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Bold of you to assume I've planned anything yet 😬

It must be a pirate boat if it goes back a hundreds yars... 😉

I was discussing this with a learnèd friend recently and we were at odds as to whether a Boat could be an erection. I maintain the position that it may be but he was of the view that a Boat would not be an erection. It interests me a little as one of my Boats currently occupies the water adjacent to a small plot of land which has a restrictive covenant prohibiting erections. It goes back a hundred yars and things have changed since then but it still piques my interest. Can a Boat be an erection under the legal definition?

September 2022 Environment Agency contractors have been told that they must stop using HVO fuel on EA sites from 30th September due to concerns that it is not always as environmentally friendly as advertised. The EA said only that the use of HVO was under review. No final decision had been taken yet and suppliers will be notified when the assessment is complete, it said. Although HVO is more expensive than regular diesel, it is sold as 90% net carbon neutral. Producers says that it reduces nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 30% and particulates by up to 85%. It is also biodegradable. In an industry facing many challenges to reach government net zero targets, the cost has increasingly been deemed justified by the environmental gains – especially by public sector clients.

The Institution of Civil Engineers used to have an "Erection of the Year" award that was given to the most outstanding civil engineering project.

It's a fossil fuel company with a HQ in Singapore, a lot of palm oil is produced in that area from land that used to be rainforest. Just do the sums waste oil that used to make biodiesel now goes to the oil refineries as the bio adative, just where is all this waste oil for HVO coming from? The answer for me is in the report, let's be honest lots of bio aviation fuel is being made in the area, nothing clean about it as its using rainforest land again

And, a friend tells me, some that actually encourage them.

I know of some medication which does that.

There is a utube of replacing an electric propulsion motor on a ship by cutting a big hole in the side ........IIRC the motor is around 15,000hp.

The reduced licence fees are now listed on the 'Licence Prices' page and shows : Unpowered Butty Disconnected Waterway Electric Historic Portable Powered Boat

Ah, that explains it. Ta. More lions than you can shake a stick at round there.

I know of several plots of land adjacent to the Thames which have restrictive covenants prohibiting erections.

If they are using parts of vegetable oil that is not used for food that's fine. But if they are encouraging the destruction of rainforest to grow palms that is not good. Maybe an interim compromise would be to mix 50/50 Diesel and HVO with no FAME as a boat fuel. This would reduce emissions while avoiding the FAME which is thought to reduce the shelf life of fuel and promote diesel bug.

Just heard that if you're on the W&B, Trinity boats at Dunhampstead have switched their tanks to HVO for their hire fleet and are happy to sell to passing boaters. With the warning that it's more expensive than red of course.

As soon as I see Arduino I stop reading. That is not an appropriate device. Yea you have probably seen he switched to ESP32 very quickly but still seems undecided. It might be worth getting in touch and telling him that. He still seems quite open to "off the shelf" solutions to his problems and my guess is the reason he has gone for buck is exactly that reason.

There was a sand quarry at Chadderton, the arm is still there. I believe narrowboats were loaded there for builders' merchants in Manchester. IIRC the entrance to the arm is narrow and always has been.Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.😃 Could be Piccadilly Lock 85, now under the tower block, there was an arm round the back ,parallel to the main line which might explain the narrow towpath. Though the lock doesn't look deep enough in the pic.

The boat was in to have additional chines fitted both sides due to wear I believe. I hope the owner doesn’t mind me mentioning this.

You maybe want to draw Zemo's attention to this ruse ....,

Anyway, I had a look at the other board (the hat) and for some reason he’s decided to use a variable voltage buck converter to drive the field current. Everyone else uses an electronic switch, the inductance of the windings, and a freewheel diode. I can’t see any advantage in using a buck converter and it means that every iota of how the thing works has to be programmed. How many catastrophic bugs will be lurking in there? Same for the Wakespeed. This is just reinventing the wheel and making life very difficult when there are already loads of very cheap off the shelf chips that do the whole thing, have been exposed to a huge amount of testing both in the lab and in the field. IMO it is crazy not to take advantage of that. Why not just whip yourself with nettles, it would be cheaper? But you end up with a lump of a thing that is designed to be used in a classroom, a bedroom or whatever as a play thing. It is not designed to be a component in a professional device. In the days when it was difficult and expensive to get a custom pcb made, perhaps this was fair enough for development and/or proof of concept. But now with the sub-£10 top notch custom PCBs available, it is just clunky. Anyway, the Arduino IDE is utterly rubbish.