Mad Harold

I think you mean Castrol 'R' Rather than running our bikes with it in the oil tank, we used to add a spoonful to the petrol, just for the whiff!

For me , it's smells. My first job on leaving school was in a shoe repair factory, and whenever I smell leather I am back in the sixties. My junior school had a distinctive whiff of a sort of urine type smell.It was I think the type of polish used on the floors.Later on I used to teach Brass Instruments, and found some schools still must use the same stuff, as on walking in memory would fly back to my junior school days. The smell of Gunk on a hot motorbike engine takes me back to my teenage years messing with BSA Bantams, Franny Barnets,James, Ambassadors and others.

Use your Trombone Arthur! Suggest you play Wagner's 'Flying Dutchman' fff That'll teach 'em. 😄

Had a cheapie Chinese heater and had the same symptoms . ie starting and immediately shutting down. The cause was water in the exhaust from a leaky lock. Worth checking?

For £50K I would expect a boat with all systems working, and ready to go. You are obviously having doubts about this one. Digest the advice and opinions on here and go with your gut feeling. When you find the right boat for you, it will be obvious almost immediately.

A rather pessimistic view of things that I sadly agree with. If I can find where I have put my Trombone, can we both stand on your cabin roof and play Chopin's Funeral March?

My one time local used to put on a cd of Florence Foster Jenkins.A really dreadful soprano. Her rendition of Mozart's Queen of The Night Aria was particularly excruiciating and had people making a bee line for the exit.

I agree 100%. It used to be on a my local (The Rat and Ratchet Huddersfield) but didn't sell enough to justify keeping it on. The 'Rat' brews it's own beer and very fine it is too, and was far outselling London Pride.

Oh I now understand. Why didn't you just describe him as a Wanker what does it standing up. Much easier to understand.🐵

'ere, Mister , what's an Onanist? It's not in my Collins dictionary, but on the web it says summat about it being Spanish or Portugese.

Since CRT took over the canals, there has been a collossal transformation of the system.Any maintainance has been carried out promptly and to a high standard.Great effort has been put into maintaining water levels and ensuring lock gates and paddles work smoothly.Towpaths have been greatly improved, no more ankle cracking holes.The managment deserves praise for being 'hands on' as demonstrated by Mr. Parry actually operating a lock! Now,how do I claim my discount? 😜

Good! I'll drink to that!

The Roughouse and Blastit band is actually one of the finest bands in the country.! Brighouse is a good mooring spot.Plenty of pubs,Sainsburys close by. Suggest not mooring on the towpath outside Sainsburys as I once had some pilloc banging on my roof at 3am.

A point to bear in mind with living on a leisure mooring, is that you have no security of tenure. You could be asked to leave with little or no notice. As a Northerner, I will stand up for my part of the country. The cost of living is much cheaper than the south.The beer is better and cheaper.Boats are cheaper up here, and the people are friendlier and speak proper english.(at least we do in Yorkshire)

A marina that is on paper a leisure mooring but does allow living aboard (or turns a blind eye) possibly with limits on the time you can spend aboard will not usually divulge this information over the phone to a complete stranger. They could get hassle from CRT or the local council. Best to visit the Marina in person and ask.

We didn't do Serbo Croat at school. Only Anglo Saxon.🐵

Used to work with an old Clarinet teacher who when he got really fed up and jaded with the job, used to say to a really bad student. "I never realised how difficult it was to play the Clarinet, untill I heard you"

The ownership or the rights that a piece of canal bank has can be quite complex. I know of one private mooring who's mooring rights are difficult to completely understand. There are some half a dozen boats there at the moment, and the moorings have been used uneventfully for several years. That was untill one rather silly moorer complained to CRT about the level of the moorings going down when a boat went through the lock.(it's a short pound) The result was CRT came and had a look and declared the mooring illegal. The landowner produced documents to show that the mooring rights were for an old mill that was on the site, and that these rights were still valid as the landowner lived on the site. CRT of course disagreed but so far have not taken any action, as it was pointed out that they had accepted 'water rent' from the moored boats, so they were in fact accepting that this was a valid mooring.

Are you also paying CRT's "water rent" This is for CRT's permission to use a private mooring. Usually charged at 50% of average moorings in the area. You can then declare your boat's home mooring, but if not, you will be a "continuous cruiser" and bound by the T's + C'c. Best thing to do in your situation is pay your moorings and keep your head down and not open a can of worms.

There is a Dawncraft owners group on Facebook. Might be worth joining?

Can you expand please. Tried clicking on the link and it said, 'warning,adult content'

A fellow moorer had a pretty foolproof way of knowing when to pump out. His boat started listing!