Hudds Lad

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

from the thread title i was expecting a tale of woe with a Thetford cassette ? i am pleasantly surprised to see that's not the case ?

It's rare for a TV to have both Freesat & Freeview capabilities, usually one or the other, but more commonly Freeview. We had an old 12v Sky box on our boat which was slow and problematic, i replaced this with a Manhattan SX which is great, 12v and has a tiny footprint. We also take a Firestick when we go which is fed by a 3 sim in a Huawei MiFi dongle, seems to stream fine so far. Only had one problem with signal somewhere up the Ashby, but this was solved by taking the dongle out of the window and sticking it in the welldeck (luckily wasn't raining)

i'll sell you one

it'll certainly make them easier to steal would be concerned about them sliding on the paintwork also. on the other hand, the less holes in the boat the better i guess, but holes are cheaper than magnets

There's a perspex sheet hidden behind our sofa that slots into grooves either side of our hatch. It's a complete PITA to fit and is scratched to hell and back, needless to say we don't use it. 5mm sounds about right though

pretty sure it's the panels around the swim at the back end near the step up to the stern, top pic is taken at an angle and is the left side if looking to the stern from indoors, bottom pic is right side. or i'm completely wrong

Imagine the effort that must go into wrapping all that onto a sphere and blending all the edges seamlessly together, instead of just showing it flat like it really is

That's nice, but does the general public know what a "bathtub weir" or "tumblebay weir" is? i know i don't. using Google i could find an example locally of a tumblebay which seems to be a sloped channel leading to a sort of staircase, but have yet to find out what a "bathtub" arrangement is ?!?

there is the Lockmaster, but its quite a few quid more and looks HUGE in comparison http://www.lockmasterwindlass.co.uk/ i like the look of the GoWindlass, but my tight yorkshireness prohibits me from spending that much on a windlass

As said above, depends on day and time when you tackle the locks. i reckon a good 6 days. I've always found the Middlewich branch worse for queues if hit at peak times, just muck in and enjoy the chats. We once pulled up to the back of a line of 8 at Minshull lock waiting to go down, said hello to the chap in front holding his boat by the centre line. His good lady popped out of the back and said hello, told me i'd be waiting a while as there was a similar number waiting to come up and they were all bloody hire boats without a clue what they were doing. She then asked if i was single-handing, i said no i was with my wife and daughter. She peered at the boat and asked where they were, i smiled and told her they'd walked up ahead to help out the bloody hire boats who didn't have a clue instead of staying with the boat. For some reason i didn't see her again after that as she went back on board.

Family passing on towpath, kids commenting; "it's got a fridge and everything!" "It's even got a TV! oh, it's only small though"

I think Rugby Boats are very optimistic with their prices, we went to look at one up for £60k just after lockdown, in our opinion it was worth more like £40-45k so we didn’t place an offer as we doubted they’d drop that much. problem is it never says what the boats actually sold for, only what they were offered at.

sadly can’t help with your problem, but thanks for the info about the dot as i didn't know that

this year we have mostly been doing the “ant dance”, three times in one week we managed to drop chains where ants nests were, the better half even kicked one of her shoes into the cut trying to get the ants off her feet it does make a change from the wasps nests of previous years though

most hotel boats at some point will have