magnetman

Birds amaze me.

I used to sell Neodymium magnets for getting windlasses back out of the canal. My first post on this forum was about them. 18 yars ago. Since then they have got rather popular but back in the day nobody else was using them for this at all. I found the badge in my avatar with a magnet hence the water marks.

I wonder if the Boat has hit or been hit by something hard at some point. That could cause a crack in the calorifier coil.

Brushless Motors. All good cordless power tools have them but they just call them what they are which is Brushless Motors. My Makita chainsaw proudly announces 'Brushless' on the casing. Nothing special about Brushless Motors its just electronically commutated and therefore does not have brushes and you can get more power from a smaller motor. They are impressive but by no means new or unusual. Calling it Hyperdymium is silly but it references Neodymium magnets which people still think are modern despite them being first produced about 40 yars ago. Give people a little bit of understanding and you can sell them anything. This Dyson man knows how to market products. The airblade drier is another one. I'll never go near one. Why would you put your hands between two surfaces everyone else has put their hands if you want to be clean? I'd rather have my own germs thanks. A hand drier should involve air moving downwards not sideways.

Yes. A triumph of marketing over quality. He has a lovely motoryacht the ex steam yacht Nahlin. Classy. seems okay packing landfill with plastics. coolio.

How do you restore suction which has not been lost? I had one I found in a bin at Woolhampton in 2001 it was alright but lost suction gradually needing the filter cleaning. I also partly taped the PRV to turbocharge it. no vacs here. a crumb brush and sticky tape.

I'm surprised how many people believe the outright lie told in Dyson adverts. 'It won't lose suction'. It will lose suction. Junk.

Worth checking which Ford model it is. One of them has a cam belt. I think it is the 1.8XLD sometimes marinised by Lancing. @Tony Brooks might know more.

I bet you say that to all the ladies.

Both of my Boats have sink waste traps and neither of them have drain problems. Not installed by domestic plumbers. I regularly empty a partly full kettle of boiling water down the sink. The first cup of tea in the morning gets extra water which is run through just because it seems to make sense. Also its worth draining excess oil or fat into a jam jar and using it to make the fire more exciting. Sunflower oil is great for pyrotechnics. Pipe size is obviously rather critical as is the height above the outlet fitting which depends on the hull depth. Oil and fat in the sink is obviously an issue. I have found that a good way to clean plain cast iron frying pan is to put it in the fire for a while.

Pasta has gone up a lot more.

My mistake. It just looks wrong for some reason not quite sure why it might be my imagination. I am not sure butties like being cut I remember it when it was moored above cassio lock it was motorised as a butty with an anti ventilation plate but I never saw it go anywhere.

Extradite anyone who doesn't own property. Send them to 'stralia with a tenner in their pockets. The country would do perfectly well with the collective wealth of the property owners. Who could wish for more after all it is only a small country. All that money yum yum.

Is someone looking to monetise the "El Puerto d'Elsan' holiday resort ? Charge money for water? Pay as you go bins?

Boaters Sanitation Station sold off on a new 99 year lease from completion I wonder who would buy a boaters sanity station? What does this mean? It seems to be a liability not an asset to my rather simple mind.

Its just my phone. No idea what happened there was a light of some sort. I think its one of the security lights for the royal mail sorting orifice. Just below is the shrine to the dangerous dogs the police shot on the towpath in 2023. Crikey on a bikey am I looking forward to getting away from this place !

A bigger one for doing actual throwing.

Yes the ones with the sheer had a lot of customer input. Its not the standard product. Dave Clarke has been doing canal Boats for quite a while. My mum's Boat was built in 1993. Time flies ! Of course the company structure may have changed but that is quite easy to check on the .gov companies house database.

Carrick mats are always nice. Is it a 4 strand? I had some hemp rope and it was 4 strand with a central core. I would put a lighter to it to make sure its not a synthetic version as they seem similar. Monkeys fists. If it is 10mm it might cover a golf ball. Good for throwing lines. 4 turns can look tidier than 3. Using it to make crosspointed fenders which are then kept indoors as decoration is another option. Lay it over a piece of garden 'ose. Crosspointing is really easy you unlay the strands from each end of a length then tuck them over each other round and round a core made of 'ose or a length of rope. Whips are good. You could make a captain's daughter with it. What shall we do with the drunken sailor......? Put him in a bunk with the captain's daughter. Sounds nice ? No it isn't !!

Anyway. Dave Clarke (custom) widebeam. I've steered that one on the Thames it is a bit of a beast. Sort of Boat you get out of the way of. This Boat was actually partly inspired by my green inspection launch pictured above. Just the one. Another Boat made by Clarkey. This time a narrow and same owner as the one above. This was also a real beast to handle and with a steel wheelhouse with double glazing (should have used perspex to stop the condensation and keep the weight down) it did roll. Got to Tyrley locks with a fixed wheelhouse which is impressive. Engine is in the back cabin. Very funny article that one I did a great trip on it where the two of us did 50 Grand Union locks in one day. most GU locks I had done single handed was 32. 50 with two of us was quite a long day but much enjoyed. To the OP @Erin1 in terms of quality of build I doubt you will have any problems. I did notice on the website the contact is Craig Clarke but its still the same place and having been on several of their Boats I would say they are basically good. Not to my taste in terms of aesthetics but sound. I have no idea how healthy the company itself is but the Boat will probably be alright. Some people find the look of a Boat important and are a bit picky. Its possible that some negative reviews are related to that factor. Although they are interesting I basically dislike every Clarke Boat I have been on. Its not a soundness thing but I just don't like the style and the fine details of the build. Things like undersized or badly located mooring hardware annoys me for example. This is not critical and depending on how you use the Boat it could be completely irrelevant but some people take details seriously and would say a Boat was bad because of something minor. It is also true to say that a shell fabricator who is willing to work to customer designs can end up putting out bad Boats which then get criticised later. A lot of 'higher end' shell fabricators would not do that. Its quite risky to do this in reputation terms as people do notice. In the photo posted above of the grey narrow Boat shell the stem post is made in such a way that it is very likely to get caught on gates going up. This is a poor design because although there should be a fender you want to make the stem rounded so it can't catch even without a fender. Its a basic design problem. If you do end up with a Boat with this kind of stem (pointy end) be careful in locks.

I've never been on the avon nywher

No. I should have been clearer. The econ word. No wimmin. Geddit? I saw it by a mooring outside a pub once.

I can swim perfectly well just don't like swimming. I do giggle defacing a 'No Swimming' sign by blocking or removing the first and last letters. In fact I am considering it as a name for one of the many dinghies as a No Swimming sticker is cheaper than a Boat name sticker.

Its not courage it is getting the will to be arsed ! Interesting thought about working it that never occurred to me. The Boat was built for living on and very comfortable it is too. All mod cons in here.

An affectation caused by being descended from toffs and pirates. Also it depends what wide beam means. Both my Boats are wide beam I like 'em anyway and they can both do wide canals but I admit they arrr not typical canal Boats !