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stripey

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About stripey

  • Birthday 09/11/1956

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Church Stretton
  • Occupation
    Mainly retired
  • Boat Name
    Sunflower (first set sail in May, 2017)
  • Boat Location
    Midlands

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  1. Seeing where you live, I can understand your travelling!
  2. Of course, but in our own case, we're 40 miles from the nearest canal, and after a couple of years at our first marina, which was 60 miles away, felt it was worth mooring somewhere else in the country (85 miles away) as it gave us access to some part of the network we had never cruised, and that would have taken a week to reach. Our next move is this year, to pretty well the closest marina, as we're happy to revisit some old haunts from our hiring years. It's very much a matter of weighing up the plusses and minuses.
  3. There’s nothing to stop you being a serial marina hopper.?
  4. http://www.3ppaintcompany.co.uk/other/
  5. Thanks, everyone! Nice and quick!!
  6. It's a funny thing, but in fourteen years of hiring, there was never a reason for this question to be raised. Now that our lovely new boat is almost ready, I need a tiny bit of simple info, please. What is the diameter of the screw on the CART water tap? I need to buy the right bit for my hose. Thanks!
  7. We're having one on our new boat, which is almost ready. I love the fact that you can plug it into the 12V system on the car when you are travelling to and from the boat. PS I'm going to update that picture soon!
  8. Surely if CART want to have any legal clout behind an allegation that a boater has overstayed, then they need to take similar steps to those proposed by boaters wishing to prove that they have moved. So the CART enforcer would need to take date-stamped pictures?
  9. That was good fun to watch - love the girls' commentary!
  10. Spot on, and it's really nice when the boat coming the other way knows what to do!
  11. Yes, always talk to the other crew and agree how it's going to work.
  12. I don't just hate wasps - they terrify me. I have once destroyed a wasps' nest with powder, as it was right outside our front gate at home, and there was a real risk of getting stung. Each time I've been stung by a wasp, or bitten by a horsefly, I've got a bigger reaction, so I'm not keen to risk being stung again the time I destroyed the nest, I covered my self from head to foot in protective clothing and then did the awful deed. My heart rate was up, and I was grateful for a shower afterwards! Now, if there's a nest in the garden, I avoid the area, as I know the wasps eventually die out and don't use the nest again. But if I had one in the house I'd get a pro in. and I would most certainly do that if on a boat - no hesitation.
  13. I'd definitely agree with this. If I couldn't get to a water point because of an unattended boat hogging the space I would reckon it was fair to move that one, but treating it as well as possible, nevertheless.
  14. Couldn't resist adding this one - check out the (excellent) crane driver's grin (you'll need to zoom in).
  15. She's in the water! Here are a few pictures to tell the story*. The prop was fitted at the launch wharf. I found that it was easy to rotate them using MS Paint and then saving them as a png files. Sadly, Photo Editor seems to be long gone, but thanks for the suggestion about this, Murflynn.
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