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matty40s

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  1. No, in the water. Give it a good grease, if you wish you can also open weedhatch and wrap a cloth or bag round the prop shaft where it enters boat. Cut your packing ready before loosening the collar and then go for it. You will get very little water In whilst you remove old and pack new.
  2. It is not scary to repack your own stern gland. You have done most of the stuff already during your fault finding.
  3. Was bored waiting for it to fill.
  4. It's shouting to be fixed. Hasn't been shut.
  5. If you have a secure mooring on the offside and a rejigged gattling.
  6. Strange, I can see it, but I know my pics are now undefined the same STUPID SILLY RESTRICTIONS PHOTOBUCKET# put on them
  7. To moor up in the lower stretches is inviting unsavoury locals. Clear half way and there's no issues. It's not as bad as the Etruria to Caldon first few miles though.
  8. It actually contradicts itself several times and isn't worth the plastic it is printed on. If someone is going to turn the Thames into a no mooring zone for anybody, they need to be a bit more organised than this cowboy outfit. Being subcontracted by a Government Org,,I have no doubt an inquiry can be made as to how much they are earning per successful £100 payment and whether they have had a single catch yet. Bunch of cowboys no longer able to clamp cars and think the nice people who go boating are easy targets for their bullying and threatening signs. They can go and do one, if I am moving a boat and have to moor overnight, I know I can legally do it as per historic river navigation rights.
  9. The day you leave Trent lock, do a bit more than 3 hours up the Earwash. Get the scuzzy bits done and then enjoy the rural upper section.
  10. I think videos like this are quite dangerous and risky. You could have someone take a still and bill you £100 for being near a Thames mooring with a green and white sign. Great video Mike, I would be doing the same if mine hadn't drowned in Pillings Lock.
  11. I often get that, having a 70 footer , I'm really not sure where they expect me to go to...... (No rude answers please)
  12. Banbury and surrounds has been daft with hire boats. Non stop. Below Claydon CRT are injecting the bank of the straight moorings section with foam, probably a cheap way of delaying a breach.
  13. I was watching an old guy with a rucksack and bicycle stealing ropes off a Rothens tug late evening last week, he already had several ropes hanging from his bag. This was just by Marston Junction I took a picture and called Rothens, leaving a message to call back detailing what I'd seen, they havnt returned my call.
  14. Disagree, it will make a lovely coffee table centre piece for Cols boat.
  15. Does one have to ask for permission to go for a cruise now? ?
  16. That is very interesting and may well be the issue with mine, I will now strip it down and check and maybe replace. Glad to hear you are carrying on boating, everything seems daunting the first time until you do it, then you have a sense of great achievement and think ...what was I worries about.
  17. Did you get stuck coming down Claydon today, 16 boats waiting by the time we arrived, someone had emptied 2 pounds.
  18. They did laser surveys last year as well. I didn't get stuck but was glad My fenders weren't down as there was only about 2" clear just forward of the centre line yesterday. The bottom paddles of the Claydon and Cropredy locks are almost impossible for some to work now, much worse than last year......I did see a CRT pair walking up with an oil can and a paintbrush though..... Anyhow, Banbury tonight.
  19. Unlikely to be low voltage with Valeries solar array. My 13 month old one has currently similar issues. It was ran on a test bed and showed no faults. The installation hasn't been changed since the last one did many years. The engineer,technician fixity bloke says it can only be down to tighter emissions controls and maybe too much fuel set. ....however, he's not sure either and has seen this on a few new ones.
  20. Carnaby is now moored at Napton Junction if that answers the question.
  21. The problems are usually on the way down. The lock has a slight banana which was worked on 2 years ago. I've been behind a boat called sycamore twice that gets stuck....there is a way to flush it out using a wave sent down to the next lock gates and as it comes back, opening the top paddles. After a few goes it pops out.
  22. As I said above, the original boat is Valhalla, the 2nd beast is Walhalla II It's a single engine with 2 hydraulic drives. Also had a stern thruster
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