Mike Stevens wrote: > Marnie wrote: >> I continue to lurk and hopefully learn in the hope of future NB >> ownership but is a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering >> a neccecity are there owners amongst you who feels that its ok to to >> 'get a man who can' to carry out maintainance. I can manage to boil >> a kettle and change a plug, check oil & water and the like but >> wouldn't dream of servicing my car .Does this not apply to NBs.? I >> will be taking a course in the basics but am i the only person here >> who waves to some of the posts as they fly merrily over my head? >> marnie nb inmydreams > > Don't worry. After over 30 years of boating I still find some of the > technical talk here way above my head. There's nothing wrong with > getting "a man who can" to do the jobs you feel are beyond you, > ecept that it costs money.
After hiring / owning / knowing other boat owners for 30 years it is my opinion it is a recipe for distaster having various people working on your boat systems, best to always go back to the same bod that did the systems fitout on your boat. Of course this is normally impossible as they have moved / packed up / at the other end of the country. Everytime another boatyard / marine engineer / Corgi approved gas fitter / etc does something on your boat he adds his own input, often with opposing views to the last bod that touched it, leading to a mish-mash of systems. As you say it is best to do as much maintainance on your own boat as you possibly can. This way you become aware of any impending problems. In Earnest I went one further than this and since it left the clutches of the builder no one apart from myself has ever done any maintainace on it. I can now safely say in retirement that following this we have never any mechanical breakdown or systems failure that has lasted for more than an hour. I think this best example of this hotch-potch maintainance is a rather unreliable blue narrowboat presently owned by a large waterways organisation :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest (laid up) / Barge Maurice A (on the drawing board) Follow the traveled TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
