magnetman

Devizes could become a centre for extreme sports. There could be a rip curl surf shack by the old wharf crane there. Instead of old biddies saying 'No dear' the youth could turn up in their vee dubs with 'No fear' written on the.back.

Status issues? I viewed an RWD narrow in the mid 90s at Bugbrooke brokerage. Just a normal good quality all steel vessel with quite nice recessed panels. Only thing I remember is getting straight in with a credit card as whoever did the front doors had no idea how a yale lock is supposed to be fitted !

"Smooth sailing" would be an interesting concept on canals. I guess the mast would be on some kind of automatic tabernacle with a linear actuator or hydraulic ram. Otherwise the bridges would be a right nuisance.

My Diesel is red like cherryade.

I reckon a previously agreed sale fell through when the buyer found out it was not a standard RWD product. Possibly when they realised it had the 'wrong' handrails. The way it is written at the start sounds like part of an agro story which may have cost someone some money. If a Boat was advertised as being by a certain respected yard then a knowledgeable surveyor discovered it was not then the buyer could be a bit hacked off.

Yes. It is just the beginning.

Fun and games coming up !

I also think Peel will refuse to pay. It is getting repetitive and despite the fact we hold exactly the same views you still seem to want to argue about it.

I advertised a Jaguar as a Tiger once.

Yes. i wonder if anyone has tried selling a random washer josher by advertising it as 'Not built by Steve Hudson' or similar. It could be an interesting strategy. One could sell a Ford Focus calling it 'Not a rolls royce'.

Built at the yard called RW Davis to RW Davis plans but not by the company called RW Davis? Its odd that the advert would say who did not build it but apparently fails to say who did build it. Would it not make more sense to just say who built it? Interesting about the box handrails rather than the Northwich style knuckle crackers.

A bit like this?

It seems odd that a broker would advertise something apparently constructed in 2010 as a Hancock and Lane product. I suppose they did have a good reputation. Maybe someone grabbed the brand name like what they do with Tesla and Nikola. Yes. They were quality articles. I am intrigued that the name has been put on a narrowboat which was apparently fabricated in 2010.

If it is 2010 it is not going to be Hancock and Lane. I am pretty sure that R&D and the company called xRandD? carried on after the original company ceased trading.

Yes. My Hancock and Lane Marlin had one of these. It was a cast iron plate not a mickey mouse thing. They also did a Norseman which had the same kind of plate on it.

this one was a true story. Fulwell pay and play six hole golf club which is near Hampton Caught. I was 15 and paired with a 30 something expanded chest type geyser who always hooked the balls. He was very macho but quite bad at golf except for the hitting it really hard thing. If the accuracy isn't there then hitting it really hard is a waste of time.

Hancock and Lane had an advert back in the 80s for an 'elegantly rounded stern' with a well laid out fairly scantily clad female at the tiller. A good example of gender marketing. I think this was a response to Springers which were rather brutal with their square or 'diamond' shape sterns. Put a picture of the back end on the thread and someone will know if it is a H&L Boat.

I had a golfing partner years ago who used to shout 'bloody whores' when his ball went off to the left. Obviously I was bought up to understand nature and all that so I thought he was complaining 'Bloody haws' about the hawthorne bushes. I later learned that he was comparing a 'hook' to a 'hooker' and it was a sex worker reference. He almost killed my mother.

I saw an advert asking for tree fellers the other day. I can do it but including my imaginary friend there are only two of us.

They are working on self emptying bins. It will be 18 months before we will see mass adoption of the new technology.

Weld elbows in the deck above the engine hole and a CO2 extinguisher kept handy can work for this. Discharge the CO2 through the weld elbow. JD.

Oh yes the old 'is the battery flat' technique where one puts a steel straight edge across the terminals. This shows if the battery is flat. The problem is that Lithium batteries are often capable of discharging ridiculous amounts of power really quickly. EV batteries will have the cells connected in such a way that the connector itself acts as a fuse in case of excessive current draw thus disconnecting and protecting the cells from achieving thermal runaway. I had a thermal runaway event with a jump start pack. It was quite interesting. Lots of energy stored in a small container. Big flames. I think if @MtB were to put a spanner across this battery block the cell interconnects would burn out.

HS2 will sort it all out because it will allow people to get out of Birmbigub quicker. This was always the aim

We had these yesterday near Cookham which was a bit shocking. Particularly worrying was the fact people were having a 'Good Time'. I feel this kind of situation needs to be banned by legislation. I was as shocked as anyone. 5 hireboats full of people. Societal collapse is definitely here plus they were Belgians !