JanetAnne

How fortunate that it managed to sink on the BA moorings where WE all get to finance its removal rather than on the Beccles Town Council's moorings where it had sat for all that time and where it would have been their liability. Some days I cant believe our luck...

Seeing as your reg number, make, model, colour and chassis number is on full display wherever your car is I wouldn't worry about piccys on here too much.

Are you telling me that wiping the dipstick between finger and thumb and rubbing the two together is no longer the recognised evaluation technique for engines?

and on display!

I do hope that's not the only photo you have..... (drool )

Must have originated from Rhodes then!

Sorry guys but I sadly cant make it this week. Am on hospital duty so wont be home till after ten. (For those in the know, the patient is coming on in leaps and bounds now. Will fill you in with the details another time but a special delivery lucky leprechaun arrived today who, I am sure, will be providing the final push to a speedy recovery. Thanks Pat ) Would the question master pop a couple of the questions on here after the quiz so those that miss it can have a go at them? Have fun everyone.

All vehicle emission data is based on the use of the vehicle and never includes the environmental impact of the actual manufacture of said vehicle or the cost of scrapping at the end of life. I believe you can run your Volvo for another 50 years and do less damage to the planet than if you were to trade it tomorrow in exchange for a somewhat short lived Prius!

Seeing as none of us have seen the risk assessments or health and safety reports for the event it is quite hard to be accurate in any assumptions being offered. For all we know the organisers have spent the entire budget on 8 miles of luminous yellow tape to be used to form a swimming lane and held in place along the river by 120 canoeists wearing pink panda costumes! The point is we don't know what their plan is for the event. You can't put up a bloody gazebo at Beccles without a risk assessment these days. I guess that with over two hundred swims organised this year they have an inkling as to what's needed?

Well participants of last nights quiz were whisked through six decades of memories answering questions on everything from Dixon of Dock Green to Spitting Image. They proved they know more about Smash potato than politics along the way and remembered being asked to 'bath with a friend' during the 1976 drought year! They also managed to identify 15 out of 26 James Bond films against the clock in under a minute! Mike was victorious at the finishing post with a small margin over the chasing pack and is in the chair for next week.

on my way!!

So now it's novice hirers eh? Maybe we should stop them helming past moorings in case someone falls off a boat in front of them and they run them over. How about the water skiiers on the Waveney and Yare, highly dangerous as well obviously. Horning regatta will have to be cancelled as well. It's the novice hirers you see. What about the three rivers? Who on earth would allow a race like that to take place when there are novices out and about on the network. It's madness you know!!! Maybe we should stop the novices completely. They could be spoiling your enjoyment of your boat after all. Sometimes I wonder.... Oh by the way, don't dare to capsize your sailing dinghy during one of these events, you could be deemed a swimmer and you won't know what hit you! Alternatively you could always have rescue boats/support vessels policing such events and advising boaters accordingly as happens at Horning and 3RR. 181,384 people were injured on our roads in 2016 (1792 fatally) yet we think nothing of travelling to work, shopping, the boat or whatever. What I find a shame is that this forum couldn't have put it's collective minds together and come up with a way to make such an event work rather than putting so much effort into stopping it. And finally I apologise for the above. Today has not been a good day.

I think the idea is to swim rather than walk

Well I hope they do manage to pull it off and having been a regular swimmer in the broads for many years I am sat here considering whether to enter! My biggest concerns are not so much being mistaken for a whale on the event whilst participating but more worried about being harpooned on this forum long before getting to the WRC slipway. Do we have the same attitude to the London marathon when our enjoyment of our vehicles is restricted for the day or how about the English stages of the tour de France and the traffic restrictions that causes. Should I have been lambasted for causing inconvenience to others whilst taking the wherry turn in anger on a Thursday night and preventing free access to the broad to other river users? I was there on the very first SUP race, there were I think, 8 on the long race and 5 on the short course. They jumped through hoops to make that happen and look at it now. Ultimately we are all responsible for our own safety.

We had new crewsavers for all the dogs recently until one of the rings (not the handle) on the back of the neck of one suddenly failed. When we checked the others they were similar. Crewsavers suggested the ring was not for attaching the dogs lead to.... it had no other purpose that we could see and the instructions suggested that was what it was for. Anyway they were very good and took the faulty ones back and we now have Julius K9 items. Our problem was opposite to yours. We have a bulldog and they can't swim. This one weighs 25kgs. Because they have no natural bouyancy and just sink to the bottom we needed a jacket that would save rather than assist. A 25kg dog jacket is about twice the size of the bulldog (!) but Julius were excellent and soon had the problem solved.

I hope you are not encouraging young Tim to smoke something he shouldn't?

This really does bring back memories Grendel. It took us days to get these right, something a true craftsman would have ticked the box for in a couple of hours! You have truly captured the essence of the traditional boat builders with your project though. Now dont forget the hoppers...

Its Newsons Amethyst outside the pub.

Its me!! Yep, they tucked me up with questions on chocolate and I just couldnt help myself. So I am next weeks quizmaster. Next weeks rounds will be 1- The 1950's 2- The 1960's 3- The 1970's Refreshments and teddie reloading 4- The 1980's (Are you starting to detect a theme here?) 5- The 1990's 6- Erm... oh go on then The Noughties! And its Good Friday so there may well be some choccy bonus questions as well. See you there!

Ah yes, the how long is a piece of string question! The real issue is that because we all do the job differently we all get quite varying results from the same product. 2 pack varnish is harder when cured which would suggest it's more suited to your application but it lacks flexibility and can crack away especially if the wood underneath is not prepared correctly. We have, for example, had excellent results from Screwfix no nonsense varnish and then been unhappy with the results from Brava, a much higher priced product. Our current varnish of choice is solvent based Epifanes though it's drying time is a bit slow at times. Funny thing is the man who supplies the Epifanes swears by sanding between each coat using finer and finer grade papers to get the perfect finish whereas a proper time served boat builder I know never sands using anything less than 240 grit. He says the varnish needs something to grip to and gets results to die for. So, having been absolutely no help to you at all, good luck with your wheel.

Now isn't that pretty and still sporting its original side valve.

If you are going to start adding heart attacks to your repotoire will we need to re-train the beagles?

I've not paid that much for the boat let alone a survey for it!

Why do you need either? If the heating ain't getting the boat warm I can't see the need for the fridge to cool anything down. You just may have the best of both worlds and not realised it yet.