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  1. 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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  2. 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

  3. 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 🤣

  4. 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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  5. 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 🙂

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 3 hours ago, peterboat said:

    So, I think it's a 1980 Pedro, the interior is very similar to the link above, it's down on CRT site as fiberglass but it's not it's all steel, I paid 14.5k for it which I think is a bargain I will measure the lenght beam instead of relying on CRT, all the rails on the boat are stainless so that might be a give away?

    I have got lots done today and we have had a little outside cruise which was lovely, will report back with more information 

     

    That sounds like a very good price; I bought a very similar thing at the end of last year (Linssen 32) which cost me double that and still needs a bit of attention!

     

    The Linssen has stainless rails (which I like) my previous steel cruiser (a De Groot 36) had painted mild steel which was fine but didn't have quite the same feeling of quality about it (and did get abraded in locks...)

    BTW also - a bit of gentle work with a brillo pad will make a hell of a difference to the paintwork!

     

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  9. 19 minutes ago, magnetman said:

    Thats great. 

     

    I went on the late great Nigel Moore's narrow Boat a few yars ago and he had an amazing wash basin made from wood but it was a shaped basin. He also had a wooden bath which was quite impressive. 

     

    Must admit that I did not think of using wood. 

     

    Always wanted to make a wooden bath - I am sure it wouldn't be too difficult to cold-laminate something...

     

    the little sink in the van works well - it's really just a glorified spittoon for tooth maintenance, but I have put hot water in for a shave before

  10. 9 hours ago, MtB said:

    "Boat sinks. What to use for hole?"

     

    You dun that on purpose to get the views, didn't you!!

     

    59 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

    Click bait title. It worked on me. 😛

     

     

    Similarly duped here...

     

     

    I made a small custom basin out of wood for the camper - off-cuts stuck together with sikaflex and a few coats of Danish oil. The base is ply, easily cut with a hole-saw and fitted with an off-the-shelf plug 'ole.

     

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  11. Hi @Emmyjoy, and welcome from me.

     

    I think it sounds like a good idea. You might not get the best boat in the world on your budget, but I am sure you could find something, and try not to be put off by the nay-sayers on here. I could certainly live with "privations" when I was your age that I would find unacceptable now. I reckon you should be able to find something for your budget, but do try to keep a bit back for the unexpected (the unexpected is to be expected with boats)

     

     

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  12. There will be some experts along, I'm sure (the forum is more diesel focussed but there's plenty of engineers and a wealth of knowledge) but are you sure it's a vedette? that looks more like a B-series engine to me. The Vedette was the old Moggy minor engine with a very short stroke. I had one in my ship's lifeboat conversion (which, also, had a dynastart so the alternator would be a conversion)

  13. 4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

     

    "The Canal of Death"

    40 miles long & running from the Danube River to the port of Constanta and built by Political prisoners

     

     

     

    Fast!

     

    I visited the area twice - once in 2015 when Romania was a member of the EU, and once in 1976 when it was fully Communist. Fascinating contrast. Beautiful country.

  14. 2 minutes ago, magnetman said:

    The biggest hazard here is sewage. 

     

    These conditions are a green light for the water companies to dump the shit in the rivers to save some money so they can pay better dividends. 

     

    They want to do this all the time and do but when it is flooding its the ideal opportunity to shift large volumes. 

     

     

     

    This is an interesting resource -- https://www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map

     

    Scary amount of red double-exclamation-marks (currently discharging sewage into a water course)

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  15. 2 hours ago, GUMPY said:

    TeamViewer cost if not being used for business £0.00

     

     

    I used to use TeamViewer to maintain my (then) 95 year-old mother's PC remotely. All was going well until they decided that my use was "commercial" and not only wanted me to pay for the service, but were quiet aggressively demanding to backdate the payment for several months.

     

    Not saying that I don't think it's a good product, but they don't like giving anything away for free, and the customer relations team were complete holes. I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole.

     

    I worked out a way of using remote desktop on a dynamic IP instead. Free and, as it turned out, better. There are emulators for controlling the mobile phone from a PC, but I think your solution will be easier to set up as long as they honour the non-commercial use licence.

  16. I know some people who live around a little creek off the Thames that silts up; the EA have rules about dredging, but seemingly not about testing outboard motors whilst tethered to the bank... a synchronised test of four or five outboards usually does the trick...

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  17. A good friend of mine got pinned on in his sailboat at Gunwharf Quay one New Year’s. He needed to get away and luckily saw four divers on a RIB.

    “I need a tug,” he hollered across to them, and before the New Year was twelve hours old, he’d been pulled off by four men wearing rubber.

     

    A salutary lesson. You never know what’s around the corner.

     

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