Naughty Cal

Yes the Spurn is a very interesting museum piece though. Not a residence.

No you don't. My Samsung can block numbers and text messages. Very useful for blocking unwanted sales calls.

And berth it where?

Yes, they are of better quality if you use the website direct rather then the link. Still largely useless for selling a boat though!

The pictures are not very good for a £100k boat!

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A lot of boats get brought off other non CRT waters to be sold at our marina. Some of the more recent imports are now sporting 6 CRT digit numbers starting 118. I'm fairly sure there was one at the weekend with a number starting 119, so maybe they have run out of 118 numbers now. Our boat was registered with CRT in 2003 and received its number 111623. Have they just issued numbers in sequence since then?

Not quite something we have fettled but we booked Naughty-Cal in for the cockpit upholstery retrimming at the weekend. We have been wanting it done for a while now and have something other then white vinyl in mind for the retrim. It should hopefully be done by the end of February which works well for us as the boat is due out of the water just after new years for a few months and a bit of a fettle.

They tend to coke up if they short cycle.

Same here on the Fossdyke. In the winter of 2010 our marina was frozen quite badly by now and didn't defrost until the end of January. So far this winter we have only had a couple of frosts and the water is still reasonably tepid.

We have been told off by narrowboatists for breaking ice past their boats! No damage when we pulled it out a few weeks later just some scuffed antifouling at the point of the bow.

I'm intrigued to know where up north has frozen over. It was cold last night and we did get a frost but not cold enough to freeze the water over yet! According to our thermometer the water temperature is still about 5 degrees here on the Fossdyke.

The flood gates are off at Newark and Torksey.

I think we have had our money's worth out of this one. £12 for 10 and they have been in for several years.

Must have jinxed it. One of our bulbs has failed this evening. No problem as we had a load of spares on board so it was quickly fixed. The Rogue bulb started flashing so I expect one of the components on the back has failed. This is the usual mode of failure for our stupidly expensive cockpit bulb.

The flood locks are no open. Also open at Torksey.

I think personally I would have chosen a darker shade of blue, more of a deep navy. She will certainly be eye catching with that brighter shade of blue on the hull though. Looking forward to seeing her painted.

We bought ours cheaply on eBay but did check to find ones with a wide voltage range. Have only had one G4 fail in about 6 years but we had some spare so it wasn't a massive problem. The light we have in the cockpit on the other hand has an odd fitting. We have yet to find a cheap version so are stuck with buying them from the likes of Bedazzled and Ultra Leds. This bulb fails with astonishing regularity. Usually just after the warranty has run out. It will no doubt be due replacing again next summer so we will buy a spare.

Not very many cruisers will have a full sized domestic fridge! We plan to anchor up there one evening if the weather is nice enough. Have a few drinks in the pub and then a bbq on the beach.

Now that's a good idea. We had been planning around supply stops for our trip. Hadn't even thought that the supplies could come to us

I sincerely hope that she is well and that she has taken on board some of the advice she has been given. Hopefully she will check in sometime soon and let us know how she is getting on.

It will still be plastic. We are looking at Broads cruisers which we can refit and turn into a luxury liveaboard. A bit of a change from what we have have at the moment!

But what if you jump in 5m from where a sign is?

I'm not sure a sign would be of any help. What is it supposed to say? Where is it supposed to be located?

It will be the opposite way around next year. Summer, or more specifically the first two weeks in July are going to be great, we are coming. We never get rubbish weather for our two week break