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redfastlad

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  • Birthday 29/08/1948

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    http://churst@gotadsl.co.uk

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    Yorkshire
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    Boats Bikes cars Westies 1664 Whisky
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    manager
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    Sawley

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  1. Hi we are out on the Fossedyke at the moment, when we can get out onto the tidal Trent we are heading up to Newark area, what I am asking is are there any club members in this part of the river over the next 2/3 weeks as I would love to have a chat about your club and its facilities we are in NB Wee Blueit hopefully we can meet somewhere? Chris Hurst 07774956888
  2. 10 men 8 vehicles 1 new tug 1 new crane barge and a dingy all employed to check the salmon run at Stoke bardolph weir??? taking the mick or what how can we take this organisation seriously?? it is so miss managed that I fear for boaters wildlife and the canals with this level of incompetence at the helm.
  3. hi, as we have neglected our 57ft boat over the last 2 years due to my wifes ill health, we are now turning the corner and hopefully looking forward to being able to take the boat out next year for an extended cruise. The question I am asking is does anyone know of a reliable boatyard in the Nottingham area that will re paint my boats hull in two pack? last time she was painted we had a disaster as they relaunched the boat and submarined the stern and filled the exhaust with water, I wont tell you where but it was on the river soar and I had untold problems caused by them , so I need to get her painted pretty quick as the weather wont allow two pack in poor weather please help asap, thanks Chris
  4. Yes we went out, its not that deep way out from the shore, not that far but close enough to watch the coasters coming in to Sutton bridge
  5. Thanks for all your comments, the plan originally was for me to call up my old mate Norman Parnell from Drove End at Gedney, he looks after the RAF Holbeach bombing range. Norman has a small boat that he services the marker bouys and navigation beacons with, I have been quite a way out into the wash with him in his JCB he does have a really in depth knowledge of the wash and is a well known celeb in those parts.Should Norman be unavailable we will pre book the pilot,so at the moment it is all systems go with two guys helping myself I am looking forward to the challenge.
  6. had a similar prob with our boat so I fitted an automatic greaser its basically a spring loaded canister of grease which keeps pressure on the gland and does not allow water to enter the stern, years ago the cost was about £20 don't know what todays price would be they are found on conveyors or moving machinery
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  8. Hi, Does anyone have information regarding joining the club at Doncaster, we would like to moor our 57ft nb there but I cant seem to get anywhere with either access or information as regards what the moorings are like etc. Regards Chris
  9. Hi, We are planning a trip out down the Trent staring mid June and will be aiming to be in Boston around mid July ready to cross the Wash and make for the Nene, anyone else thinking about doing a similar trip??? please let me know if you are contemplating same.
  10. sorry its taken me some time but I have dug out the phone deal it,s with Mobiles UK £22.99 per month but you can claim cash back of £108 per year via a quarterly invoice hope you can get the same deal.
  11. My way around all this with my samsung galaxy s3 mini, over the last couple of years I was with Three network on a sim only deal with an unlimited tethering contract then about 4 months ago three reduced all the tethering to a max of 3 gig as I use my internet a lot both at home and on the boat unlimited is essential for me so I shopped around and found T mobile will give me a contract including unlimited tethering and 2000 call mins 5000 text messages all for £18.99 a month and I can claim a cash back of around £9 a month. So we do not have a BT landline we do not have a broadband contract all we have is T mobile which I can take with me every where ,this can be wedged into the porthole window and works very well giving me internet access to my favourite prog which is KODI now we start cooking with gas Kodi will get me BT sports 2 so I can watch moto gp live on the boat and any other channel I want in the world. Best start with you tube watch the geeks who will show you how to download kodi from google ( I would recommend loading one pc whilst watching the instructions) once you have downloaded kodi the world will be your oyster,after reading the above please appreciate that I am a tight Yorkshireman so my average costs are around £20 a month as I have to call abroad for business but it is still a great deal for us boaters why pay for services you cannot use because your,e afloat.
  12. I am looking for an Nav app for my tablet that will be useful for when we do our big tour this summer can anyone suggest something worthwhile also we are crossing the wash so hopefully it will be of some use out there?
  13. Ok update , we went down to the idle in the car on Saturday, we parked in the car park opposite the White hart with our mission to view the bank and see if we could moor our NB without going through the sluice gate, well that's not possible and we walked up to the 2nd sluice gate and viewed the bank ,it is possible to moor between the two sluices but not what we want to do so back to the pub for lunch and a great Idle brewery pint ,our relations live in Stockwith and we met one of them in the pub where we were given a really warm welcome. After lunch we visited the basin on the Chesterfield and it is there that new top gates have been fitted, so on our summer trip we will stay there for a day or so. We then followed the Idle up to Haxey where we saw about 14 boats moored next to the bank on linear moorings at the caravan site with further moorings just having been built but it would appear to be mainly live aboard people but not for us as the idle would not be navigable very far for our 57ft boat.
  14. We are planning a trip for our 57ft narrow boat this summer, and we intend to visit relations at West Stockwith, on a recent gathering of our family I was informed that the river Idle has some new lock gates!! and boats are now being moored around the pub area of the river.i will try and get more detailed information and post it here as and when .
  15. when we had our 57ft nb boat built I specified the 45hp Shire Barrus mainly because we would be spending most of our time on the river Trent including the tidal, also we had the 3 alternator travel pack option as well. I have punched back up the Trent in flood on 3 ocassions and one year we managed to collect Trout and its butty (70ft working boats) breasted them up and got them to Sawley lock safely, now this engine is well on top of the job and on our last trip up the river I put on *dashboard* on my mobile phone and using the GPS watched the speed of the boat with the rpm counter it is quite interesting that over 1900 rpm the boat did not go signifiguently faster ie 2000rpm gained nothing and 2100rpm gained .5 of a mile per hour. so I settled for 1900rpm and 3.8-4.0 miles per hour. This would indicate that the hull shape and swim area are the most important parts not really the engine, so whilst I have reserves of power ( up to 3000rpm) it is only in flood conditions that I need to use them, by the way my prop which I thought was under sized at 17x12 is bang on according to the people over in Manchester who make the props, so 33hp would be good enough in my book for normal river work.
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