Thursday, January 15, 2009

Derwent6 undercover

It started off to be a wet and miserable day, and all the brasses we done yesterday got soaking wet, but after 10.00am it started to brighten up a bit. A.J.Canopies came out to us at 11.00am to have the horn and Houdini hatch covers fitted and it has really made a difference.
At least this will be one piece of brass we won't have to keep polishing!! The covers on the Houdini's will help reduce the condensation we get on the brass frames and keep them dry, because the water gets trapped on top of them. They are fastened by three push studs and a locking clip in case they get blown off in a strong wind, and they all match the cratch cover.


We still can't display our licence that we have had since December last year due to the fact that British Waterways still haven't sent us the licence holders. When we spoke to them on the phone they said they should always send these out with the new licence to new boats, but not in our case. We have got the licence, but due to it getting damaged by condensation, we have not displayed it yet. Sorry!


We did have a BW man come round today and he was taking down some offenders names of boats with out of date licence's, but he never asked us for our's. Perhaps he knew it was a new boat or he checked us on-line to see if it was licenced. So come on BW, get our licence holders to us so we can display our licence....

3 comments:

Adam said...

One boating blogger (I think it's Bruce on Sanity) laminates the licence, so the condensation doesn't ruin it. The BW chap will have looked you up on his little computer, so he'll have known that you were licensed. It's just the curtain twitchers you'll upset by not having it on display!

Anonymous said...

All looking very smart!!!!!!Love the carpet.Love Dad & Terry xxxxxxx

Del and Al said...

Thanks Adam.....if they don't turn up soon, laminating sounds a good idea.