Hudds Lad

I'd never heard of David Oluwale until my daughter went to look at Leeds Beckett as her choice of university, one of the students who gave us the tour had worked on his story for her degree. It's a sad tale. https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/remembering-oluwale/

How much wider would a bridge hole need to be? Could they simply remove the towpath underneath, then route a path up and down each side of the bridge to maintain foot access?

Just had ours and passed no probs. Beforehand we cleared all our junk (stool, coats, basket with chains and windlasses in etc.) away from the engine boards so he had easy access, tested the smoke & CO alarms, and just generally made sure that nothing would be in the way. Our extinguishers i think are out of date, but gauges all in the green. We give them a good shake now and then. We just had a new manual changeover valve & tails fitted last month by a gas safe chap, the new valve has a test point on it so not bothered with a bubble tester, maybe look at yours and see if it's the same?

At 70' i'd guess not

I used to work near Leeds with a bloke from Atlanta. Knew him for about ten years, he'd nearly got the hang of it by then Although he did sometimes still struggle with the humour, like the time the apprentice made a costly cock-up so they made him wear a dunce hat for the rest of the day, poor old Dan got quite upset as he thought it was a KKK hat.

Is this the same one that was doing the rounds a few months back? I note it still has no windows, assuming chopping holes in the sides also not good for rigidity.

I'll hazard a guess that it's this one, as it mentions an adapter (i'm guessing that's the big nut which will have a threaded part either side of it) and they just didn't have a boat with a flush filler to take pics of 🤷‍♂️

Could it be the starter motor needs a bit of percussive maintenance?

Years ago on a board i used to help run we got hit by spammers, every area of the board they could access with a new account they placed about 30-40 new posts within minutes, which pushed everything else out of view. Took a fair bit of cleaning up after the ban hammer was wielded.

Does your marina not have it's own Facebook group for moorers? Ours does and can be quite useful.

How much if you only want some of the tickets as return? Used to pass that a lot on the way to my mates house in Wakey (well, Lupset) and it used to be a good run in the car, now it's all reduced speeds and speed cameras And don't even mention the traffic lights at Horbury Bridge, wife got stuck there for an hour last week on her way back from the station after being in London, ruined my plans for tea 😥

I mock because i care 🥰

Maybe he wants to float one in his wildlife pond*? *SWIMMING POOL

No, because they're still kids 20" wheels 😛

So, daughter safely installed in halls in Leeds at the weekend. Today after lectures she has a social to go to at the Dry Dock (pic below) and i was just curious to know where the boat came from/what was it's previous usage? I've been there myself many years ago and never really thought about it until today.

Unsure if i'm honest. Strikes me it will need a whole lot of infrastructure to get the water up from Atherstone to above Braunston locks, who pays for all that? But it could improve water levels for places like Atherstone or the Ashby and maybe keep things better maintained like they have to on the Llangollen. Dunno, needs better brains than mine to puzzle the pros and cons.

Having spent a night moored half under the bridge at Salts Mill (yes i know, very naughty, but it was late, it was coming down like stair rods and it was our first ever hire) i would not recommend. Noisy into the early hours with the local youth on pit bikes, few knocks on the roof etc. This was 9yrs ago so may or may not have got better. Possibility of mooring the other side of the ice cream boat i'd think.

Many thanks for your efforts, saved us quite a few quid from when we had a shareboat i'd imagine

Sounds quite reasonable considering what's on offer there. Few years back i took my daughter to Fountains Abbey to take some pics for a school summer homework project. It was about £30 to get us in (one adult, one child), £10 for the car park, at least another £10 for ice cream and a drink after slogging round all day (did save a bit by taking our own packup), and that's just ruins! Plus the discomfort of having to spend at least 15 minutes fending off being sold an NT membership by a pushy pensioner.

A relative has a share on a boat that has no home base in season (goes in a marina for winter), when it's their week they meet the boat and offload their gear, then take the other owners with their stuff to wherever their car is, and then are taken back to the boat by them. Sounds a faff to me, but works out for them. A lot can depend on where a boats base is as to the cruising options, some marinas will have access to several route options which i doubt you could do in only two weeks. Have a look at https://www.boatshare.co.uk/ and see where boats are based, then look at potential routes/rings from there using https://canalplan.uk/

Example of one they put back on