Drayke

Does your friend not have a manual they can read through to check for any setting? Is it possible that the batteries have got wired up incorrectly seeing as how two of them have been changed recently? Just asking.

This morning on the K&A Hilperton 0700Hrs

Caen Hill flight closed to all boating till further notice.

Yes you probably will get condensation, we have this type of material fitted on our widebeam and get quite a lot, but it's no big thing to wipe it off.

Now that's a silly thing to do?

You could try taking a datum line across from one gunwale to the other then measure from there.

We had this same problem so put some carpet on the floor under the bed curing the problem.

We have a wide-beam 11’ X 60’ never had any trouble. We have done all of the Kennet & Avon, been up the River Severn to Stourport via the Gloucester & Sharpness, done the Thames, Lechlade to Brentford, and the Grand union from Brentford to Camps hill Birmingham. So, don’t worry about it just do it and enjoy yourselves.

Some hopper windows you can take the brackets off.

Don't do it in plastic as it breaks to easily. You could always have a new drain off point cut just in front of your pram hood, with a metal diverter int he centre of the new drain off I've been thinking of doing this or much easier to pay someone else to do it for me.

This is how I fixed it on my boat, it’s a piece of aluminium angle glued on with Gorilla Grip glue.

We have a wide beam 11’ wide and have in the last two years travelled the length of the K&A several times, and have just returned from a trip up the GU all the way up to Bordesley (Camps Hill) never had any troubles passing any other wide beams, lots of them. We did find the antics of some narrowboaters quite amusing as they passed wide beams.

It could be tooooooo narrow even for a narrowboat by then, if my trip down the K&A at the moment is anything to go by.

They would need quite a few of these deadend places judging by the numbers I have seen.

Corrected that for you.

How do they know if a boat licenced or not if it does not display a Licence, Registration Number or a Name on the boat??? Wouldn’t mind betting that the numbers could be a lot higher.

The pound between Braunston and Napton Junction should be good for that, bit tight through the bridge hole though.?

Don't you mean 8 hours?

We informed C&RT on our arrival at Brentford back in May of this year, that the wife needed emergency dental treatment and that it was going to take a few weeks to get it sorted, no problems with overstaying on C&RTs part, just so long as you keep them informed. It took five weeks in total to get sorted.

I must disagree with you on cruisers not mooring in a selfish way, you will quite often see, shall we say a 60Ft space, along come a cruiser and plonks/moors right in the middle of said mooring space. They seem very reluctant to moor to close to any Narrow or Wide-beam. When a wide-beam moors at an inconvenient spot it IS more noticeable than a Narrowboat mooring at an inconvenient spot, but it still does not make it OK for the narrow boater to moor there. Whilst travelling along the GU I have seen quite a few Narrowboats moored near bridge holes, on bends and opposite trees that overhang the canal from the offside by as much as half the width of the canal, and yes, the odd wide-beam moored inconsiderately.

When we went past this marina a few days ago there was already some wide-beams moored there. The owners of these boats must have TOOOOO much money.

Didn't notice that, must go to Specsavers.?

12' 6" to Camps Hill.

If wide-beams conform to the stated C&RT dimension W L H D for wide canals then narrow boat minded boaters should have nothing to complain about.

Think you need to recheck the figures again, the amounts shown are for wide-beams.