roland elsdon

Think the ‘designer’ woke up after a cheese induced nightmare and ordered his dream. Flinking blip.

Canal time boats were of this type. 2 hatches each side of bow. Every working boat built meant you walked the planks to deploy off the bow. Yes you can fall off in the process.

No . Didnt matter.composite bottoms on small boats so damp/ wet bilge anyway. As the butty should be down by the head you have a bilge pump ahead of the cabin bulkhead, in our case it was 2 one each side of the keelson, just in front of the mast. its academic anyway unless the boat is permanently clothed up. Steel narrowboats rot from the inside out, and the outside in . The pitting on some internal hull sides is very evident, on boats that have carried cargo.

I tried before I bought. After that there was no option . Deal done. But then it was our 4 th historic boat.

Covid - pharmacy through app flu through boots website shingles local day hospital Gp not involved in any still sending demands to get them done but not providing appointments.

I used Steve recently. Very reasonable and loads of good advice. Stuff I hadnt even thought about offered ( age of hoses and regulators etc) Pragmatic too with a boat very unaltered since 1937 in many aspects.

Look for a conventional tried tested boat. You will have a great time. Just dont put a fatboat on a narrow canal!

Just come back from visiting friend, brother now looking at lpg gennies. told him he would need serious kw output and clean sine wave and would end up lugging gas bottles etc. we had an ex650 on gas for years but that wont run a big charger. told him blind expensive alley but some peops need to do. drives a f pace jag when asked why not electric claimed range anxiety🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨

Friends brother ripped out diesel. Solar lithium electric £30000 plus. Managed 13 miles from marina an overnight and 6 miles back towards marina. Leicester summit. Dead zilch. spent a peaceful night ( no lights no fridge no tv no pumps zilch) At 3pm from the solar he had enough to get going got within a mile of marina and dead again. Bowhauled in an plugged in. He is now thinking of a gennie or a nice diesel. Cant prove the above but thats what i was told as we chugged along ..

What was worse the country the western or the widebeam. we require an offensiveness index.

The forward throw adjuster is almost all the way out on the box in the picture. It has some travel left though so you may be able to get the rod further in. Also check the detent on the selector, the neutral finding pin may be stuck. ( if its there at all?) You might want to check the selector plate( the platewith the fore and aft adjuster screws is tight as well, they can rock . If you do increase the throw on the lever you should probably lift the to off the box and adjust the clutch throw . Never more than quarter turn on the adjuster without checking clutch disengages though, or you can break the clutch plate. They are pretty trouble free normally 11 years and countless miles on ours with one adjustment in that time.

Its a hybrid .The outside is like our hull sides after 80 years work and 40 odd years as a bwb maintenance boat, the inside like our persimmons built flat. In the right place fine, tenants love the flat , and people comment on the boat. You do not want to overpay for it as a combination though.

Made mistake of painting external slide runners this year. Instant leak first time it rained. Water running down runners and under hatch. Looking carefully remembered previous issue and had cut in shallow diverter. To check put temp diversion of grease on slides. Leak stopped. Slides very similar to yours

I calibrated a dipstick ( my minimum, 100 litres ,200 litres ,300 litres ) Never let it go below minimum ( which is probably couple of hundred) Top up between minimum and 100. it takes time at a self service pump! My last 3 cylinder hb 3 on a 70 foot deep draft boat used about a gallon a day on an eight hour day.

Its a lister. it will sip diesel like an abstemious aunt. ( roughly 2 gills per furlong) on the other hand it will vaporise leak loose or go awol n+1 cups of oil. where n is the amount of spare oil on board, when you are 20 miles from a supplier. Of course next to a supplier or with a full gallon of spare oil the dipstick will be brimming.

Got the hard demented stare off a steerer today. On the deep and fast Ashby. At the time the prop was in clear view and you could hear items in the hold falling over. It appeared to believe we should get out of its way. The fact one side of our boat was showing 7 inches of green seemed to it to be insignificant, and we should move over more. As for speed. We left the 15/15 mile marker at 0915 at 1330 we arrived at the 8 mile marker, we never deliberately stopped. Dug a new hole in the mud and gave up. Just as we tied up a shiny boat started on about how shallow it was. It was determined to compare draughts and how much deeper his Fudson or woolwich wader was than the real thing with Dr S. We emptied the fridge for lunch at which point the nearby boatyard decided to pump someone out whose tank clearly was last done pre covid. Gave up and cycled home. Greyer than ever. Where is the water anyone know

I went from young and broke in the 80s to old and broker in the 2023s The only consistent factor was boat ownership. Wonder if the two are related. I was extra ordinarily broke in about 1993. Coincidentally I had a pair of boats in those days. Also in 1979 I had a 7 year old car, my wife a 14 year old car Now we share an 11 year old car. Clearly I have become impoverished by boat ownership

Loose the 240 . We have no mains ring in 13 years We have a small inverter that plugs into a 12 v socket. Thats it, if the cordless drill needs a charge we blow the dust off the inverter. we have 6 usb sockets phones/ pad garmin devices.