Albatross

QI round the Nantwich, Hurleston, Barbridge, Venetian marine area

The May Queen was purchased from working as trip boat on Windermere, in 1962. We had a local man build a new cabin over the front cockpit, and then transported to Scarisbrick. The slip way at the time was not below the canal waterline and so it was a bit like launching over the bank. As canalwalker says she had been out of the water longer than we knew and had dried out. Just after that we had the very had winter of '62-'63 before the engine could be drained of water which cracked the block. It was an old American Kermath engine, maybe the boat had been a steamer before that. We had a MG 1500 engine fitted, with the car gearbox, running in third, normally. reverse was very under geared. She served us well for a number od seasons until my dad, canalwalkers grand dad, became unwell and we sold her. Would be interested if anyone knows about her since then

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A couple of days out of 52 weekends are't much for the saving... but as I say Suit yourself.

At the NBCYC you'd be paying about half the amount quoted above. The working weekends aren't much of a price to pay for the value you get.. but as they say suit yourself. Frank

http://www.nbcyc.co.uk/Home.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=105 Better value than any comercial outfit

These figures about the number of cctv cameras are a myth. The numbers in somewhere, I think Windsor, were counted and then multiplied up to give a figure for the UK. It was on a radio programme the other week about statistics.

I think it depends on the TV but some freesat TVs will get over the air freeview. with a freeview TV you would need a dish and box for freesat

It can be arranged, I'll be driving there in a couple of hours.....

Why do so many narrowboats put the number in the window, I thought it was supposed to be attached to the outside. Also many do not even have names... what's that all about?

Wouldn't know....never got mine to connect yet, big pile of poo

Is that some sort of soup-kitchen?

do you mean the "ultomti bollok s"

That sounds the best to me.

25th November

BBC/ITC 1-4 transmitters within "local" range of OS grid reference SJ214420 No. Transmitter BBC-1 UHF BBC-2 UHF ITC-1 UHF C-4 UHF Group Pol. ERP W AOD metres OS grid ref. BBC region ITC region Field dBµV/m Distance miles Bearing degrees Antenna (suggestion) 145.02 Llangollen 57 63 60 53 CD V 15 338 SJ204421 Wales Wales 75 1 276 Hi-gain the above was a table...see here... http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tva.exe?DX...amp;OS=sj214420

With no floor boards?

It depends which way the boat is pointing. C__________________________/ # S!_______________________/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The # being the rudder and the S being the prop

that's what canalling is all about

On the left ?????

Speeding ??

http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php...p;f=6&id=12

Well I think we've sorted this one out. It wasn't under bridge 8 It wasn't under bridge 7 It wasn't a stolen hire boat It wasn't going through the locks at 10.30 at night It was being painted by friend of the owners It was on the visiter moorings. Job done Now what about QSS