--- In [email protected], chris potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> To the member who had the problem with the leaky boat. Glad you made
it safely back to base.Having suffered the same problem many years ago
with a wooden boat, and getting my feet wet in the middle of the
night,I can understand your feeling exactly.I would suggest that the
best medium to plug the hole is old rags.I did not let it spoil my
intended journey but was careful to moor each night on the shallowest
piece of water around,even running the boat aground.In the sure and
certain knowledge that we could not sink we continued to enjoy a good
nights sleep.I am sure you patch will be successful. Chris.KP
>
> nb alotofraininspain
>
Thanks, Chris - however, it is pretty academic now, as Thumper sunk
yesterday, despite everybody's best efforts to keep her afloat. It just
seems as though the bottom has fairly suddenly turned into a colander
and we now have at least 3 significant leaks. Poor Husband Mr Boater
turned up home late last night, having managed to get her onto the
slipway at our moorings, with the help of kind mates and a landrover
but it is definitely the end and we are now looking to see how you
actually get rid of a boat for scrap! First phone call this morning
will be to the insurers, then he will have to hire a petrol pump (the
engine, of course, will not start any more, to keep any sort of bilge
pump going), go back down to the boat to pump out and salvage what he
can of our things. I'm at work so can't help at all, but I felt so
sorry for him - Thumper has been his pride and joy for 32 years but
maintenance has never been too wonderful and I think that, plus the
ravages of time, have just finished her.
So, anybody in the scrap business??
Cheers
Val
nb Thumper, currently sunk at Calveley, on the Shroppie
