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Post by peterboat on Dec 15, 2019 21:44:46 GMT
Just watching escape to the chateau and they are doing up a Springer Narrowboat, as yet I am not sure if its an improvement or not only time will tell.
I am not sure about painting the walls Londonish white though, most certainly took the boaty bit away for me. What escapes me though is why he is putting the batteries on the bank for? clearly no idea about boats at all
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 21:52:03 GMT
Come on - even a muppet like me knows you need a bank full of batteries if you want lighting etc.
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Post by peterboat on Dec 15, 2019 22:08:32 GMT
Come on - even a muppet like me knows you need a bank full of batteries if you want lighting etc.  True but he will need a butler to carry them, maybe he should have bought a Hudson? |
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Post by phil70 on Dec 16, 2019 0:16:16 GMT
Just watching escape to the chateau and they are doing up a Springer Narrowboat, as yet I am not sure if its an improvement or not only time will tell. I am not sure about painting the walls Londonish white though, most certainly took the boaty bit away for me. What escapes me though is why he is putting the batteries on the bank for? clearly no idea about boats at all A lad was doing up a Springer on Amazing Spaces and decided to remove all the ballast so he could drop the floor for a bit more headroom. Phil |
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Post by JohnV on Dec 16, 2019 7:35:03 GMT
Just watching escape to the chateau and they are doing up a Springer Narrowboat, as yet I am not sure if its an improvement or not only time will tell. I am not sure about painting the walls Londonish white though, most certainly took the boaty bit away for me. What escapes me though is why he is putting the batteries on the bank for? clearly no idea about boats at all A lad was doing up a Springer on Amazing Spaces and decided to remove all the ballast so he could drop the floor for a bit more headroom. Phil double it in 10mm and you have it back  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 8:05:37 GMT
A lad was doing up a Springer on Amazing Spaces and decided to remove all the ballast so he could drop the floor for a bit more headroom. Phil double it in 10mm and you have it back I remember seeing some very springer-like wifebeams shells with inch thick base plates. A couple of them at a boatyard somewhere I think was Highline yachting in Iver. Early 90s. Don't know what happened to them but it got me thinking about the welding and how the bottoms might fall off. |
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Post by thebfg on Dec 16, 2019 11:34:19 GMT
double it in 10mm and you have it back Early 90s. Don't know what happened to them but it got me thinking about the welding and how the bottoms might fall off. Not sure I would want to be worrying about that, living in a boat. |
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Post by bodger on Dec 16, 2019 12:20:27 GMT
Just watching escape to the chateau and they are doing up a Springer Narrowboat, as yet I am not sure if its an improvement or not only time will tell. I am not sure about painting the walls Londonish white though, most certainly took the boaty bit away for me. What escapes me though is why he is putting the batteries on the bank for? clearly no idea about boats at all ..................... and why does he have to drill a hole near the waterline for the cable when it could have been much higher? and why is the wind generator located at one end of the platform when the battery cable enters at the other end? I love the programme, but sometimes both Dick and his soulmate are completely impractical. I would love to see an episode showing all the cock-ups they have made. |
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Post by twbm2 on Dec 17, 2019 15:02:54 GMT
Given that it's on his moat, and never going to go anywhere, I suspect it's more about creating extra commercial accomodation outside the death-grip of French beaurocracy. Boaty stuff isn't really that relevant. Apart from the hole near the waterline ..
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Post by patty on Dec 17, 2019 15:47:05 GMT
Apart from the hole near the waterline .. In fullness of time he may well realise the error of that....  |
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True but he will need a butler to carry them, maybe he should have bought a Hudson?
