MasterDabber

Took a ride over to Shepperton lock on the motorbike this afternoon. It's certainly moving at a fair old pace. There were few boats moored up immediately in the downstream lockcut but never saw "Tomorrow". Where are you moored? Near D'Oyle Carte Island?

David. In my view it was unpleasant. Sorry if you don't agree. There are too many posts on internet forums that have absolutely no value are just plain negative.

What a thoroughly useless and unpleasant comment. What value did that add to the thread?

The Halfords Professional range come with a lifetime guarantee and are pretty reasonable value. I've used mine extensively on trials motorcycles and they've performed pretty well. I had one small adaptor break (due to my heavy handiness in reality) and it was replaced with no quibble.

I wasn't referring specifically to a canal... I thought this might be a sensible thing to do moored on any moving water no matter how slight the flow... btw, as an example, I'm not sure it would be irrelevant on all parts of the K&A.

Slightly off topic but related to the casting adrift problem. Does anyone use their anchor on the opposite side to the bank to minimise the effect of being cast adrift? I'm particularly thinking of at night whilst asleep. If this is a dumb comment please ignore.

Firstly, I should say that I know absolutely nothing about the "Westwood Saga" but from what I have seen I gather that all has not gone well with this build? I've looked on Apollo Duck and seen the ad for this boat. On the surface it looks quite an attractive proposition... just a minor detail... I don't want to be paying £72950. However, the worrying thing is that to rank novice all might appear well but maybe all is not well??? To the points... would/should a survey pick up on any of the suggested issues?