Smoggy

I always liked the spaghetti harvest, done by anglia tv if I remember correctly.

Was in norfolk when the clocks changed and sure enough my phone went an hour forward but the year went back to 1973, bloody norfolk summer time was set!

It's a houseboat badly in need of a pumpout.....More beer at the other end should sort it! A lot of the houses in the fens are built on rafts instead of normal foundations and tend to subside, if they were on foundations they would just fall apart very soon, don't know if this is the same issue.

Blimey I wouldn't have bought one of those!!!!!! Sorry been to a funeral and drunk, couldn't resist..... Enjoy and ignore me!

And of course a bss wouldn't cut it, you'd have to go for full rcd standards I believe.

Not a hope in hell!

We had a wonderful diy shop called handyman in our town till b&q appeared, had everything you wanted, nothing in a blister pack, buy a hinge and the screws needed came with it in whatever type you wanted, wood was cut to size and shape within reason and charged by the square inch. Now it's just a delapidated shell in the middle of the high st.

I do buy from amazon from time to time but try elsewhere first, they are not always cheapest and treat/pay their people crap.

Or someone you don't know you don't like yet.....

At 9'3" you should get under reedham most of the time without issue, there are gauge boards either side and a pontoon if you get caught out and need to wait, I go under with my radar arch up at 11' regularly.

Amazon rant part two. River runs too fast. Full of piranhas. Women in loincloths shouldn't look that scary. Oh not that amazon.....

And it shows! I've had a fair bash myself.

Sod nature, the biggest thing the broads is now missing is pubs, I hate looking at old os maps seeing ph where theres not been a pub for a long time. We need pub huggers not tree huggers!

Was that the "sod off we don't like you any more fund" or the "cough up yer £39million and clear out fund"?

They could always put the tolls up a bit....

Thats good news, It's a good jumping off point for early starts out to sea through GY as it's a long but easy walk to the kings head at belton, I've used it a few times while closed treating it as a wild mooring.

LH Jones at st.ives are always worth a look as broads type boats appear there from time to time and go for less than they do on the broads, they normally have a fairly busy sale line.

It's a zimmer trolley!

I marinised a pair of car engines for my old boat but went for the normal route of closed circuit coolant and heat exchanger, I originally made up my own water cooled manifolds/heatexchanger/header units but the welds kept cracking so in the end went for bowman header/exchanger and separate cooled manifolds, they run smooth and saved me a fortune (about £2.5K total for 2 engines sourced, overhauled, marinised, fitted, with new iroko bearers glassed in. Ok it didn't include the silly number of my hours put into it and a few favours were used. But with all that cold water under the boat why would you use air for cooling?

I find I can get a heck of a lot longer battery life around the broads by setting my phone to 2g only as it's not constantly searching for a better connection, I don't do faceache or twatter of the like and normally use wifi when needed for weather forecasts and the like. I can't see why anyone would go to a boat to watch telly either, anything that can be streamed online can be watched at home another time.

It's in the blue big behind the spinny bit! Not a clue how that's going to come out.

Depends how good access is as to how easy it is, will be an out of water job. I've only done them in P brackets and they fought all the way out using lots of heat and a homemade puller (and a lump hammer). Probably a couple of grub screws to find on the outside of the tube keeping it in place, the job is easier if you can pull the shaft out first as then you can put a hacksaw blade through the old bearing to loosen it and bend it inwards till you can get grips on it to pull it out.

Velcro gloves help with extra grip.

Is there any other kind?

What are you doing here then?