gralyn

Maybe, Buy a Bigger Bag.

Usually a couple of twists of the knob on the pressure relief valve stops it dribbling. This is recommended anyway, every so often as it makes sure that it is not stuck.

We use catering packs of salt and pepper in little sealed bags, like you get in motorway cafes and supermarket resturants. Get them from a cash and carry. They last forever kept in an empty jam jar or the like with a good lid seal. You only use what you need too, usually one sachet of salt will last for two breakfasts.

I would have thought that there are plenty of launderettes in the towns along the Oxford canal. The facilities on the Macclesfield canal at Bosley are miles from anywhere

I may have missed something in this thread ....but whats wrong with taking them off and cleaning them?? Barkeepers friend is a great product for this.

I have averaged that over my last 10 years of Holiday cruising where I have only had 2 - 3 weeks holiday in the year.

I used to have this with my Yahoo E mail. You could specify which addresses to receive. I turned waterscape off last year and cant find how to turn it back on on yahoo mail

The Peppercorn rents in Preston for end of garden plots on the Lancaster Canal have reportedly jumped from £10 PA to @£400 PA, in one year.

Old news here up north. The real issue is that BW have an inflated idea of the value of the land. The prices thay are asking are the local equivalent of letting out an hectare of prime arable land rather than the one eighth hectare of industrial wasteland most end of garden embankments and cuttings represent. They seem to think that people will want to rent a strip of land 3mtrs wide to develop into flats.

The waterscape map of the S+W shows them as full size (which I presume must be 70ft). I shows the Kidderminster one as only 60ft

Don't think so it would mean that BW would have to change their stance.........and that is the last thing that the current BW management appear to be willing to do. They would rather get nothing if they can't get their over inflated estimates of the income available. Same with the moorings tenders.

Probably not suitable for your Boat. Far too short on power. Look about for a second hand 10 hp or yamaha 9.9 if price is the critical issue. They may even be electric start and will deffinately have the fixings fo remote steering.

Wonderful. I have already printed mine, no problems wth PDF printing to two sides. Just select "Print all Odd pages" then turn the paper over put back in the printer and select "Print all Even pages". On my printer (Epson 220) it works best on 100gm paper

This is how they can charge a higher licence fee for shared ownership boats.

I think they are 10 - 11 ft "Speedboat" style, fibreglass built, with a 9.9 hp Yamar 4 stroke short shaft outboard. Were usually hired from the boatyard by the offside moorings at the bottom end of the Birmingham and Fazely canal near to the Drayton Manor Theme Park

If it does get listed are the owners (in this case BW) obliged to maintain it in its present state or can they just let it fall dawn through lack of maintenance or wait untill it is in a dangerous state and demolish it on the grounds of "elf n safety". I can't see them spending anything on its upkeep in the current financial situation.

What the the start date for a boats age? 1. Base plate first laid down. 2. Completion of shell. 3. Completion of Fit out. 4. Date the boat was firts placed in the water. 5. Date the boat was first registered with the Navigation Authority. From what I have read there can be several years between each of the above. So what is a boat's birthday?.

Unfortunately it is the Management Company that is going out of Business. The boats are owned by the people you see crewing them usually 1 twelveth each. They will be looking haggered as they will have to do all the arrangeing themselves now. There may be one or more multiples of 12 that have paid for a new boat and will not be getting it.

I think they came about as a way of anchoring the tiller extention to the tiller itself. On a Motor the tiller (the swan kneck part was fixed and was only short, (if any longer it would get in the way) the extention was necessary to give the leaverage required and the reach forward. It could be removed to allow easy access to the cabin when not in use. On a Butty the Tiller was either removed or reversed to achieve the clear access.

Have a BMC 2.2 litre Commodore deisel in my 40 ft Narrow Boat

Isn't that what Narrow Boats are for???? Two things I have learnt since having a narrow boat 1. I can now do SLOW!. 2. Its Always my Fault.

Assuming that British Waterways gave permission then who would you sue?. And would you sue the legitimate moorer if it was his boat that caught fire and Damaged yours?. I also presume that you would only sue if a satisfacturary insurance settlement wasn't reached, or would you sue anyway?.

Having had an outboard powered Fibreglass cruiser for many years I can understand the frustration that the skipper has when stuck behind a slow moving Narrow Boat. So now that I have a Narrow Boat myself and see a cruiser coming up behind I always slow down and invite them past, they invariably have to speed up when passing and even on the relatively narrow and shallow Macclesfield canal I have never experienced the effect you describe i.e the narrow boat being drawn into the cruiser.

As most fire safety lectures and fire safety notices now do not advise one to attempt to put out a fire but to sound the alarm and make as swift an exit as possible there is now no need to fit fire extinguishers in buildings or boats. Discuss

I think that the boat you have seen is a narrow boat built to a Dutch barge design. Not all that uncommon.