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A greeny from me too.
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I love it. Lots of energy, verve and enthusiam.
suze
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Hello Melissa.
My boat is a Gary Gorton. 60ft. Beautifully built hull, very easy to handle, slips through the water, nice lines. We spent quite a time looking for the right boat for us and as is always the case had to compromise on some things (dedicated engine room was one of them) but would not compromise on quality of hull build. Hawkeye was built in 1995, so a couple of years older then the one you are looking at. She was previously owned by an American couple who cruised her for 7 months of every year and had done most of the system. She handles beautifully, is responsive and forgiving.
I reckon the one you are considering is not too costly...we paid a lot more for Hawkeye! A good hull is most important .Fit out can be changed and improved but if the hull is a dog there is not much you can do.
Suze
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I see she has a side hatch too. This was another thing we refused to compromise on...side hatches are, in my opinion, essential!
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We are on the Great Ouse system.
A couple of weeks ago we went to Ely and found a space on the park! Yippee! This area is dedicated to 48 hour moorings and spaces are, at times, like gold dust.
The gap was approximately 90ft long and our boat is 60ft. There was an angler about a third of the way between the other two boats. As we prepared to go in he stood up and shouted that we could not moor there and should "f*** off* somewhere else. We ignored him and continued the mooring up operation.
What ensued was beyond reasonable. He shouted, screamed and hurled obscene abuse at us, threatened violence and insisted that he had priority over the 90ft of riverbank.
We ignored the ranting and moored up. The abuse and threats only stopped when I started to take photographs of the mooring and the positioning of his gear and our boat. All he needed to do was move his keep net out of the way so that it was not in danger of being damaged.
Our experience of anglers has always been pretty good...live and let live from both sides goes along way to promoting harmony. This man was not taking part in a match. He seemed to think that he could commandeer 90ft of busy riverbank moorings and that boaters should accept this.
He gathered up his gear and stomped off, still yelling threats of retribution against us, our boat, our dog, our parrot and future descendants unto the 7th generation.
He was probably in his late seventies. I just hope I have that much energy at his age.
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Dear god! What an awful experience for all of you.
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Betty my love, most admirable one, prettiest and mostest attractive and kindest and loveable one...can I come and stay with you?
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Saloon. Galley. Heads. Cabin.
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ABNB. Rugby Boats. Both are reputable companies and have some very nice boats on their books. We bought ours through ABNB and found them to be helpful, professional and efficient. Have heard the same about Rugby Boats.
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Corkscrew...with attached lanyard.
Large magnet...for retrieval of any corkscrew that doesn't have a lanyard.
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A greenie for Bizzard for the tennis racquet tip!
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Good luck!
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We have gone the other way. Just sold our beautiful 130 year old ex steam tug (converted to cruising liveaboard) and moved onto a narrowboat. We will miss the lumpy stuff and Cornwall and the lack of officialdom but an old boat weighing over 70 tons and needing so much maintenance was just too much for us now.
So we have retired to the fens and the less stressful life of the inland waterways.
I wish you well Alan and hope the new boat is everything you want.
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Last weekend we were moored up behind someone's Wet Dream.
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Seasickness...first of all you worry that you are going to die. Then you worry that you are not.
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What a fortunate mum to have you as her son. I wish you all the best.
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Ooohhh you are going to have a very exciting life...though possibly quite short!
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Nice boat. Have fun.
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I think most people who don't have boats seem to think that the cockpit is a bit like the garden of a house. They would walk through the garden to knock on the door and don't understand that it's different with a boat.
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I have not posted on here before but have followed many topics with interest, (some things like posting are best left to one's bh). I wonder if this discussion is becoming bogged down because of worrying too much about “accuracy”. My belief as a liveaboard boater is that the “holy grail” we look for is a chart that together with readings from an accurate voltmeter and ammeter, will give us an “approximate” condition of SOC or DOD, possibly to within 10% if we are fortunate. A voltage reading which when considering our own nominal battery capacity will tell us that in all likelihood the SOC is now below 60% and maybe it will be a good idea to put some charge back in before nightfall.
What we need is a “tool”, which alongside our digital volt meter and ammeter will help us make informed decisions about our own batteries.
Lifeline batteries (agm), for one, have published their data on the subject together with charts and graphs of voltage vs load (pertinent to capacity), and hopefully other battery manufactures can be persuaded to release their own data. Richard Perez, editor of Home Power magazine wrote about his own experiments with some Trojan L16's in the 1990's.
If we concentrate on only one or two load ranges such as C/20 or more likely C/100, then we will soon learn which loads to switch on so that the ammeter shows the ampere load proportionate to our view of our own battery capacity and we will have a better idea when to recharge; especially when the range of DOD that we are concerned with is relatively small (say from 20% to 60% DOD).
Hopefully somebody is aware of other work which has been done and help publish data that we may be able to use.
peter
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That is one very bonny boat.
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We spent the winter of 2013/14 at Caen Hill Marina. It is very tidy...very, very, bordering on OCD, tidy. The facilities (loos, showers, laundry etc) are the best we have ever come across. They sell diesel and gas and have a very nice club house/reception. The staff are polite and helpful as long as you keep your dog on a lead, don't cause any problems and leave no mess anywhere.
The noise from the main road can be a problem, especially if you are in the southern end of the marina alongside the road.
Sanitary facilities (cassettes/pump out) are good and there are plenty of rubbish skips...all hidden from view.
There is a limited supply of stuff in the fridge in the reception area but the village shop comes every day and has a really good supply of foodstuff.
Car parking is good...limited to one car per boat I think.
I am not a fan of marinas but this one was ideal for us when we needed to keep the boat as close as possible to Cornwall for the winter.
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What a shame.
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We have been liveaboards for 25 years. It's a good life.
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A bevy of liferafts fitted with a large array of solar panels so that you can watch TV while awaiting rescue.
Opinions plea
in New to Boating?
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What a great thread. CWF at it's very best.