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I was advised that a common solution to the thick cable problem associated with charging the bow thruster battery is to use a dedicated charger plugged into the 240v mains. A suitable charger is something like the Victron 12v BLUE power 6A waterproof charger. Hope this helps

Have to agree with all of that. I was only thinking of the time factor, it's a lovely stretch which I walk quite often. I did forget to mention that their is a turning point part way along near Cranes Lock which, if I remember correctly, is the 5th lock along from Fleckney. Note: Fleckney chip shop closed Monday lunch time

Just for clarification, did you mean Lock opening times at WATFORD and Foxton ? Regards p.s Tafkam-Have you tried the route out on CanalplanAc, free online route planner at http://canalplan.org.uk/

The leg from Buckby down to Foxton is nice and after the Watford flight is 20+ miles lock free with plenty of mooring spots Take a trip up the Market Harborough Arm, The Harborough basin is a good spot to rest up and replenish stocks as it is only a short walk into town. You can moor just outside the basin or pay £5 (I think) to more inside the basin. The leg from Foxton To Harborough is lock free but has one swing bridge (waterways key required) The trip up to saddington turn may be worth while but if you continue through the tunnel you have 12(?) sets of double locks down to Kilby bridge with very few mooring spots and, obviously, the same number of locks coming back. If you do decide to go through Saddington tunnel then a good spot to pull up is at bridge 73 where it is just a short walk into Fleckney which has a chip shop, chinese take away, Co-op supermarket and a post office/convenience store. After Fleckney its all locks. If you continue past Kilby heading towards Leicester then it is worth noting that from Kilby on all the locks have anti-vandal locks on so, again, a key is required. Diesel can be obtained from Foxton (although it is sometimes difficult to get near the pump) and Debdale Wharf (between Foxton and Saddington) No Diesel is available from Market Harborough, although other services are available No Diesel is available from Kilby I also understand that Diesel is no longer available from North Kilworth as it appears the yard is shutting down (Pleased to here differently if anyone knows the latest position at North Kilworth) Whatever you do have a good trip Regards

I used Paul smith of Narrowboat Surveys who is based in the midlands, no problem in recommending him Contact details can be found here http://www.narrowboatsurveys.co.uk/page12.html Home page here http://www.narrowboatsurveys.co.uk/ Very thorough job Good luck with your purchase

Try this from the links section of this forum http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php...mp;#entry138769

As garry says the official site is www.rarlab.com Here is the first part of the Trend labs report "A WinRAR-lose situation June 20th, 2007 by Trend Micro If users wanted to download WinRAR, the popular archiver tool to process RAR and ZIP files, where would they go? Chances are, they’d type in the name of the tool itself and just add .com (www.winrar.com) in their browser’s address bar. Unbeknownst to them, however, the said site is not the official site from which the legitimate tool could be downloaded–that would be www.rarlab.com, actually. TrendLabs has just received reports on how unsuspecting users could end up downloading malware, instead of WinRAR, onto their systems. When they try to click on the “Free Software Downloads” button in www.winrar.com (as seen below), they would be led to another page where they are prompted to click on “Download Winrar”. More of the report can be found at http://blog.trendmicro.com/index.php?s=win...utton=SEARCH%21

IMPORTANT!! DO NOT download the version of winrar from english.ircfast.com This is one of the download sites listed on www.winrar.com As this contains malware (identified aqnd cleaned by AVG) I did not try the other download site listed, once bitten... etc,. IMPORTANT UPDATE!! Do not use www.winrar.com Read this Trend report for full details http://blog.trendmicro.com/index.php?s=win...utton=SEARCH%21 Or do a google search for 'winrar malware' The correct site is shown in the trend report

Liverpool boats have a quite pronounced bow in the roof which gives plenty of headroom for someone of 6ft 5"

I am in the second day of trying out my new T-Mobile 3G Usb modem. So far have only been able to connect via gprs at 56k but have not yet found a suitable spot to connect at faster speed. Package costs approx £30/month for 18 months (through carphone wharehouse) with a 3Gb monthly allowance. very neat little item and installed on windows without any problems, software for windows installs itself directly from the sim card. Any tips on finding good areas to access 3g on the canal system?

Hi Leonara I have sent you a personal message with details of a boxed Victron Isolation transformer that I will not be using, hope this helps regards Reg