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  1. MtB
    Isn't the term "abstraction"?
  2. MtB
    The CRT un-serviced moorings on the K&A at Aldermaston seem to go for £6k-£7k nowadays.
  3. MtB
    Clueless as ever.
  4. MtB
    Well sinking is the risk according to Alan is scaremongering about, and I am trying to counter: E.G. "It was 1st found in the bilges of sea going vessels in the 60s and examples showing it to be capable of 'eating thru' in 22mm of steel hull per annum" https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/120117-rust-patches-or-microbial-mic/page/2/#findComment-3178519 So that's yer average narrowboat sunk in six months or less.
  5. MtB
    Eastern K&A.
  6. MtB
    Surely it didn't sell because £70k is a ridiculous price for a mostly unconverted grand union...?
  7. MtB
    I'm pretty sure they don't. But I notice their prices spiralling. Seven years ago I took a mooring at £3k a year. The boat next to me gave me a right mouthful as they were paying £1,600 and feared me 'over-bidding' would lead to CRT putting theirs up the same amount. (I dunno if they ever did.) Three years later they'd ramped mine up to £3,900 and I gave it up. They re-let it for £5.5k according to another boater there who I know well.
  8. MtB
    Frankly, I suspect you have never owned such a boat (or even steered one with an open, uninsulated engine in the back cabin of a trad stern boat), I put it to you that your opinion is worthless! And on a point of order, a JD3 hardly counts as a classic!
  9. MtB
    And now I think Will Prowse must have been reading this thread. YouTube has just pushed at me a new video of Will's making the exact same point!!
  10. MtB
    Point of Order M'Lud... Being a three cylinder tractor engine it doesn't go "put put", it goes "boppety-boppety-boppety-boppety"...
  11. MtB
    Cobblers!
  12. MtB
    You could have said that in the first place!!
  13. MtB
    Yes. The interior was stripped out and the hull pulled in to 7ft and about 1/2 an inch. New footings and baseplate constructed and the interior put back in. Also the rather tired old Gleniffer twin removed for renovation and a hot bulb semi-diesel installed.
  14. MtB
    Or my boat did, rather than me
  15. MtB
    Yep!
  16. MtB
    Are you claiming this boat sunk?!!!! Preventative maintenance seems to stop it easily as your link shows, but crack on with your scare-mongering if it makes you happy. Expect some push-back though!
  17. MtB
    I don't think there is. Its all pretty crude and basic engineering. If you can accompany their suggested surveyor and watch him/her take ultrasound readings and see the results on the screen, you can be reasonably sure of the thicknesses at the points sampled. Beware though, I have a sample cut from a corroded baseplate replaced on one of mine which varies from about 8mm down to 2mm over a distance of about 100mm!!
  18. MtB
    Yes definitely, with no context given. 30,000 boats on the cut. How many boats have sunk? None so far as we know.
  19. MtB
    And with my BD3 (a very similar engine) I was always diving down to shut the engine room door when it annoyingly swung open from time to time, to keep the noise down at the helm. And that was with a separate engine room forward of the back cabin! I eventually fixed the latch
  20. MtB
    Its no skin off my nose if you don't believe me. I only commented as it seemed a shame to read someone lusting after a mirage. Crack on and buy it then if you think a JD3 at your feet makes a "soothing, evocative put put" noise!
  21. MtB
    They are a LOT louder under your feet than from the bank!!! I see its a Beta JD3. A few people here have them and might like to comment on how quiet they are, when stood next to.
  22. MtB
    Well I never! All the same, despite Alan's expert scare mongering MIC is not a widspread problem on the cut causing thousands of boats to suddenly corrode through and sink. It is a rare occurance and the statistics suggest your boat bay well not fall victim to the slurry spraying. Are there any other boats on the mooring and did the frmer slurry-spray last year too? Have they all subsequently sunk from MIC? Just putting the opposite case to Alan's.
  23. MtB
    Open to hear, too. The NOISE as you cruise!! It is a totally different experience to steer a boat with an engine room forward of the back cabin.
  24. MtB
    Eh? The engine is in the back cabin under your feet as you cruise. Yuck!!
  25. MtB
    Highly unlikely I'd have thought. (Unless the cows have rusticles.) But I know nothing about this really, and I doubt anyone else here does either! I suggest you ask chatgpt if MIC is caused by cow slurry.
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