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The Sumpners Afloat

Adventures on "Old Nick" – an Ortomarine-built, Vetus powered Electric Serial Hybrid Narrowboat

Cruising

Celebrate!

July 23, 2024

8th to 22nd July – The Slough Arm and going home Monday started sunny – a beautiful fresh morning, and […]

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Cruising

What You Waiting For?

July 7, 2024

1st – 7th July pottering about, killing time We left Packet Boat late morning, after a grocery delivery which I’d […]

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Cruising

Slough Rider

July 1, 2024

24th Jun to 1 Jul – Slow (Slough) progress and meeting friends Having moaned for a few weeks about how […]

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Cruising

Rikki Don’t Lose that Number

June 23, 2024

17 to 23 Jun- heading towards Hemel Hempstead and Rickmansworth We stayed put on Monday and of course – as […]

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Cruising

Get Back

June 16, 2024

10th to 16th June – back on the Mainline and heading vaguely East We left Aylesbury Basin on Monday at […]

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Cruising

Thanks for the Memories

June 9, 2024

3rd to 9th Jun – continuing our journey along the Grand Union. You left us at the bottom of Slapton […]

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Technical

Changing the Impeller on a Vetus Generator

June 3, 2024

This weekend I serviced our Vetus GLX6.5SIC generator again. If you are a devoted reader of my technical posts (one […]

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Cruising

MK State of Mind

May 30, 2024

27/5 to 2/6 – along the Grand Union towards the Capital We left our lovely, quiet, rural mooring mid-morning – […]

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Technical

Electric Narrowboat Propellors

May 28, 2024

For the past three seasons, since Old Nick was built, we have had a 13″ x 9″ three blade propellor […]

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Cruising

Changing Man

May 27, 2024

20th to 26th May to – starting our trip down the Nene – and ending it! We had booked 3 […]

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