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Darrenroberts

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  1. Went past her in Hoxton London yesterday 40k price tag. You could nearly buy Birmingham for that. Not much boat for your money
  2. Yeh she’s the back end of a bcn day boat moored just outside of Alperton in London. I’d agree with the 12ft estimate
  3. This has been on the market for ages, think Bates boat yard where advertisers last year?
  4. Cheers Pete that’s the same info as me. Was she shorted to 65ft when motorised?
  5. Hummm I saw it on Apollo duck a few months ago and I swear it mentioned hull repairs needed but every other advert I’ve seen it didn’t mention that?
  6. Oh wow price drop again. When I last looked at it I got the impression a group of enthusiasts had lost enthusiasm lol. Do you have any insider knowledge as I had been keeping an eye on her
  7. No way I recon you’d get paragon for 20k another 15 sorting her out pending on the condition of the engine. Or is there hidden hull work to be too? Seams like the owners wanted rid for a while I saw her in the towpath newspaper last months classifieds
  8. I thought paragon had sold.....according to apolo duck What’s happens to the front? Or are u talking about the conversion, the back looks like a chop off and start again job
  9. Hi there sorry for the message out of the blue but did you manage to sell Tadworth? 

  10. Hi there not a boat for sale but dose any one know anything about the bow and sturn I’ve never seen that arrangement of rubbing strips? Is it even a old boat? P.s sorry if this is your boat and I’ve creeply taken a photo of it lol iam just an anorak.
  11. Whoops sorry Pete, am always late to the party on these conversations, don’t mind me. P.s cutting bits off and welding bits on that aren’t sympathetic repairs are a no go area for me. Plenty other less significant vessels out there to muck about with.
  12. WIDGEON is often moored up outside Victoria park in London. They use her as a Theatre boat, but I’ve never seen a showing there lol.
  13. Ok good points about a pressurised system in a small space, luckily I do have a stainless Steel header tank that I’ve acquired so all good there. Iam at work atm but ill draw up a diagram of the boat for u to look at later with my initial lay out ideas. Thanks again Sam
  14. What would u use instead Sam? I have thought about pump failure I was wondering if I could add in a pressure/temp gauge to the pipe work on the flow some where near the back to monitor temperature, was also thinking of some train like steam release horn for emergency’s. I was gunna run the pressure release to the engine bildge, the same place as where the calorifier blow out is?
  15. Yeh I’ll defiantly need a pump as my burner is at the front and the tank at the back I’ll never get the rize.....also it’s horizontal lol. I’ve been looking at jabsco 12v circulation pumps, the plastic body ones but there not cheep £180! I was Gunnaput two small rads in two as a heat sink. So A new calorifier will wreck my budget lol
  16. Ok touch wood that is the case, otherwise the price of this job is going through the roof lol, thank you for all your advice, I can relax a little bit now. Cheers
  17. No the only how water source is from the engine as a Plummer connected it when I bought the the boat. Could he of connected the engine too both coils? If there is two that is? Sorry I only just saw your full message, yeh the prv is td off at the top. So yeh mabey both coils are in use on the engine.
  18. Here we are sorry for the quality it’s tricky to get to it. Front and back shot tho
  19. It appears all the valves are connected up? I’ll take some photos to clarify
  20. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, I’ve just had another look and do have two valves at the other end. So 5 at one end (with one having what looks like a draining valve) and two at the other end.
  21. Hi everyone, now bare with me here as my know page of plumbing is basic at best, I currently have a horazontal calorifier which is providing my hot water from the raw water cooled engine, but I’d like to add a second heat source from the back boiler on my wood burner. Problem is am not sure whether I have a single or twin coil. Is there a way of telling by the amount of valve fittings on the tank (I have 5) or do I have to drain the system and remove the immersion and look inside? Any advice would be great. Cheers. Darren
  22. Apologies for the late response I’ve been off grid, I’ve decided to go with pro cast thanks for all the contributions, and a special thank you to Murflynn for monitoring the thread for me and the sarcastic emojis.
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