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I always try to use the fuel boats whenever possible.

If the fuel, "coal", gas, even Elsan is a few pence dearer, i want to see these hardworking folk continue to make an honest living in increasingy difficult times. 

Having said that, i am now only going to hail one out of the four i have used over the years. Their keen but careless approach when coming alongside had cost me a telly, a fairlead, and numerous external dinks and damaged items inside the boat. They seem to forget they weigh in tonnes more than me.

Mrs HL has given me enough earache. I cant afford a second divorce. Sorry guys.

No,  wrongly , i didn't complain.

No, i am not a "shiny boater" .....

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7 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

Smashing your TV is a bit much though ...

Agree but how did they do that unless it was somewhere outside? Or somehow through a window? Thank god for our portholes! Although thinking back, we did have a JCB come through one of those in the past but maybe that doesn't count being rather more of a, hopefully, one off.

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I like to support fuel boats but I wish they would bring their act up to date:

I'd like some central internet site where I could find all of them.

I'd like their websites to be up to date, including location and planned route. Messages "at the time" are not convenient for me as a non-liveaboard. Also, some messages have assumed that I knew how their organisation worked instead of explaining stuff.

I'd like joined up communication between boats of the same company.

And I have been suprised by how hard my boat has been walloped, too.

That said, the people running them have been very nice.

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1 hour ago, system 4-50 said:

I like to support fuel boats but I wish they would bring their act up to date:

I'd like some central internet site where I could find all of them.

 

There is.

http://www.lock13.co.uk

Would be easier to use if the fuel boats no longer trading were removed from the list altogether.

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