fretman

Depends on your price range,, lots of good builders and bad out there

Thanks for that Joe,, spend a lot of time that way in the summer, will be handy.

I use the wife's handbag to trim the boat up

talking of boats, try R.W.davis Northwich Trader 70' Tug deck,,

Just about to renew my U.S 6 volt X 8, batteries, fitted them in February 2007, and used for 6 months in the summer every year since, and on a Stirling mains charger in the winters. Will be replacing them with the same,, why change.

on a lot of boats, mine included, the header tank for the engine is also the header tank for the heating sysytem

My Gardner 3LW not got a silencer,, great sound, but if I use a longer roof pipe is very different from the small pipe

Can any body help with the following information, came across it in model engineering I believe the 4's and 6's required balancers, as there was always pistons in opposing phases, causing torsional vibration. the 5's did not require it as with a crank in 5 phases, no two pistons were in opposite phases. Not sure about the 3LW's but they probably needed no balancer either. Some of our Gardner experts can probably explain this better. Regards, Combustor. __________________ Old Iron In The Outback, Kimberley, West Australia. Toys include Ruston 3VQ, Lister CS 8/1, VA SOM plant.

Sailer 0500 has a point,, beware... So sailer, what sort of boat you looking to buy.

Go along with Midnight on the shell, buy the best shall you can find. they are out there, second hand is best.

Speedy23, you have a pm

We run a 70' boat and now tell everybody, we will do our own locks, as have had so many so called experienced people raise or drop paddles to fast or at the wrong times, that we just gave up , so , now I am responsible for the boat on the navigation and have signed to that effect as part of my agreement with the water authority.. and until I am told by the authority otherwise , then it's down to me.

Have an all oak Desmo leg I made years ago in my workshop , the guy never came to pick it up,

Yes , have to agree , bass tone is that much better, that's what I have on my 3LW, just a pipe out,, sounds good to me.

NB ALBERT, Saltisford Arm, used to be at the Black Bouy Club bask in the early 80's and we did a few forced outing to the arm, which club was you at

beat me to it Darren, yes , that's the one

not do links, my age you see, but in the stationery engine section

Looks like a JP3 with gear box on Ebay now,, and looks like a Blackstone box

What if it was a shell/engine sail away, certificate of conformity then

what makes you think all of his boats boats have them, don't need them you know

had one, drop in canal and boy,,, went to the bottom like a stone, so went and got the manganic to get it out, so that one not work, then got a second one,, be ok this one, was it hell,, same thing happen,, now back on cork,, it works ,,

Hi,, yes I used to turn my old boat (50') in the old bridge hole at the old stoke works, but it is a bit tight,