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Hey,Mrsmelly was Noahs second in command, he knows whats what. We had a pump out originally. Binned it after the first year onboard! As Forest Gump said "Shit happens!", oh, and something about a box of chocolates too.

There is so much around the BCN to learn: http://bcnsociety.co.uk/?archive=1&fn=4&id=42 Richard

There was a canal house at Bloomfield. The junction was there till the 1990's, but forget when it was removed. This line to Coseley tunnel was initially the Bloomfield Cut and was spanned by the trough that carried water over this arm to an isolated part of the Foxyards Canal, once the Bloomfield Cut had been made. The Bloomfield cut was part of the authorised 1794 scheme to make a tunnel at Coseley, which was began by the contractor Jacob Twigg but abandoned. Bloomfield Cut served the Wallbrook Furnaces. Later when Thomas Telford's scheme was adopted the Bloomfield Cut became part of the line from Bloomfield to Deepfields at Coseley. Mining subsidence had altered levels what remained of the isolated Foxyards Canal became part of the altered canals at Bloomfield. There were basins and later a railway interchange basin. Bloomfield Junction became the junction with the New Main Line and the Old Main line to Bradley once Coseley Tunnel opened. i show the junction on p 44 of the Tempus book, Birmingham Canal Navigations.

It doesn't, does it. Ignore that bit then!

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ☺️

No running engines to charge batteries unless you have at least 200w of solar

We've got the capacity for a 100 gallons of Sh1t on board but we are never that full of it.......normally.

100 gallons of sh@t, i think you have a problem, or pee overboard perhaps

After 65 + years of sitting on the things may I suggest a comfortable one. ?

Have this one, as you cannot get an 'official' one.

That's FIVE posters all agreeing within a 2-hour window. Might be a first for this forum!

I only see them in black and white. ? ? even when I go back and look after they are published

Have you considered using Celotex/Kingspan? You can stick it on and seal any gaps with fire-rared aerosol expanding foam. Best to invest in a foam gun and use gun-grade foam. Considerably cheaper than getting it sprayed.

I do have a home mooring but I am never on it. Well not since october 10th last year anyway

I have no dog in this fight, not because I don't have a preference or reasons for it, but because it's somehow like criticising someone's driving and the argument simply never ends! However, to make a balanced judgement for yourself, you should recognise that there is no need for chemicals in a modern pump out. Older 'dump through' type - perhaps.

Done. Haggis

The use of the present continuous tense ('he complies') was meant to indicate that he consults the surveyor along the way. I can only testify to what I picked up as we were not (I confess) monitoring the project to that level of detail - there comes a time when you do have to rely on truest and over-arching duties of your builder. Takes long enough to get a boat built as it is . . .

This one always makes me giggle. Why does anyone have to lug several kilograms of waste to an Elsan point? Do you lug your boat under your arm to the pumpout point? You park the boat at the elsan and carry the cassettes a few feet and have it emptied quicker than messing around with sewage pipes. The main difference I have found over the years is when canal is frozen up I could carry on a wheeled trolley a cassette to an elsan point/car to take to an elsan point for disposal but couldnt carry twenty five tons of boats to a pumpout machine. On more than one winter we have been frozen in solid for well in excess of a month at a time, nearly two months in 2009/10

I'm somewhat staggered to read he was younger than I am. There have been so many canal related deaths recently, often in those of no great age - it certainly makes you think about life's priorities. RIP Laurence

There you go. This thread gives you an overview of the correct setting for a BMV.

The difference being you know where the next fuel station is and know that it will be 'working'

Oh bugger. Very wise advice...!

It tells me that it's much easier to convert a pump-out to a cassette than the other way round.

Sadie, I think we all understand the feeling that the summer is slipping away and you want to get on the water NOW. But beware those rose coloured glasses that tend to magically appear when we see a boat that seems to tick some of the boxes. The advice offered in this forum is excellent - whilst there are some first class Springers out there that the owners love and cherish, the fact is that they were built to a budget of lower grade thin steel. Overplating can provide a fresh lease of life but can bring its own problems - apart from anything else the design of the Springer never allowed for the extra weight of a second hull with all the ballast problems that can bring. The right boat is out there for you, it's just a case of biting your lip and being patient. Winter is actually a good time to look at boats, all sort of problems that you won't notice in the summer become apparent, you can also negotiate a better price in winter as the buyer generally wants someone else to have the problems that can occur in colder, wetter weather. Good luck, take your time and take a friend with you who doesn't have a vested interest.

you are correct - statistically having two gauges is no better than one if they read different to each other. The only solution is to have three (god help you if the third doesn't match either of the others!). perhaps the new not-so-smart Gibbogauges are designed that way to improve sales.

Just been on Look North, 4 gates are going in today, that's another lock which will hold water soon. I noticed for the first time, the new Nocholson guide has the Grantham canal listed. They've a long way to go, but a big heads up to the volunteers working hard there.

Exactly. If you start to consider a pumpout from, say, 80% instead of waiting til it's full to bursting, there's a big enough window left that it's never really an issue.

The paddles on the Hatton flight are not hydraulic (except to the extent that all paddles could be regarded as hydraulic devices in that their function is to control the flow of water).

All this waffle is of course 'self-certified', so there is no actual scrutiny by anyone in authority of the boat this guff purports to describe, or verification it is correct and not a total fairy story.

Ok I've connected up the new one and it is reading about 0.05v high. Close enough to be useful straight from the box. WAY better than my other two which are 0.4V high and 0.3V low. Well done Merlin!!!!

Now I don't really mind what lavatorial arrangements anyone prefers unless they use little black plastic bags and hang it in trees to take advantage of the poor overworked dog poo fairy. However, I do I find this commonly cited negative issue against pump outs a very odd one: unwarranted, possibly a bit fatuous and certainly a little paranoid. We're happy that we can store fresh water in a tank that doesn't leak, we're happy that we can store diesel in a tank that doesn't leak, but somehow we think the one with effluent in it is inevitably going to do something outrageous, particularly if it's anywhere near a bed. I would have thought that personal contact with effluent is far more likely when changing the cassette every day or two, storing full spare cassettes, carting it around in a plastic suitcase , or when having to pour it down a drain in a 'sanitary' station of dubious hygiene status. Still, eh?

Same one trick pony. Thing is, when I wake up in the morning and the fridge is warm because the (new) batteries are flat (again), I want a gauge to look at to tell me what I already know. Oh and WotEver made an offer I couldn't refuse. He will join me in condemning Smartgauges if my third purchase turns out to be wrongly factory calibrated like the previous two!!

Visitor moorings should be divided into sunny areas for solar power boats, and shaded areas for engine runners. The latter could sit in the gloom running their generators in their own little ghetto.?

No.

Agree, The first company I insured with wanted a valuation and fit out survey on a self fit out but nothing on the hull, since then other companies have just wanted my bank card details

sounds like you've got a Millennial round your prop