They Dont Hang Around Long

[frangar]

57 minutes ago, Mike Hurley said:

I got it straight away, shape of the end of the male appendage.................

If yours is the shape of a mushroom vent I’d seek medical advice......

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, frangar said:

If yours is the shape of a mushroom vent I’d seek medical advice......

I'm glad someone did that joke. 

 

I resisted using it about Roland's pitted one, but, well, wd have been a shame to waste it. 

[Machpoint005]

6 hours ago, roland elsdon said:

However our brass work is done daily when possible.

 

So is ours, but it turns out to be possible about once a year. 

[Dr Bob]

5 hours ago, roland elsdon said:

 

 

Back to my boat in 2 weeks today from the rain and the wind of Australia.

First job clean the brass.....

I think there are forest fires forecast first week in March for Warwickshire.

[peterboat]

20 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

So is ours, but it turns out to be possible about once a year. 

As often as that? I am thinking of getting mine chromed its easier than never polishing

[frangar]

6 minutes ago, peterboat said:

As often as that? I am thinking of getting mine chromed its easier than never polishing

If you polish regularly it’s really not a chore....I use a waxy substance from Miracle polish over the winter...keeps them shiny underneath then just wipe it off and buff them up in the spring...I love the look of polished brass....and it’s quite therapeutic to actually do! 

[Ray T]

Not Roland's Boat but the photo does show mushroom vents.

 

 

https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/EXTRASIMAGE716

[Machpoint005]

26 minutes ago, frangar said:

If you polish regularly it’s really not a chore....I use a waxy substance from Miracle polish over the winter...keeps them shiny underneath then just wipe it off and buff them up in the spring...I love the look of polished brass....and it’s quite therapeutic to actually do! 

 

A pain in the arse can be therapeutic too.

[frangar]

1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

A pain in the arse can be therapeutic too.

Funny you should mention my other interests....?

[roland elsdon]

8 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Not Roland's Boat but the photo does show mushroom vents.

 

 

https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/EXTRASIMAGE716

Painted.

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, roland elsdon said:

Painted.

Hard to say.

 

This one has two shiny ones though.

And, to be fair, here is is next to a boat with a painted one

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/manchuria

[roland elsdon]

4 minutes ago, TheMenagerieAfloat said:

Hard to say.

 

This one has two shiny ones though.

And, to be fair, here is is next to a boat with a painted one

https://hnbc.org.uk/boats/manchuria

No. Thats Manchuria. LMS ex station boat. Should not have Cabin never mind engine never mind mushroom vents.

Sister boat to my ex beloved Mecca , which was the same, a counter sterned motorised ex station boat.

Very very Shiny.

 

[Ray T]

I have several photo's of Willow Wren boats with the mushroom vents painted either Red of Green, one example:

 

I also have just as many photo's of working boats in their heyday with polished mushroom vents.

 

"Yer pays yer money and takes yer choice."

Edited February 13, 2020 by Ray T

[Alan de Enfield]

Just for TMA

 

My "Vents , roof for the use of"

 

Those who think they know everything are annoying those of us that do !

 

 

 

 

Edited February 13, 2020 by Alan de Enfield

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Ray T said:

I have several photo's of Willow Wren boats with the mushroom vents painted either Red of Green, o ne example:

There are def some painted ones... Even found a BW one with painted stem and shiny head. 

 

Fail to beleive Roland has never previously had the joy of commenting censuriously on other people's mushrooms. 

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

Just for TMA

 

My "Vents , roof for the use of"

 

 

 

 

Alan has no mushroom! 

[Alan de Enfield]

1 minute ago, TheMenagerieAfloat said:

There are def some painted ones... Even found a BW one with painted stem and shiny head. 

 

Fail to beleive Roland has never previously had the joy of commenting censuriously on other people's mushrooms. 

Alan has no mushroom! 

Don't assume that your experiences are the same as the experiences of anyone else.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Don't assume that your experiences are the same as the experiences of anyone else.

I didn't. I was aware of the solar vents (I  looked at swapping some mushrooms for some on one boat). The majority of narrowboats have mushrooms though. 

[WotEver]

Flying saucer vents are the work of the devil... they always leak eventually. 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, WotEver said:

Flying saucer vents are the work of the devil... they always leak eventually. 

Could get a nice little tent for each one to match the dog box(?) tent ;-) 

[Alan de Enfield]

8 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Flying saucer vents are the work of the devil... they always leak eventually. 

I've been lucky then - many years without a leaking flying saucer vent.

 

I have them on the seagoing boat as well, they don't even leak when a wave comes over the bow.

 

 

 

[WotEver]

16 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I've been lucky then - many years without a leaking flying saucer vent.

 

I have them on the seagoing boat as well, they don't even leak when a wave comes over the bow.

 

 

 

That’s cheating - there’s nothing to rust...

[Ray T]

31 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Flying saucer vents are the work of the devil... they always leak eventually. 

All the offshore yachts I sailed on had "flying saucer" vents, very easy to slip on, one very quickly learns to avoid them! There again mushroom vents would be a trip or a rope tangling hazard. Never know the saucer vents to leak even in a Force 9, the strongest wind I have been at sea with.

 

 

Edited February 13, 2020 by Ray T

[Alan de Enfield]

3 minutes ago, Ray T said:

All the offshore yachts I sailed on had "flying saucer" vents, very easy to slip on, one very quickly learns to avoid them! There again mushroom vents would be a trip or a rope tangling hazard. Never know the saucer vents to leak even in a Force 9, the strongest wind I have been at sea with.

 

 

 

 

If God had meant you to live life at the angle he'd have given you one leg longer than the other.

 

Anything with less than Two-Hulls is only half-a-boat !!!

[Guest]

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

Aything with less than Two-Hulls is only half-a-boat !!!

Coming soon to a (controversially dimensioned) canal near your... The NarrowCat. Double hulled NB, perhaps with nice pretend grass, and a paddling pool, on the deck between them! 

[Ray T]

5 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

If God had meant you to live life at the angle he'd have given you one leg longer than the other.

 

Anything with less than Two-Hulls is only half-a-boat !!!

For me a catamaran is a bit like having two women in tow, I can manage one but not two. 

1 minute ago, TheMenagerieAfloat said:

Coming soon to a (controversially dimensioned) canal near your... The NarrowCat. Double hulled NB, perhaps with nice pretend grass, and a paddling pool, on the deck between them! 

No paddling pool!

Edited February 13, 2020 by Ray T