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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 23, 2018 15:21:53 GMT
Well, just spent a very pleasant few hours with Andy and Lucy at the marina, it's a lovely boat he's bought and not at all like a coffin on the inside. He only picked up the keys late yesterday afternoon so we spent a few hours getting the various systems worked out, and up and running. We probably got about 70% of it figured out, worked out how to light the bubble stove etc, if I can I'll pop along in a few weekends' time when he takes her for the maiden voyage, if anyone else can make it along then I'm sure they'll be welcome. Andy (on the left) and Lucy.
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Post by Jim on Oct 23, 2018 16:36:03 GMT
We had a dog who would jump off our cabin cruiser but she always misjudged and she hated swimming. Dog of little brain! What we can see looks ok, now the spending starts! We need more pics!
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 23, 2018 16:49:47 GMT
I only took a few pics but here's another one. As you can see, it's very posh and it even has a telephone on the bow deck. There's another one at the stern, so the steerer can buzz the staff on the bow deck and bellow "Woman, fetch me a beer!"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 17:22:45 GMT
Many thanks Vince for your help today, much appreciated. Found another control panel after you left, think this one might be the esbacher (sp?) one, god knows what the other one does... Found some more tv aerial cables and many hidden speakers and a couple of other lights. Off to pick up the spider killer (aka hoover) tomorrow along with other stuff - thought I was going to struggle to fit everything on the boat but after living in the caravan the boat feels like a mansion, even the fridge can contain 2 days supply of beer!
More pics of the inside once I've made a few simple changes and the boat starts feeling like it's mine.
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Post by thebfg on Oct 23, 2018 17:31:04 GMT
anyway, pendant alert. surely your not a real boater till you fall in.
I'm refusing to fall in.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 23, 2018 17:51:04 GMT
Gazza's bang on innit! The erosion and pitting of the anodes merely demonstrates they're working. By all means add more, but leave the old ones until they totally wear away. "Gazza's bang on it" - and Johnv is right, too. I would put new ones on anyway, and clean off the old corroded surface from the old ones, and maybe makes some cuts in the old ones to increase surface area. How's that?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 17:52:45 GMT
Brings back pleasant memories of discovering our boats secrets.
Keep posting about it, your excitements infectious.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 23, 2018 18:01:54 GMT
Brings back pleasant memories of discovering our boats secrets. I'm going to install several switches on my boat in seldom-visited locations which aren't actually wired up to anything so that I can gain amusement at the bafflement of future owners from beyond the grave.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 18:04:36 GMT
It's amazing how you find stuff years after you bought it.
Thought it was just me.
Happy days.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 18:04:48 GMT
Gazza's bang on innit! The erosion and pitting of the anodes merely demonstrates they're working. By all means add more, but leave the old ones until they totally wear away. "Gazza's bang on it" - and Johnv is right, too. I would put new ones on anyway, and clean off the old corroded surface from the old ones, and maybe makes some cuts in the old ones to increase surface area. How's that? Don't add cuts - you are removing perfectly good magnesium.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 23, 2018 18:07:36 GMT
Many thanks Vince for your help today, much appreciated. Found another murdered prostitute after you left. Can you contact the previous owners and ask them for info about the boat? The previous owner of ours we know/knew anyway, he had had our boat 6 years, but I also found the owners previous to him, they had the boat for 2 years and sent us 8 photos of what it looked like then. All in all, we know really very little about our boat, who did what to it, where it has been. But we do know that T W Marine supplied the engine to its first owner! Is that a picture of Donkey, then? I thought he had a big black bushy beard:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 18:08:01 GMT
anyway, pendant alert. surely your not a real boater till you fall in. I'm refusing to fall in. your not a real boater till you fall in from a capsized sailing dinghy. Failing in when in charge of a narrow boat is on a par with falling off a motorbike after doing direct access and getting a power ranger machine. You've got to earn your stripes in the lower capacity classes to be called a proper something or other (insert what you like after proper )
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 23, 2018 18:09:24 GMT
"Gazza's bang on it" - and Johnv is right, too. I would put new ones on anyway, and clean off the old corroded surface from the old ones, and maybe makes some cuts in the old ones to increase surface area. How's that? Don't add cuts - you are removing perfectly good magnesium. Sell it to you.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 23, 2018 18:13:57 GMT
Brings back pleasant memories of discovering our boats secrets. Keep posting about it, your excitements infectious. Rog Victoria's Secret is that she lives in dogless's engine 'ole.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 18:35:53 GMT
Many thanks Vince for your help today, much appreciated. Found another murdered prostitute after you left. Can you contact the previous owners and ask them for info about the boat? Yes I can, but he is worse (in a funny way) than most Thunderboaters. I'll get a straight answer from if if I really need it....but I'll have to prove I need it...
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