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they would have fun on Breydon

I just wonder why the fire engine pictured seems to be racing with a race car en route.

hopefully not by the same door on his way out.

well I suppose it will keep you out of trouble.

I would go with something like duck oil -https://www.espocatalogue.org/eSupply/COSHH/165913.pdf this says it has doesnt meet the classification as an environmental hazard and has penetrative as well as lubricant properties (unlike wd40) but otherwise I would choose a motorcycle chain oil.

ooherr, whats the problem

more grease in that very awkward to get at greasing cap on the rudder tube, lots more grease, I know I put a fair bit into it, but I never got it to where it was oozing out at either end, so lots of grease, its a pig to get to too as it faces the front of the boat and there is no access panel right where you could do it with a grease gun, so its take the cap off, pack the cap with grease, wind the cap on fully, take the cap off pack it with grease, and repeat lots. when we changed out the steering cable while we had the cable off, you could turn the rudder with just two finger tips, so its my bet that you need more grease. once we had changed the cable it was a lot better than before with all the joins in the 11 different bits of cable binding against each other, the ribs of the boat and anything else that happened to get near. also do you have the lock nut at the steering wheel end, if so it hasnt been tightened down to make the steering stiff to stop her wandering off course has it.

thats what happens when you turn 61..... The memory g........what was i saying

I have just found the below on a current DIY advice website I think this makes the situation perfectly clear, providing you are competent you can do your own gas works.

just a thought in that in the event of an incident, it is the HSE that would investigate and determine whether something was being done within the bounds of the regulations, so while an HSE discussion document does not have status in the law, the guidance it provides gives an indication on whether they would rule that work was or was not being done under the regulations, if work is being done that is not deemed to be covered by the regulations, then no matter what the regulations say, it is not unlawful. it may be a fine point but the hse's interpretation is the thing that defines whether the law applies. for instance - you have a gas bottle onboard your boat, the gas runs out - you are allowed to change the bottle for a new one, you dont need to be gas registered to do that - now, you wish to change the gas bottle to a cheaper supplier, this involves changing the regulator on the rubber hose, which is a push fit with a jubilee clip, is this deemed as gas work?

what about my link above to the HSE interpretation that states disconnecting and reconnecting a bayonet gas fitting is not classed as gas work, that at least seems pretty clear, so I suppose its down to the definition of gas work, for example is cleaning the jets on a cooker gas work, or cleaning, I know my mum takes the burners off her gas cooker when she cleans them (or the part that disperses the flame around the bottom of the pan at least, so the question becomes at which point does cleaning become 'gas work' that would become an interpretation of the regs rather than a law. and similarly when it comes to competence, one could say that competence in high pressure gas piping gives competence at lower pressures also, as these competencies are usually hieratical.

Only 40, a mere callow youth, Congrats on making it this far Robin

a bit more investigation shows the images are actually missing on our file server, so thats why you get the text, this means that they may have been culled to preserve server space, or they may just not have copied across when we changed file servers.

I too am on the water early August, I will be headed down south for the Wooden Boat show at Beccles (taking Jayne from Martham Boats- one of their lovely wooden boats). I generally dont worry about planning where to moor, I tend to pootle along and if I spot a place that looks nice, I will stop there. probably more important on the southern side to moor at the proper moorings than wild mooring due to the greater tidal range down south, but usually its less busy down south as well so more moorings are usually available anyway. As long as you have provisions onboard to cook yourself a meal, you can pretty much moor up at a spot in the back of beyond and sort yourself out, its generally the pub moorings that are the popular ones, when people want to eat out. my advice is if you want to plan a meal at a pub for a particular day, phone ahead and reserve your mooring there as well as your table.

if the next day is changeover day, then the yard may ask you to leave fairly early before all their boats arrive back and they get busy, but other than that its a good option.

no, unfortunately it happens occasionally, and on older posts there is less chance of fixing it the longer ago it happens, but if people let us know we can have a look.

so the teak was cut for the top rubbing strake across the transom (why did I say mahogany before) and its been fettled and fitted in place, glued and clamped.

I have just had a look at the original files and the ones for that post would appear to have got corrupted, so I must apologise that we wont be able to recover them after all this time. (we would normally ask the original poster to see if they had a copy and send them to us so we could fix them, but they have not logged on recently.

it could just be that the link has broken on the file, or it may have been tidied up and archived. we did have some issues moving between servers a couple of years back, where some images were lost. if you have a link or title / section of the topic I will go have a look.

thats why I hire a woody from Marthams, they fix the boat, I get to use it at least the beds have plenty of length (if you are going to buy a boat check the length of the beds, some are not great for 6 foot +

from the hse gas documentation - http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/landlords/141114-responsibility-disconnecting-reconnecting.pdf you can disconnect and reconnect an existing cooker- eg for cleaning, however if its a new cooker you cannot as the new appliance needs to be tested for leaks - eg where the new gas hose is connected at the cooker end. from the looks of it if you bought a second hand cooker with the hose already connected you would be ok, you might still want to get the new cooker tested though.

the cooker salesman will tell you that you cant too, but I presume the delivery driver must be competent as they can (ie they have been trained to plug in a bayonet fitting), I think the bayonet fitting is a user useable connection, connecting the hose at the cooker end on the other hand, probably isnt. either way they have got you and can sting you for a connection charge.

funnily enough I was doing some research while wondering why I needed special drill bits to even touch the stainless steel I have used in the model in the past, and it popped right out at me - stainless steel is much harder than high speed steel used for normal drill bits, hence the need for special carbide drill bits to drill the stuff, standard drill bits are at a rockwell hardness of 65, and stainless steel anything from 89 upwards, carbide, while brittle is a huge degree harder than this. no wonder it was taking many HSS drill bits to make a hole in my stainless steel sheet. I do however now possess a good supply of tiny carbide drill bits for the purpose. (even though they do break all too easily)

my parents were brought up during the war, and can remember rationing and being sent away from the kent coast where they were both born, my mother can remember being strafed by german planes whilst walking to school, and my fathers school was bombed while he was in class, older acquaintances and grandparents never did talk about what happened during the war, there are many stories that could be told that never will be, I think this is probably the reason that more hasnt been made of the events - because those who were there dont want to remember or talk about what happened and what they saw. My father has written down some of his memories from that era, but we see them through the eyes of the child he was, memories of his mother (my Gran) having to go to the school and identify the bodies of children, being asked if a body was her son because he was wearing glasses, to respond that her son had a different colour jumper, then only later finding he had survived and been evacuated the length of the town in the smugglers tunnels under Deal. These were not nice times, and I feel a lot of the survivors dont want to remember, maybe in guilt that they survived when others close to them didnt. Yes we should remember, we should be thankful, but we shouldnt force those survivors to relive any of their thoughts and experiences, we should learn from their sacrifices never have to repeat the events of such conflict, and that a peaceful solution must always be better.