Woodie

Things haven’t changed with Datsun! Has been Europe wide chassis issues with the Navara-poor quality steel and inadequate protection. But in fairness Nissan offered a goodwill campaign of buyback, repair or treatment. Thread drift again......

Oops, sorry I missed this one earlier and reposted the same under a new topic! Must pay more attention.....

Firstly, the link below is to Facebook. Don’t open it if you don’t like Facebook! very sad sight of a whole pontoon of boats broken away in floods. Appears to be in France, don’t know when. https://www.facebook.com/christine.sanderson.3591/videos/781983502413568/

Despite being a sparky, some domestic appliances like the iron and washing machine are way way too technical for me to possibly operate......... current kitchen refurbishment has turned into a bit of an epic though, now involving lounge and dining rooms too. Strange how one thing seems to lead to another (expensive) one!

Unfortunately it’s sailing days are far behind it. Bought it a couple of years ago as a plant pot, for far less than you would pay for a plant pot! it was on eBay, completely stripped of all rigging, fittings etc and no mast or sails looking very sorry for itself. But on the bright side, it is now bringing pleasure again in its new role. Besides, it doesn’t have a screen, comfy seats or large outboard........

Soo, Christmas has partly arrived at Wodie towers. Day and nighttime piccies hopefully show the proper use of those flappy things IMG_1536.MOV

Pesky? Not even close. Could of coped with them looking up trouser leg. Quickly learnt to wear tight legged trousers. Different times eh.

Thanks Chris. Not sure why they appeared side on. They were not taken or uploaded that way!

As a young apprentice back in the late seventies, I was loaned to our companies tv/radio dept to help install a tannoy system in a very large local hosiery company. Large floor full of female machinists. Scared the bloody living daylights out of me. And going up the steps was mighty risky!

Thanks Carol, much appreciated. We will probably never know now, but they must have had some significance for mum to have kept them for this time. Steve

Carol, would you by any chance know approximate issue dates please? one is marked twelfth impression. Mum and Dad honeymooned in Yarmouth in 1951. Might explain why she kept them if dates match.

Thanks for that information Carol, nice to have the history on what was, to us, a surprise find in my mums things. Mum and Dad spent a lot of time in Norfolk from the late eighties onwards, but predominantly Blakeney. I would love to know the story behind how she came to have these, and why she kept them.

Came across these little leaflets today at my Mums. Unfortunately can’t ask her about them as she passed in September. Obviously quite old, as priced 2/6! Although titled the same, some subtle differences. The smaller one has an introduction and short piece on the author. Not read one yet, but some lovely colour drawings of bygone times.

Quite understand the benefits of this fuel. Have used it in my chainsaw in the past, but went back to draining it down for winter and using petrol! my point, like others, is it’s perhaps not the fuel for an engine with the consumption of a 25hp . Normal fuel with the correct oil should be fine if the engine is in regular use.

MM and Vaughan, you are both correct in that even if the wiring is a manufacturers specific self contained loom for the engine, then a bss is probably for the best on many levels!

Recently looked into this before I brought a boat on holiday to the Broads in August. Ended up bringing small RIB with self contained outboard for this reason. As I understand stand it a self contained outboard ie pull start, tiller control and no battery, is exempt. If engine is electric start with battery or has a wiring loom to a switch at a helm position then bss required. It seems the BA take on it is as soon as battery or wiring loom is involved, they want a bss, However, my local boatyard thinks that’s wrong, and if the only wiring or fuel tank is factory made and fitted for that specific engine then it is exempt. They are going to ask the examiner they use next time he’s there. Hope there right, means I can bring a comfier boat, and possibly the BA are wrong......

Merc 25 really shouldn’t be too bad for smoke, even if it’s the 50:1 version. Current fleet includes a 49 year old merc 6 cylinder that once above idle is barely noticeable and above 4000 revs your going that ruddy quick you’ve left it behind!! probably is old fuel, this modern stuff really doesn’t keep as well as 4 star did! when I was working on outboards stale fuel and it’s effects were a regular thing at the start of the season. Always use oil designed for outboards, not garden machinery etc as water cooled outboards run cooler than air cooled machinery. You can see in picture small writing TC-W3 that’s two cycle water cooled. Oils for machinery used to say TC-A obviously for two Cycle air cooled. They burn differently.

You’re right, just looked at all the photos. Seems kind of odd I was on it 40 years ago! Always liked them, still wouldn’t mind it.

Thanks for confirming the location, at least my memory has completely faded! I recall walking from there to a pub ln another village-can’t remember where-in daylight. Came out, obviously pitch black, no torch and the walk back through the lanes was past a church and graveyard. After a ‘couple’ of beers and the wind in the trees things seemed bloody spooky!! Funny the things you remember

Thanks for the link, Wow, still 25k! wouldn’t mind owning it though, from memory it was a good boat, although doubtless it has changed over the years. Good times...

Second trip, 1980. Brister Craft again. Think that’s Rockland, but not sure.

First trip on the Broads, 1978 from Brister Craft at Brundall Can’t remember boat name.

Staple food boating years ago. Pot noodles-lots of them! Tinned hot dog sausages, tinned hamburgers (they are really bad) and onions. Beer cooled in the bilges, at the time a beer called Trent bitter because it was cheap, and we decided it was the Trent!! Is the green hue covering Nyx edible, should keep you going for a while and count as one of your five a day......

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F114153779467 Should anyone fancy one! £55k change too.....