Boater Sam

Has any independent person asked the farmer who owns the adjoining fields about when he reported the leak on the embankment, allegedly over 3 years ago? The minor leak into a field on the off side just up the canal a ways took months of haranguing before they came out and fixed it , they sent a loss adjuster first to pay off the farmer rather than repair it.

Er, precisely. There have been lots of excuses since March as to why this happened. Basically lack of attention to the canal by CRT. There have been even more excuses for why it has not been fixed in the last 5 months. Open days this weekend, another excuse for 2 more lost working days, plus the extra work making it safe for the gongoozlers to squelch around.

Pray explain how you can open both top and bottom gates of a lock AT THE SAME TIME! More likely that the leak in the embankment which has been reported several times over the last 3 years caused the canal level to drop. The boater nearest to the lock, that's his boat, which had no insurance or licence or BSC we understand, went up and opened all 4 paddles. They were found to be open at midnight after the breach had occurred. Old news, incorrectly reported.

Look like single rads but with rear fins that up the output by about 35% over a plain single, should be fine for your 4kw heater.

When was the Wyrley and Essington canal renamed? Is it just finger trouble?

Its the galvanic isolator! LED lamps in the tester, galvanic isolator is 2 silicon diodes in series, so you can have 1.4 volts approx on the earth wire.

Hob Black pads, the black last longest of any other treatment.

I'll bet that a new Morso of the same model will match the pipework perfectly, mine did.

I don't think that amount of movement to and fro will satisfy CRT's continuous cruising requirements.

We had a boat with sewage smells which proved to be the twin wall reinforced polythene pump out pipe and vent running up to the roof in a wardrobe. So the stink will permeate through the IBC tank for sure. You need a metal tank to be certain though some makers assure that their plastic tanks are OK, I would not trust them. You will have to look at the pipework too if it is polythene. I used solvent weld domestic waste piping and fittings on the hire boats with silicone rubber automotive radiator hoses and pipes where we needed flexibility.

If you want full insurance, a complete overplate job. Else you will have to hunt for insurance on a 3rd party only basis which may not include expensive removal if it sinks. Not worth anything if it needs overplating, its scrap really.

Its better than shuffling your ballast. We have spoken in the past, missed this year though,. We moor down past the mill, with all the fairy light and flags brigade, you know us well.

We see it every year at Cropredy, the purple (mauve?) is unmissable. You never know who is watching!

If its too pitted, £400 a ton scrap tops, say £ 3000 and maybe another £1000 for all the bits second hand. We recently had a old Harborough 58ft condemned as thin and split pulling out, went for £4K to be carted off and tarted up as a Thames flat. Suppose it will never move again.

Well Athy, with the polished Gardner Trojan just went up £20K ! Must think about my Garry Gorton 50ft 1990 and its insurance value: after all is said and done the 1.8 BMC is a vintage engine now by that reckoning. Who will give me £50K?

At that price it could stay for sale for ever for me! Its more than it was new even if you include all the recent bits, supposedly.

Old BW told me that their criteria for operation of any canal was that a 9 stone female should be capable of using all the locks and bridges unaided.

Old fashioned barbers in Wheelock St. and on Lewin St. in Middlewich. And lots of unisex if you are brave.

Oh, Dear oh dear. Another BSS fail?

We know that Springer used some good old steel from gasometers but I cannot believe that after 30 years there are not some serious pits. We had a few thin Springers on the marina, lifting them in slings often broke the steel hull just behind the doorway, the angled chine just creased up.

Agreement, popped you a greeny there. Cotton wool smothers common sense.

I have no qualms about any boat owner having a CO alarm, I have one and it has set off once when a boat breasted up with mine ran a petrol generator on the back deck even though my doors and hatches were closed. But I object to the dependence on technology that mandatory use would cause. People need always to be aware of risks to their wellbeing and life, not rely on a battery powered detector with a defined working life which can be faulty. Since this culture of health and safety started the common sense element of peoples' lives has been eroded to the point where it is expected that the nanny state will ensure your life and safety from all risks. This is a very dangerous premise, not healthy at all.

That would be fun in a boat, how would you stall it? Hand over the exhaust? I don't think so, look dad no hand.

If there was a desire to protest about the state of the canals or the licence or the jellyfish, we could always put multiple numbers of other boats on ours, display no licence and name ( which we do all the time ) and make our multiple presence felt to CRT. Is that anarchy or just stupid?