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Aqua Narrowboats are superb (acquanarrowboats.co.uk). They say get in touch for longer hires. A lot of boaters around us have boats built by them and they have a hire fleet but sponsored co-owned boats. Well worth an explore since they would meet your requirements in terms of layout and size, hire base at Barton Marina and the boats are all recent builds. Justin Hudson-Oldroyd is the MD and a great guy.
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Philip Martino, Andrew. He's on Facebook
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He has 3, I have EE. Between us there's never a problem but, on balance, I usually get better coverage than him.
(And when I rang a month ago to say I was thinking I ought to leave EE because of the April increase, they reduced my monthly cost to below what was it and there is no increase in the next year and then they said ring again to negotiate the next contract!)
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My priority nowadays is skin moisturiser, stuff like bepanthen, indigestion remedies, savlon gel for insect bites, plasters, paracetamol ...... etc.! Don't use make-up but I do care how my skin feels when on the boat and outdoors in the sun and almost guaranteed to get bitten, graze bits of body and so on. As for clothes - one clean evening set (which is nice to change into), shoes for on the boat and for off the boat and the vague list up there from Bee seems about right!
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We certainly have spare cassettes and so able to plan in case of closures. The recent survey CRT send round about Facilities had me commenting repeatedly that it wasn't about the numbers of services increasing so much as the absolute important of keeping them maintained/regularly serviced, accessible and efficient (i.e. flow rate in water tapes etc.). And they should site them near or with 'partners' (boatyards, marinas, etc.) and pay them properly to do the maintenance and servicing.
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22 hours ago, Puffling said:
The URL tidied up. I've signed it.
ETA: @Athy is there a reason you added a laughter emoji to @nbfiresprites post above?
Come on CWDF members - there are thousands of us. There should be lots and lots more signatures.
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Setting up a glue factory was prohibited in our last house
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Assist Insurance https://www.assistinsurance.co.uk/
Ask them for the benefits of their liveaboard policy and if you have a good quote for a like for like (ish) policy, tell them!
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Our liveaboard policy (as well as rehousing etc.) also includes (because I asked for it to be so) insurance of our items away from the boat. Like we had when we were in a house. So all our belongings are covered wherever they happen to be.
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Rushed off (electronically) and bought Andy's new book. It's become part of my annual summer boating habit for the last three years - go out cruising, read Andy's latest book. Looking forward to getting into it!
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16 hours ago, Seajays said:
Ok both, thanks for trying. I might try caravan & RV people next in case they have anyone in mind
Yup, tried that as well as one of the huge independent RV/caravan/mobile home dealers is only down the road. But they have their own in-house people for maintenance and fixes and not interested in outside work - indeed at the moment so busy they can't even cope with their inhouse demands!
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30 minutes ago, markeymark said:
Its a long way away but I have been told that there is a place in Braunston that fixes fridges and probably does plenty of boaters frdiges but i dont know the name of the company....sorry
It's Daventry Refrigeration or Fridge Company you're probably meaning (found that by searching on here a few weeks ago). I rang them and they were very nice and said they'd ask Brian (original owner of company but now really retired) and I'd have to get the fridge to them. They didn't call back so I assumed he'd said he wasn't doing them any more.
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18 minutes ago, Seajays said:
I have the same problem with a Waeco CR110 under counter fridge freezer. The compressor constantly runs but the fridge isnt cooling. I replaced the thermostat unit but this hasnt made any difference so am led to believe it
is the refrigerant that needs recharging. Research tells me it is R134A thats needed but am having a devils own job to find an engineer to refill it. The boat is in Staffordshire and Im in Cheshire. If anyone has a tame engineer that can help me out please let me know.
We've just been through all this with our Shoreline Larder Fridge. Electrics, voltage, compressor all find so diagnosis was a leak and cost of even trying to find out where leak would have been around £140 (Shoreline would have collected fridge) and even then might a) not have been able to fix at a sensible cost or b) unable to find leak. Rather than go that route or just go ahead and buy a new 12v larder fridge at the £550+, we've switched to a 230v larder fridge which cost under £140. We run 230v on the boat anyway and have a 230v table top running freezer separately and when out cruising batteries seem happy enough, so this seemed the best choice.
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How about seeing if you can get in at Saltisford Arm, Warwick. The rail station is only a mile or so from there. Lovely moorings!
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12 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Interesting.
I would want to know what the minerals are before using them.
Seem expensive at first, do you have a cost per wash figure from your experience please?
I remember the spiky plastic balls that were supposed to wash without anything, turned out to be a con.
https://www.yours.co.uk/life/home/eco-egg-review/
And I never use fabric conditioner so the powder drawer or whatever it's called never gets used. So the washing machine is as clean and unsullied as the day we bought it years ago! (I do run a hot cleansing washcycle with nothing in it every couple of months just to keep it that way
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www.ecoegg.com I use these and have done for the last couple or three years as do all the family ... the blue one for coloureds and the white one for, obviously!, whites. With a scoop of Vanish when things are a bit grubby!! They work brilliantly, don't take up cupboard space and just need the pellets renewing every six months or year (depending on how often you wash)
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1 minute ago, cuthound said:
Not a liveaboard but have £1k cover for personal items on board, plus my house contents insurance covers mobile phone, computing and photographic equipment when outside of the house.
Yes, that's exactly what we did when we had a house and a boat. Now the boat is our residential address so things have changed.
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If you are residential/liveaboard, do you have insurance cover on personal effects such as clothes, cameras, mobiles, tablet, laptop? And are these covered away from your boat? I ask because when we had house insurance, that was part of our policy. When I look at boat insurance, I don't see a 'liveaboard' policy - just a boat and equipment and - presumably - fixed parts of the fit-out.
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The raised area is just where you put your feet. Inside the cupboard and drawers (i.e. under the bench), it's floor level to maximise storage. The raised area lets the desmo legs slot in safely. There's a thin panel at the front of the raised section which can pulls off and pushes on on clippy metal things to store skinny things like .... umbrellas, BBQ tools, ?
Oh, and in the 'making' picture, you can see a wood panel sloping under the table. That panel is hinged and opens out like a little door to brace under the long table. So the long table has it's little desmo legs, the wooden shelf rim around the edge of the 'L' dinette and the wooden door which holds it at the foot end.
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This is our version, photographed at the building stage. Two sets of legs (long and short), two tables long and short. cupboard under bench for bedding. Also three drawers on short side (two are mine for packets and tins storage; one is his for small tubes, elastic things, washers, bits and pieces of crud!)
We have two folding Ikea bar stool jobbies (stored under the main bed) which go on the long side of the table when it's set up for more than three dining. Cushions placed to provide mattress base and I have a mattress topper that gives a comfortable base for bodies.
Extra height does allow looking easily out of windows and you'll see the hatch is directly opposite the L-shaped pullman. And you'll see also where whichever of the tables isn't being used is stored. There's a little storage place between the steps/bookshelf and the galley radiator for the unused desmo legs. It's exactly what we wanted and has proved hugely useful over the years as spare bed for visiting family/friends . Not least because the L-shape makes for more social/drinks space indoors in non-Covid times!!
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I'm glad I added my signature to the total!
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Could they not drop a line to one of the onlookers and maybe ask them to walk along the bank a little giving a bit of a pull and putting the engine in reverse ......
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There was a be-yooooo-tiful beaten copper sided bath. And a be-yoooo-tiful copper washing basin. Ummmmm......toilet???? Obviously no room for that so it was going to be a buckit 'n chuckit job for all six B&Bs all through the day and all through the night. Pleasant!! My husband walked away when they drilled through the roof. It was a truly ridiculous programme. At least Guy Martin made a half decent stab at it.
Leaving the Waterways
in General Boating
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Many in the CWDF family will remember both Bruce and Sheila Napier. Bruce passed away in January 2020; Sheila continued boating, swapping ‘Sanity Again’ for her new bespoke and very beautiful hybrid Braidbar ‘Salodin’ (which featured for the boat test in Canal Boat December 2021). Sheila has now decided to return to bricks and mortar and settle near the family. She is about to set off for her spring and summer cruise, after which she will be selling Salodin. She will carry the good wishes of many friends on the water as she moves to the next phase of her life but, thankfully will be close enough for visits and excursions!
(posted at Sheila's request)