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matty40s

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  1. Thats my chimbly cap, doesn't blow away there. I had a handle too until I left it boiling for a cup of tea for several hours......
  2. People living in areas outside of the English canal system(foreigners )will pay a special licence fee approximately double of the normal licence fee. This is due to the low value of the pound at present. Scotland will be included in this as it is evident from the Sturgeon that the Scottish want to leave the UK even though they didn't in the last referendum.
  3. I've not clicked on any links, but as a narrowboater and someone who also moves boats, I currently can't get to the River Soar unless I go the wrong way round, and from November 6th can't get there at all until after 16th March. So what am I getting that widebeam owners don't get. Silly management messing around with something for messing arounds sake. You could even imagine that Sally Ash is still involved....
  4. Probably not a good idea, Boot Wharf has shrunk since selling a lot of its hard standing to the housing developers and everything seems to be squashed together now, including the car parking.
  5. I wonder if someone will buy him some mooring pins......
  6. My guess is that soon we will see a 2 foot long yellow and black hazard marker surrounding this spot to prevent cyclists injuring themselves. As they approach it will flash repeatedly and a recorded voice will repeat "warning, low bridge approaching"- probably by the same voice that you want to destroy at Newark Town Lock.
  7. "The 2000 canals in the UK" "200 years of history" First 1 minute of his broadcast contains the above gems.
  8. If the OP had Style he would keep his Council on this matter
  9. I don't recommend throwing them to someone in the water though.
  10. Unfortunately, as previously discussed, the work dock is built to take widebeam sized craft.
  11. Matty and Kathy smash piggy bank to see what we can find......
  12. Considering the past performance of BW and now CRT, I share your pessimism. The entire logic is to reduce expenditure at maximum press exposure.
  13. I have never knowingly Muffined a Mule, and it was always " Its Friday, its Five O'Clock, and its Crackerjack". I have also never known about Blue Peter stealing a Thursday episode, that would have been a national disaster....bit like a elefunt pooing on the floor. nephew has 2, yes 2 blue peter badges.
  14. The way its seems to be going at the moment, campaigning rally's may be the next step, or starting to do buy a brick donations like Chrshire Rose started for the Chesterfield so badly eroded locks can be repaired properly, rather than just the specific 127 bricks identified on the worksheet for replacement 9 months earlier. The classic example of this is one of the Buckby locks, emergency protected and cavities filled with sprayfoam and an iron sheet slung over the worst eroded areas. The lock was closed(in a flight of 7) for 6 weeks. The work done by CRT contractors specifically repaired the zone protected and didn't extend anywhere else in the lock, even though many other areas SHOULD, and COULD have been attended to in the time of the locks stoppage. The same lock will need major works soon. This is evident all over the system now, unless navigation is stopped, nothing is fixed. If the South Oxford has a paddle broken on a lock, never mind, there is another, don't fix it unless both aren't working and then do a press release on swift repairs. I move boats all year round and are seeing new leaks in locks, new sink holes in towpaths, new missing bricks in locks and other things that are frankly a simple fix at the early stage, and a massively expensive(although media friendly)fix when they finally collapse,breach,subside etc. This isn't pro-active, this is reactive with a media slant - ignoring boaters needs - the only real paying customers they have.
  15. It doesn't seem anyone has answered your question. The handle should be on the righthand side. If you turn it clockwise until it stops, the damper should be fully open. if you turn it the other way, you will restrict flow. If it spins, it is rotten inside and probably hasn't got a full damper on any more...you will only know this if you get the collar hatch open or replace the lot - which I did last year.
  16. When I told a couple that my engine was built in 1943, they looked at me and said "was it your Dads?" I said, no, it was from a Liverpool docks crane. They said"Did he nick it then?"
  17. There is a 14 foot hotel boat been through there and a 13 1/2 foot widebeam moored at Calcutt which has also been through both.
  18. Unfortunately, those people are still there dictating the anti widebeam, anti livaboard anti everything that stops their pleasure cruises in August. They are so far removed from the initial IWA values and still seek to be CRT'S minder for future initiatives in ridding the waterways of scruffy boaters, wide boats, liveaboards, CC-ers who don't cover the entire system in 3 months etc They are massively irrelevant and if just one of the local IWA groups declared indipendance, it would be a catalyst for change long overdue.
  19. The upper echelons of the IWA have no need for chandlery and other stuff, they expect to moor on rings at 5pm outside their favourite pub on August bank holiday without having to purchase mooring pins or other normal equipment. This is not a joke, this was stated at a CRT meeting by one of the IWA national exec.
  20. There are more and more people taking up the lifestyle, whether to livaboard, spend 6 months a year cruising or just weekend boating in the Summers. Boat Sales reflect this. I did go to the Northampton festival(and got very wet), there were more boaty type stalls than Watford, but it was still a bit flat, the band in the tent so loud that you couldn't chat in there anyway.
  21. I did Ivinghoe to Stowe Hill in mid December, and counted 67. I was moving a widebeam..... Which is now in the London area.
  22. It has been an absolute pleasure meeting you over the last few years, and getting a tad jealous at some of the places you have managed to get to. (Although glad there are a very few little stretches that we have done which you still havnt) I am sure Whio will sell quickly and that someone else will enjoy it as much as you have. Look forward to hearing of your next adventures. Matty and Kathy.
  23. Yes, paint repairs still holding up remarkably well. It's out most weekends around here. Anyhow, here's one that quite a few will not have seen yet, Hampton after its major cabin works at Warwickshire Flyboats. Splendid job.
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