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twbm

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  4. You might want to use refilling your tank as good practice for traversing the apparently daunting gunnels when you go out cruising.
  5. Not boat related but have, on no less than three occasions over the years, caught the water from a U-bend in a bowl then emptied said bowl in to the sink I've just disconnected. Edit to add .. and whilst attempting to sort out an unshipped rudder, undid the huge nut on the swan neck, to watch the rudder fall out of the back of the boat and effectively nail us to the canal bed. To this day I'm not sure how I thought undoing the nut was going to help.
  6. We don't even have a bath in the house - swapped it for a walk-in shower. In the motorhome (sorry) we have what I guess is a small immersion heater type arrangement, powered by gas or mains that gets the water stupidly hot: the taps and the shower mix it with the cold to bring it down to a useable temperature. The tanks are consderably smaller than in narrowboats so we don't take too long in there, but it's a pleasant enough experience.
  7. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/3497857/132852-622-1252314298501-5-c2c4c200c400-c250-int-manualspdf Ah - old thread, sorry. Can't edit or delete it. But it's added that last bit to the origianl post. And that post too. Weird.
  8. No mention of it being out of the water in recent times, no survey, and I'm not sure what 'refurbishing the bilge' means. Blacked every two years could mean just down to the waterline. To be fair the interior is not unpleasant, but if it's all held up by wafer thin steel it's only a matter of time until it's a derelict. Even if it 's OK it's not worth £30k. If you must pursue it, insist on an out-of-water full survey.
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  10. https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/search/&q=wifi&search_and_or=and Dozens of threads on this topic...
  11. ... and in extremis, the breaking wave on the shallows tells you you're going too fast, or not in the channel, or both.
  12. Odd. I guess you've no leak in through the stern gland else you'd have mentioned it. The vacuum might be a distraction - are all the propshaft mountings / bearing secure and running sweet? Is the prop securing nut tight? Edit - possibly still worth checking but matty knows more than I do for sure.
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  14. Opinions vary, but a coat or two of red oxide before you start covers everything and gives a good base for most colours. I think he may be in grit-yer-teeth-and-start-again territory.
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  16. Nearer £1500, plus food and drink and travel to the hire base. So also around £2000, but good weather is pretty much guaranteed in Oludeniz.
  17. I'm not sure people who are used to paying around £500 a week for a fully inclusive holiday in say Turkey will want to fork out the daft prices you have to pay to hire a boat, do your own shopping and cooking and buy your own beer assuming there's a pub you can actually get in to, whilst gambling on the weather being passable.
  18. Dammit, I 'flew' over that yesterday when I tracked along the Lea, GU and Thames going away from London. As has been said, actually good entertainment for lock down .. glad you found it.
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  22. Thirded re the fenders. The weed is quite prolific, but I shouldn't worry about it ... an hour with a garden hoe will shift most of it, and the rest will come off as you cruise and rub the bottom and sides. It's really not worth spending a fortune on antifoul paint on a canal boat. No idea really re the green tool (good name for an unpopular superhero perhaps) - maybe for lifting mooring spikes?
  23. Yep - I got bored at about 2 minutes in. Is there a point where the 'threat' escalates beyond people being the other side of a glass / steel barrier waay more effective than any of the ones intalled in shops?
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