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It just encourages you to put the throttle down and get where you are going quicker!! We always thought it was a mad system. Not just in France though. Le Boat use that system as standard. We are supposed to be hiring on the Thames at Easter (can't see it happening) and that is charged by engine hours as well.

Not sure if this one has been mentioned on here yet? https://burtonwaters.co.uk/boats/landamores-37-7724823/

I'm amazed that four survived that trip!!

I had a 1990 Nissan Sunny before I bought the Almera. That was a brilliant car. We bought it for £50 from the car sales pitch next door that had taken it as part exchange. It had 12 months tax and a full tank of fuel. We ran it for 7 years between us and it was never any bother. Eventually sold it for £500 when we bought the Almera. We currently have a Hyundai I30 as well as the Almera (and the Sierra in the garage). Have had it for a little over two years now and it is a fab car. It isn't an exciting car by any means but we bought it to do a job knowing that it would rack up a lot of miles in doing so. It has been super reliable so far.

I've no need to worry about that now. I will be driving a Fiat Ducato for the foreseeable

The garage when my other half works did quite well out of this. They had one of these as a works vehicle but it was done up quite nicely and looked really well. It went for an MOT and the tester called them into have a look at it. It had a very badly cracked chassis. Nissan sent an engineer to have a look and agreed to buy it back. They paid about £5k more than the garage had bought it for in the first instance! They have a Land Rover 90 now instead. My 2005 Nissan Almera is still plodding on. Flew straight through it's MOT last month. We have had it for 16 years now and done £152k miles in it and it has never been any trouble. Had to have a clutch and a timing chain at £130k miles but couldn't really complain at that. It will be a shame to see that car go later this year when we get the motorhome. It's almost become a family member

The other half is a panel beater, his job is car body repair and restoration. When a car is written off by an insurer it is generally because it is beyond economical repair. Yes you can buy them and repair them, but the costs of those repairs usually then exceeds the value of the car that has been repaired but is on the write off list. They are very rarely a good buy. Same with boats. They are written off for a reason.

Would that not be the insurers responsibility rather than the responsibility of the boat yard?

Our holiday to the Thames with Le Boat at Easter is going to be cancelled. We just need to wait 4 weeks prior to the arrival date before we can get a full refund for the holiday. This will be the third time this holiday has been cancelled and rebooked now so we are taking the money this time. We are going to spend the money on a new shed and a new TV instead. Things we will definitely get some use out of this year. With our boat also being sold (hopefully) it will be an odd year for us as we won't have the usual option of just nipping to the boat for the weekend (when restrictions allowed). We will be spending an awful lot more time at home this year than normal. We are looking to get a motorhome this year but we certainly won't rush into the purchase and will wait for the right one to crop up. As with boats the sales yards are pretty bare at the moment. We don't want to book any holidays just yet because we don't know when or if we will get the motorhome! A bit of a catch 22 for us this year.

That's the one. They have delivered to us both on the staithe and in Richardsons yard.

There is a cracking Indian that delivers at Stalham. They will deliver to the staithe or to the boatyard.

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We should have been going to Belgium on a hire boat last Easter which was cancelled. We swapped it to this Easter and changed the destination from Belgium to the Thames. Looks like we won't be going there either this year. We are going to take a full refund this time and put the money to some use at home!

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I will send you some more pictures and details in the morning.

For Sale 2003 Sealine S23 with Volvo Penta KAD32 engine (170hp) and Volvo Penta DPE Sterndrive. • Engine serviced July 2020. • Drive serviced July 2020. • Hull and superstructure polished and waxed May 2020. • Antifouled May 2020. • Last owners since October 2007. • Boat Safety Test valid until July 2024 • Minimum air draft 6’6” allowing increased inland waterways cruising. Usual standard Sealine specification with too many extras and upgrades to list but to include: • Raymarine A74 plotter (with radar module) installed July 2019 • New 12v fridge December 2018. • Teak cockpit table and shelf. • Recent cockpit upholstery in Charcoal Silvertex with Sealine embroidery and matching cushions. • Webasto Airtop 2000ST diesel heating (Unit serviced October 2020) • Snap davits. • Holding tank. • LED cockpit mood lighting. • Turbo boost pressure gauge. • LED lighting and bulbs throughout. • USB charging sockets to cockpit and cabin. (2 in cockpit. 1 in cabin.) • Electric anchor winch with chain to suit. • Uprated alternator. All batteries (2 domestic and 1 starter battery) replaced September 2020 with very light use since. Windows replaced in canopy September 2020. Macerator pump to be replaced once Covid lock down restrictions allow access to the boat. Naughty-Cal has been a much loved boat and has benefited from a programme of ongoing maintenance and upgrades during our ownership. She is only for sale as we have sadly found that we currently do not have the time to use her as often as we would like and it is a shame to leave her sat idle on the mooring when someone could be using and enjoying her as much as we have. Will be going on brokerage with Farndon Marina at the beginning of April (lock down restrictions allowing) for circa £32k. Currently open to offers of circa £27k. Additional photographs available on request. Naughty-Cal is currently lying on her berth at Burton Waters, Lincoln being prepared for sale. [url=https://ibb.co/ZV5XZJy][img]https://i.ibb.co/Tk62CTz/20180720-070301.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/yYg1cdt][img]https://i.ibb.co/KLVkpbd/20180519-130528.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/Z26NQg6][img]https://i.ibb.co/3RykxFy/20170828-084156.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/4p43zs7][img]https://i.ibb.co/m4hgkvG/20170527-112001.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/x1RLjhk][img]https://i.ibb.co/485tTWq/20170718-113459.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://ibb.co/QQ3xQMG][img]https://i.ibb.co/tKT1KD5/20171104-150402.jpg[/img][/url]

This was us coming back out at Sutton. Plenty of room for the car and trailer as well.

Can't say that we found it!!

We have used the slipway at Sutton previously. Nice easy slipway to launch and recover from.

Our little Sealine is 2.4 ton dry weight. With gear on board and an allowance for a bit of liquids in the tank and on a suitable trailer it is close to or over the limit. We did consider getting a trailer and decent tow car but in the end decided that it was simpler just to pay someone to tow it for us when we want it taking somewhere!!

Might want to pick your brains at some point as to how you are getting on with your Broom 29 if you don't mind? We are still undecided whether we are keeping our boat, getting another boat or selling up and getting a motorhome. But if we do keep a boat then the Broom 29 HT is one boat that is of interest too us. Something a bit less maintenance then we have at the moment but still a very manageable size.

We use the electric kettle because our gas locker can only hold the 2.7kg Camping Gaz bottles and they are silly expensive, £32 for 2.7kg of gas the last time we exchanged a bottle. Boiling the kettle on the gas hob was our main consumption of gas. Since we switched to the electric kettle we only use about 1 bottle of gas a year rather than 3 or 4 and our batteries still last four years or so.

We have an electric kettle and immersion heater on our little Sealine. Both can run from the batteries without the engine running and we don't have a huge battery bank. The kettle is not as high powered as a kettle you would have at home but can boil enough water for two big mugs of coffee in 5 minutes.

It is no different a design to many other cruisers on the waters. It is obviously bigger but similar in design to our Sealine S23 with the full length bow rails and higher cockpit sides. There will be a hatch under the moulding for the helm seat for emergency access from the aft cabin and ventilation. It works quite well on ours. I can manage perfectly well to single hand the boat and locks are really not a problem having single handed those as well. You get used to what you have. I actually quite like the look of that boat but I'm not sure it is something that we would hire on the Broads given the similarities to our own boat. We usually hire something completely different to our own boat to try something different.

What sized diesel heaters did you have fitted? Our Webasto uses between 0.12 and 0.25 litres per hour!! 2.5 hours would last us well over 10 hours of heating as the unit isn't running at full chat all the time.