Idunhoe
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It is I believe the bottle that is lighter not the gas. I also believe that the light weight bottles are only available in 6kg size. Though I wait to be corrected on both points. The bit that gets me having forked out the extra for the light weight bottle last time, and also as an old git I do find it much easier to handle, I have been informed that the premium is payable every time.
I think that they were produced more for the caravan market rather than for boat use so a good source of supply might well be caravan outlets.
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I really think that for the sort of money you are paying moving to a marina would be your best option.
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It might give access to the gas locker for the purpose of getting your fresh water hose, or whatever else might be stored in there, but when it came to changing gas bottles I believe such a contraption would be a positive hindrance.
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I have done my boat myself every two years and like virtually every other job it's all about preparation. It is easier to pressure wash as soon as the boat is out of the water. The next, really messy, task is to wire brush all the loose old blacking off, for this I use an angle grinder fitted with a cup brush. Be warned if you do this properly you will get seriously dirty. Apply the first coat of blacking with a brush making sure that you get into all the corners. When this is dry apply the second (and subsequent coats) with a small roller. You will find that blacking is much easier to apply if it is first warmed, I stand the can in a bowl of hot water, refilled as required, which does the trick. The boat can then go back in the water when the final coat is dry.
Those boatyards offering a 24 hour turnaround (power wash plus blacking) cannot in my humble opinion be seriously offering an even half decent job.
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I agree Blackrose, and I too have steered a wide variety of craft from an equally wide variety of positions but I believe that the visibility to the sides and particularly astern in the boat under discussion if far from ideal.
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From the original post I assumed that 'looked at' meant just that, but I am now thinking it meant looked at an on line advert. If the forward steering position is indeed the only one then I would not even consider the boat. Visibility ahead would be bad, at best, and to the side and astern non existent. Peter Nicholls produced some of his smaller inspection launches with only forward steering but even these have excellent front and side visibility, his larger launches also have the option of tiller steering. I don't know if others will agree but I believe that the wheel is on the wrong side of the boat, being on the starboard side would mean that the steerer would find it interesting when passing other boats.
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If you looked at the boat then surely you would have noticed if there was a tiller. It is almost impossible to answer your question from just the one photograph.
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Start a post accusing all on here of being pompous old gossips who have nothing better to do with their Retirement and then have the nerve to complain about what you perseve as a personal attack beggars belief.
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Absolutely beautiful. What length is she?
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I am more concerned about the gas bottle position, which judging by the regulator and pipe is in use. Not exactly up to BSS requirements
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There is currently a 50ft boat listed on the duck...http://apolloduck.net/328571 might interest you
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The Hollybush at Denford on the Caldon Canal is one of the most dog friendly pubs I know
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The wide beam berths have two numbers so to my simple mind that suggests that a wide beam in say berths 24/25 will be paying the best part of 6K a year as both berth 24 and 25 are listed at 2.9k each
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When using the tiller arm for support make sure the tiller pin is actually in.......
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If the bottom chamber is full and I am going downhill I count it as a blessing. The overflow will more than cope with the water from the top chamber and having water in the bottom chamber makes the otherwise very difficult paddle gear much easier to operate.
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I think the mobile number should be removed and the OP ask for a PM for contact details
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The most cringeworthy name I have encountered is that of a cruiser called R SWIPE. Now a name like that would put me off buying the boat.
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As a group Black Prince hirers are no better of worse than others, including private boaters, there is good and bad in all
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Thats great thanks. The Springer was not in great condition tbh. I was going to gut the whole inside refit kitchen, bathroom everything was knackered. The survey stated even the wooden ply floor should be renewed, the diesel tank removed and rust cleaned up underneath before replacing, batteries knackered, loads of small stuff. It was a big project anyway!
From that description I would say that it was seriously overpriced. What value did your surveyor give it?
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Would you drive a car without any brakes?
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There is a control box for Ivy House lift bridge on both sides of the canal, though why anyone would want to use the one on the off side is beyond me. The towpath side box was installed earlier this year and certainly makes a lot easier, particularly for single handers.
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It's not a proposal it's already happening. I believe the end result could well be one less passage a day.
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I too like to cruise in the winter and like the vast majority pay a 12 month licence to enable me to cruise for 12 months not 8 months.
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This is a fairly common arrangement on smaller GRP cruisersBut then again I remember looking at a boat some years ago that had the gas cylinder strapped to, and completely exposed, on the stern deck, pretty much where it would get struck by a boat from behind, yet the owner assured me the BSC examiner had passed it.
Radio reception inside the boat
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Get an aerial outside the boat...simples