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  1. I am quite surprised at some of what I read here. Pages in the long thread of discussions about the English Language being a reason for boring blogs.. But (should a sentance be started by that word then?) people are just relating their day or week.. People can read it for the first time and never go back if they don't like it. There are many websites that we all visit, not just boaters blogs, once and don't like. Do we go back? No we don't. I started my blog in 2004 because my family kept phoning me up "You OK Mum, Where are you, where are you going? What's the weather like?" It was time for the blog and peace and quiet from the phone calls! Since then I have done a few a week. To be honest I have enjoyed in the main, although sometimes I struggle to put something on the page for them. I ask the question often "Is it getting boring for you?" Heh, hoping they say yes and I can forget a one and half ritual most evenings composing words and pictures for them! But (that really naughty start a sentance word again) there is also a bigger following now. We have welcomed an awful lot of people aboard who just want to see what it is really like to be a couple with no bricks and mortar.. what is it really like inside a narrowboat. Sometimes I just want to hide away, but the blog I do seems to inspire people as well as delight my Dad at 80 many + who diligently sits at the computer after breakfast every morning to look at the pictures.. Hey although I say were we are he never gets that bit! No worry.. I will keep my blog in my sig. It isn't really an advert, just a suggestion to people to look at an alternative retirement from sitting in a chair all day watching the box. Do you know what? We have met some wonderful friends in the last seven years because of the blog, it is a special community of boating bloggers, not all just a special few and it is always party time when we meet up! I won't do a spell check on this post. It is just my words
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  3. Like he's the only guy to ever have a problem with his boat, those critical types should be glad we've never been privy to all their cock-ups on this forum. Tim's a top bloke, give im a break.
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  4. 'British Waterways' modernised the engines in their Southern and Northern carrying fleet during the 1950's and very early 1960's. The Southern carrying fleet were mostly National (exG.U.C.C.Co. Ltd.) or Bolinder (exF.M.C. Ltd.) powered. Most of these engines were replaced by Petter PD2's although there were a couple of Parsons Merganser's fitted into exG.U.C.C.Co. Ltd. motors and one or two retained their National / Bolinder. The Northern carrying fleet were mostly Bolinder (exF.M.C. Ltd.) powered and were refitted with a combination of Parsons Merganser's, Lister Freedom (FR2), Lister HA2 and a couple of Lister JP2 engines. IBIS was the exception in having a Gardner 2L2 and a couple retained their original engine types. During this period a number of redundant F.M.C. Ltd. boats were transferred to maintenance duties and subsequently refitted with Lister Freedom (FR3) engines. When carrying finished many of these former carrying boats were transferred to maintenance duties. The favoured engine of the B.W.B. maintenance fleet was by far the Lister H series, with many of the motors being fitted with 2 cylinder engines and most tugs getting 3 cylinder engines. More recently a couple of exG.U.C.C.Co. Ltd. maintenance motors were refitted with Deutz FL2 twin cylinder engines. 1950's maintenance boat motor conversions (ice boats) and the Bantam Tugs built by E.C. Jones seemed to favour the Lister JP range in both 2 and 3 cylinder versions. Once these boats passed into private ownership almost every engine you can think of has been used from Rolls Royce petrol to modern multi cylinder turbo engines. FORGET ME NOT was fitted with a Kelvin 4 cylinder petrol / paraffin engine in about 1960 as a part of its conversion to a house / pleasure boat. It was replaced in the early 1970's by a Petter PD2.
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  5. That's about right. The PD2 engines were fitted with 3-wheel reduction gears so that they could be swapped directly for Nationals/RNs, without changing the blade. The Armstrongs seem to have been more of a Northern thing. Armstrong singles were tried as replacements for 9hp Bolinders, but weren't successful. Edit - I've never seen an Armstrong with an original 3-wheel box, though I do know of one with an ex-Petter box (they were basically the same Parsons box). As for air-cooled Listers in working Narrow Boats, the Shad certainly had one in its Willow Wren NW days though I have no idea when it was fitted. The hotel boat Jupiter (Hawk) was fitted with a new HB2 which I dimly remember had come from Willow Wrens (Southern) because they had ordered it & couldn't pay for it, or something along those lines. Our Humber Keel Beecliffe had been fitted with an HA3 as replacement for a JP2, by British Waterways. Tim
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  8. It may not be a dutch barge but is a well built boat by Peter Nicholls.
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  9. Our solid fuel stove works by gravity. I assume you mean water circulation. Sue
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  10. It's not a Dutch Barge, a pig ugly flat bottomed fat arse, I am allowed to say that on here? Oh well my rating was doing ok till now Cheers A
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  11. Actually it doesn't matter. As I find out three or four times a week, after the fifth bottle, you wake up to find a moderator has deleted all your posts anyway.
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  12. Long-term and residential moorings are two different things. Residential means what it says and you will probably pay a premium for this plus council tax, but you can probably expect a parking space somewhere, a post box, etc. A long-term mooring means that you are paying only to leave your boat there long-term, but since it doesn't have residential planning permission from the council, strictly speaking you are not allowed to live onboard full-time. How strictly the particular mooring or marina enforces the rules will vary depending on the particular mooring authority. I hear the National Trust are very strict, while my own experience of BW's are 4 days/week rule is that they will generally turn a blind eye and only enforce it if you breach other rules and generally become a pain in the arse to them and your fellow moorers. However, if you live on a BW long term mooring you will need a residential address and you probably shouldn't refer to your boat as your home for your sake as well as theirs. It's the unspoken word... They know what your doing and they go along with it because it's half of their business, but some people who live like this insist on demanding their rights, apparently not realising that they actually have very few,
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