[Leamington Spa - to stay]

There is a car park on the Myton Road at the junction with Myton Crofts.

 

There is hard standing on the canal edge alongside the car park.

 

I seem to be un able to make a map appear.

 

52 16 North 01 33 East a bit further west from Homebase on the opposite side of Myton Road.

[Cleaning cratch cover]

http://www.canalworl...showtopic=33925

 

http://www.waterwaysworld.com/questionspost.cgi?post=618

[weird boat]

By the way get a spell checker on this forum please.

 

 

The forum does have a spell checker - all you need to do is download "ie spell." if you are using Internet explorer.

 

http://www.iespell.com/download.php

[Ceiling batons]

As it is an ex Black Prince I wonder if this lot could help as I believe as well as Reeves they are / were involved in building BP's fleet.

 

http://www.jlpinderandsons.co.uk/home.htm

 

They are based at Stoke Prior where BP's HQ is.

[Surveyor recommendations]

Hello, this site may help.

 

http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/surveyors.php3

[Calorifier]

Could the calorifier act as a cooling tank instead of the keel cooling tank?

 

 

I doubt it as the calorifier is lagged and designed to keep the water in it hot. Our calorifier keeps the water hot for a couple of days without having to run the engine.

[What Colour Boat Sells Best?]

'Flat' paint disguises any waves in cabin sides, looks more workmanlike and in keeping with canal boats IMO.

 

Is "The flat matt boat brigade " poised to take over from "The shiney boat brigade"?

 

I'll leave now.

[What Colour Boat Sells Best?]

Perhaps Dominic could help?

 

http://rugbyboats.co.uk/

[Single handing the big beast]

I may be wrong but I thought they acquired the Dutch plant when they took over/bought out Daf. The early 340s had the same rubber band Variomatic (?) lovely transmission

Roger

 

Volvo took over the Nedcar plant in Holland to produce the 66 & 340's, which started its life on the Daf drawing board. That plant also produced the S & V40's with series runs interrupted by the Mitsubishi Charisma as these cars shared the same floor pan and some of the running gear.

 

Mrs T and myself have / had a 245 GLE ; 340 DL ; 440 GLE ; S40 2.0CD C30 SE Sport and a V70 Classic, the last of the "proper" Volvo's. Of the 6 we still have 3 of them.

 

With regard to indicators we had to have all the cars re wired so when you signaled left the left indicator indicated not the right one.

 

The Volvo 6 cylinder engines were the PRV ones - Peugeot, Renault, Volvo as well as stated the B14 which IMHO was c**p.

 

Biz, the latest range of Volvo engines are their own and Ford.

 

No idea what this has to do with boat handling, but there you go.

[Boating from Penzance]

Best wishes and enjoy the choppy stuff.

[alton on the telly last night]

spotted coal boat ALTON on the telly last night, anyone else spot it

 

alan

 

No.

[ode to joy]

I doubt they've got the vocal talent to sing Carmina Burana

 

 

Ah some culture. My late Missus used to sing soprano in The Coventry Philharmonic Society and they often sang, as Mrs T MK I called it, "Carina Banana".

[ode to joy]

Aren't the Spice Girls "Old Spice" by now?

[Boat names]

There was a narrowboat on the Stort called "The Dogs", "So what" I hear you say. Under that name it bore the words "Bow Locks"

 

As a comedy name that is hard to beat!

 

 

ETA: http://www.bwml.co.uk/marinas/sawley_marina/brokerage/sm_8803_bold_beaver

[Party on board]

May be an idea to check with your insurer.

 

Ours limits us to 8 people on a 45' boat.

[Boat names]

Seen on The Shroppie.

 

[A new adventure]

It has been one of those momentous life changing days for me today.

 

I signed the papers in acceptance of voluntary redundancy scheme that will see me a free man from 06 September. Yee ha! Fortunately it puts me in the position to take early retirement so no mad job hunting for me!

 

We are already planing a long trip on the boat to celebrate. Who nows as we intend to sell the present house and downsize to release some equity we may end up living on the boat for a while if we find ourselves in between selling and buying.

 

Boy am looking forward to skipping into the sunset!

 

Congratulations. Managed similar my self 3 years ago - "Je ne regrette rien".

 

Shouldn't the last line be "Skippering into the sunset"?

[Clearing the prop with a cabin shaft]

The photograph file is titled "Hillmorton-2" on the N.B.T. Ltd. website.

 

Thank you, what a guess.

 

I didn't look at the picture code, honest.

[Clearing the prop with a cabin shaft]

The professionals doing it courtesy of A Canal People, Sonia Rolt:

 

 

 

 

Here you are but not a good resolution

 

Alex

 

 

 

Looks as though it could be Hillmorton Locks?

[movie or serie with Narrowboat]

What ! - 2 pages into this topic and no-one has mentioned Chigley ! Mr Rumpling the bargee would sing on his way to Treddle's Wharf where his load would be hoisted up on to Bessie the steam train driven by Lord Belbrough abd his butler Brackett...

 

"..just round the corner lies Trumptonshire Lock and off in the distance chimes Trumpton town clock,

nothing is finer than being at large, in charge of a gay inland waterways barge..."

 

 

 

Does this redress the balance?

 

 

 

[That 'Sinking feeling']

Why, what else should it be packed with?

 

 

This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuffing_box

[Barnham & Angel 1980's]

Have had a request from someone who would like to contact/find out what happened to a Martin who ran Barnham & Angel in the late 1080's. Does anyone know of him?

 

Feel free to PM me if you feel that the info is personal.

 

Tim

 

1080's gosh he's old!

[That 'Sinking feeling']

Lucky escape.

 

You want to try that at sea - or perhaps you don't

 

A few years ago (2003) with a group of friends we chartered two yachts from Brixham and went across The Channel.

 

On the way back, the other yacht to the one the I was skippering, developed a leak. Both boats kept in touch by VHF untill the water covered the other boats batteries. At that point I decided a Pan Pan message was in order.

 

Not only did we get the Brixham AWB but RFA Argus also appeared in attendance.

 

The Lifeboat escorted the yacht back to Brixham whilst her crew pumped and bailed furiously.

 

The cause:- a split hose to the sea toilet. The split was not initally apparent as it was beneath the floor of the heads.

[Wyrley and Essigton canal Wednesfield area beware of youths]

A few years ago I was working on one of the estates in Coventry mentioned above. They were two man areas by the way and we were instructed to work in them before 12 midday.

 

Father, Mother and 4 children were crossing a road, the last was a little lad of about four, he was dawdling, a car was approaching and father shouts "Get out the road you f*****g div".

 

Now what chance in life has that lad or any of his siblings got?

 

I make no apologies but I do have some sympathy for Laurence.

[Mooring springs-How do you use and what benefits?]

Martin, slightly but I have one of these each side of the boat to run the centre rope in.

 

 

Before anyone comes on and says how dangerous, what a disaster they are, I have not yet managed to: rip them out, capsize the boat, snap a rope or hang the boat up in a lock with them.