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Hi, sounds like you need one of these??? http://www.mailspeedmarine.com/fresh-wa ... 5705.bhtml

It was a nice weekend to be on the salty side of the broads....Click to go BIG

Hi, the red glow may be nothing more than the thermocouple glowing cherry red,if it,s burning blue it should be ok,if however it starts to burn yellow your in trouble......,on the other hand if you blow your boat up ,and your insurance compay finds out you did gas work yourself you,d be right up the creek without a paddle

IF you were on the new cut saturday there was a large obsitickle in the way......drop the radar arch boys!!

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Even better,,,,,,

Oh god .........

Wow i ve just looked up from the pc as i am writing this ,and a guy from sky sports was pointing a camara at me(not filming me but a guy who works in the office) his camara cost him around 35,000 ,and looks like a large home video camara was when they first came out, takes around an hour of hd video...35000 that,s a boat!!

Damming the local river up into a narrow flume, and shooting the "rapids" in a tin bath....priceless!! (well we were only 7)!

It was on here ,but...give my little boat a shout (pm) he may have the links still??

Boat driver

That would be patrick the pilgrim Wombat!!!

Here,s one.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkmEIC6f ... re=related

http://www.rpmarinesurveys.co.uk/index_ ... _Types.htm, id from this?

Take a pic of the thing ,if thv,e had the shaft out ,i wonder if they used whatever ,s in the tube to re assemble it, that could be why it,s leaking oil,i think the water injection part goes outside the boat,for cooling,larger system,s have a lube pump....when you go down next feel if the oils is defo running down the shaft,and it,s not the tube connections??

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does it look like this???

Are you sure that the oil reservoir is to lubricate a bearing?? and not a seal?

It would stop the oil.....because there wouldn,t be any!! ,seriously to do that you,d have to fit a grease nipple or a remote greaser...how long your OIL seals would last is a different matter,did they check that the seal is alined ,ie the static is square to the mover??,that,s what,s normally wrong with them when distrubed??

ermm gis a clue, i know a bloke who drives one of these gets a bit gory ....from large groupers which get caught up in them

We have them come up the drain at work(lincoln) and also on the ouse,they get more work there and pile the weed up on the banks,with intensive farming ,meaning hughe amounts of nitrogen /fertilizers leeching into the rivers it ,s the only way to keep the navigation open to boats .

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I will be checking the tides i think the next time,although this is the first time i ve had any problem,i was talking to a old gent who sit,s on the bench at the basin ,he can recall all the water running out of the basin with just the river flowing down the middle ,he told me the conditions must be just right in the north sea for this to happen??

Hi, we went out on the boat at the weekend and had a great time, one event was a bit of a eye opener ,we were chugging down the chet to lodden when all of a sudden there was a bang then another bang ,then we ground to a halt!!, we had run aground ,so it was legs up to the limit and slowly forward, we managed to creep into the basin ,where we had to put the legs down to stern on moor,there was very little water ....and a lot of mud!.Moored up ok and had a pleasant evening in the local pubs ,with football for the boys ,and good company in the Angel for us. The fun started the next morning ,we started the boat as normal and headed up the river,half way up the chet the port engine started to overheat ,so we shut her down before the alarm sounded, fine ,so we carried on on one engine ,but after 15 mins the starboard engine,s temp started to rise ,so creeped to the end of the chet and on to the Yare to more up on the bank were the two rivers meet....another problem....there are no posts there to moor up to so ended up tied to a ladder and an rsj.We cleaned out both weed filters which were full of Loddens finest mud ,toilet paper ,and gunge and went on our way to The Ferryhouse no problem. So be carful out there ...with spring tides and lack of rainwater it,s shallow in places

Now that looks like a lot of work!! very well done