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1 hour ago, Neil2 said:
Maybe, and I know the narrowboat market is absolute bananas at the moment but if someone pays even close to a six figure sum for a bucket hull with a crap engine and MDF linings I am phoning the Police.
What do you think Sting will do about it?😂
Send him a message in a bottle.
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One thing I’ve seen less of on narrow boats since I started boating 20 years ago is wind turbines. At the time I seem to recall that solar was quite rare.
Just a thought, when solar output drops in the winter months, can a wind turbine provide enough power to keep batteries topped up if you have no access to a landline.? One upside of wind is that it can be harnessed at night too.
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1 hour ago, john6767 said:
And only to the first stop close to the chain bridge.
It is very busy and of course all the hire boats are out, but there are only so many of them and you would expect them all to be out this time of year anyway. I was surprised as to how many boats ABC actually have at the 3 (I think) bases on the Llangollen.
We are currently based at the ABC base at Wrenbury. They have 18 boats there, and when we were out the other week, all the boats were in use. With the current staycation situation, I reckon it's just as busy on the canals, even outside of school holidays.
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We were based at Gayton with Honeystreet a few years ago. From memory, we had no issues with base or maintenance/turn rounds.
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Some people are clearing the cache, some the catch, anybody clearing out the cratch?
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12 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:
Just watching the new series of Great Canal Journeys & Giles really is utterley incompetant about all things canal isn't h?
Well, he was a Tory MP!
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2 hours ago, john6767 said:
As long as you have a signal!
We used mobiles at the narrows last month and signal was no problem on EE.
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I did the trip through to the basin at Llangollen 3 weeks ago and we draw around 2'6". A bit of a slog on the bit between Trevor and Llangollen and we did run aground a couple of times near the edge on the return trip. At 24", I think you will be OK.
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10 hours ago, Hrk1ng said:
May retreat to the haven of the boat if it’s manic then!!
Yes it was nice to get back to peace and quiet.
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I got back home from a trip on the Llangollen on Sunday. We arrived at the basin on the Friday evening of the late May bank holiday weekend and there was plenty of space. I counted just 10 boats, only one of which was a hire boat. I think the basin has room for about 30 boats. The main issue was the town itself, extremely busy.
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Our shared ownership boat is called Honeystreet, and until we had a couple of years on the K and A back in about 2016, she had never been near to Honeystreet. I spent the first dozen or so years explaining to all and sundry that we weren’t from Honeystreet, and neither was the boat.
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1 hour ago, Rob-M said:
The ones I knew were a "special" bunch.
I sailed with a submariner when I was in the Merchant Navy. A good lad but a bit out of it at times.
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2 hours ago, Athy said:
But who on earth, except perhaps a Frenchman, would want an alcoholic drink at eight or nine in the morning?
Shift workers. When I was at sea, I used to enjoy a couple of beers after the morning 4-8 watch.
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48 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Still no response flrom OP?
Let's hope all went well and any faults relatively minor, ie easy to sort. A newby boater would have tto rely heavily on her surveyor, let's hope he is 'user friendly'.
In one way, I don't blame her for not updating us after all the bitter squabbling earlier.
I noticed recently on the Narrowboat and Canal Lovers Group Facebook page that Tanmim was asking for advice on moving a boat from Whilton to London. I presume that she has bought this boat?
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45 minutes ago, frangar said:
Stourport is not in the north!! Lol! Bloody southerners!! ??
This looks like a different one to the Stourport one.
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27 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
You lot are just tight arses
The viewpoint myself and my sister took was that we simply couldnt be arsed wasting our precious time messing about with admin, thats what admin staff are for. I cant remember how much the solicitor is charging us but iirc its a bit less than a grand and well worth not having the tedious paperwork excercise to comply with. We are all different and some people will do some things that others pay others to do. For instance I have never paid for an engine service on any boat wheras others do it as a matter of course.
Indeed, I wouldn’t trust our solicitor to do an engine service!?
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45 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
If there are circumstances beyound your control do you not as a 'syndicate' reallocate the time available in proportion to your shares ?
Or, do you just say June & July are my 'weeks', sorry, you lost yours in March and April - its a tough life.
Yes that’s what we did last year. Several of the group lost weeks in the spring and early summer and we had a reallocation where others gave up weeks to those that lost out. We had a week in September given up by one of the syndicate, having missed a fortnight in May. A few weeks have been lost this year, so we may yet have another divvy up.
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6 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
it’ll be nice for you lot to get back to moaning about normal things, like hire boaters at locks, speeding boats, wide beams in odd places, leaky locks etc.
with school hols and lockdown and how this years pick went, we don’t get any time on the boat until the first week in August (fingers crossed) and will have lost five of our eight weeks already. such are the swings and roundabouts of shareboating.
We lost a week and a half last year, but if it all goes to plan, we may get all of this years allocation. Two weeks coming up at the end of May/beginning of June and a week in October.
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Quite a few years back, our dog hopped of the stern at the narrows by Rose Narrowboats on the Oxford and went exploring the workshops. It was only when one of the guys in the workshop called out that we realised we were dogless.
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Daily Star readers with a “mind” and capable of thought? Nah, not buying into that one.
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The question nobody has dared to asked yet - pump out or cassette?
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I read on another site that the ship blacked out before getting wedged across the canal.
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1 minute ago, Paringa said:
And he has a bow thruster...
Or two.
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Another continuous moorer.
Oil top up
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And if the oil doesn’t show on the dipstick, get a longer one 😂.