davem399

Black Friday offer?

If I remember correctly, Hexagon narrowboats were/are built in Poland. Before they went bust, Ownerships had some Polish built narrowboats, possibly by Hexagon?

Extra zero on your figures Mr Hound! There’s only 8,760 hours in a year! The Beta 43 which replaced the BMC referenced above, was fitted in 2014 and is just approaching 10,000 hours. It’s running well, and has been regularly serviced.

The designated licence holder is actually away on board at present. And I thought this was a forum, not Facebook? This forum is a far better source of canal related info than F/B.

I don’t get it as I’m not the designated licence holder for our shared owners boat.

Yes, that’s what I thought. They have plenty of skips for recycling, ie cardboard, garden waste, oil, metal, clothing, etc. I guess that the material used to produce energy is the wood and suitable stuff in the general waste.

I went to our local tip last week. On driving out, there is a sign stating that 99.7% of the waste is diverted from landfill. What would be nice to know is exactly what happens to it all.

One of our owners has just done that trip this week. He said there’s a fair bit of weed, but he had a couple of trips down the weedhatch to remove discarded clothing. Quite a lot of rubbish to be seen too.

And Black Prince at Wigrams.

Our boat is fairly deep, somewhere around 30” or a shade more and we did Llangollen three times in the last three years. Several of the other owners have made it too. It’s a bit shallow near bridge 34W, we were scraping the bottom for maybe 50 yards or so, but shouldn’t be a problem for you.

That’s something I not heard before. Ours is a Reeves with corner bath, so perhaps we’ve got the extra foot! We’ve never been anywhere on the system with the shorter locks, so we haven’t had to lift fenders to fit in locks.

For me living south of the Thames, Essex is the North!!

Yes, I fell into that trap last year on the Llangollen.

This happened just a mile or so from us. Unit full of plastic, went up in smoke and took sometime for the fire service to put out. Renters of the unit who filled it were long gone.

It’s shocking.

Gives a new meaning to the phrase “going for a dump”.

Yes, I remember now, as I arranged the insurance for the boat, and you negotiated with the owner of the marina where we were based to stay there for a further year. My memory is a bit wonky at times!

I remember this period when we were able to get a cheaper licence for our OwnerShips boat, thanks to your efforts. If I remember correctly, we had to get a nominated owner to apply for the licence, rather than someone from the OwnerShips office? Our boat is originally an OwnerShips one, now 21 years old and I have been an owner from the start. It suited the group of owners to be managed when OwnerShips collapsed and we went with ABC, who were into management of shared ownership boats at the time. When they pulled out of this, we went with BCBM, which is where we are today. A couple of the things we kept in place when we went to ABC was the OwnerShips syndicate agreement and holiday allocation method. For those unfamiliar with the latter, we have school holiday shares, who get to chose their weeks first in the school holiday periods, then the other owners choose. Each year, the order of choosing weeks changes, as pairs of owners move up two places, and the top pair from the previous year go to the bottom of the list. Hence, with 12 shares, you move up the list over 6 years, giving you more choice of weeks as you move up. We tend to move base every couple of years to cruise a new part of the network, and usually to a hire company base who are geared up to perform quick turnarounds between different owners.

At our local big Tesco, the small trolleys require a pound coin or similar, while you don’t need anything to ‘nick’ a big trolley.

It’s a little ironic that one of the three words is “unsecured”.

I had a Sunbeam Alpine, same body as the Tiger, with a 1725cc engine. Sadly, it suffered with rust, but was good fun while it lasted.

No, Rootes.

And Cif still tastes the same.

I remember sitting in the pub garden of the Blue Lias pub twenty one years ago, when two narrow boats left the lock before the bridge still rafted together for some reason. They clouted the bridge quite severely. So not 14’ it would seem.

And I thought the three Johns were pump out, cassette and composting