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thanks Tom,
my father taught me about diesel engines
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one day a man on a mission walked into the yard where we repaired narrowboats, he told me he had a bolinder engine, & he was looking for a narrowboat to put it in, i asked him did he want a rotten boat or a sound boat,
rotten he said, then he could take his time rebuilding it, we walked over to where 2 boats were moored together, a coke can had floated between them & sunk one of them, your in luck said i, we have what you want,
6 grand to rebuild the bow
9 grand for the stern
& your divorce lawyer can advise you on the bit inbetween
fine he said, where do i sign
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for those that choose this towpath
Waterways World - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
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steaming 2 inch oakplanking , fastening 3 inch elm bottom boards & rebuilding these boats frames, cratch beams, counters, cabins etc is good trainingComment
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so while my mates in east anglia were talking baht ford cortinas, double overhead fuel injected turbo'n'uttar bastids,
i was studying gardners, kelvins, fodens, widdop, sulzer, die industries, burmeister & wain, listers, petters, thorneycrofts, sabb,lombardini, baudoin, grenaa, brons, m.a.n, perkins/westerbeke,Comment
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Fiction or fact
What is one of the most important things to make sure of, when you set out to sea ?
That your boat is sound
Do you ever hear this story about an old boat, whose owner reckoned he was a better navigator than, neil armstrong, christopher columbus & peter andre combined, who wrote books about what a good seaman he was, books ,like hand relief & beer, whose boat when he sold it turned out to be completely rotten,
You couldn’t make it upComment
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what rubbish, how preposterous, couldnt possibly be true
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then theres all the people who have kept me going, like this great unsung hero
Kathy Lette - [ Traduci questa pagina ]
The official Kathy Lette website. ... Kathy Lette, quiplash. Kathy Lette, books. Kathy Lette, photos, Kathy Lette. workComment
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the scanners back up
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i built a new stern, deckbeams, half new framing, planking,deckshelves, stringers, washboards, coachroof on the 40ft, 1935, fred shepherd, berthons teak, pitch pine, oak & bronze gaff cutter Oenone,
some clowns in a sicilian boatyard had put her in a bilge cradle without her lead keel touching the ground, then they were going to burn her, its the only time ive seen that someone had refastened a keel with brass keelbolts, which had wasted away in 7 years from 18mm to 6 mm, the methods used in the med are still a source of danger & amazement to me as i try to understand how people think here on boats, it is common here to use mastic instead of cotton/oakum & mastic to attempt to make seams watertight, many people here cannot seem the grasp the principle of wedging a seam shut, which stiffens a hull or deck like a caskComment
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