ditchcrawler

Senior rail card, why do you want a Narrowboat to last 50 years?

You are only one bid a bigger mug that the other person who bid

But you can't get through locks with them down 😬 In light of the post I have just seen, except Limehouse

I followed a hire boat past the moorings near rose Narrowboats, one chap complained to me how fast the hire boat I was following was going. He seemed happy with the speed we were doing, but my engine was only going chug chug chug compared to the hire boat doing the same speed.

Hot tar spray and chippings going on top of a sound ashfelt towpath on the Whirley & Essington, not as if its going to get worn out by HGV and looking at the barriers and signage I doubt CRT were even aware it was happening #

That is my favourite

Handy down the bottom of the S Stratford, one or them is a real pig to move

You completely failed to understand my post which was in reply to yours where you said HSE have not banned wooden steps. Like may other things people have interpreted the requirements of safe working into. This is banned and that is banned , when actually very little is actually banned its just the requirement to manage a safe place to work.

Wet rope syndrome, where the rope between the T stud and the mooring ring is dangling in the water

Like so many things. People like to make rules and then blame someone else.

We went over to wet blast when I worked offshore, When I started it was dry blast and you cleaned it up for years, it got everywhere . With dry blast they blasted the old paint off for a day, next morning the blasted area would be ginger. they would reblast, a very quick job compared to removing paint etc and if conditions were right, by lunchtime would be applying high build primer with airless spray. That was after steel & air temperature checks plus humidity/dew point. When they changed to wet the biggest problem was the amount of fresh water they used, we had plenty of air for them to compress but they had to bring their own water. With the wet they also had a different paint system that was tolerant to the moisture.

You really need to tie one of the rings off or the boat can move back and forth with the rope running through the ring. You may of course have done that with the stern line, I cant quite see, but I often see boats moored just as your bow is.

On the Thame Valley near Perry Aqueduct

As someone who suffers with their back I would always put my bum against it and use the strength in my legs.

How about this, it was after he had been sitting on the beam with it against his ear.

Just like men

I just don't bother, it gets done when it gets blacked, between times its a nice shade of rust in places and black in others. The bits I walk on at red non gloss from Epiphanes

So did I

And if you winterise your boat properly it makes no difference where the pipes run or how cold it gets

Dry dock

I remembered when it was out for blacking

Are these the things lorry cabs have on their roof that look as bout as bright as side lights when driving on the motorway?

I had an elbow split with the frost but that was 250-300mm above the floor level, How cold would you think it gets below the floor next to the baseplate which is around 4°C when the canal has 110mm of ice on it.

I can get the arm of my short sleeved sweat shirt wet with ease down mine

The BSS doesn't care if you have one or not. A head light on the Thames, I can't think of any tunnels will probably get you a bit or verbal