Lol

I think the lilly covered water is here (you can see moored cruiser):

or this clicky

I think i have a problem with my rudder, but first the question how far should a rudder rotate from parallel to the boat centre line, is there an ideal maximum, can it go too far, should there be a physical stop, is there a stall position? the reason I ask is that due to the extensions to my base plate to allow for a step to enable someone to climb out of the water my rudder is unable to rotate anywhere near as far as other boats in the boatyard this makes manovering more difficult, with the rudder full round I stil get almost as much forward as sideways thrust someone suggested this limiting was so that in reverse the tiller movement was also limited so as not to knock anyone off the cruiser deck in a rudder collision - some new regulation? I can find no other reference to this I am considering modifying the steps or the rudder

I didn't think I would ever start a topic in the history section, but there is a first time for everything I was bored and rooting around the web about boaty things and in particular the Bridgewater some time ago I came across this site and it sparked boyhood memories of fishing in the basin we used to call "the boatyard" it was full of weed and lilly and loads of big Tench, what we didn't realise was how many boats were in there some of the photos below are amazing, all those boats...they were according to the locals mainly removed some being used to shore up the bank at the back of the basin which is now a flat promenade, the rest were buried and the lot covered with backfill from the local building of new houses and the broken up stone pier, the lot then having a membrane and clay put on top (the whole basin is now about 6 foot deep, in general 3ft deeper than th canal) finally the pilings were removed boat graveyard go to "After Coal" page for pics

me too, although I am in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

its difficult to imagine anything more frustrating - welcome

just to get a general thing going here would it be possible for someone to come up with a definative list of all builders and the numbers of boats they have built (isnt there one in the Waterways World annual?) for the puposes of a poll then we could have a feel for satisfaction I am assuming the forum system only allows one vote per person? at its simplest the poll could be like those toilet things at service stations - before the statisticians start I know its got problems but its just a germ of an idea?

fair enough

go to the ironmongers and buy two nails, knock one in the wall and hang a picture on it, its a picture hanger, knock the other one in the wall and hang a coat on it, its a coat hanger - both still just nails..........

correctly should read commonly more pedantry, they are one and the same and do eactly the same job for different reasons, they accumulate pressure, one from the pump the other from heat induced expansion and are correctly called accumulators (or hydropneumatic accumulators) they are designed specifically for the storage (accumulation) of liquid under pressure retaining the imparted energy for re-use

not sure why he is an idiot, if it was my boat moored next to the one on fire and i had time I think I would do the same?

Nice web site, nice people reasonable factory compared to some They are just up the road from us and as such were on our list of prospective builders (wanted fairly local so I could keep an eye) when we had finalised the list and sorted in order of prefernce have to say they were well and truly bottom i have been on a couple of boats shown on the web site and as you do when you go on someones new boat "ohhh its lovely" I dont usually lie, but.... have to be careful here but their latest boat was £80,000+ and to me looked more like one done at the advertised price