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| Mad Harold |
Posted - 11 May 2021 : 12:51:06
A trip from Huddersfield to Dewsbury.
completely uneventful.
Boring old git arn't I!
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| Tom Morgan |
Posted - 22 May 2021 : 14:31:46
That's really kind of you mate! I just needed one piece of 12mm to make a new lid and I had a leftover piece at home so managed with that. But I'm really grateful to you for your offer. Your secret about the marina ladies is safe with me, but say hello to Rose for me! PS - I found a pulpit rail not long ago. Fitting that is the next job! |
| jud |
Posted - 21 May 2021 : 18:24:00
Hi Tom.
If you need some ply for your repairs just let me know the sizes you need and I'll check my stock. If I've got some in you can have it willingly
If you've lost my phone number just ask one of the ladies at the marina for it (oops,don't tell my Rosemary) see you soon Tom,
Jud. |
| df |
Posted - 21 May 2021 : 05:28:52
I will be out for a run this weekend despite the wind forecast, only the second trip this year.
A gentle run to the surlingham ferryhouse and stop there for the weekend so I can plug in and give my batteries a good charge while I hide in the pub, I have a solar panel and controller to fit but I doubt the weather will let me get it done this weekend, certainly not the big wind catching bit on the outside anyway, may get my bilge pump moved to the lowest point as it currently sits right at the stern and leaves a load of water in the engine bay, fine at speed but no use on the rivers.
Roll on real summer...... Please!
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| Tom Morgan |
Posted - 19 May 2021 : 17:21:46
Agreed! I had the rope in my hand when I tried to step off as the boat was moving away from solid ground. It was a choice between trying to jump off and possibly falling into the water, or jumping back on so I could use the motor to reposition the boat. It all worked out well in the end, apart from the rather heavy fall onto the locker lid. All fixed now, though!
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| Mad Harold |
Posted - 19 May 2021 : 06:43:37
Just thought,the distance from the gunwale to the locker top is probably bigger than my Norman 20.So a bigger distance to drop onto.
Perhaps a box or step of some kind would help getting in and out.
Also a centreline on the roofrail or a 3cleat with the ends in the cockpit are useful when mooring single handed,in that you can grab the end fairly quickly and step out hopefully before the boat has drifted away from the bank. |
| Mad Harold |
Posted - 19 May 2021 : 06:02:08
Not done that yet!
Perhaps use thicker ply this time,or er,lose a bit of weight. |
| Tom Morgan |
Posted - 19 May 2021 : 03:59:55
I went out for a three hour cruise last week and got back to the marina, which is a private canal arm and a bit of a wind-tunnel. Reversed into my spot and made to step off, rope in hand. Then the wind gave a gust and started pushing the boat away while I had one leg on the boat and the other on the jetty. I did a sort of half-jump back onto the boat and put my foot through the left-hand cabin locker, wrecking it. So - a three hour cruise leads to the purchase of a sheet of ply, and four days either cutting, sanding, test-fitting or waiting for paint to dry. I'm sure all Norman owners will have had a similar payback. |
| Mad Harold |
Posted - 17 May 2021 : 09:51:12
Hope you take your brolly!
Thought about going of for a couple of days this week,but the rain yesterday and today put me off.Rumour has it that it will improve after Tuesday.
So went for a stationary cruise today.That is putting the heater and telly on,making a cup of coffee and listening to the rain on the canopy.The advantage is you don't have to do locks.I was sitting there quite happily watching the news,Israel and Palestine at each other and Indian Covid mutation and thinking I was glad that I re-sealed the windows and frames last year (a pig of a job) when my eye caught a glitening drop of water in the corner of one of the front windows.I thought thrice bugger I really don't want to take the window out,so I will use Captain Tolleys Ceeping Crack Cure as recommended by onother boater.It's thinner than water and is supposed to percolate into small cracks and seal them.Hope it works. |
| philihun |
Posted - 15 May 2021 : 10:46:47
Cheers for that Harold. Going out at Keadby up the Trent to Stockwith on Tuesday, then a week down the Chesterfield Canal.
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| Mad Harold |
Posted - 15 May 2021 : 04:39:41
I do envy you being able to have a cruise whenever you want.
The northern canals do seem to have suffered badly from numerous stoppages.Calder and Hebble,Aire and Calder,Leeds Liverpool,Rochdale,Huddersfield Narrow.
Even further south the Macclesfield and Shroppie have had stoppages.
Lets hope that things will improve and we can cruise the cut with whats left of this year. |
| df |
Posted - 14 May 2021 : 18:02:25
Bloody hell! And to think Adi never understood why I don't miss locks.
I'll stick to the broads....
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| Mad Harold |
Posted - 14 May 2021 : 17:01:20
You may be able to move East next week.Calder and Hebble has been on red up to last Wednesday,but is ok for the moment,although heavy rain is forecast for the weekend.
Figure of three locks are now open but with low water levels and Woodnook lock is now listed as open.If the Calder stays on green,you may be able to get up this way.
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| philihun |
Posted - 14 May 2021 : 13:13:20
Hi Harold still can't get near you after a year waiting for the repair on the lock collapse nr Horbury. Tried for Ripon a week ago, swing bridge is knackered at Selby. I month later still not started. Aire and calder is completely closed for for the last 6 months . Stopping all sea boats going out or coming in at Goole. Rhodes- field lock nr Ripon has collapsed . Leaving over 200 boats trapped behind it in 2 Marinas. All this after paying full fees and no boating for best part of a year.This is just the North east Region. Happy boating folks.
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| Mad Harold |
Posted - 14 May 2021 : 06:05:00
Mine has the Ali strips screwed to the bottom frame,but most of the threads in the frame were knackered and the Ali strip was a bit distorted probably due to being on and off many times,that it still leaked.
When the perspex needs replacing,I will look at putting the sliding windows back. |
| df |
Posted - 14 May 2021 : 05:44:03
Most of the 8kw chinaspachers are just a wild claim and actually a 4kw unit, on my 30' widebeam boat a 4kw roasts the living crap out of it.
The trick with the side windows is to have a strip of thin plastic or aluminium bonded along the bottom on the inside so water can run down the drains before it runs over the inside runner, doing that made a world of difference on my old norman 18, my 25 had ali strips screwed on as standard as did my RLM 31, opening windows is so much better when it's warm.
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