Bacchus

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 🙂

I would use a breathable paint for preference - waterproof paints can trap moisture behind as well as preventing ingress Something like Sadolin Superdec.

😁 Boundary conditions innit. If it will fit a Sunday broadsheet, Land Rover Monthly, Old Glory, PBO or Waterways World will slot in nicely.

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...

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Your wing-mirror needs pruning.

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.

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)

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)

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.

That kinda links to to this one; any takers?