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roland elsdon

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  1. Broke our hearts last time we saw what was our pride and joy. Even in our worst financial periods we cleaned and brass polished. Painted repaired re skinned the cabin replaced the range , put on steel gunnels and had cloths made. All done by hours of overtime and our unskilled labour. Last time we saw her at Weedon couldnt bring ourselves to look properly at the hideous mess. And its Thaxted. Widgeon was a temporary Willow Wren name, appertaining to a short period of ownership. Less time than we owned her.
  2. Ive only put together the old one. It was very difficult and messy. Rust dust frozen bolts warped panels. In the scheme of things not too bad , Given that the whole boat was by then in kit form. At one point we had no bottom no footings, no gunnels no conversion. The Rayburn was by then on the dockside where I made new back plates and put it back together, cleaned out the boiler and rebuilt it. Once the footings and bottoms were in it was dropped in to the boat. I then had to put the floors back in and used trolley jacks and rollers to shove it into the right place. Then I put a new top on the boat. Fitted it out. and finally - lit Rayburn. Endless hot water cooking and central bleating, from september to may. Still miss it 28 years on.
  3. We just hung the Rayburn off the railway bridge below common moor , deconverted a bit of boat and swung it in with a chain hoist. However that was in the days when boats were more diy. At one point the rayburn was hanging of the bridge mid channel when we lifted it from boat a to boat b. Did enjoy the 80s
  4. When we were at university we used to have a little business fitting kill switch's to students cars .Many student had cars because the courses involved 6 month work placements with salaries. Any ford escort or viva was easy for the crims in uxbridge and slough. Only a few keys. We used to regularly have to go and find my wifes Singer Vogue until we did this. You could start it with a halfpenny. one day I got into my spitfire outside the swan and bottle span the engine and hit the hidden switch. Oil went everywhere. Little shits had stolen the oil pressure gauge and voltmeter, but hadnt been able to take the car.
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  6. You can circumvent those switches with a spanner in about 30 secs if you undo a terminal. if you put the spanner across maybe 2 secs. if you want an interrupter put it in the positive feed from the key to the starter. or get a handstart engine. Or a bollinder.
  7. You are thinking your priorities wrong. We can get at least 20 bikes under cover and out of sight. You just have to have the right boat. Our last living boat had a tandem 2 road racing bikes 2 mountain bikes and my going to work bike on board. Never put on roof. Boat far too shiny
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  11. Or 175000 for canalside flat in desirable town. with allocated parking ( address storage washing machine etc) Decent narrowboat 60000 865000 @4% = 34000 pa . Plus pensions. Screw Lunun.
  12. I can dig them out later in the year. They are 70 feet from the ashby canal.
  13. Yes. They are. We have a set of Star class butty drawings buried in our storage. Very poor quality but good enough to work out what had been changed on our boat.
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