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Chertsey

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  1. Well put it this way, if I met a Foxes boat (almost) head on I suspect I'd come off worse. I don't think I'm scary; I always fear for my rivets. Northwiches are scarier than Woolwiches.
  2. I use oil* soaked rag *and* kindling. Maybe alcohol/meths would do it? It works for barbecues... Otherwise, yes, firelighters. Actually our own patent 'mysterious flammable substance' mixture of leftover oil, diesel, paraffin, white spirit etc.
  3. Ooh, how gratifying! I calculate I will need 72 x 6" squares, and I am up to 36. I will then have to learn how to join them together:-)
  4. Well, cars are a bit quicker and more predictable at stopping. It's the old practice thing again. Someone who has one bad experience and is enabled, even subtly encouraged, not to try again, isn't going to get the necessary practice and experience to judge how their boat stops. Heck, I still only get it right about half the time and I still go in too slowly. The bloke, especially if he's the boat owner, is far less likely to feel able to just give up trying, so will eventually get better at it.
  5. That's brilliant. You've mastered something that probably 90+%* of boaters can't do. Crown know next! (I can *never* remember how to do one) *Wild guess.
  6. I have finally mastered basic crochet. Does anyone ever read this subforum? I want to announce it to the world! I now have a winter project of making a bedspread for Chertsey out of 72 'granny squares'. I am now exactly half way through square production. I don't know why it's taken me so long to crack crochet; I've been quite good at knitting since teenage years. I think it's maybe the knowing where to put the stitches (which isn't an issue with the squares as they go in the hole). I hope to continue making progress and maybe be ready to tackle lace some time within the next decade. I can certainly see why crochet beats knitting as a boat based craft - it requires a lot less space both to do and to store. Anyway, here are some of my early squares. I will post progress reports. If anyone's reading
  7. I only popped into the arts and crafts corner to talk about crochet, but as you're talking about tattoos, I wanted this: I still do sort of, but clearly not enough to actually bear the pain and the cost. I suppose I might yet change my mind. How old is too old to start?
  8. I didn't mean use real Masonite, I was suggesting that a Masonite (or ply) cabin might be easier to replicate with modelling materials than an original wooden one. And quite fancied going for a seventies vibe partly because the available three inch tall people seem to have one. So going back to the other thread, which ones were(n't) around in the seventies :-)
  9. I lost my old BW key at the beginning of the summer and am still very sad as the new ones don't have BWB or indeed anything stamped on them :-(
  10. Everybody is expending far too much time and energy posting on these navel gazing threads and there's (almost) nothing new and interesting being posted anywhere else!
  11. Just making me envious about all the books I haven't got and never will have... But it has prompted me finally - after five years - to email a former colleague and ask for my copy of John Seymour's Voyage into England back.
  12. Mmmmm... Just when I was starting to think no one was posting anyhting interesting lately... Is that your blog by any chance Bookworm? It's a new discovery for me and certainly looks worthy of a browse.
  13. Perhaps the greenies are not for doing it, but for doing it so well.
  14. Goodness, you're very pedantic lately. I think the term is now used more widely (and may always have been) to refer to accidentally giving away one's unconscious thoughts on any subject by a verbal slip or incorrect choice of words. Or it could of course have just been a typo. Yes, just what I was thinking. I wasn't aware of ever having seen one. Seen two or three motors over the years and I think a large butty or two, but no smalls that I know of. I think there were twenty, if I've added them up right? Excluding the prototypes. Which isn't that many to start with.
  15. Ooh, that was Freudian, Rocky being the dog whose name we changed to Ricky. I'll try again. Are any small Ricky butties extant, in any form? PS thanks for answers already received.
  16. Are any small Rocky butties extant, in any form?
  17. I hope PB won't mind if I elaborate... Through the good offices of No.2 Son's model railway shop, he has been given an unfinished, scratch built, 1:24 scale Small Ricky butty, complete with scaled drawings. This is very exciting. First thought was to see if it could be made into a butty that had been paired with Chertsey, but according to the comprehensive record kindly provided by Pete Harrison, Chertsey has been paired with Small Woolwiches and Big Rickies, but never a small Ricky. OK, it would be nice if it could be easily converted into Staverton, but if that's not a goer (I was inclined to think it wasn't likely to be) are there any particularly interesting little Rickies it could become? I've only seen photos of it so far but it looks as if the hull is pretty much complete, and the foredeck (which would militate against putting another plank in), and the cabin bulkheads are in place. Hope PB didn't mind me chipping in :-)
  18. But once you get into bad habits it's not always that easy to change your practice in different circumstances - particularly mid altercation. Take whatever risks you like as an individual, but don't try to encourage others to do so.
  19. They do not always set the best example...
  20. Allow a good day for it to settle down to ticking over nicely at a moderate heat. If you want to keep it that way riddle it gently and not too often. You'll get loads of advice here but there's no substitute for just taking a while to get to know your stove and how it works with your chosen fuel. Might take a bit of trial and error at first to keep it in.
  21. Please not in the water!
  22. I know some people who carry serious pruning kit, including loppers and saws. The trouble is you need a big unconverted boat to remove all the stuff you've chopped off.
  23. Oh yes, that's another one in the same series; it's on the back of my box. There are two others but they don't have boats in so are clearly of no interest whatsoever. I'm going to start doing it now :-)
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