Wittenham

That is the one, looking north from the Garden City Skyway to [I think] Lock 3. To be precise, it is the fourth Welland Canal, the remains of the others are scattered around parks and other waterways in the city of St Catharines.

I put this one in only because 'hey mom, we can see our house from here!'. Plus my father helped build the bridge from which the picture is taken [picture nicked off the internet, so if you know how to do image search, you will find it]

if I had to guess... there are drainage holes. That is because when I bought it, it had a lot of water in it and was floating on an angle. I pumped all the water out of it through a single access hole cut in the floor and it all came out [as far as i can tell, no water showed up in other parts of the boat during other works].

It is on Agenda 21 in Oxford. For all I know it has already sunk and is sitting on the bottom... it would be hard to tell the difference.

It depends on how the phone is making calls... it using an app [say, Whatsapp] it does use the internet [well, a data connection]. For bog standard calls using the touchpad, it would use the phone signal. Advice above on turning it on and off fixes most phone problems. Bonus points for taking out the battery for 15 seconds or so.

from 2010.

It is a butty built by Hancock & Lane in, I think, 1987. Converted in 2010. I will try to post pictures of the pre-refurb inside that might shed light on the internal framing.

I believe that is considered a feature at Agenda 21....

Thank you for the comprehensive reply. Given that the boat does not have an engine and only gets moved from its permanent mooring site for lifting/blacking, is there a downside to simply taking them off, making the surface smooth and repainting?

thank you, and the insulation is spray foam. Can I assume that problem is localised to the strakes? ah. that is the answer i was looking for! Thank you.

I don't think so, but interested in the views of the CW collective. The boat was last lifted, examined and blacked in 2018, all was fine. I don't recall the depth of steel but it was well within tolerance. Obviously, these strakes are above the waterline so they are not going to sink the boat, but what do they say about the state of the hull? How much work to repair? thanks in advance

I fell in once, perhaps I may qualify for the 'reckless' label? My cycle commute was a shade over 20 miles one way, a bit of road, and then mostly Thames towpath and Basingstoke Canal. To avoid as much road as possible, I found a link up along the River Wey, but it could be very muddy. No problem with knobby mountain bike tyres, but i didn't fancy the drag of such tyres for the other ~19 miles. So I took on my chances on slicks, and one day it caught up with me. Sideways, and then backwards slip into the river. No damage done.