[Current price of fuels....]

This morning at Better Boating in Reading was 70p/ ltr before duty.

 

Similar a couple of weeks ago at Caversham Boat Services on Frys Island, Reading - but their diesel pump was out of action when I passed by last week and they weren't sure whether it would be fixable.

 

Other prices in this area are much more expensive.

 

 

Many thanks

[Current price of fuels....]

Does anyone know the best price for diesel on the Thames at the moment, south of Abingdon?

[Thrupp -- confusing signs]

it was - I was in London... but normally my boat looks locked up and I am in...

 

are you coming back this way?

 

 

Currently at the Trout at Tadpole bridge, will not be coming back your way. Carrying on down the Thames for the rest of the month. Nearest stop could be the Trout Inn at Wolvercote again if there are moorings tommorrow night.

[Thrupp -- confusing signs]

er... how come you all came past and didn't say hello!!!!!

 

Pah....

 

I could have waved at you!

 

 

Your boat appeared all locked up Friday night and Saturday morning. So I carried on cruising.

[Thrupp -- confusing signs]

Left there this morning, good moorings.

Now on the Thames by the Trout, scorching hot.

[Renaming]

Euryalus was built in Greenock Glasgow, commisioned in 1964.

 

In 1974 I joined HMS Sheffield that was being completed in Barrow, indeed quite a few Grey Funnel line ships were built in Barrow including big submarines.

 

 

 

I worked on Sheffield in Barrow, I can remember there was an explosion on her during a night shift resulting in a section of the back end being replaced.

Then at the commissioning party at a local hotel the custom I beleive was for the officers to stack their hats one on top of the other berfore dinner.

These then fell over.

So all in all she was probably laden with bad luck from the start.

[Renaming]

Electric Dream

[Canal Boat Superstitions]

The golden rivet!

 

Very good, although I believe it went over head high for some.

 

 

Also no whistling onboard, or so I am told.

Or is this for sea farers?

[Sealing a GRP bath]

Hi,

 

If you want a lasting seal, follow the method I have set out. Agreed you do get most of the problems with GRP baths, especially the cheap ones.

 

More expensive, thicker ones are not so prone to flexing and have similar quailities to cast iron baths.

 

For ease of installation and a satisfactory job, consider one of the better GRP units, but check the thickness of the GRP - there are several grades.

 

What ever you do make sure that the bath is properly supported on cross members and proctect the surface when working near it, especially when tiling.

 

It's much easier to use a generous amount of sealant during the installation rather than have perennial problems with leaks after installation.

 

During inspections of houses I found that many problems with timber defects are found in the bathroom floor, behind the bath panel - the first sign being a collapse of the bath due to failure of the floor due to chronic leaks.

 

Woodworm is usually prevelant around in the timbers around the WC pan - men are poor shots and never aware of their shortcomings.

 

 

Thanks Leo.

 

 

Leo.

[Sealing a GRP bath]

TBH it is only plastic/grp baths that have given me grief, the old cast ones seemed much easier to seal owing to their stiffer structure. Others will know better than me though.

 

 

Thanks, will wait.

[Sealing a GRP bath]

Would there be any further advice for sealing a cast bath, IE. filling with say, hot water to allow for expansion.

Or are these tips just for GRP baths?

[Liverpool Boat Co.]

So that's what the floppy drive is for, these days!

 

I press a button on the front of my computor and out pops a cup holder

[webasto working?]

Ditto

[Gold Licence]

Was that a Gold Licence - I understood from BW that online applications for these were not possible?

 

Sorry to confuse, mine was canal and river only

[Gold Licence]

Applied online to renew my BW licence Wednesday night, recieved new licence this morning.

[Photos of your boat.]

clicky

 

Here's mine

[Narrowboatworld forum]

Have they got a thread about this forum?

 

Richard

 

Carlt has just started the ball rolling.

[Where did you get the cash for your narrowboat exactly?]

I started a long time ago with nothing, and I've still got most of it left.

[Canal Artist wanted]

Hope this is the right place for this request, does anyone know how I can get hold of the Artist Will Jones, we need some foxgloves painting on our boat

as someone called it a Heart drug the other day, now I do know that the heart drug digoxin is derived from the digitalis (foxglove plant) so instead of keep explaining

that we are the Foxglove, not that we mind and I know you will ask why we didn't just call it Foxglove, well we wanted to be different,

but when you here people going buy saying things like ooooh thats a heart drug, or ooohh thats poisen, Well anyway

I saw this boat with some exquisite flowers painted on it and they said the Artist was a Will Jones from around Hanbury Wharf or smewhere

does anyone have a contact number or anything ?

Thanks very much

 

 

Will Jones Signwriter 01684577540

[LOCKING FILLER CAP]

Locking fuel and other caps do exist in the same format as the popular deck style fittings-

 

 

They are intended for a market where money isn't so much of a concern and I don't think available anywhere direct to the public, however I can probably get them if their was the demand?

 

If anybody is interested I will get a price for them, fingers crossed it wont be that silly.

 

 

Saying that I haven't seen many cheap super yachts about!

 

 

Please count me in for one also Gary.

 

MIKE P

[Water Storeage]

I've never seen the reasoning behind this argument, all the water in the world is at least 100 million years old so replacing your water with new stuff is a bit of a nonsense.. I've never drained a water tank in my life.

 

Why do we have a sell by date on bottled water? It doesn't make sense does it.