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I've cut and welded a shaft on a yammie 8hp 2 stroke with no problems before, it was a longshaft and I needed a shortshaft so converted it, used it for a good few years on my dinghy till the engine got too worn out to bother fixing. You are probably wise to walk away though.

What is wrong with the one you have out of interest?

If you have day skipper cert and the like who is the expert, you or the rangers?

Why was it closed, what were the conditions that made it so dangerous?

Thats a very nice solution Viking23, a bathing platform alone is prone to catching when the tide height changes where yours gives a good range of bank heights. Looks nice and simple too, most good solutions are the simplest, it's far too east to look at a problem and over-complicate it.

Was it actually witnessed by anyone? Waterfowl of any kind normally just bobs out of the way purely by the wash they don't have to put any effort in to avoid a boat unless it is doing a hell of a speed, I would think it would have to be a planning speed. That said I suppose a good burst of reverse with a swan behind could possibly draw it into the prop, never heard of it happening before though.

Funnily enough Carole you came up in conversation today, it was Alex and Susan from Cumulus (Nimbus) now in st.neots boat club, something about someone that used to moor in ely and now has a big sheerline on the broads, I thought that description rang a bell and realised it was you they were talking about. Don't worry it was all bad..... (no it wasn't, I made that up)

Is that statement specific to that post or just a general statement Gracie?

It won't have hurt any lighting circuits on the boat and a bilge pump would probably just spin the wrong way and not pump but it will wreck the charging regulator in the outboard if you don't sort it.

Are the leads the right way round in the multimeter?

That's a bit bloody posh! Whats her name and hourly rate?

The bit I really love about the broads is the towels and pants drying on bow rails and windows, just makes it look sooo much like a boating holiday....... Dislike seeing household telly aerials on boats, makes them look too much like a caravan, I don't even like the omni directional thing on my own boat but I'm too lazy to take it off and I don't even have a telly on board, as for the trakvision dome thingys they look like some kind of growth that needs removing by a doctor with a very small and flexible camera.

I'd want to see the underside for myself, grp boats really need to dry out every few years to prevent bad osmosis, don't get me wrong osmosis itself isn't a reason not to buy as everything in your budget (and much higher) will have it but to a minor extent, I've seen some big blisters on freemans that have never been allowed to dry, a couple of months every 2-3 years will do it but once in 30 years would make me walk away. Surely his insurance must want a survey at that age?? I bet yours would as a new owner.

A prop took a guys foot off just a mile from my house a few years back, the guy was sitting on the back of the boat on a tarp that had been covering it over when the tarp got caught in the prop dragging him in the river with it, guy at the helm reversed towards him to rescue him, oops!

Just sent you a pm about a freeman 24 Jocave, don't know if it is what you are looking for.

Hill starts will be tricky as you have to get the clutch to bite at the same time as you lift your mudweight, and remember you can't do a three point turn by stuffing your nose into the weeds and powering the back round.

Can they actually forbid a portable appliance as the directive only relates to the craft surely, maybe the regs for hire or passenger use could do something but I would have thought the portable nature would have taken it out of the rcd's remit. I will point out that I've never read the rcd regs and never likely to so ready to be shot down in flames (without the use of any gas appliances portable or otherwise) There's nothing unusual about gas cookers inside the accommodation area of a boat is there.

On an open deck with plenty of air and space, on a stand so no where near the grp, I don't see an issue there.

There's a load more piccies of that trip at www.leomagill.co.uk click on the may 2009 button, I've never had the heart to let the web page go as most of my boating piccies are there.(quite a few used in the haynes motor boat manual too)

Thanks for confirming the id of angry santa folks, I thought that might be the place you were meaning. However I have only been in there once looking at dinghy's and they couldn't have been more helpful, I queried the weight shown on the makers data and they were happy to get one out of the storeroom and let me open it and try the weight myself and even try lifting it from a step to simulate pulling it out of my lazarette, the deal was done and they were happy to deliver it to my works address in st.neots for free as we had a car full at the time, maybe he just gets on better with fellow miserable gits like me.... If he had been an ar5e I would have walked away and bought from my local place instead but wanted to see one fully inflated first.

Ironically one of the boats in question was waiting for broom to turn up in the morning as the batteries were flat and they couldn't start it. well it wasn't the mudweight windlass that drained it!

Having only used one northern rivers chandlery can you tell me which one angry santa is at please, by pm would be fine I don't expect a public naming. Try wild fuzz for the outboard cover, if he don't know they don't realy exist, failing that I think you can get similar from wells harbour.

For descaling when I had an outboard powered boat I fitted a 9.9 mariner and anytime I was checking the impellor while the lower unit was off I'd push a rubber pipe over the water pipe in the leg and sit a bucket underneath with descaler in and use an old 12v inline pump to pump water round, ok the thermostat wouldn't open but it got the worst out, if I felt it needed it it was easy enough to pop the stat out. The best bit was leaving the pump running while I went to the pub, got to give these things time to work...

My jaundiced view is nothing to do with the wash trip and I was being polite and diplomatic when I used the term total prat, best not to go any further in public.... Here's B.J. out in the wash. And of course my trusty old tub at the time.