Recent content by ADLS

Standard procedure check and recheck, thers so much on a boat that CAN GO Wrong and if acted upon quickly are only problems and not disasters. Now the NBoaters should have taken more time to examin the boat in the water before charging out onto the tidal thames. My old boat Lazy Days was...

Lock control. Would it not be possible to control the locks remotely from a central station, locks are now being fitted with CCTV and the gates are hydraulic, so hey bang in a computer and sack 10 lock keepers. Bridges and locks are controlled this way in Holland. If there were no boats on...

I do take your point on river maintenance but this maintenance and flood control also provides advantages for others. Riverside property owners for one do they pay anything towards the upkeep? Other than boater who else pay for EA services? Is there a charge for a pubs visitor mooring.? Maybe...

Wonder what would have happened if you had given then loose tea? Reminds me of the time a NB asked to raft up along side us at Cookham, this resulted in a thick head the next morning.

I lived aboard my boat for 2 years but was very lucky to have a free mooring, landside toilet, water, off street parking and use of a swimming pool which I maintained. electric was through a seperate meter. All part of the boat deal. Showers were taken at work. Used the boat when ever possible...

Knots and bolts They could do the Welsh thing and post em in English and EU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sold Lazy Days after the return 2010, had I known you were a chippy I could have swapped her for a house set of new window frames. Still the cash came in handy and now theres no money going out for the great expense of keeping em shipshape.

Hi CX54WEK, Great post and loved the photos, reminded me of my Lazy Days trip. Cuxton upon Medway to Castleford 3 weeks there and back, with kind weather most of the time. Lazy Days was built in the yard next to the road bridge at Castleford way back in 1930. I think you may have moored up by...

Im a little suprised that a boat has to have a river licence to sit in a marina, surely a marina is private property. Yes of course you do need a licence to navigate the river. So if I buy a boat from the marina or get it trucked in and floated in the marina and decide I dont wont to use it for...

A very sad loss. Ken was one of the first Dunkirkers I met, as I came into the bank Trad Boat Rally 1996 he put his plate of food down took my ropes, once I was settled he went back to his cold meal. I did warm him up later with a bottle of Dunkirk spirit. Tantulas will be missed and her...

River Severn Used to water ski under the 1st Severn Bridge while working on a tunnelling that passed under the bridge and the Wye for national grid power cables. We would ski down to Bristol or up to Sharpness, boats were launched of the old ferry slipway next to the Ferry Boat Inn Hotel. We...

My Ford Escape SUV has discs all round "not square ones" and drum hand brake. Came upon a Bedford TK truck on a hill back in the dark ages of the 60s, the driver was waving like mad. He had sheared a half shaft so couldn't hold the truck on his gears, the hand brake worked on the prop shaft...

Galaxy Ripple. She stopped to buy a bar of chocolate, maybe a Galaxy Ripple!!!!!!!!

Raymond Baxter When the Thames Dunkirk fleet went down/up river to/from a reunion, a radio channel would be nominated. Raymond would call up the fleet and suggest that he would make one call to the Thames Barrage for permission to pass through. A PLA officer guest speaker at one of ADLS...

Going for gold You get a gold medal if you can hand wind the lock within 10 mins.