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  1. She passed away in 2022 aged 91.
  2. We should not forget that back in the late 70s after the Silver Jubilee, that it was Francis Cator and his wife ( Ranworth Cators) who acted as guarantors to get the Jubilee Sailing Trust off the ground.
  3. The Classic Boat festival is on at St Katherine's Dock. Entrance Is free, starting 1100hrs both Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th. There is normally a very good turn out of my two favourites when it comes to motor boats:- Bates Starcraft and Ramparts.
  4. You could probably earn some serious pocket money with a "Cruising" workshop on the waterways.
  5. Honfleur is a real jewel of La Manche. This is if you are not stuck for hours on the outer pontoon awaiting the lock opening.
  6. PS. You would also most likely have 3 phase which would enhance the machine tools you could enjoy.
  7. I think the smart money would have been for you to sell your house and buy a freehold industrial unit with office accommodation at the front and above.. You would then have a big "Manufacturing" area and you could convert the office into your house. A plus being no garden to get in the way of your hobbies.
  8. And anyone up here as well. Met office this morning:-
  9. Our "Out of Nessesity" overnighters were normally Campaniles. Because you were always assured of a good breakfast, a sort of trans-European mixture of cereal, bread, cheese eggs cold meats catering for all nationalities.
  10. It was always lunch-time when we got to Montauban. 17 years later , 1991 returning from what was to be our last family holiday in Banyuls-sur-Mer. By the river, maybe even the same bench! The steed was Judith's Rover 216VP. We crammed into it as my Peugeot 405 lacked air-con. Our youngest son must have taken the picture. Anyway must not hi-jack your thread. I look forward very much to following your adventure.
  11. Have a wonderful trip. I am green with envy! Continental motoring was my late wife's and my greatest pleasure. More so, even, than sailing as Judith was never as keen on the sea as me. We started camping, then when the boys came, a caravan, and latterly Hotels, Routiers and Ferme Auberge. This 1974 picture of Judith preparing lunch, sat on a bench by the river in Montauban is one of my favourites. The back seat was removed from the Dyane to accommodate all our camping gear. We were on our way back from our second trip in that car to Andalusia, crossing the Pyrenees via the Col de Puymorens. No tunnel back then! The year after it was a Europa caravan towed by a Daimler Sovereign because what we did not know was Judith was coming home pregnant with our eldest son. Hard to come to terms that that picture was taken 49 years ago, with a Russian SLR Zenit camera.
  12. Or Blue Supermoon. Full moon is around 0200 hrs tomorrow but this is how it started ĥere in the NE corner of Norfolk.
  13. Not as bad as the Corsair. I know of three that were rolled, all parents 2000E models.
  14. Waeco would be my choice. They are in my humble opinion the best for mobile applications.
  15. One of the Multi-Nationals that I worked for would second us to help small business after so many years service. A kind of "A change is as good as a rest" sabatical. My experience mirrors yours almost exactly.
  16. I used the Ecoblast air horn that you can recharge with a foot or bike pump. It was a real ear splitter.
  17. Now the Acme Metropolitan has a very distinctive sound that makes people sit up.
  18. I am very envious, I and my late wife loved that top end of the RGO navigation. Sadly I have not been back for a number of years.
  19. Every boat that I have owned has always had a Whale manual bilge pump fitted to drain the lowest part of the bilge. I like the reassurance you get when you give it a few strokes as you pass and all is dry.
  20. I don't think either project has been officially cancelled. But if they are struggling to maintain what is there now, where would the money come from for new canals. There was also a scheme to join a new locked at sea end marina at Kings Lynn to the RGO via the Nar or Wissey, eliminating the need to pass Denver Sluice.
  21. I remember the days before the 2008 crisis when expansion was full speed ahead. Remember The Fenland Link & The Bedford Milton Keynes Waterway?
  22. Pretty sure they could be ordered as a Sedan or Flybridge.
  23. If your purchase has not been to sea recently, and being new to you, I would seriously consider transferring to Brundall by road. By any standard it is not an easy passage and one with many locations where the last thing you require is a boat not performing or worse loss of power. Even at the start of the voyage Brentford to clearing the Thames Estuary is not for the faint hearted.
  24. I had many friends around Bushey, Stanmore Harrow because although brought up in Chorleywood, I went to School in Moor Park/Northwood. But later on the Thames Valley was our playground. Skindles at Maidenhead, Skinners at Remenham Hill, Henley. Marlow pubs, Winkers Farm, Chalfont St Peter etc.
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