Bacchus
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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
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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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6 minutes ago, MrsM said:Talking of spiders, I had one living in and around my driver's wing mirror. It was quite big. I rather hoped it would blow off while I was driving but it didn't. I didn't want to squish it so I drove to a carpark in the north of the city, fished it and its cobweb off with a bit of branch and put it on a hedge at the edge of the carpark. Then I drove straight home. The next day there was a new cobweb on my wing mirror! It was either back or I had some of its family still with me. Nevertheless I was gobsmacked. Clever creatures although very scary.
Your wing-mirror needs pruning.
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And as for the grammar...
"A picture of how a section of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal towpath looks like now"... "how the towpath looks" or "what the towpath looks like".
Anchors.
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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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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)
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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.
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10 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Yes, dug by German prisoners from the war and Russian criminals from the Gulags.
That kinda links to to this one; any takers?
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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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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.
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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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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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peaked a few days ago - there is a day of heavy rain forecast next week, but I think it should be largely navigable by Christmas week.
Lechlade went on to falling yellows today.
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9 minutes ago, magnetman said:
diesel cruisers. Steel ones especially
I'll keep quiet about my new project then... 😬
Thames is a funny old place, there do seem to be an increasing number of ridiculously expensive boats with "attitude" issues who seem to think it's about getting somewhere rather than being somewhere.
I have the same tranquillity issues when sailing the Tinker.
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
I particularly like the steam launches. It seems a wise move to have such craft.
I see the persons in the large house have two. One with a suitable cabin presumably ideal for entertaining ladies and the other without cabin.
Jerome K Jerome on steam launches at Maidenhead
"Maidenhead itself is too snobby to be pleasant. It is the haunt of the river swell and his overdressed female companion. It is the town of showy hotels, patronised chiefly by dudes and ballet girls. It is the witch’s kitchen from which go forth those demons of the river—steam-launches."
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"I do hate steam launches: I suppose every rowing man does. I never see a steam launch but I feel I should like to lure it to a lonely part of the river, and there, in the silence and the solitude, strangle it.
There is a blatant bumptiousness about a steam launch that has the knack of rousing every evil instinct in my nature, and I yearn for the good old days, when you could go about and tell people what you thought of them with a hatchet and a bow and arrows. The expression on the face of the man who, with his hands in his pockets, stands by the stern, smoking a cigar, is sufficient to excuse a breach of the peace by itself; and the lordly whistle for you to get out of the way would, I am confident, ensure a verdict of “justifiable homicide” from any jury of river men."
Funny how now they seem so gentile...
Great pics though, thank you for posting!
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1 hour ago, Harrington II said:
I know its on red at the moment
There's reds and reds. this one is RED, I wouldn't try to navigate in anything less manoeuvrable than a rib or a powerful Dory. A narrowboat would be right out.
The EA use something called Excedance to measure flow - up towards Oxford that is currently 2.8%, which basically means that 97.2% of the time it is carrying less water, and only 2.8% it would be carrying more, and that includes the floods of 2014.
If you have to move downstream because you are in danger, point the bow upstream and go backwards downstream so that you are going forwards through the water but backwards over the ground. This is not advised for anyone without significant experience, and if you're asking the question I would infer that that isn't you. There will be places where even then the flow will be faster than a narrowboat can push, which will be very dangerous. turning one round would also be an extremely foolhardy manoeuvre.
I think the current spate has peaked, but it is unlikely to be do-able until at least the new year, and that is if we don't have any more rain
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10 hours ago, Suzie said:
Looking on getting ourselves out there at last on canals .. Open to options in what we get, we are North based but open to the pros an cons. Very green in this world but wide awake in life so open to any advice if it is constructive of course. Marina and mooring options welcome Thanks
Hi @Suzie, and welcome from me.
There is a vast wealth of knowledge on this forum, but you might need to be a bit more specific if you want sensible answers. Are you planning to live on the canals or getting out there as tourists? If the latter, for weekends away or retirees who can cruise for months on end? Also an idea of budget would be very helpful.
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11 hours ago, Rob-M said:
The same photo is on https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M628433/Goring-Church-and-Streatley-Mill and captioned with Goring Church and Streatley Mill. Illustration for The Thames Illustrated by John Leyland (George Newnes, 1898).
I knew that boat was an over-stayer...
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I used Shaun Barratt in Castleford for plastic tanks in the van. Great chap, great product, great price.
https://www.tank.me/introduction
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2 hours ago, MtB said:
I wonder if its his boat, too!
the photo claims to be taken in 1885, that boat will have moved at least fifty yards towards the lock by now...
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Is that George Michael's house? Looks about right with the position of the church (and assuming that the turret on the house is a later edition...)
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2 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Guy Fawkes had a plot. And look what happened to him.
The last man to enter parliament with an honest motive?
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19 minutes ago, MtB said:
You can have bit of my land for £5k.
Bring your wheelbarrow over and I'll fill it up for you.
The OP wants a plot of land. Not a bucket...🙂
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3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
A very similar one that we moored behind on the River Witham, it was owned by a 'lad with problems' and was not very well maintained, it was taking on water and by the time he got to Woodhall Spa moorings it was sinking, it sunk as he moored. If I remeber a 'crowd fund' was atrted and it was lifted, but sank again shortly afterwards.
Nice. Ship's lifeboats were a good source of hulls in the 30s - being timber they could only be kept for so long on the side of the big liners, but they had to be tough enough to be dropped into the sea.
There's a boat near me at Laleham that looks like this - I think she's called Broomstick - seems to spend nearly as much time sunk as floating. I don't think I have ever seen her move, but somebody must love her enough to keep refloating her...
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New boat to me
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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!