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alan_fincher

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  1. Indeed. Buying direct from Morris generally seems to be one of the most expensive ways to buy their oils!
  2. Good call! You can see small loops both at the top and at the bottom of each upright, so looks very much like it is to hang three pennants from. Just one thing though - Why on earth would you?
  3. AFAIK Morris don't do a 15W/40 in their Golden Film range - a shame as it meets the API CC requirement. I've not re-checked, but over the years I have used Morris 10W/40, 20W/40, and straight monograde SAE 30. I thing those are your only possibilities for Golden Film API-CC.
  4. I don't know if Ed Boden still includes the Southern Oxford in his patch - he certainly used to advertise that he covered it. If he still does I would highly recommend him - he has a habit of sorting out what other engineers have missed, and prices are competitive.
  5. Exactly this! ^^^^^^^^ It was a good paint, and very easy to use. However the Woolworths that I used to buy from seldom had more than about 3 fairly small cans in any chosen colour. Painting an entire cabin would usually involve you visiting multiple stores!
  6. An a previous boat the "ceiling" above" quite a small and enclosed shower was the same as throughout the whole boat - 9mm oak faced plywood. This suffered no damage at all from hot and steamy showers.
  7. Perhaps you could persuade them to relabel the items listed as "Bargeware"! As far as I'm concerned that is bad enough to keep encountering on eBay, without actually finding it turning up in a museum.
  8. Last time I inquired of a merchant local to my home, (North West Herts), the rate I was quoted was very much less than any quoted above, and from memory would only have yielded around £6 per 110 Ah battery. So I didn't bother at the time. This means I now have about half a dozen 110 Ah batteries stacked outside, as well as a couple of much smaller car batteries. Perhaps I should try again? Although our boats are berthed in the Weedon area, I really don't fancy carting all these batteries up there, as we usually travel with 2 large dogs in the boot, and I don't fancy staking batteries on the rear seat..
  9. CRT registration no 519542 is certainly not from 1992. I don't have access to the data at the moment, but is well post 2000. As Tony suggests though a modern CRT number is not a meaningful way of determining boat age -one of my boats has a 6 digit 501vxxx number, but was built in 1936.
  10. Does Chris Pink still have an interest in it, or has it at some stage before now changed hands?
  11. https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1387222361915474?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment
  12. I think I would be wanting to sort out/replace all the cables before assuming the fault is definitely with the alternator. The state of things where terminations are crimped to iffy looking conductors wouldn't give me any confidence at all.
  13. This one keeps coming around. https://www.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/narrow-boats-traditional-for-sale/655585 £94,995 seems a bit much if it is quoted as over-plated. It claims original hull sides were iron rather than steel. I can't recall if that is correct or not, but must admit I always thing the construction of these boats was welded steel. Perhaps I'm wrong? EDIT: It seems I was wrong! On checking I now believe the actual construction was welded wrought iron, (other than the bottoms which were wood, as the boats were of composite construction.
  14. Have Braunston Marina somehow managed to put an extra zero on the asking price?
  15. I recall that when there was a massive failure of one of the sidewalls on a lock towards the end of the Aylesbury arm that CRT had access to plans that they assumed would show how it was built. I may have this slightly wrong, but my memory is that they actually found that the brickwork was about double the thickness of what the plans actually showed.
  16. My first reaction is that if you want to drill through the base-plate at various positions then the boat will need to be raised from the ground by more than the length of a suitable drill armed with a suitable drill bit. Many narrow boat docking arrangements would not raise the boat up sufficiently. Once you have the holes how would you propose to measure how much solid steel you have before it changes to scale or rust? You have really got to trust whoever is welding up those holes, and hope they don't get t sightly wrong at any point!
  17. A British Waterways Maximum Craft Dimensions document that I have a filed copy of lists the following maxima for the GU. Brentford to Braunston 76 feet Braunston to Camp Hill 78 feet The fact that Progress has been able to make it to the outskirts of Birmingham certainly proves that an oft quoted maximum length of 72 feet for the GU is decidedly pessimistic
  18. A good analysis of the situation, I think.
  19. Assuming the damaged door, (is there only one?), will lift off the hinges, it might be worth asking Martin Kedian, who posts on here from time to time, if he could fabricate a replacement. Martin is the expert of all things hatch related, and I'm sure would give an honest answer. Alternatively if might even be possible to straighten what you have.
  20. By any measure almost 14 years is a long while to leave a dormant thread before trying to bring it back to life! I hoped for a moment that the much missed Bones might have started posting again, but sadly no!
  21. ..... and in rear ends! The whole thing was frankly a Marmite boat. I wonder where it has ended up.
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  23. Interesting footage. However without squinting too hard and for too long, it looks to me that most of the SandCC motor boats pictured are not the Charles Hill welded boats, and are instead the wooden types identified by a number, rather than a name. The most obvious identification in distant shots is that the wooden boats had their motor in a conventional engine hole ahead of the living accommodation to the rear of it - so the exhaust comes from where most of us are used to. The Charles Hill boats had the engine room to the rear, with the living accommodation ahead of it. That makes the engine exhaust at the back (nice for the steerer!) There may have been some examples of this in the film, but if I I didn't see it on a quick run through.
  24. Widgeon (aka Thaxted) Northwich Boat Co 72 Traditional for sale UK, Northwich Boat Co Used boat sales, Northwich Boat Co Narrow Boats For Sale Historical Work boat with existing busin - Apollo Duck
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