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Certainly is. I got stuck in centre channel last night.

Low water level impeding navigation below Pigeon's Lock (Lock 39) on the southern Oxford. CRT aware and 'sending a team', apparently. The pound is about 10" low and a couple of miles long so will take a while to fill it.

Agreed. I don't think I've seen a BWB or CRT workboat constructed from anything but skip-style flat panels of steel since about 1980. I think they shape them like this to make it easy to weld on new bits when they rust through.

I agree with all the above. Decide if you want to actually go boating or if you want to spend a year of two of evenings and weekends re-modelling a boat. Bear in mind all boat projects always over-run massively on both time and cost. Also bear in mind they cost money to run and maintain. £5k a year running costs seem typical, and it can be horribly lumpy. An engine swap can easily soak up the whole of the £10k contingency posters above have suggested.

I got a cheque from my local scrappie just w few weeks ago! But to be fair I paid it in by sending a photo of it to my bank....

8 Bar? That's almost unheard of! On household systems there is usually a T&PRV set to 6 or 8 Bar in addition to the 3 Bar PRV. It is as a backup if the PRV jams shut or fails to work. I'd doble check if I were you that is the correct PRV. But for shower performance you should be more concerned with the flow rate of your pump than with the peak pressure pressure it switches off at.

You need a Workmate and a bowsaw! As they say, burning wood keeps you warm twice....

If HS2 seems expensive, the bill for repairing the House of Commons will make yer eyes water. The estimate is £22bn apparently, and given everything the govvermint does costs twice what was expected, stand by for a bill of £44bn. This is probably why they cancelled the useful bits of HS2, to pay for it. Just about.

Hopefully not that old trope of a drawing with dimensions in inches being read and made in centimetres, lol!! It probably never actually happened, anywhere actually...

I no longer have theBoatman Stove but from memory, I think an 8" log would go in easily, as would two but probably not three. The firebox is really quite small compared to a Squirrel. (But to be fair the Squirrel is four times the price.)

No-one would let me 'help'!

Illegal.

"Easy" is going a bit far. There are far easier ways to earn £30 than lugging 75kg of battery a few hundred yards up the towpath then driving perhaps ten or 20 miles to the nearest scrappie then spending 20 minutes weighing them in and getting a cheque you'll need to pay in.... You can have them while I do something quicker and easier!

It's worse than that. I LIKE working the locks and pay a handsome fee to have a reason to. When vollies are around I find I'm actually competing with them to work the lock. It usually goes something like this: Vollie: "Here, let me help you through the lock. Stay on the boat" Me: "No, I always get off the boat in locks", then try to explain why as a single hander I do this. Vollie gets the hump, stomps off and leaves me to it, completely failing to grasp the risk I'm explaining... I also have a problem with that word "help"! They aren't there to 'help me', they are there to compete with me.

I have at least two copies of it in my ownership. Annoyingly I can't find either!

A polite request. Dear tech admin, might 'post-merging' be turned off please? It seems completely pointless and serves no discernable purpose other than to be bloody annoying. Or am I alone in this? Thank you!

This is just plain silly. Why would CRT have put it up for auction if Tim and Richard had got together and done a deal?

And just as there are 'cowboy' boatyards and cowboy self-employed marine 'engineers', there are also the 'cowboy' customers. Customers who are terrible at communicating what they want done, have ludicrously high expectations of what the boatyard should and will do, and will possibly mess the yard around with constantly changing instructions and requests for what they want done. Handling the customers takes more skill than fixing the boat in many cases, I reckon!

That's a LOBSTER!!!!

Barely three minutes in a sales campaign kicks off hard-selling raffle tickets for a fiver to win their campervan. Granted its a very nice campervan but its not what the thread title leads us to expect!

Well I'm surprised by that. There might be considerable debate about how 'authentic' my Stewarts and Lloyds tube boat actually is, but parts of it are a good deal older than both you and me!

I guess this is about to highlight the difference between randoms buying a windlass and turning up on a flight to 'help' as self-appointed volunteers, and "CRT-approved" volunteers with ID and a disciplinary procedure in the background should they overstep what they are 'allowed' to do.

Were they ever employees in the first place, to get the sack?

Yours obviously, for deliberately driving into a stationary boat.