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I wondered about asking which photo was the 'after'.... Then decided it wasn't a very good joke.

Thats not a houseboat. That's a MANSIONboat!

Let me get this straight. You think CRT should: 1) Spend more on maintaining the canal system in a navigable condition 2) Charge boaters less Do I have that about right?

A trivially small sum plus 75% = still a trivially small sum. NBTA whining about a small increase in charges for the cheapest accommodation in the UK seems comical. If one believes the 75% claim in the first place. Isn't the increase spread out over 5 years or something similarly accommodating? CRT as usual are bending over backwards to be accommodating, and yet getting slagged off for it.

Um… aren’t CCers technically homeless anyway?

And I wonder what they will say!!!

Indeed, and this is why the term "Global Warming" was dropped and "Climate Change" adopted instead. The public in general was quite happy with the idea of summers and winters three or four degrees warmer and saw no problem. I also noticed how the media was full of "tipping point" scare stories then a few years ago they all stopped, when we passed tipping point into 'no return' territory.

What is gas water? Or if there is a missing comma, would water really have been moved around by boat? Thanks. Answering my own question maybe it was "water gas". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_gas

Oh you spoiled the joke!

Same down here in the beautiful south. The rain seems heavier and more intense than ever it was ten or 20 years ago. Or maybe my hair is just shorter and thinner...

Google will usually tell you what a TLA means.

How do you know they are licenced?

Ah now another poster here does this too. Claims to have been joking when called out on posts containing a load of ol' tosh!

Please post up your evidence for these two assertions. Much obliged. Otherwise they look like blind prejudice.

Thinking laterally one could swerve all these problems by putting the motive force on the bank, and pulling the boat along with a line. I'm surprised no-one has thought of this before. That nice Mr De Bono would have been delighted with this solution

I've been accused of being both a "Shiny Boater" and a "Scruffy Boater" by different people on the same day, and on the same boat lol!! And BTW I used to get by without running the genny for 9 months of the year on 560W of solar when I lived off grid. P.S. I agree though, a shiny boat is more likely to give one grief than a scruffy one. P.P.S. I never polish my brass despite having two home moorings and living on the bank!

In that case you'll probably cope fine. The carpentry is only 25% of the story. All bulkhead building involves repairing the floor finish (both sides), repairing the deckhead (ceiling) finish where the removed bulkhead was, and same for the cabin side finish. Also lighting and switching can be affected, and windows get in the way. In addition nearly every bulkhead worth moving involves the galley and/or the shower room! And often a door.... Nothing is EVER simple where boat alterations are concerned. Forgot to say, bear in mind all work on boats takes three times as long as your worst estimate, and costs three times as much. Hope that helps, lol!

My thinking was that somebody needing to ask, probably does not have that skillset. Therefore it will be the expensive option of employing someone! Or if attempting it themselves for the first time, it will be slow and the mistakes expensive too.

Very difficult indeed. Don't even consider it. Find a boat with the walls (or 'bulkheads' to use the right term) in the right place.

I find it dead easy. The CMers spend months at a stretch on the 48hr VMs.

Dyslexic boaters of the world, untie!

I used to think it smelled fantastic! But then I love the smell of road tar too. And creosote. Lux was all girlie.

An EXCELLENT stop-gap solution!!

The correct size pipe will be a lovely accurate and snug fit into the hole in the greaser connection. I reckon some muppet bodged your 1/4" pipe in with possibly a 5/16" olive (the correct size for the fitting) which was never going to crush down enough to grip the 1/4" pipe, which is why it all fell apart and also why the olive came off the pipe. Shame you're Stratford. Not that far but completely the opposite direction from my destination!

Yes, 1.65mm too big. (Engineering clearances notwithstanding!) But looking at the photo again, I reckon you have a compression fitting on the greaser designed for 5/16" pipe and the pipe you actually have is 1/4", which is why it fell out in the first place. The 1/4" olive would have been able to squeeze through the 5/16" hole in the nut. You need someone to actually measure the pipe and the fitting to determine the sizes. Then once known, decide on a sound method of connecting it all up. I was in Banbury this afternoon and was about to set off down the M40 home when I asked where you are, just on the off chance you were nearby or en-route.