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Jerry Rhum

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    Milton Keynes
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  • Boat Name
    Puffin
  • Boat Location
    Grand Union Canal

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  1. Excellent. I'll make sure I swing by then 🤙
  2. Does anybody know if the Cosgrove canal festival is definitely on this weekend? The website hasn't been updated in months and the phone number listed isn't answering.
  3. The map on their website shows this section as "shallow". Last time I saw it it was less than a foot deep, less where there were miniature weirs, so it might be hovercraft, not boats, that are first to arrive. Progress going in the right direction though.
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  5. Here is mine, of the same name, but I don't think we are likely to get them mixed up.
  6. I would guess so, there is not much space there. It was like that when I got it
  7. I think I am causing confusion because the picture is tilted to the right. I'm not sure why, but whenever I upload a photo the website sets it to landscape?? The lever was horizontal but is now vertical. I am going to download an MD1 manual and try and figure out what everything does.
  8. So just to make things more complicated, those of you that suggested not giving up on the MD1 just yet may be on to something. A bit of 'percussive maintenance' managed to move this to here and a go with the wire brush cleaned this up to this I've got plenty of other things to work on first, but maybe getting the diesel engine working again could be a long term goal.
  9. I've got a great little book on a similar topic. It's mainly about London's rivers, but includes some canals. I bought it to learn about the blocked off canal I could see when I visited London Zoo (the Cumberland Arm of Regent's canal).
  10. I've followed them on YouTube as I'm intrigued to see what happens once they get it on the water.
  11. Once again, thanks everybody. I love all these suggestions. I started this thread with 'too many options' and now I have even more, but that will help me make the right decisions. I would never have considered things movable brackets or clamping to the rudder. Keep the ideas coming!
  12. Long shaft electric vs Short shaft petrol (temporary). If I could just make the water a bit higher.......
  13. I didn't know that. and with that level of technical knowledge you can see why renovating an entire engine might be a bit beyond me!
  14. I'm afraid nothing moves (despite liberal applications of WD40) I have got a hand crank handle, but even standing on it does nothing. The decompression lever (or any of the levers) won't budge. I'll give it all another spray and a try, but the reason I got the boat so cheap was because the engine was considered useless.
  15. Thank you everyone for your replies. I was considering solar as an option. I've got a couple of small panels and control units from a previous project, but there's not enough sunlight at the moment to test everything fully. Another battery would be cheaper than an outboard, but as BilgePump says, there is not a lot of surface area, plus I just can't shake the idea of having a more traditional back up. I'll keep investigating this avenue though. Attached are pictures of the diesel engine, a Penta MD1. Knackered, in this context, means well beyond my skill to repair and un-economical to pay someone else to do it. I have no idea how much it would cost to get a boat yard to haul the engine out, get it up and running, and put it back in again, but I suspect it would be more than I paid for the boat. Same with having it removed and replaced. I wonder how much I would get for it as scrap? From a manoeuvrability POV, the electric motor has reverse, so as long as I didn't completely flatten the battery I could use the petrol engine for the long straights, then the electric for docking. Going through my photo's I have discovered that the outboard bracket is a Seagull. Maybe a clue as to what engine was used in the past.
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