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managed to get hold of kingsley farrington, and no they don't do boat transport anymore and recommended chillout, but they don't have a hi-ab so still looking please

kingsley aren't answering which is quite common obviously with ppl not being able to work

bell's still do access for £40 to their yard for the company to drop it in water

no they don't have hi-ab's

not sure if chillout have a small enough lorry as you can't get a bigggg lorry onto the site where my boat is. GMR struggled with his fixed bed lorry

thats who i bought the boat from, he only has a trailer and said he can't move it

I have a 3 ton boat 26' x 10' i need moving from a field near beccles to loddon I used GMR to bring it here and he charged me £350 to move it from the other side of cambridge to beccles, he has since retired...... the cheapest i have found to move it from beccles to loddon it £480 I have tried Abbott transport, MRA transport, wavetrade, All the trailer boys can't move it as they can only move 2.75ton. so i think it'll have to be hi-abed as 3 ton is pretty heavy

the pulley is enclosed in the mushroom top, but i gather i just need an extra piece of rope and tie it to the top loop on the flag then tie it off at the cleat, then tie the bottom rope to the cleat also

no the pulley is inside the mushroom shaped top, only rope there is is whats attached to the flag

Hi folks, strange question, I have a wooden flag pole with a pulley at the top of the pole and a small cleat near the bottom. I have just received my new ensign flag and it has a loop at the top and a loose rope at the bottom. does anyone know how to attach it to the pole pls?

the trouble is we aren't meant to be near anyone else, so how can we follow government guidelines by not being within 2 metres of anyone and still have someone on our boats ?

My rudder and framework seems to be made from mild steel, as it's quite rusty seems strange to me to have them made that way as they sit under water obviously, I will be anti-fouling them with a good couple of coats (apart from anodes) but i did wonder if it was worth painting them with a waterproof under water paint? does anyone know a paint that would work under water?

i want to get my boat in water the 1st week of April. annoyingly my BSS examiner has messaged me to say due to the state of play at present he can't examine my boat. obviously with no bss i can't toll the boat either i wonder how the BA would be with how things are, ? this isn't a normal time obviously with everyone being told not to socialise or go near others. i will be ringing them during the week to ask advice

I have got water, yes the cold goes in the bottom and the hot or of the top, I cracked the joint coming out of the top and let it run for a few seconds and it then seemed to get warm all the way along the pipes, Checked the water after 10 mins and hey presto it's warm well happy now thanks everyone

it is higher than the engine slightly by about 6" i'd say. how do you purge it? i'm down there today

childrens lifejackets aren't usually inflateable, whether it be manual or auto they are usually the bouyancy type

i will be having the grandkids coming to visit at the end of july and will be taking them out on our boat, i'd like to get them some life jackets to use obviously, they are 6-8 has anyone got 2 i could borrow for a week or don't mind buying if they're for sale instead please i'm lowestoft way thank you

Hi i have a 1.5 BMC and an upright calorifier make unknown, closed engine system goes into the side and the fresh water go in the top. i was running the engine for a few hours the other day on land with a hosepipe in the raw water filter to cool the engine, the engine got nice and warm and 1 pipe going into the calorifer got warm too, but the 1 coming out didn't ...... the thermostat is a 79º one and that opened at 1 point and the temperature then went down quite a bit, but still the pipe didn't get warm. the water level in the bowman went down a bit when the thermostat opened but didn't move much after that. i would suggest i have an air leak but how on earth can i get rid of it? i tried to remove a pipe and water came out. i have put a brand new water pump on there as that was leaking

wavetrade is the crane company in lowestoft, i know them very well and am awaiting a phone call from David the boss, but i have been told they are very expensive. as for Johnsons, he is away for a few days and i will be ringing him monday. still after someone to collect it and take it to a boat yard for me, that seems to be the hard part

no it didn't turn at tickover which was about 500 i'm pretty sure i had to move lever forward and revs went up to about 10 maybe higher before it appeared to click into gear, i reckon it needs adjusting as i said i've had it all off so i'll have a look next week, now i know if that there's not much movement needed on the lever before it goes into gear,

yes i drained and refilled the oil, as i said i have taken off the cables, so maybe they aren't in the correct place. i think it's a prm 150

yes its a prm

1 more thing if i may Smoggy as you seem quite knowledgeable, When i put her into gear, and accelorate what should the revs be roughly, before she goes into gear, I've had all these bits off and painted/cleaned, so they have been moved. i revved it in gear and the revs seemed quite high before the prop actually started to turn

kool thank you

you don't off hand know the diameter of that breather pipe do you? i'm not down the boat until later next week, so wouldn't mind ordering a bit of pipe beforehand