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This is a ridiculous suggestion. A Chinook can only lift 10 tonnes.........you should have advised the OP to request two!

Thank you for clarifying this. I’d have expected better from the BBC.

Indeed. Better than sitting around doing nothing while waiting to hear about their asylum claim. If the CRT could get them working on offside vegetation and maybe train them up on dredging that’d be great!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-63459922

I wouldn't recommend this service. It's very theatrical and impressive looking but so is the price....in excess of £500. Any boatyard would do the same thing much cheaper. This thread discusses this service. You say you've had it filtered twice.....what was the interval between these filterings?

Well yes, but as it was overplated earlier this year in 5mm steel that's what you'd expect from the thickness survey. Did the surveyor comment on the quality of the overplating job?

This guy has been in the CRT enforcement system for 10 years on and off. In this time he has had help from many agencies and people. I know someone who's seen him be combative with CRT employees, he's behaved badly in meetings with the CRT and has refused to engage or even meet the CRT half way. Some people are their own worst enemy, and I'm afraid this is a long time coming.

In the last month or so I think there is certainly a slow down at the top end of the narrowboat market. A year ago a nearly new 1 year old boat would come on the market at or above what it would cost new, and it would sell quickly. I'm seeing boats like this come to market and sitting unsold, forcing large reductions in asking price. As mentioned it's hard to know exactly how the market will go. If I had to bet on it, I'd wager the market will drop a bit. But when, by how much, or for how long I don't know. And this isn't out of any advanced knowledge on my part.....it's just the same as having a mild spell of weather in the middle of winter and me saying it's going to get cold soon! I would also give the usual warning about completely bailing out of bricks and mortar and putting all your money into a boat. The boat will depreciate and you will be very unlikely to get back on the housing ladder in future as age and infirmity creeps up and takes hold of you. Much better to downsize and rent out if you can.

I just picked up a 10kg bag of Brazier in store at home bargains for £5.69. I'm going to source some Anthracite next....you can get in in bigger nuggets to stop it falling through the grate.

This is extremely pertinent. @Mick in Bangkok You could spend years pondering if the boat market is about to drop or not in the worry about loosing a bit in depreciation. In the meantime your finite time on this planet is ticking down. Burial gowns don't have pockets, so if you want to do it you should. "Life is what happens when you're busy making plans"

As mentioned, you'd be lucky to actually make money on a boat purchase after a few years. Plenty have in recent years but that's not the norm. While a little early to say, I think there are signs that the very top of the market (£150,000 boats) might be starting to weaken.....I've seen a few sit on the market for a long time now and a few price reduced banners on adverts. So perhaps we are around the peak of the price surge of the last few years.

Yes Midland, ASAP and Aquafax are all owned by the Arleigh group which itself is a supplier of parts to the caravan/motorhome industry. The Arleigh group is was bought by the LKQ corporation (who own Euro Car Parts etc) a few years ago.

Did you view the boat?

Limekiln is my favourite online chandler too but their website is god awful so I hesitate to recommend them........they are usually very good on price though.

https://www.asap-supplies.com/ and Midland chandlers are two good online chandlers. ABC at Aldermaston wharf have a small but reasonable chandlers, but it's almost as far away as Braunston for you.

Yes I hope the viewing goes well, you could certainly do much worse in the fibreglass cruiser market. It's very well fitted out, although a little dated by todays standards.

Yes that's probably not far from the truth! They are making progress, but there's just so much of it.....goodness knows how much money they'll have to raise...a few hundred million I imagine.

I know this boat. She's been owned by the same owner since the early 1970's and was very well looked after. Sadly he recently died so the family are selling the boat. AFAIK the engine and hydraulic drive is fairly new.

Interesting. The locals in those houses in the first part of the video are going to be complaining like mad when boats start mooring along there!

Theoretically yes, but this would be the last thing I'd do even with experience. It'll likely take many weeks with weather holdups etc even though you would only have to coast hop to Bristol....you can go down the K&A/Thames from there to London.

Do you have space to mount a swivel bowl model to a small bulkhead so the toilet is transverse while the cassette can be removed from the front of the room? Something like this:

Quite right, but the vast majority seem to have 2:1 gearboxes. Possible I guess if you were in a pinch, but if I wanted to do it on the cheap I'd rather use a staircase lock as a temporary dry dock...........maybe in the evening when the vlockies have gone home!

Well according to the Beta website your prop is exactly what they recommend for a Beta 43. I expect your prop has had blade or two bent or repitched by the encounter with the trolleys. As long as your prop isn’t totally mangled, you can get it repitched back to spec by a specialist for considerably less money than a new one. I have the same problem on my Beta 30….one blade is slightly bent and it is dire in reverse. It’s on the todo list!!

Honda 20?

It definitely pays to have a think about egress should this circumstance occur. In every fatal boat fire I've read about there was no working smoke alarm, so I always make sure they are functioning on the boat. When I'm on the boat I only lock the hatch with one toggle hook rather than using both of them, but I don't worry too much about getting out as I have a duck hatch on both sides and every window is the type where you can remove the whole pane from the frame once you open them, so there is actually about 7 ways to get out of my boat......9 if I could squeeze myself though the portholes, but I'd have to stop pancaking for a few months for that to be a realistic possibility.