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  1. To help people decide which battery monitoring system to install on their boat I have come up with the following handy comparison guide. Jen Battery Monitors. A Comparison Guide How many battery monitors do you need? DumbGauge None. It makes no difference to your batteries if you have one or not. Others At least one. Sometimes three or more. How Accurate is it? DumbGauge. Like a stopped clock being right twice a day, DumbGauge gets it right at least some of the time by pure chance. Others This depends on the product, how it is installed and in some cases how many of them you have. If you have more than one, which do you believe? How much does it cost? DumbGauge Can be made yourself for around £20. Alternatively Jen-in-Wellies will sell you one for as much as she thinks your bank account can stand. Others A lot more expensive than a home made DumbGauge, but less than a DumbGauge bought from Jen-in-Wellies. How easy is it to install? DumbGauge Very easy. Only requires a 5V supply from a USB socket. Can be provided from a car 12V adaptor. No other connection to the batteries is required. When the DumbGauge display goes blank, then your batteries are flat. Others Harder. These require connection to the batteries and in many cases the installation of a shunt. Wires then need to be run through to a suitable monitoring position. Does it display Amps/Hour? DumbGauge Yes! The only battery monitor that does. ? Others No.?
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  4. I'm sure you didn't intend for this to come across in such a jeering, sneering way. Certainly such a life would become sad and lonely, if the sole purpose was to gain some sense of personal worth and well-being, but it usually starts with some-one trying to shed light on something that seems to have gone badly wrong, and then being blocked. There have been so many cover-ups exposed in the last 20 odd years that no-one should be complacent. We may seem to be in a 'blame culture' now, but it is against a background of passing the buck, obfuscation and misinformation. Those who campaign to get information into the public domain especially when it is information that should, in any case, be available, should not be ridiculed. It is very easy for corporate bodies to accept public money - but they should also accept that public scrutiny is part of the contract. And that means that every member of the public has a right to know how, when and why decisions are made, and who by.
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  7. Now you are pylon on the irony. ?
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  8. It was an observation (and slightly light hearted if you read it again) based on fact, not a racist remark. Regarding any comment about race or culture as racist is a growing problem and threat to free speech. Racism is a irrational hatred of other races. It was very noticeable that the vast majority of people in the supermarket were not speaking English. The groups of young men hanging around in the park next to the moorings did have a somewhat hostile manner to them but did not give us any trouble. Some canal boats are now built in Poland. They are very well engineered but somehow lack some of the style and character of a boat built in England by a traditional builder. Is that racist? Scotland are seriously thinking about closing some of their canals to navigation? Is that racist???? ...........Dave (who has worked with people from many races and cultures, some I like and some I don't)
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  9. Trouble is, the lack of mooring space and facilities is the only control mechanism limiting growth, so more facilities will result in more boats turning up till the new facilities are taken to the same level of congestion. It will then be the same problem but even bigger. New boater facilities are good, but ultimately some way of limiting the number of boats to match the capacity of facilities available is the only real solution. ..............Dave
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  10. All looks pretty positive to me, but then I have no intention of taking our boat anywhere near that London. In fact, if I never have to go there again by any form of transport I'll be quite happy.
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  11. Fishermen from other countries are also available!?
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  15. Everyone is worried about packaging waste and especially plastics. Developments to reduce packaging and improve recycling rates have been underway for some time but it's not quick or easy. Meanwhile nobody is talking about the environmental benefits of lightweight plastic packaging in terms of reduced food waste which is a much bigger environmental issue. Much more energy and resources go into food production than packaging production, so if the food doesn't get through the supply chain to the final consumer intact then that's a real problem. When using alternative materials or reducing packaging you need to ensure you're maintaining the same level of physical protection and barrier properties so that product shelf-life isn't reduced. Otherwise those efforts may just result in a much bigger environmental issue - food waste. David Attenborough, the media and the public are focusing on plastics in the environment, but who's actually allowing those items to become water-borne? We tend to blame those people putting the packaging into the market and they do have a responsibility, but ultimately in developed countries like the UK it's consumers not the producers who.are responsible for litter. It's a different situation in developing countries and studies have shown that something like 80% of all plastic waste at sea is coming from just 6 countries and 10 rivers (in East Asia and Africa) where consumerism has increased without the necessary improvements in waste management infrastructure. However in this country, the bottom line is that unless you're the one chucking your empty PET coke bottle into a river it's unlikely to end up at sea and unfortunately the efforts that some people are making to reduce their use of plastics, while well-meaning may be slightly misguided. http://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484
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  16. Well there wouldn't be would there
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  18. Ours was already on our boat when we bought it, but here's the website. You buy the hardware from them and then get a sim on contract or payg from a broadband supplier. http://www.wifionboard.co.uk/product-category/marine/
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  20. Lovely brickwork, anyway back to our little job - machinery working today - towpath now closed & excavated - presumably to connect on to the existing culvert and on the bank is a pipe section which probably answers the earlier questions as to the material chosen for replacement. springy
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  21. Peccadillo is owned by Bev and it moors at Applecross Street. It is a sort of commercial boat Haggis
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  23. As I am now a racist I must declare that this is untrue, The Bridge of Sighs in Cambridge was built in England to an English design. Some damn foreigners then built a second rate copy over one of their dirty canals that are also a second rate copy of proper British canals. Don't believe everything you read in those history books. and the bridge of Sighs in Cambridge is heavily influenced by a smaller bridge over the canal on the way in to Chester that was built by the English at the same time that they built the city walls to defend against the invading Romans. Blackpool tower is actually a second rate copy of the Tower that was built in New Brighton but sadly stolen when Liverpool was invaded by Irish scrap metal dealers. ..................Dave
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  28. The press release is interesting in that it is all "Carrot" wonder when the London Boaters will tell is what the "Stick " is.
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  30. Morning as it's colder and more dense.
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  31. Had one last night cant be bothered tonite, got a fab mooring under trees today so be ere a couple of days and popping off on train doin stuff
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  35. So as I said, the initial assertion that 10% increase in volume would occur is wrong by a factor of 10. Another factor overlooked is the tank itself will be the same temperature as the diesel, and when the diesel warms up on a hot day, so will the tank. So the tank itself will expand in volume and capacity when warming up too. So the calculation will need to use the difference between the volumetric coefficients of expansions of diesel and of steel. And there is a third major factor still being overlooked in this argument!
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  36. On all the time unless leaving the boat for a week or more.
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  37. As long as you don't fold the corners on the pages.
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  40. Five Bridges was nice (perhaps showing my age a bit)
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  41. Had a similar experience with ebay. I won a lumpy water boat located in the isle of Wight. Being sold by the harbour master. What I found out after arranging a local firm over there collect said purchase. There is a site called Wight bay . It was still up for sale on this site. Harbour master was waiting to see if he could get more money after I had paid for the boat. I got ebay to reimburse me for the expense of arranging collection. Plus the harbour master can no longer use ebay.
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  42. Can I borrow it after you've read it?
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  44. Come on, whats the problem, how often does a motor and butty come through that tunnel. If you are going south and you stick your nose in and see a boat you just back out. Lets not talk up more H&S restrictions.
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  48. Not boated for as long as you. But the ten years we have done have been great. I hear the complaints and I know it’s not perfect on the canals but it’s still pretty good. Some just look for the problems I believe so they can moan.
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  49. Update. Following my email to the seller asking him to re-consider ,he kindly agreed to proceed with the sale. He organised with the yard for the engine to be available and lifted for me, and I am very pleased with my purchase. I was pleased to have Paddles Up input regarding the seller, and it has proven thoroughly correct. Many thanks to all for their input, Cheers. Mick
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