Narrowboat Journal

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Trent Lock to Old Junction Lock" 3 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

"On the side, come alive"
Ooops, sorry, wrong lingo.
Read your Blog Steve and wondering how we missed you on our visits to the Fens.
Are you on the air on your boat?
AR
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Trent Lock to Old Junction Lock" 4 days old
by Steve Foote [Visitor]

Qrz?

de G4FOH

NB Tambourine

Blisworth Arm more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Harbro’ Arm (still)" 6 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Coffee drop - see email.

500Kcs ?? Don't forget to listen at 1/4 past and 1/4 to for SOS calls will you.
We used 1500 watts, what power are you using?
Cheers
Mo more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Harbro’ Arm (still)" 6 days old
by g3zjo [Member]

Hey you are local already. Will have to arrange a Coffee delivery.
Hmm I bet you have been on 500KHz in the past. I have just built a TX. more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 6 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Can't agree on the Bedford to MK link, I've joined the Anti Bedford to MK Campaign, we don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry taking shortcuts to the Fens do we.

While they're widening the locks I suggest they raise a few bridges too (like that's ever going to happen).

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Harbro’ Arm (still)" 6 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Folding chair legs?
All I can say is that it has something to do with tilting and rotating the solar panel. Whether it actually works is another matter but when life slows down in the winter (does it ever?) I shall begin cutting and glueing.

Glad to hear Meg's on the mend, post the news of what did it won't you.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 7 days old
by Kevin [Visitor]

Summer???

OK how about summer 2011?

A canal between MK & Bedford would be great but my digging days are long gone.

Now I have a widebeam I expect BW to promptly get on with making the whole system WB accessible.

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Harbro’ Arm (still)" 7 days old
by Sue [Visitor]

Folding chair legs + project? Ho hum do tell more! Meg is doing OK today, back to the vet tomorrow, then we will know more. Paint brushes instead of chain saws? Whatever next!

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 7 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Cuppa, you could have had several. Well done on the widebeam, now you'll be building a shed and next you'll be digging a canal.
Get it ready for the summer and maybe we can do some racing.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 9 days old
by Kevin [Visitor]

Hi Mo

I got my widebeam

http://boatbuildblog.blogspot.com

Shame I was near to you at Ibstock where it was collected. Had I have known I would have knocked on you for a cuppa.

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 12 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Glad you like the piccies, t'was a pleasure for us.
Mo more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 12 days old
by Ashleyb [Visitor]

great photos of real Nottingham, I love ye old trip! glad you had fun. Ash more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Kilby Bridge to Wistow" 13 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Thanks for that Kevin, it's always good to know the history and I'll remember that every time I see her on our travels.
He must have been some guy to have a boat named after him, looks like he was truly appreciated.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Barrow to Sileby Mill" 13 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Got you, found the blog and will be watching developments.
Advice? Me?
Get a good editor is the first step.
I'll think on it some more.
Mo more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 13 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Take pictures, lots of them, I want to see this fitted, with an aerial up top.

You didn't say how much it cost.

I'm a bit jealous, I have to say.

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 16 days old
by Paul Sladen [Visitor]

I took the boat down to Anchor (well old Bridge no. 1, as that's the only location with towpath access) and picked up the top six sections of a Clark SCAM antenna mast). Still working my head around the exact practicalities of fitting it...

In theory that should give about 9-metres of neatly retractable reach above the roofline (~7.5 more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Barrow to Sileby Mill" 17 days old
by Kevin [Visitor]

Hello Mo & Ness

I finally managed to secure that widebeam shell I have been on about and I also have another project on the go.

On the boat blog I am happy to receive advice and tips

My Blogs

http://www.blogger.com/profile/03085698297660248209

Regards

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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Kilby Bridge to Wistow" 17 days old
by Kevin Berrill [Visitor]

This drudger "The Mick Berrill" was named after my dad who drove it for many years untill his retirement more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha" 26 days old
by Jo Lodge [Visitor]

Hi Both. Glad all went well with the wedding. Have not been to one of those for a loong time.

I may ask about moving him once they have sorted him out. He had an MRI scan yesterday and we are still waiting on the surgeons to get their act together. In the meantime it is costing an arm and a leg for travelling, and we have the moorings more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha" 26 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Hi Jo
Brilliant wedding, weather turned nice just in time.
Sorry to hear about Keith, how horrible. Can't imagine how you're managing.
Pity he couldn't get his bed moved up to Harbro's hospital isn't it, that would help get over visiting difficulties.

We're on the move again, should catch up with you very soon.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha" 27 days old
by Jo Lodge [Visitor]

I hope that you had a lovely few days away. I know the feeling of not having a very good T-Mobile signal. The one in the Market Harborough basin is poor, and takes me forever to get into anything.
Was the weather good for the Wedding?
We are stuck in MH for how long I do not know as Keith is still in hosptial until they have found out more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Trent Lock to Old Junction Lock" 32 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Thanks Jeff, interesting use for crayfish, we'll get a pet heron to clean up the parts we don't eat.

No plans for the Midlands, no plans at all yet.
There's a pow-wow booked for later this year to decide which licence to get and where to use it, so watch this space.
Lovely to see you're still on the canals.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Trent Lock to Old Junction Lock" 32 days old
by Jeff Anderson [Visitor]

Hi both Jeff Anderson here, re your Crayfish dielema, after a recent BW National Canal clean up in Birmingham, when every tyre that was heaved out of the cut cotained a family of Crayfish, and having been informed by BW that if we put the 'little beggers' back we could be prosicuted, we decided to leave them to a very gratefull Heron, who had no pr more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 39 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Oh thank you very much !!!!! more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 39 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

I'm doing studies on that at the moment, I'm hoping the results don't turn me tea-total.
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 39 days old
by Mike [Visitor]

How about using that nice gas mask you bought in Devises? more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Sileby Mill to Trent Lock" 41 days old
by roynelson [Member]

normally caused by too much yeast in the evening, im afraid.
i only snore when ive had a couple, nowadays.

love+light to you+yours more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 48 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

As long as you don't want a picture of me putting the thing up, its hair raising until the last section slots into place. Not made any easier by someone walking about inside the boat.
Mo
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In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 48 days old
by jakepithf [Member]

Hi Paul
Reckon it would have lasted another year, or more, because there wasn't much steel showing until the jetwash went into action. It's hard to tell the difference between appearances now and two years ago, once the crud is off, it looks the same to me.
What was a surprise was how I couldn't tell where I'd brush painted an extra coa more…

In response to: "Narrowboat Balmaha – Holme Pierrepont to Barrow on Soar" 56 days old
by Paul - from Waterway Routes [Visitor]

If I remember an earlier posting you used Intertuff for your blacking and we've used the same. I'd be very interested to hear your views on how long it has lasted and if it would have lasted an extra year. more…