Discovery 3 Commercial

You might as well throw caution to the wind and get your mits on one now because in twenty years time we will all be working at home and roller skating to fetch the groceries and cycling long distance, that is if Tesco has any oil left to fill its lorries and if at least a third of us are left after the first great 21st Century flu pandemic.

Huw

Don't you want a nice triple expansion steam engine ?

Steve

How many HP ? 2-3 ?

Steve

What a cheerfull chap. B-(

But with more than a little hint of the truth I'm afraid.

What's wrong with a real 'orse?

Mind, fecking impossible these days as most towpaths are either unsuitable or blocked off to stop the chavs and scallies on their motorbikes init...

Well its certainly do-able but its probably cheaper to start out with more or less what you need . Karenina has the bmc under the large rear deck which is about 8ft stern to bulkhead through the doorway into rear cabin then a bulkhead to washroom and head , next bulkhead - into galley which is separated from the forward cabin ( folding settee bed for guests )by an island type cupboard the heater is a nice cast iron pot belly stove which is dead handy for doing stews while you cruise. Chris (a welder by trade) is building his own the main problem being getting the correct plans for the bows I would have a try but frankly my cad is worse than my welding I gather he has it solved now. Derek

And do you REALLY want to walk tunnels ?

Steve

uk.rec.engines.stationary is just over there --->

Ok they are mostly agriculural engines but there is a least one commercial boaty type in there.

Don't mention the hot fog brigade though, it's all internal fire with the occasional jet or gas turbine. B-)

No it isn't, it's a dozen or so groups down in my newsclient... :-)

I've been following for a while, a few interesting threads, along with some who make even the most severe rivetcounting Land Rover anoraks look like vandals...

Get away ?

Steve

On or around Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:17:57 +0100, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

's one of those things you'd have to try once. But no, legging through tunnels sounds like hard work, as a habit.

BTW, WRT engines: BMC 2.2

they fitted 'em to black cabs for a while. One of the cab types in Brum had a narrow boat with one in. Other cab types, on viewing same, said "'ere, how come you've got a cab engine in yer boat?" to which our hero replied "You'd so better asking how come you've got a boat engine in yer cab".

But there's not a lot to beat the traditional lister. You gonna cheat and have bow thrusters on it?

In message , Derek writes

Any details? Length, style etc. I've got a 38' trad to look at this week, 1984 colecraft hull, 1.5 BMC. Looks good on the broker's website, plus comes with new BSC which is a plus.

Will '98 110 Defender CSW 300Tdi

Until someone can convince me of any need for such, no.

On or around Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:44:23 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

depends on your boat-manoeuvring skills, I think. Although I imagine it could be a handy gadget to have.

The _only_ time anyone would possibly 'need' bowthrusters is going to be when on some quite strong tidal rivers - and only then if their main engine isn't really powerful enough to do the job from the back*.

I would argue strongly that they are _never_ needed on a canal. The only real caveat to this would be for those occasions where there is only one person on the boat, trying to moor into a storm force wind.

• in which case they shouldn't be there in the first place IMO.

Or a lazy rich bugger who can't be bothered to do it properly?

Alex

Yeah, the waterways are full of early retired wannabe boatmen. They usually complain about hirers, moor badly, and spend all day polishing their brasswork. Hey! I've turned into Tim Hobbs :-)

Not feeling yourself?

Makes a change....

How do you convert a Disco into a narrow boat? Does it have to be a Commercial? Is it reversible?