TheBiscuits

Make sure you don't hit the final boat (mine!) or you'll have to pay the donations per boat

By God you should have seen us

The thing I like about the jabsco pumps is that you can just flip the plate round and reseal it if you need to. It was deliberate design as a "get you home from sea" feature. It does help to have a spare impeller onboard though! Erm, you did open the stopcock for the raw water cooling before setting off didn't you? If you don't open that tap the cooling water can't come through. If that's what happened, you will definitely need a new impeller, and you want to buy 2 so you have a spare.

I'm bidding £7.16 just in case you are an odd row out

That would be my first guess too. I'd guess at a Jabsco on that style of Bowman cooler, but a photo would indeed help!

Did you allow for for the edge underlap?

I was only sad enough to count a row and a column

£7.02 I get = 26x27 grid = 702

Is the distinctive smell of diesel and woodsmoke not a bit of a clue?

Yep. Some bright spark at CRT (or possibly BW?) gave the University of Huddersfield extraction rights for 4 million litres of water, and they use it for cooling the computers in the datacentre next to the lock. The water is discharged into the river below, not back into the canal. The pound between 1E and 2E holds about 3.75 million litres ... and it can take up to 5 hours to refill it.

I know why you wait till lunchtime to go up from 1E! You wait until they have refilled the bottom pound before setting off ...

"Me me me me It's so unfair" was the working title I think.

If that is now a requirement, it's going to be easier to find moorings down that way. Remember the old school report thing about effort vs achievement?

Oh, nothing that polite

We have never snapped a gear cable, but the day I "improved" the tension on the Morse lever it came off in MrsBiscuits hand in a short pound between locks. That was very educational ... I learned some new words that day.

I have met @Keeping Up. They are not ducks ...

By boat, because the new ones will hopefully have a longer best before date than the original ones.

That'll be why it spins then

I'm with you so far, it's the "providing effect" bit where you lose me!

Who drove?

You missed the one about the tank ...

I take it the magnet fishing wasn't too good on the magnesium!

You have been talking to @Alan de Enfield again, haven't you! He has two boats stuck together .... (picture please Alan!)

richard.parry@canalrivertrust.org.uk Just sayin'