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Hi how did you batten the bottom half after sprayfoam Thanks

What a reassuring thread. I too have looked at brokerage boats and thought I was missing something. This week WE looked at a boat for 30000 that stunk or mice (see another thread] and was derelict the only thing to be done was to completely strip it out. Am I missing something and what is the advantage of this over a sailaway apart from ability to do the work yourself and the obvious question of losing your cash to a failed builder?

hello and excuse my ignorance and inexperience but how does a forum like this survive financially

Just made the journey with you from Nottingham to Thrupp, dont see many references to jp3,s these days, well done for being easily seduced its an untreatable illness [thank goodness]

what are the pros and cons of springers all replies welcome!

its new and only on larger amounts and i have 100% feedback (just them tightening the noose where they can i fear]

Ive just sold an edgebander on ebay for 250 the guy paid immediatley by paypal and ebay want to keep the cash for three weeks until he gives satisfactory feedback. what happens when the more undesirable members decide to pay by paypal and give negative feedback regardless do we have to travel the length of the country to retrieve the goods?

I,m sure youre right it would be dimensionally unstabe looking at the grain formation and the mock frame effect is almost certainly on man made board for this reason

The dilema is this, will this be a single mouse that happened to stray onboard by chance up a boarding plank or mooring rope, meaning that it will be unable to breed so will eradicate itself, or will it have done a reccy and gone to tel its friends leading to a mass migration. ive been around animals and critters all my life but dont want to live in a boat with them and for a big bloke with scars i,m too soft to kill them, it must be one of lifes phases, maybe need to look at another boat

Did you get rid of the mice, and how did you do it, wot sort of insulation do you have, thanks our cat is so old it would probably lose any skirmish with a mouse so thats a non starter

I was thinking along those lines, however the boat in question needs a great deal of work and a refit is required. Its a Jonathon Wilson of early times and cast a spell on us, however a sailaway would be as cost effective. the pros and cons seem to weigh towards a sailaway, but i like the idea of sorting old things. hopefully sense and the wife will aid in the decision making

Good for you two. and, Good luck

i wish they were lemons they would make a mice gin and tonic

having thought about it if they were lemmings they would be jumping overboard perhaps carlt was testing me and i failed

never smelt a lemming

looked at a boat yesterday and smelt mouse. on closer inspection a mouse trap was found, is this common should i forget it or are the little b.....gers easily eradicated.

hello why could a veneer not be birdseye maple am i missing something

I suspect youre not alone

Thanks for that

For what its worth we rented Rosie from Doug Moore in 1991 after my wife and children treat me to a days hire on one of the small narrowboats he hired by the day as a birthday present. At the time Rosie and the other two boats named Punch and Judy were what seemed like new. It all seems like yesterday to me as I have been away from boats since then so those memories are nearly all I have. Doug moore boats I seem to remember were alledged to have continously curving lines and had such a good swim profile that they handled as good in reverse as forward, sadly this memory will have spoiled my future involvement as I have never handled anything else if that is true. I fell into the trap after being smitten by those few days of building my own shell with the help of a good friend who was a welder shortly afterwards. Doug moore would still be laughing if he had seen it although we were quite pleased with it. Sadly my friend died and I ran out of money and gave it away in two halves which I understand were eventually made into a boat. My wife and I are now selling up and taking the inevitable plunge into liveaboard life, you instinctively know when the time is right. I hope you get something interesting from my memories and hope to see you on the cut sometime, good luck.

Hello there, newby here, We (me and the wife and the dog (tom) walked the canal at Garstang on Sunday, including a detour to Glasson Dock Weve walked a few over the years and found the Lancaster towpaths the best weve walked, Did you have them tarred and stoned especially for our visit. We are in the process of selling the house and taking the plunge full time with the Lancaster well up the list of places to visit. Maybe our towpaths will cross who knows.

the yellowing is almost certainly due to laquer yellowing which occurs with all but the most specialized pu laquers so colour is misleading, short of cutting the door up and smelling the timber your going to go mad trying to identify this timber