we might drown).
  6. I don't know either but I think (I stand to be corrected by Pete Harrison) Bath had them fitted at one point?
  7. Leylands gloss red oxide was brilliant but (and I'd be delighted to hear otherwise) they stopped making it. We bought up the last of the stock of Kelsalls in Cannock but it's all gone now. Don't know what we'll do next time so will watch this thread with interest. Oh, I see Archie just said that! Sorry.
  8. But what he'll never be able to do is make the hull the same shape as a Woolwich or a Northwich. And for my money that's a big factor.
  9. Goodness yes. I don't think I could put up with that. The shape of the hull possibly helps with reversing? BTW that anode would have been on for at least 25 years so had probably done all the good it was ever going to.
  10. I think it was, but too worn to be worth leaving unpainted; too small to be worth removing.
  11. I went looking for some photos of Chertsey's undersides in an attempt to see shy she steers so well (but NOT in shallow water; no deep drafted boat will) and particularly why she steers so well in reverse, and I was surprised by how little balancing plate there is on the rudder. That's not the original rudder, but it looks pretty similar to this one, which I am told was.
  12. Any chance of a photo? Is there scope for screwing brackets to the gunnel, hanging down and returning beneath it? Or by timber top (looking at your earlier posts) do you just mean the cloth batten? A photo might be really helpful.
  13. We've used stick-on cable holders on the underside of the gunnel iron, but that's only to carry the headlamp cable. They're those flat squares of thin metal with cutouts that bend round the cable. They just about hold on. We tried hammering conventional cable clips into the gunnel but the oak was too hard. Gas must be a whole different ball game. Doesn't it freeze on Fulbourne? Maybe adhesive rather than welding or bolting is the way to go to get some batten in place to work off?
  14. Yes, but it's ironic that the dirt cheap, no survey, third party insurance includes salvage!
  15. I'll report on how my Comastic has done when we get it out of the water this year for the first time since 2010... It certainly seems fine round the waterline and we were very happy with how it lasted on Warrior (as, I think, were the subsequent owners...). So that's another vote for it being worth the money.
  16. Perhaps he's taken the first part of Ray T's sig to heart...
  17. Indeed. By 'same technique' I was including women on the boats, blokes on bikes on the bank, and boats stuck like glue. Yes, I tried to persuade a few odd people to try it last year, I think they just didn't get it. It was KK on Owl who showed me that trick. Coming out of double locks together is also useful for holding back at the end of the flight to get the lockwheelers back on. Mind you, we went one better last year, breasted the boats up with one person taking them through the locks leaving three on the bank (but with a dog and no bikes). Not Hatton but that would have been good.
  18. I am sure PB was referring to *our* neglect of Chertsey... Not had it out of the water since 2010 :-/ However I am not overly worried about the steelwork as that was either fine or fixed then... Just hope that's not famous last words.
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  20. I've only read the last couple of pages so forgive me if this has been said before, but don't make any modifications until you've given the boat a real chance for you to get used to it - like at least a couple of years. You may need to learn whole new techniques, which you never will if you just start trying to make it into the boat you were previously accustomed to. Also get someone else, who's used to that sort of boat, to have a go and see if they find the same issues.
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