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matty40s

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  2. So long as you follow the flood warnings, yes, a DM2 is more than capable of enjoying every navigable canal and river that a narrowboat with a Beta or Isuzu engine can. Theres one (58ft) in this marina that in 26 years has been along every inch of EA and CRT waters, some many times, including the Wash and Severn down to Portishead....and has also been trapped for short periods on the flooded Soar, Nene and Avon!!
  3. The time you said " well respected marina/ workshop " shows your naivety and lack of use of the forum search facility. The well respected builders/brokers paint warranty fails and history of blacking boats also has featured heavily. Perhaps that was your own fault, mooring next to a major trunk road for 8 weeks with the acidic run off surrounding your boat during the wettest Winter on record.
  4. No, those hydraulic locks need a speshull handle as pictured.
  5. It used to take me 2 evenings to fill my tank there.....nobody else used to moor there then so it didnt matter. Didnt ever dare take a shower in there though!!
  6. All of these are available if anyone wants to pick them up on way past.
  7. Cant have been this year, that's blue sky there....
  8. You mean one that doesnt start with...."yes, he was wrong, and has had the whip removed..."
  9. I know of someone who runs a RN DM2 and his Land Rover using waste cooking oil. Tug deck Clyde or Clent? had a triple filter system using any old waste oil for its engine.
  10. Theres quite a lot of industrial kitchens next to the canal between Paddington and Alperton.
  11. We went up the Sat before Queens jubilee weekend, 3pm, nobody there. We came down 2pm on the Sunday of the big weekend, it was drizzling and they stayed in the hut. For Frangar reasons, we were quite happy about that.
  12. Cooking oil has been illegally dumped in the GU over a 6 mile stretch West of Paddington. Source is yet unknown, but it is costing CRT £10k a day to continue the clean up operation. See BBC London.
  13. It'll be training time. I was very surprised to see 4 CRT staff on the Southern Stratford yesterday, 2 together and 2 separately, one walking a dog!! Only boat moving was the day boat out from Woo'on Wahhh'en. So you will be back at the Cape Arm just after Easter then Mike??
  14. Rudder tubes dont get the high speed forced gravel and silt that the bow thruster tubes endure. Coupled to the fact that many Collingwoods were launched without any blacking whatsoever in the tube... Yes, we see lots. Most get the ends welded over as it is a big job to retrofit a new tube Luckily for the owners, most are in separate lockers with bulkhead above waterline.
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  16. No going through the locks on the River Medway in Kent today after yet more heavy rain.
  17. He wont let her....
  18. .....as close to Napton as possible.... 🙂 You need to figure in to your equation whether all the local docks have facilities to dock a GRP, where the usual V hull will need different supports to most flat bottomed narrowboats. Hard standing at Gayton, Grand Junction, Clifton (7ft max w), Yelvertoft, Debdale, perhaps at Pete Nicholls(Braunston), docks at Calcutt, Ventnor, Braunston, Hillmorton, Kate Boats at Long Itchington, Whilton, Weedon
  19. You were on here t'other day....😃
  20. That was the main jist of the thread opener.
  21. My complaint is about the waste of money and destruction of natural England that this has caused especially now it is such a short sighted and limited project. Buying up all land 500 m either side of the intended line and removing all vegetation across beautiful areas, many more instances of incorrect concrete construction sizes on top of the viaduct cockup. Just the loss of the Bree Louise pub near Euston needed heads chopping off.
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