The Dreamer
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It makes a fabulous gift for birthdays, Weddings, Retirement, and many other special occasions too.
Yep, many other special occasions like ending friendships!
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On 13/11/2019 at 22:42, lulaperula said:
Diglis. I cantvwait to get there.
So were you one of the two newcomers to the inner basin, today?
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5 hours ago, mrsmelly said:
havnt taken the daft macerator out as its a pain in the arse
Clearly you are using it wrong, mine works perfectly well without an hurt to the tooche ?
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On 03/06/2019 at 20:59, Heffalump said:
License: £93 (Based on 70', prompt payment)
Insurance: £17 (Based on £200 annually, quoted on a 1990 boat worth 30k with 5k contents cover fully comp)
Diesel: £100 (Based on liveaboard battery charging, travelling a few miles once a week or fortnight)
Coal: £40 (Based on a couple of bags a week during the winter, supplemented with free wood)
Gas: £13 (Figure pulled out of thin air, expecting to use gas purely for cooking)
Blacking: £30 (Based on 70' every 3 years, although I plan on doing this ourselves, I've costed for having someone else do it as you never know)
BSS: £4 (Based on £150 every 4 years)
Servicing: £5 (Based on oil and filters a couple of times a year)
Coal is too high - 25kg every ten days is more than sufficient for four months of the year. So aggregated across twelve months, and you are in the ball park of £15.
diesel seems a little low, I would suggest, that if you run for a conservative three hours a day this is about five litres, or £5 at a 50/50 declaration. So £150 is more like it.
you have nothing for anodes, £60 each every three years.
gas, maybe a full bottle every two months, so more like £16.
blacking appears not to allow for lift out costs of about £300.
nothing for general maintenance. Fenders, paint, fuses, bulbs, pumps, bits that fall off (that you’ll never know what they do, but had better replace anyway), &c.
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9 minutes ago, WotEver said:
hedonistic, friendly, republican boater?
Welcome to my world!
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51 minutes ago, plumbob said:
My question, would metallic paint on a narrowboat be akin to breaking wind in the presence of the queen
As a republican, I would happily take a full blown dump in the presence of the queen, and use her second sons tie to wipe...(well you get the idea).
As a boater, I would not speak to anyone who dared paint their boat in metallic colours, and especially the hue of a mass produce parcel carrier!
As a critical friend, I would warn of the dangers of applying a paint that will be hard to touch up.
As a hedonist, I would say if it pleases you, go for it...
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...that we committed to our new home ?
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21 minutes ago, Kate17 said:
hey guys
in the west midlands canals ideally but we can go further if we have to.
its a eco-documentary thing for college. will prob end up on youtube. 1 person might be in the canal for a bit (hopefully not me!! )
And when did you need to do this?
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35 minutes ago, Eeyore said:
already pay for “free WiFi” that doesn’t work, and apparently am “entitled” to a parking space
Yep, and apparently residential customers also get a post office registered postal address included, but we still end up paying the “independent” chandlers for handling our mail and we get a storage box, subject to availability, which are always available in Wickes, which is where we had to buy ours from!
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5 hours ago, Eeyore said:
Aquavista
Craprajester would be more fitting!
I presume the change is to distance themselves from their former owners. Funny though, British Waterways Marinas Ltd, as a name, survived several years of CRT ownership, and they did not feel the need to rebrand!
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What a mind numbing piece of journalism...
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9 hours ago, Emma Smith said:
Boat Index number 54185
That registration is not recognised on the CRT online checker...
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/boating/licensing/boat-check/submission/54185/status/not-found
Is listed on CanalPlan, but as with most of their records, they last updated in 2013, since the last time they did a FOI requesT to CRT. So sometime in the last six years it appears to have fallen off of CRT records...
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42 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:
The boat could have been removed by the local council, the company that owns the retail park or by EA. These moorings opened in April 2002 for use by visitors to the retail park and paid for by B&Q. Misuse of these moorings has been a problem for some time.
It’s been moored there so long, this boat, that it appears on google maps. Although I guess if they retook the satellite image tomorrow, it would be gone!
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There is this, from googling “boat fire Rickmansworth”...
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8 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:
Then you'd be going anticlockwise not clockwise
As Homer (Simpson, that is, not the ancientGreek poet) might say... D’OH!!!,!
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8 hours ago, fatmanblue said:
If you are thinking of doing the Avon Ring again after 42 years, I would suggest doing it clockwise.
And certainly if you have a long (69ft or longer) boat. Going down stream, on the lower Avon, we find we get wedged between the cill and the lower gates, in a number of the locks. Going uphill, the prowl of the bow, just sits enough over the cill to make things a little less stressful!
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On 25/11/2019 at 14:58, Mike Todd said:
I've checked all of my photos I can find - with a guillotine gate.
Definitely no guillotiné locks on the Avon now. We did the ring just two months ago...
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On 25/11/2019 at 10:16, Stilllearning said:
I think the lock in the first picture might be Wyre Piddle
Doesn’t look diamond shaped enough.
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5 hours ago, Graham Davis said:
Alan, do you road figures also include possible crane hire?
Evesham Marina has a crane, so costs will be lower than bringing one in...
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1 hour ago, JGL said:
get it jet-washed and then put normal bitumen blacking on
Someone round these parts, but can’t remember who, reminded me that this is effectively what they do to cruise ships (epoxy first, then paint on top). These boats don’t come out the water from one decade to the next, so I’d say it’s a good call.
BTW, was desperate to find a suitable Tupac quote, but was hampered by the legends lack of interest for inland waterways. Some rappers just have no taste!
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1 hour ago, Sea Dog said:
"Chuckle
Bros"Surely that’s a typo?
oops, too soon ?
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15 hours ago, longstreath said:
pros and cons of a traditional versus a reversed layout?
Go for a 70 ft boat, and you can have both! We have re-styled ours so as well as the dinette/galley fore, we also have a snug aft. In regards to boarding we tend to come onto the boat at the bow, for the reasons others have mentioned, but have matched locks on both doors, so we can doe as we please!
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2 hours ago, Up-Side-Down said:
I've always had this held up to me as being a safe mooring for Birmingham ..............
A couple of years ago we moored up near the football ground at St Andrews, an got into a debacle with some local lads who, at one point, we were sure had hidden something in our gas locker when they boarded the front of the boat. Anyhow, we became spooked and decided to move on at about 7pm. We hammered it down towards Star City, followed all the way, on the towpath, by some other, slightly older lads, who we took to be associates. When we got to SC, at dusk, we had to breast up as the moorings were full, but we were so glad to be behind that locked gate. Needless to say we stripped out all of the front lockers, but nothing suspect was found,
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5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
The OP says he is planning to CC and will not be taking a mooring. This is why he is finding it difficult.
Yep, missed that bit!
however, this lot were reviewed in last months Waterway World, and claim that no proof of address is required...
https://monese.com/sign-up?l=c&utm_source=financeads&utm_medium=cpl&utm_campaign=GB&utm_term=32169
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