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Have you visually checked the condition of the base valve gasket or replaced it as part of your service kit recently? The part looks like this:

If you mean it continues to fill with water when it should be evacuating it may be a problem in the manual pump head. There is a flap valve at the base of the piston tube if its not continuing to fill my guess would be that it has failed. A full service kit will probably solve this. All the Joker valve does on the outlet flange is stop material coming back into the bowl after passing through it, if you can get a cable through it by hand that isn’t your issue. If there is a blocked pipe there would be back pressure on the handle.

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I cant think where on Oulton Broad the work would be undertaken, is it one of the yards on Lake Lothing?

Buses on Castle Meadow are not supposed to idle for more than 2 minutes but there are problems that come with switching the vehicle off. It might not start again and the driver and passengers get cold! First thing a controller says to a driver when radioing in to report a bus that wont start..........why did you switch it off!

Thank you for the information Tom. Are you able to tell us the model of the original engine and the new more suitable model that has now been fitted. This might help those of us with a technical interest achieve a better understanding of the vessel.

Give it up as a bad job and let it go to the highest bidder. It might well be cheaper to do that in the long term.

I wonder how they would manage if the bridge became stuck open and engineering staff couldn't get across to it for repairs or the operator couldn't get back to go home. I can half understand them not wanting to pay out wages but its still not good enough just to abandon their responsibilities to navigation even if it is Christmas day. The bridge could easily be left open and the operator brought back across in a dinghy, it isn’t difficult.

With all the engineering expertise on the payroll at Network Rail are they not able to come up with a solution to a simple problem? Is this new or has it always been the case at Reedham?

This video isn’t at Ludham Bridge but it does show that even with height gauges on the bridge and the helmsman knowing the airdraft of the boat some people still manage to get it wrong.

I don't believe there is a great deal of leeway in the gauge at Ludham Bridge. I have taken (my own) 8ft 6 airdraft under with 8ft 4 showing on the gauge and it was cigarette paper tight, there is also more clearance on one side than the other due to the slight slope on the bridge. If hire yards didnt slightly over state airdraft on certain boats they would be repairing a lot more damage than they are now. Ive seen hire boats that have supposedly been repaired after bridge damage and the repairs can look an absolute mess depending on which yard it belongs to. Get stuck under a bridge at Great Yarmouth and the boat can end up a ruin!

They say the heavier the Battery the better the quality however as you never can tell how long a Battery is going to last I always go for the cheapest 110’s I can find then if I only get 3 years from it Im not loosing any sleep. The likes of Bosch & Varta etc come with big price tags but who knows if they are actually going to last you any longer than the equivalent cheapo. I have found 110amphr leisure batteries for as little as £65 in the past and they did the job just fine.

Is there not a circlip that needs to be removed before the shaft will come out? Having googled your model number Im fairly certain I once replaced the seals in one of those and there was a circlip involved!

If its only a light bulb and igniter on the oven change the bulb to a 12v equivalent and replace the 240v spark generator with a 12v one and cut the mains plug off. Wire to 12v supply. Job done! Probably not so easy to do if your oven model has any digital displays so keep it simple.

There are in excess of 500 comments on a canal forum about Steve Haywood and the incident. I think he has disgraced himself amongst his own.

He could easily have avoided the collision by changing direction! The heavier narrowboat was deliberately used as a weapon. The guy should be ashamed of himself

I experienced this in North Devon.

Seems perfectly safe to me!

Frustration at 2nd home owners I can understand but that sounds ridiculous. Looking at him Im surprised he is letting folk push him around!

Trying to look at this from the Boatyards point of view, The extra cleaning that will undoubtedly be required and wear and tear to carpets and upholstery from having pets onboard could be a very costly business. We all know there are responsible pet owners amongst us and then there are those that let their large breed dogs clamber all over the upholstery etc etc. It got to the stage on our boat that taking our large breed dog along became an absolute liability, our small dog was better but the extra cleaning required from having an animal onboard is likely to be significant especially if the next people to hire the boat may not be bringing a pet and not be very fond of dog or cat hair. Unless a dog is very well behaved I cant think of anything more stressful! Some dogs are more suited to boats than others! I am sure one of the boat yards once posted some pictures on one of the forums showing how badly a boat had been left and not just because of the pet that had been with them.

IMO Buying new isn't cost effective when you consider depreciation over the first few years and only keeping for 3 years your taking a big hit each time even if your a cash buyer. No offence intended but the OP has advertised something for sale is it helpful to suggest reasons people shouldn't want to buy it......

For all we know Marshman’s abode could be palatial!

Way off the mark? Its a functional information point in a central location that might well be one of the most visited places on the Broads. What more is required?

Wont the visitor centre in Hoveton satisfy tourism requirements removing the need for any expenditure on new premises.

Im almost certain i had a large Wells follow in a lure once. I saw a very wide head just below the surface, made me look twice I can tell you! Its like carp, supposedly in good numbers but Ive never seen one in the Broads.