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    Canopy waterproofing

    Yup. It's the go to product. Brush on avoiding plastic windows. I used it on a sun parched canvass top and it restored it to it's original stiffness and waterproof properties. With all preceding positives you now have your answer. Fabsil Gold:encouragement:
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    thames holiday cruise - any suggestions

    You might want to consider travelling the other way. From Kris Cruisers upstream and back. It would at least add Windsor, and Cliveden Reach to your experience. Sadly as far as I am aware there are no other hire boat bases any further downstream from Datchet with Thames Ditton Cruisers no longer...
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    How do you refer to

    Do you really want to post such pink and fluffy nonsense on a public forum:confused:
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    Pubs along the non-tidal Thames, can we list them in order?

    Not forgetting The Magpie Sunbury:encouragement:
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    Hampton Ferry and the Sea Scouts

    Shame. My youngest used to work the Shepperton Ferry as a youngster many moons ago and it's a vital link for many walkers and cyclists using the Thames footpath. Hope they can reach a solution.
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    Sunk boat Abingdon

    All sounds very sad. Abingdon was always one of our 'get to' moorings on the way up from Weybridge. I certainly don't miss the rowers and the speeding coaching cats now we are down on the briny. We do have a plan to chug back up the coast to revisit old Thames haunts and friends but we do...
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    By the water is good for you

    I didn't think her bouyancy aid was big enough:D
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    By the water is good for you

    Just seen an over enthusiastic CRT Chief Exec on the news extolling their recent research that being 'by the water' improves peoples well being. I note he did not say in the water as he stood beside the open sewer otherwise known as Little Venice!
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    Oops ..... A Sorry Story.. Wnat can possibly go wrong. ?

    Used them for years and nothing has changed fortunately. I still bring my props up to them even though I have moved away. A more unlikely place for a Marine Engineering emporium would be hard to imagine but they are first class at what they do and that's the sort of confidence one needs now one...
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    Stabbing on the river

    Gangs innit.
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    Stabbing on the river

    Thames seems to have gone to rats since I left.;)
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    Well done Alister Trotman

    I regularly visit Ho Chi Min City where my son has his business. If Kingston upon Thames wants to twin with Ho Chi Min City upon Mekong I am willing to help:D
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    And we're back!

    Tomorrow for me:encouragement:
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    Teddington Lock re-opens

    Oh how I miss my garden at the bottom of the river:rolleyes:
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    Rough cost to move a boat from the Thames to Norfolk Broads?

    As an aside for info the Broom 30 Wisecrack in one of your photos once belonged to Ernie Wise. We had drinks on board with him as a fellow 30 owner when we moored up behind him at Pangbourne many moons ago. A lovely memorable evening.
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