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canalbuff

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  1. Thank you, I have passed on to my yard...
  2. Well I finally got to test her this weekend and sadly the problem still exists...🙄 Did you come up with a solution High Hopes 2017? Anyone else got any ideas? ta
  3. Well I think it's not quite resolved yet... My yard say they have found a small flexible pipe under sleeving in the fuel system which was kinked and could kink further when the engine is warm. This has been replaced and they have tested it in situ and are of the believe that this will solve the issue. To date I have not been able to check this but I will keep you informed. Good luck with you investigations
  4. Canaline 42 stopping under load Hello folks, still suffering with this and it seems to have foxed my yard. I can say it only happens after a stop i.e. when the engine is warm. Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated! thank you
  5. Thank you guys, it seems obvious now but I have learnt over some years to follow the TB brief carefully! I will try this thank you
  6. "Run with the filler off" sorry can you explain further? thank you
  7. Thank you Tony, very helpful, will get this checked
  8. Engines are not my comfort zone so be nice please. My Canaline 42 has started to lose power and eventually stop under load. This sometimes happens after 2-3 days happy cruising. Initially a noticeable change in engine tone and finally a full stop, and has to be restarted. The initial prognosis was that air was being sucked into the fuel system. We have tried using the the primer on the fuel filter and there was originally some air pumped out, but this no longer seems to work when tried. The fuel filter had been changed and the separate sedimentor has been checked. We are now checking for any leaks along the fuel lines. If it is air we hope to find the problem however if anyone had any experience of this or has some good advice on other causes (apart from buying a new engine, you wits!) it would be very welcome. Thank you
  9. That whole experience sounds tough Steve...that particularly cold night was probably winter 81 into 82. We hadn't winterised Grey Poplar properly in our first year and had multiple burst (copper) pipes throughout the boat , including wrecking the Paloma water heater and a pump. That was a hard lesson. Many of the mattresses got wet/damp and we put them on the roof to dry out. Of course we secured them when we headed out onto the river and onto the Trent, but not well enough to prevent 2 of them heading off in the wind... Your whole life in Redhill sounds like quite an adventure beside our visits for maintenance and short breaks. At the time many of my friends remarked that I had better heating and more radiators than the flats we lived in at the time! I had looked at several boats in London to live on at the time but I never took the plunge like you. Nowadays of course many young adults are choosing liveaboard status in London simple because housing is not affordable close to jobs. That could have been me back in the day. We also had a "marine mortgage" but I supplied a deposit from being made redundant from my first job. Probably should have spent it on a flat but I always followed the dream of having a boat. "Peter" mentioned above was the guy who showed us round the "showboat" that they brought down to Little Venice. We then visited Stenson to see our prospective boat I remember they were all lined up alongside each other. (I will find those pictures). We didn't get a survey but were given a copy of one done by a chap I think was called "Greatwood" who was a surveyor advertised in the magazines at the time . We didn't see clearly down both sides and missed that she had a large "caved in" section of the hull about three quarters of the way down the port side. This looked like she had come off worst from a broadside from another boat or been swept into something hard and immovable by current/wind. We lived with that "feature" and from the off she also developed an increasing list which we later put down to the shifting brick rubble ballast we found in the bilge. Despite all this she was our boat. We kept and I still have a log of all the trips we made including a 3 week trip to Manchester and back where I was best man at a mates wedding and the couple spent the first week of their marriage in the "Captains cabin" otherwise known as centre dinette. The 56fters (there were some other shorter ones at about 42ft, one of which also moored at Redhill and a full makeover by the owner) seemed to be designed for hire by 2 families with the rear cabin with 2 bunk beds(upper bunks on hinges), a forward cabin with 1 bunk bed and the 2 dinettes to convert to doubles for the parents. The toilets were the dump through type which needed pump outs eventually. How did you get on with that with living aboard and keeping costs down? We used to use bungee straps on the top bunks to help keep adults in their bunks! We had an agile friend, (not the one below) whose party trick was to climb off the roof at the bow onto an accommodation bridge, cross the bridge and then drop back down onto the boat at the stern end. Many were the times we tried to leave him behind...
  10. The art of "hands free arse steering" and not paying full attention whilst reading the " Canal Book" out on the Trent
  11. He was always very helpful when we had a breakdown or two, had his number then and he would come out to us and repair alternators, replace batteries etc. Remember there were these catches on the toilet/bathroom doors, might have seen something similar on a BR train... They had a good fit out with tongue and groove to a decent standard Couldn't always get the stick to stay in gear..
  12. Thank you. Great pictures and good memories Steve. Not all mine are accessible/ scanned at present but I will try to post one here and find some more presently. We didn't live on her but used her for weekend and longer trips sometimes with 10 people! Bit of a stretch with only a 60 gallon water tank... Can't actually remember exactly where we were in Redhill. Initially, we were alongside a jetty outside the hole and had another Barrington moored alongside and we used to keep an eye on each others ropes etc. during flooding. In the hole we were just surrounded by mud so when our 2 years free was up we headed away to Thurmaston. I don't remember your boat or colour scheme but you look vaguely familiar in your photos! Will try and find more and post Chris S
  13. Thank you all, now safely through cheers
  14. Due to re-open this afternoon at 1600hrs Anyone know if it on target/open already etc.? thank you!
  15. We also bought a 56ft Springer 10 berth(!) from Barrington Boats in 1981. This was Grey Poplar(built 74). We got 2 years free mooring in a freshly dug hole on the River Soar which became Redhill Marina...no pontoons or facilities, but there was lots of free parking and mud...as part of the deal. Great times for 4 years until the Sabb 18 hp engine blew up after too many fights against the wind and current on both the Soar and the Trent. Really these boats where made for the more tranquil waters of the T and M and were VERY thin steel and had very wet bilges. Others in the fleet included Hornbeam (a great real ale drinking crowd who also gave me a great unscheduled break on the Caldon), as well as other above Lack of funds and partners forced a very sad sale to the Old Junction Boatyard on the Soar who were planning to use it for welding practice for their son. On the T and M, these were rather unfairly called the the Barrington bashers by owner boaters fearful of encounters with hirers. I have quite a lot of pictures and cuttings from the Hoseasons brochure of the time. I see Buckthorn which looks similar(size/fit out and centre metal strengthening bar) and has a tree name is now for sale on Apollo Duck.
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