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  1. J R ALSOP
    I say rebuild it and then let all the wide beam boats pay for it, they owe all us narrow boats a fortune in lack of licence fees payed for taking up so much room.
  2. J R ALSOP

    Paint

    J R ALSOP replied to RickH's topic in General Boating

    Do not forget to sand down, or else your paint will fall off.
  3. J R ALSOP
    I have a spare pair of wellies you could have!
  4. J R ALSOP
    I was at Marsworth yesterday by the Red Lion bridge, and all I saw was was I posted yesterday, I am so confident that I what I saw I would willingly drink. It is old growth being pushed up by new growth, call me tomorrow on my mobile and I will meet you there and demonstrate.
  5. J R ALSOP
    From 1980-84 I worked the trip boat Holland from there, all trips started and finished there. It was always known as the Town Wharf and everybody respected it. I was told it belonged to one of the Universities. I am afraid it is "the johny come lately brigade" who think because they have bought a boat the the canal/river come with it.
  6. J R ALSOP
    How do you get the second hand blade past the hour and minutes blades?
  7. J R ALSOP
    Are you sure it is not this years growth of underwater vegetation pushing off last years growth, it has always happened every year I can remember, if you stir it with a stick it usually disperses in small cloudy bits.
  8. J R ALSOP
    Have just ordered 50 to hire out at various locations in GU south. The first ones will be in Little Venice for the May Day Bank Holiday week end, and if all goes well move them up to Braunston for the historic boat show to lend out for people who need to get through the site quickly. No previous experience needed as full tuition will be given.
  9. J R ALSOP
    So what's wrong with the engine at the back?!, have you been going backwards all this time.
  10. J R ALSOP
    Mikuni MX40 12 years and still going strong, so long as battery voltage is OK you will have no problems.
  11. J R ALSOP
    Do you not have a the locate my iPod set up so that you can locate it on Google maps?
  12. J R ALSOP

    Hatton

    J R ALSOP replied to NB Lola's topic in General Boating

    In the 60's the normal time was 1hour 50 mins. that was with two people with a pair with 50 tons on board, we used to come down empty in 1hour 40 mins. They were the days, and not another boat in sight all day.
  13. J R ALSOP
    put as many on the bottom as you put on the sides, I see lots of boats out of the water and believe me the bottom does get affected, have it grit blasted and two pack coated. only had mine out twice in 34 years and is as goo as new unlike some 10 year olds that have had nothing done to them, only the sides.
  14. J R ALSOP
    A load of tosh you can still fit "flying saucer" type, but being a examiner and gas safe engineer if you are cutting a 100mm hole through roof for vent I would fit a mushroom, the "flying saucer" will only pass 3000sq.mm, but a mushroom will pass 7857 sq.mm for the same hole. Keep your ventilation up to the requirement of your gas and fuel burning appliances, the boat and furnishings will be better for it.
  15. J R ALSOP
    Are we going to re-enact it again!. perhaps some time in May.
  16. J R ALSOP
    Sounds like air in the damper on top of the injector pump, they can either just stop or race off, only had thirty years experience but I have been known to be wrong.
  17. J R ALSOP
    I have had a 3KV Sterling for ten years, never missed a beat, after twenty years of everything else, I got rid of the lot and went totally Sterling never regretted it, always batteries full, can not praise it enough.
  18. J R ALSOP
    I've been spliced three times, it just gets better
  19. J R ALSOP
    What about the friction plates that go between the all steel plates?
  20. J R ALSOP
    "That's my boy"
  21. J R ALSOP
    They were bought for converting to office accommodation along with the ones at Paddington Basin and Tottenham Lock, but they were all pie in the sky.
  22. J R ALSOP
    The boat is called "Batman", they seem to be in the news all over
  23. J R ALSOP
    Wood,Hall and Heward were on site today 10.00 to work out cost of raising, waiting for Cart to see if price was OK, looks to me that blade of rudder was trapped (no sign of fenders) although that might not have saved situation. Having raised dozens of boats this will be quite easy.
  24. J R ALSOP
    I have a Bukh 2G105, 29hp at 1700 rpm one of only two in the country, it is still like new, only had oil and fuel filters, it is 34 years old and has never missed a beat, uses no oil, does not smoke and can be seen at Ricknmansworth in the tug of war. Pushes my boat 26 tons like a dream.
  25. J R ALSOP
    I have three, I bought them from Water Travel in 1979 along with pigeon box and 4 port holes for the grand sum of £40.00.
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