Hudds Lad

do you use it in your Castle as well as your boat then?

take a good look at any marina entrance, why do you think they are so battered, dented and scuffed everyone struggles at some point, you can have all the experience in the world but one good gust of wind at the wrong moment can turn a perfect entry into a scene from Pinball Wizard. Once when we came back to Overwater on a windy day there were two full coach loads of old dears sat outside the cafe waiting for their turn on the little trip boat, i got in ok, turned reasonably ok, lined up for the service pontoon and then the wind slammed me broadside into it, reckon my face could be seen from the ISS.

so after all that it was just screen margarine blocking your view

are you going to start ranting about "road tax" and not stopping for red lights next? anyone who pays tax "contributes" as you put it

have you tried putting a magnet in the canal where the boat was moored? could be it pulled its pins and they're now underwater, a passing boat found you drifting and moored it back up with what was to hand? or i'm totally wrong and some scrote has had it away with your pins

apparently it's beacuse it uses a cheaper CSTN screen with 65K colours, good for battery, bad for readability. It also cuts power to the screen after about 15-20secs to save battery, this cannot be changed. Press one of the scroll keys to wake it back up. if you can remove the scratch resistant plastic sticker from the glass its said to improve it by around 15%

How would a cyclist, or cycle commuter, or Strava hunter, know about it to be able to see it? CRT can splash as much cash as they like on making videos and it'll all be wasted until they can find a way of putting it in front of their target audience.

I bet the dog did it, whilst you were asleep it was using its iBone to watch Braveheart on Petflix and decided it liked the idea of FREEEDOM!

Another local paper now part of the Reach PLC Group, formerly Trinity Mirror Group, so is it any wonder. They took over our local rag in 1999 and slowly drove it into the ground, moved printing to Oldham, moved office to outskirts of town and then shut it. Its now a joke of a paper employing freelance journalists who trawl the local Facebook groups to lift stories often without permission for clickbait articles for its own "Live" website. Not fit to wrap yer chips in the name of the editor says it all, Mr W. Ankers

remember if you pass a boat whilst reversing that strongly smells of Wizards Cabbage, don't forget to speak and shout greetings backwards too, that'll really freak 'em out

and if you can't find it near you, it's free online too https://www.towpathtalk.co.uk/read-online/

Had my first ever phone, an Ericsson EH237, with Vodafone back in the early 90's. I was paying £5 extra a month for insurance, and when the aerial snapped i went to get it replaced. Showed the bloke in the Vodafone shop and he said it's a tenner for the part. Proudly I told him I had insurance. Then that's £25 he said, with a smug grin on his face, to pay the insurance excess. I paid a tenner and fixed it myself and a month later I kicked them to the kerb when the contract ended. I've never been back to Vodafone and I've always paid attention to insurance policies ever since. Had a 3 Sim for the boat which was preloaded with 12gb and lasted 12 months, thought that would work out ok as we're only aboard for 8 weeks of the year. Coverage was great for us, but i wanted to try a firestick on the boat and the Teen tends to spank the data allowance whilst we get on with cruising so needed something better. Now have a 3 Sim with unlimited data, minutes & texts, with Personal Hotspot & Go Binge for £16 pcm

Each to their own, all personal taste at the end of the day. But they do seem to be better suited to certain styles, and in my opinion narrowboats are not their forte. from reading the ad i'd assume you were correct, built by ABC and fitted out by a retired joiner.

ABC Boats & ABC Boat Hire are two entirely different companies

Don't think anybody is having a pop at you, hope you're not taking it that way for that sort of money you could get a much better quality boat albeit somewhat older, better to wait for something that's nice than panic buy a floating horror

Do you mean this one? They should call it the Tomahawk, as it looks great for scalping

https://www.abcboats.co.uk/ they do like flat sides, perhaps more at home with widebeams?

not a fan of zero tumblehome boats, also, what a bizarre place for the electric panel ?

so far, nothing, touch wood although, one of the other owners had a tiller pin nicked down the arm at Ellesmere (or possibly dropped it in the cut ) another claimed a bag of coal nicked out of the front locker whilst in the marina another claimed a full bottle of gas nicked and replaced with empty one whilst in old marina (or possibly didn't realise how much the Alde boiler eats gas)

If you're worried about hanging up on the cill, surely that can happen in any lock? now getting stuck in a drained pound however.....

"...A year and a half later and I work full time for Victron Energy as a Video Producer. I have stopped filming for the YouTube channel Journey with Jono and Molly and I no longer live afloat." That's from the Victron website, so it seems his Vlogging led to a "proper" job

i've not seen any closure on the Hudds this year that wasn't sorted same or next day, the ground team do a great job and have a local metal fabricator who knocks up the replacement paddles PDQ, other closures have been downed trees which again are sorted quickly once landowner permission is granted.

something akin to that video of a farmer poking the outlet on his slurry tanker shortly before it lets go completely