roland elsdon

It clearly works as there are no ants. Unlike the eco fan which just goes round and round, and takes the kettle space up on the fire. Talking of which a sign of the times just walked from blisworth tunnel mouth to the top of the locks. It's a cold evening well for us australian types anyway . Our boat is the only boat with a coal fire going. All others have various whines roars and hisses from exhaust outlets. And no the museum toilets are closed so it's the bucket in the engine room again.

i don't have to move I've only been here 13 days, I'll move to the next ring tomorrow

95 amp alternator and ardvarc

Just bought an eco fan wonderful. Next step is to put in on top of the lister and connect to the alternator for the bow thruster thingy. regarding the electric oven man answer is simple.yes you can, have a spare alternator or three and fry your bacon on the casing while the oven is on. What part of watts out is less than required watts in don't you get. 2.4 kW plus losses of an alternator is scary. We have. A 300 watt 12v immersion and a 95 watt alternator. You can hear the engine note change when the stat kicks in...

Ebay Australia has Victron mppt controllers at much lower prices than in uk. Nearly brought one back when I finished work last month. Now kicking self as current controller stops charging as 13.5 volts for some reason.

Sorry can't resist. its too fat to go to my pre arranged of line mooring so I'll just go on the pound the marina was located on and sit flatly on the towpath forever. The clarion call " it's not my fault"

Warwick is fine leamington feels dodgy on the approach but have never had problems there. Time moves on. Banbury used to be no go 80s and 90s, but now ok. However Nuneaton and bits of Stoke have had trouble evolving. Removing lead from petrol and the preference for trouble makers to play on the net has reduced problems...

2 salaries loads overtime and double and night shifts, live on one, no children 500 quid cars No time to spend money so save money , bought a repossession repaired with help of interest free credit , sorted it out sold to some person, repeat, repeat repeat. Each move financed by capital gain and overtime.

I had a mortgage for 2 years then I worked out what they cost over 25 years so I stopped. havent played that game again, other means of buying property are available.

No grommets where the wires pass through the timber? Please leave this boat where it belong London.

If the battery was flat everything would work once engine fires unless the battery is flat and the charge relays died . Our inverter failed today, just about to tear it out when I swapped the red key with a spare. Immediately fired up. The keys wear and are different lengths...

Buy boat 1984 " engine needs a top end overhaul the bwb and willow wren thrashed it. ". nod wisely and carry on. after 6 years of use including towing butty bit smoky. clean injectors. Carry on Sell in 2001 . Tell buyer it's a bit smoky could do with top end doing. He nods baffled. Caught up with next owner in 2005 " has top end been done?" No. 21 years without heads off mainly towing. its now been done and as understand it "gives trouble" change the oil and filters and leave alone.

I'm going to take the horse boat out that day.

Is an oak anode an acorn?

Mike and Lindy's boats on the left, an eclectic hire fleet, boats sourced from different builders, all with long names. Remember rescuing one of them after a sinking incident at Leighton or grove and towing it back. Lethally covered in diesel and sump oil, and just the wrong length to work with a full length motor.

Thank you for your advice and permission about radio not bothering canal users. Having been away in the antipodes educating the colonials for the last 8 months I have of course missed the archers for a while. Fortunately whilst I have been away my mother has recorded all episodes on her new cassette player thingy. I am intending to present my radiogram and the aforementioned player to the local radio repair man on my return, to ascertain if they can be connected. With the help of our new inverter gizmo, I shall then proceed in the direction of braunston with the stereo sonic speakers on the cabin top catching up with my favorite show. The volume will have to be substantial as the lister had its silencer modified in the 1960s by a boatman with a mooring pin, and I am unable to get acme brand batteries for my hearing aids any more. I will be continuously cruising daily in the area please feel free to give me a wave. With my new propeller I shall certainly give you one.

Throw smart gauge in cut buy cheapest batterys Charge " when you can be bothered "or when lights dim repeat repeat repeat when time spent from charge to light goes dim is 50% shorter replace batteries. thats what's going to happen anyway.

The board had too many boats in the 60s and 70s "too many boats" being written about the issue. Hence the shortening of the ex fleet boats into maintainance boats, the creation of hire cruisers and the mothballing ( shameful neglect and abandonment)!of boats at wend over and braunston. Would be surprised if carrying having finished they commissioned more boats unless they were work flats and maintance boats which as I recal were built at bwb owned yards bulls bridge Brentford and i think Leeds for the wide boats. however logic and bwb were often far apart so someone may come along with info.

You sound like a man who doesn't need a different boat but simply a butty to go with your lovely tug. A lovely family boat to tow along with benefits of exercising children and dogs and acres of space. Do the world a favour buy a butty. The familial complaints can easily be managed by dropping the cross straps and distancing yourself from disharmony with a nice long 90 ft long line....

Always had h series listers.one had trunking ha2 two others hb3 and hb2 no trunking. The one with trunking got hot, the others never. The reason for the overheating was tracked down to god knows how much dog hair around the air cooling system from the years the boat had been operated by owners whose dog enjoyed the engine room. The stuff h series engines draw in by the big front fan is incredible.

All boats have a wibbly bit . A good surveyor will find it. On repair another bit will promptly attain wibbly bit status.. Even new boats have wibbly bits, on the best it's hard to spot on the worst its blindingly obvious

I think it's an old narrow welded converted Thames conservancy barge which used to be at the end of the Keys arm at Stockton when I lived there in the mid 90s. Owned then by Eric.

Yep done the tapping thing myself. However that's easy if you plan for it. Got horribly caught out doing a favour ( replacing porthole glass) once, when on removing screws realised they were heads only, cut short and ponged in. The porthole being sikaflex on. All of a sudden a quick job turned into one involving drills taps and threading. Then we realised there was no clearance for the tap and they were going to cut into the lining, requiring woodwork repairs. A farce and you wondered what else the professional boatbuilder had done.

Before you start attacking the screws find out how the vents are fastened if it's retaining nuts unsecured and inaccessible then the nuts will fall behind the lining and you will have nothing to screw to. Alternatively you may find vents sealed down with silicone and screws pushed in on a bed of silicone with no nut. Whatever happens you have to be able to get at the nut as well as the screw.

We moored thaxted at Newbury in 1999 and had hardly tied( to the rings) when an obnoxious individual fell out of a house so new the paint had barely dried. She stated please leave we don't need your sort here. I was looking slightly dodgy at the time admittedly donkey jacket, soggy jeans and Dms. I looked her up and down and said what sort is that then? Oh you water gypsy's. I said to her very calmly, how do you know my wife isn't a Dr and me a nurse consultant on holiday?. At this point the level of abuse escalated and she told me she would call the police if I didn't move. I mentioned the mooring rings mooring signs and still wet paint on the rabbit ( rabid hutch) in an endearing fashion. She returned to the hutch. The next morning her neighbour ( an elderly lady) came out as we started the engine, and said what a lovely noise and could we hang around while she found her camera... You can't win.