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No, they sound perfect when they are clean and unscratched.

After you get the deep pits welded you should also consider having it 2 pack epoxied. That should at least preserve the hull in it's present condition.

My original drawing was imprecise, the fairlead position would be ideal where I've drawn the red splodge on the deck!

A rag around the rope is a good temporary solution but I'd look at installing a pair of fairleads on each side of the hull to prevent the ropes rubbing....I've circled the starboard position. Something like this:

Tagging him and quoting him might give a greater chance of @BODs SR2 reading this.......so I've done it!

On the face of it, something isn't adding up. Surely there should have been many litres of water in the tank to allow it to be picked up by the raised pickup? All new boats have problems that have to be worked trough, and it can be a stressful process, so keep calm and work the issues. In 6 months you'll laugh about it all.

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Hands down the Music! The genre wouldn’t have mattered actually, it’s all equally offensive when blasted from the rear of a boat on a canal.

Ditto, I remember that too. Then only yesterday I was on boat when a fool came past on a widebeam with a very loud speaker on the stern blaring country and western music out…..totally oblivious to the destruction he was doing to the ambience of the canal.

Sods first law of boating.......always happens when you just get a brand new boat, or when you've just been blacked! You might get a few more scrapes if you keep up the beer consumption at that rate! Seriously though, glad the maiden trip is going well.

It is possible to not hit anything at Woolhampton in moderate flow in a narrowboat with reasonable power, but in a wide beam it's very hard!

Don't worry about it, even if there is still problematic yuff they don't like dark nights and bad weather so won't be an issue in the winter. And high flow isn't an issue when you're not moving and tied to rings. The weirs keep the level pretty static most of the time in Newbury.

At this time of year my advice would be to get off the river Kennet section asap, and make for Newbury. The Kennet goes onto red boards very quickly after rain. But power and speed through the water is what gives you control, although even then you can run into trouble...like at Woolhampton lock where the river flows across the entrance.

All other canal users will be delighted!

I have ear buds with an ambient noise setting…..were by they can feed through ambient sound with whatever you’re listening to. Very clever.

Good point. Next time my step mother is up there I must remember to refrain from using the “mice threw themselves on the traps when she boarded” quip when I’m standing at the stern deck over a running engine.

Therein lies the problem. The steerer never thinks the radio is too loud as they just turn it up enough to hear above the engine noise. But the steerer is standing on top of the engine (usually) so to hear the radio necessitates the volume actually be quite loud to passers by, who are not standing on the engine!

Until someone comes past with their radio blaring, You'd be sitting there enjoying your reverie when you hear a faint 'duf' 'duf' in the distance. A vintage engine you think. As it gets closer you realise it's the bass from a dance track. The sound travels easily over water and 15 minutes later they pass you. 'The inconsiderate and selfish swines' you mutter to yourself as the sound gradually fades away over the following 15 minutes. Then a full half hour after you first heard it, the sound has finally faded to nothing. No doubt you'd seriously disapprove of such behaviour.

We could talk about huffing the PM2.5 particulates from your stove for 6 months of the year, and the proven ill effects on health that has. 😉

Yes, eminently qualified to comment on the chemistry of PVC no doubt. 🙄 He also is a big advocate for copyright abolition, and it just so happens that physical music formats are devastating to his cause, so he's got an axe to grind. Highly ironic. You can't believe anything you see on youtube.

Couldn't agree more! Fake news. All plastics offgas. Unless you're huffing it in huge quantities you'll be fine.

I'm a bit of a record collector myself, but haven't heard of these Sound Burgers until now! Just looked at a few videos on youtube and they do look clever, although I don't like the sound of a spring tensioned tone arm 😬. They also seem to suffer from a bit of wow and flutter and one example on YT was grossly overspeed, although this can be adjusted internally aparently.

Is the other side the same? I'm assuming it's 6mm steel?

Not a huge amount it seems.

Excellent, good luck with it. I should also add that Eberspacher make more modern timer/controllers as well, however you need to check whether or not your Eberspacher has the latest control unit installed for these to be compatable.