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Bacchus

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  1. Similar lines, but she is a Linssen. 1989 boat that has spent 20 years at sea, still the original steel thickness in the hull. i was impressed. Ah. Yes. I should probably update that... That was a Fjord, also a nice little coastal cruiser. There was a narrowboat in front of me and a "le boat" hireling behind and I must say that I do agree with @Jon57 ; those scaffold poles are an unnecessary hazard!
  2. Moored there last weekend... Never been stuck in a lock when it's been working...
  3. That's outside the Swan? Moored there many times - it is just a scaffold with a bit of decking on it, not ideal, but it seems to work okay for boats with normal shaped hulls and fenders out. Possibly different if you're hull is the shape of a skip and your fenders are made of string 😈
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  7. What @magnetman says about the river below the king's stone certainly tallies with my understanding of this part of the river. WRT the EA being the legal owners of the river-bed, that is correct. They can't charge for boats passing or mooring over the river-bed, but they certainly charge an "accommodation" licence for any permanent structure over or in the river-bed, so I know people who have to pay for mooring posts driven into the river-bed, and also someone who has to pay for part of a wharf built over the water (simply to create a straight line between his neighbours' moorings, one of which steps out by a couple of feet.
  8. Funnily enough I had a Henley friend over at the weekend, and he was saying that the gilt-edging to the local property market seems to have worn a little thin.
  9. Oh cool, that's nice; I expect the Hobbs family will let it stay on their moorings for another thirty years or so? Presumably for free if it's part of the town's heritage?
  10. I ushed at a wedding reception on the New Orleans. Happy memories (for me, not the now-divorced-rather-messily couple...) Feels like quite a strong price for a tired trip boat to me.
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  12. I think there's definitely more than one - this was taken on a slipway at Staines, within an hour someone posted a sighting at old-windsor - very fast work if it's the same chap/lass
  13. We get them on the Thames too (credit to David Taylor who posted this in a facebook group)
  14. This looks like a sweet little place and quite good value? https://www.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/waterside-properties-residential-for-sale/794818
  15. Ha - this has really made my day (c: When I read the first post I was worried that some random had kicked him into the canal, then the twist of the facebook post with the (well meaning) pillock, the anxious waiting, and then the return of the cat.
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  18. I suppose that this technically counts as bumping my own thread, but I wanted to say that this unit is still kicking around in my shed if anyone would like it. Not for money, just to see a thing re-used. Handy if you're working on an off-grid resto and need to weld or use power tools? I assume the voltage could be stepped up via transformer to use it as a 240V system. Collection near Staines. PM me or reply to the thread if you're interested ETA: this unit has now found a new owner...
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  20. A friend of a friend was the driver... apparently the boat was only a little scuffed, an no prosecutions or further action. Lucky fellow.
  21. I have had a few seagulls over the years. Brilliant little things. Do exactly what it says on the tin! (I kept mine in a tin marked "make sure you pull the starting cord clear otherwise it will wrap around the open flywheel and mangle your hand... oh, and make sure you have good balance as you start the thing in gear and if the throttles open it will fling you off the back of the boat and disappear into the sunset as there's no kill-cord") I did have one of them spend a night at the bottom of the river courtesy of some amusing fish-botherers. hooked it out, emptied the carb, switched the fuel back on, started first pull. I believe they had bronze bearings so if you forgot the oil and seized it, all you had to do was let the engine cool down and you were on your way again.
  22. You should be able to. I used an old blackberry with no sim as an alarm clock recently, and was surprised in the a.m to see that it had downloaded all the night-time emails because, of course, it was connected to the wifi, so the telephone's data services work without a sim
  23. WiFi calling from the handset doesn't use data from the handset sim - it uses the wifi data whether that is provided by a 5G router, a fixed telephone, or a public WiFi If you simply replace the router, the device you have for making wifi calls should just work with the new router?
  24. I think 185k is very low - that's the "guide" price My guess is that one of the TVP tech companies will snap it up for a lot more than it's actually worth
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