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Ooooh, a real marine S type...force fed main bearings, watercooled silencer, fishermans governor, and so on. Doubtless the Devon member of the Petter anoraks club will be along presently :-))

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Philip T-E

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philipte

Could you rally it ? Are there any engine rallies at canal-side locations ?

I'm sure I went to one (NW somewhere) as a kid.

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Andy Dingley

There's a canal rally with an engine-side location in September - the Slough Canal Festival :-)

-- MatSav

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MatSav

Yes, you rally the whole boat. Plenty of canal rallies to attend...

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Dave Liquorice

But what's a "canal rally" ? A boat rally (of which I'm sure there are a great many), or a combined land and water rally, at a water-side location ?

How viable is a boat like this as a living boat ?

I once lived in Paris for a year. Not being able to afford a flat, I lived on a shared boat. I learned many interesting things that year: never leave a French alcoholic pyromaniac alone with the battery master key, women who look like Catherine Deneuve (and who may even have _been_ Catherine Deneuve) can curse solidly and fluently for a whole 5 minutes when encontering said FAP (I think they'd met before). Most of all though, I was given the sage advice, "Never buy a tug to live on"

Our boat was perfect. An old Dutch navy ammunition lighter, refitted with cabins, it was well built and ideally proportioned. 17m from arse to snout and 3.5m across. Big enough to be comfortable, even with unexpected guests, small enough to be handled by one FAP without the losses appearing in Lloyds' list.

A tug though just doesn't work (we visited FAP's tug-owning friend to demonstrate). A tug is a boat shaped box with a hole in it. A gaping big hole, full of Engine. You can't _do_ anything with this space, you need it to keep Engines in. You can't live around it - there's no room, because the whole hull is filled with engineroom space. You can't move it - firing up The Engine takes a day's preparation and a private oilwell. You can't turn the lights on, because the alternator needs The Engine to be running. You can't even swap out The Engine and put in a dinky little Penta or something cheap and sensible - the propellor is the size of a waterwheel and needs enough low-revving torque to pull treestumps.

Since then I've come awfuly close to owning a large number of Stupidly Impractical Vehicles, the smaller and more Italian of which I tended to accumulate. But I've never since been tempted by a tug.

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Andy Dingley

All most amusing, but why is it (and speaking from similar experiences here) that small Italian vehicles have a propensity to accumulate whilst other denominations tend to fester but not necessarily actually accumulate? Not that accumulation is seen as desirable around these parts (according to Madam) but seems, nonetheless, almost inevitable!

Mark

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The former, I struggled to come up with the corect name. A "boat rally" could be a sailing regata type thingy or plastic pigs not nice canal boats. B-)

That one appears to have two double beds, all be it sharing living space. It would be fine for a couple or maybe 2 but I think you'd have to get on very well as a foursome in that amount of space.

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Dave Liquorice

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