Bacchus
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If you forget narrow canals, a Peter Nicholls Huffler will take you a lot of places...
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On 07/04/2024 at 15:05, Blue37 said:
it is on a trailer in a dry dock marina by the canal so will be trying out the canal first but hopefully later the river - i am looking into insurance now and the boat has a safety license til next year - i also need to buy a day license when i have insurance and bsc registered with local canal authority - the boat needs some work on it though and am not sure where to ask?
There's a skipper 17 facebook group - not a massive group, but very knowledgeable about the marque (I have a skipper twin lifting keel - lovely little things, although I haven't actually sailed it yet...). I was rehearsing getting the rig up only yesterday with a saily mate.
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Oh, and a bit more advice for the OP - do the research, look at dozens, maybe scores of boats, decide on exactly what you want, and then fall in love and buy something that doesn't tick any of your boxes, but speaks to you! Can't speak for everyone, but that certainly seems to be what I do...
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17 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
But there won't be many second-hand boats at shows, only a few brokerages with printouts of their websites. I am with the go visit brokerages advice.
fair, but the OP said that he/she wanted "to view a range of boats and different sizes to get a better understanding of everything". Whenever I have been to a brokerage, it has been to view a specific boat. I wouldn't have thought a broker would take kindly to showing someone round every single boat they have.
Going to a boat show will give them an idea of what they think they want to purchase, then they can start looking at actual boats for sale - and anyway the OP didn't specify second-hand. The boats at a show will be for sale too, and they may have just won the lottery 🙂.
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I should have thought the best place for a novice to pick up information would be at a boat-show. You're not wasting anyone's time there, they're literally there to tell you about their products.
If it's canal boats you're interested in, you could do a lot worse than going to Crick (https://www.crickboatshow.com/)
If it's other types of inland/sea-going boats, one of the boat shows at Southampton or Excel might be better.
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2 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
C&RT have told me that all mooring agreements are cancelled when a property changes hands. New owners have to apply.
I bought a house in Reading with an EOG and had mooring/fishing rights "automatically". Maybe things have changed, or maybe it was because it was on a river part of the K and A. As far as the OP is concerned, a good place to go for ideas (although perhaps a little far...) - plenty of variety, including what looks like an old narrowboat being used as some kind of garden building.
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Get on a little boat, tootle along the canal, and see what others have done...
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1 hour ago, Dunclig said:
checked the internet
Have you checked all of it? Because there is quite a lot of information if you look closely.
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2 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:
Our local authority amenity/recycling site accepts them.
Doesn't yours?
actually I have just checked the local recycling centre and they do accept gas bottles (and don't specify that they have to be empty... I guess they all have some gas in so they must be able to deal with it)
Cool. Ta all. Jobs a good 'un
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
Can I watch please. As a kid I used to set a little fire then put a bottle of lighter gas on it then shoot with my air rifle. Great fun.
I did that! A friend of mine wanted to go into movie special effects, once we built a farmhouse out of plaster of paris, and wrapped the can in a paraffin-soaked rag, set fire to the rag, then shot the can to see what it would be like "on a film-set". To scale it would have been if someone had accidentally set "Little Boy" off in the farmhouse...
53 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:Our local authority amenity/recycling site accepts them.
Doesn't yours?
I live in Surrey. They do eff-all. The recycling site is so expensive that most people seem to just fly-tip around the local lanes (which, of course, costs far more to clear up than it would to run a proper recycling facility, but Surrey put the moron into oxymoron when it comes to "council logic"!
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6 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Leave the valve open in an outdoor location. The gas will come out and disperse.
I did contemplate flaring it off like an oil-rig...
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5 minutes ago, Mike Tee said:
put it outside your house or boat, somebody will steal it.
I did think about that... somebody recently took a defunct mitre saw that I left by the bin for that reason.
Bit worried about it going in the crusher half-full of gas though!
46 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:Is the the TARDIS it's sitting outside? If so, I can see The Doctor being sued by a postman with a bad back...
I wondered why it always feels so roomy!
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28 minutes ago, Jon57 said:
Make it into one of these. £200 A pop💷💷💷👍
I did wonder about an art-thing, or maybe a stool/coffee table, but there's a lot of gas in it which can't safely be used. It literally leaks from the valve as soon as the valve is opened.
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Not sure if this is equipment related, but seemed the best fit...
My new-to-me boat came with a half-full "Butagaz" cylinder which Google tells me is French. Does anyone know whether there are any Butagaz suppliers here in Blighty, or whether they have some kind of relationship with any UK-based suppliers where I can return the cylinder (or, ideally, swap it for a more common make)
Or, if not, what I can do with it? The thing leaks as soon as you open the valve, so I can't use the remaining gas and have no idea where to dispose of it!
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The BBC image confused me because the river is flowing from right to left as if it's a mirror of what one sees on Googly maps, but, yes, @magnetman has nailed the location of the non-legitimate moorings.
A bugger for the people caught up in it, I doubt that those moorings would have been cheap.
12 hours ago, magnetman said:I'm doing an inspection tour on the launch this week so will be able to report on this matter. After these winter floods Maidenhead to Teddington in the launch should prove quite interesting.
The river is still in spate, but I guess you know that and it isn't a stream that would bother a competent vessel/crew
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35 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Yes I remember the Minder bloke he had a short wide beam canal Boat when they were very unusual. Canopy over the back deck made from a market stall tarpaulin. Red and white striped thing. I think the Boat was a springer but about
10ft wide rather than being narrow.
That broads Boat below the railway bridge wouldn't be the Chuffalumps by any chance would it ? An old Wildes Carribbean cruiser which at some point had the cabin top raised to improve headroom.
He did have a short wide-beam, and also an indian canoe which he used to paddle around the island of an evening, serenading his Mrs (c:
The broads boat isn't Chuffalumps (not sure if Chuffalumps is still there), but is a Frank Wildes Caribbean with the roof raised and wheelhouse added! Literally took a circular saw to the sides, raised the roof about 18" on acrows, glassed steel supports in throughout the length of the boat, then patched in the sides. He built the wheelhouse from Iroko with a forward-slanting front window, and called it the world's first Broads-Trawler 🤣
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
I didn't go to pubs. We had a Broom Scorpio called Bertie which I was usually in. Went round the back of trowlock island regularly - a bit shallow towards the downstream end.
So round past Glynn - "Dave the barman" from Minder 👍
We were on the mainstream side of the island -- the house with an Enfield 350 on the patio -- and an open 14' boat called the Donald Fettes which we'd take up into the town or over to Canbury Park. Happy days. The guy I shared with is still on the reach on a converted Broads boat below the railway bridge.
I think i remember Bertie, but it may just be the power of suggestion!
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
I remember Parman Marine. We got a house in Lower Teddington Road below the trot moorings in 86. Left in 96.
Parman marine did the Hardys and some Birchwood TS31/37. I remember they also had a good crane. All flats there now of course and Gridley Miskins is flats as well although there are still some moorings where Parman marine was.
We were neighbours for a while then. I lived on Trowlock Island from 87 to 90... probably saw you in the White Hart or the Tide End Cottage 🙂
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I would use a breathable paint for preference - waterproof paints can trap moisture behind as well as preventing ingress
Something like Sadolin Superdec.
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1 hour ago, BilgePump said:
Newspaper? Should have been a copy of Land Rover Monthly, Old Glory, PBO or Waterways World.
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Boundary conditions innit. If it will fit a Sunday broadsheet, Land Rover Monthly, Old Glory, PBO or Waterways World will slot in nicely.
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18 minutes ago, nb Innisfree said:
I spent hours sat on a pretend toilet deciding on optimum size of toilet/shower room.
when I was planning the camper-van I unpacked the Thetford cassette loo, put it in a corner, and sat on it with a pretend newspaper to establish where the walls should go...
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Seems to be working again for me now; weirdly I have been having trouble connecting to a web-mail server with similar errors so I wonder if there's a wider issue with dhcp or something.
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10 minutes ago, Tonka said:
I thought that you could get home made De Groots as it is a design of boat. Or am I wrong ?
They sold steel plate as kits to be welded up by you or your boat-builder, and plenty of sailaway type shells for home fitting (which is why some of them can be a bit... B and Q...). Mine was fitted by a narrow-boat company (fitter? builder? Hurst boats) so was nicely spray-foamed and fitted. The Linssen is definitely more yot though.
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Another canal side property for sale
in General Boating
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sold for 100k apparently! I would say that someone has got good value!
https://www.auctionestates.co.uk/property/lock-house-lock-row-torksey-lock-lincoln-ln1-2eh-239828