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  1. Hi, Just returned from a cracking 1 week holiday on an ABC hire boat (Mandarin Duck - I can heartily recommend the boat and the company). We started and finished in Worcester, and it was our first time on a river. Anyway, we made a time-lapse (with some aerial footage too) of the adventure. Sadlt, a tech failure meant that West Hill Tunnel got missed from the video, but it's not a bad 20 mins!! Have a look here and tell me what you think! Happy boating!
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  2. Some sheds are so well looked after they're kept in high class marinas
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  3. Well we just managed to make our tank last a week while in the dry dock, but that was using showers shore side and limiting washing up, I cant imagine what size tank would be needed for 2 weeks. But now when we are cruising and we come to a slow tap we just say sod it and go to the next, heaven forbid we had a tank big enough for 2 weeks, ran it right down for minimum stops and then it was a slow tap, we would spend all afternoon there. I would rather top up every 2 to 3 days. I cant remember how big or stainless tank is.
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  4. Ooh a p!$$ing contest - such fun Ladies meet the Sailing Vessel Flying Dutchman - https://www.scotland-sailing.com/highlands-loch-ness-2019/ But at 130ft she is however a tiddler compared to the Lord of the Glens - http://lordoftheglens.co.uk/video.aspx With the Lord of the Glens at 150ft she makes a 72ft passenger ferry look like a mini metro. Just as well the Caley isn't most canals innit. And anyone who says the Caley doesn't count is just a sore looser.
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  5. I've never tried using a Kingfisher to get away from the bank. Are they effective and how do you tie them to the boat? ?
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  9. Maybe the clutch was bit heavy on the removal van? I think it's a mistake letting a dog drive a heavy vehicle, but if you have to ask boaters for tips on moving home with a dog, you're already up agin it in my book. It's bound to be a bit hit and miss when you resort to that, so it could have been worse... imagine if you'd let him move the piano!
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  10. Oh! All this time I thought read meant no mooring! Duh. Even better - I can now see there are two spots at Hanham!
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  11. The road outside my door leads to Morrisons! Howard
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  12. I do wonder if the pub were involved in preventing CRT from getting a good mains supply. When the bridge fails and CRT are phoned it takes between two and three pints before they turn up . ...................Dave
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  14. Coming from Yorkshire I like my tea so strong that the brick would have just bounced off.
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  16. Of course they do , as you well know. As indicated to LadyG, this is a Canal Forum and the maximuim length on most canals is 72ft. As it happens my licence entitled me to captain any passenger carrying boat much larger than the one we were operating.
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  21. You don't go out cruising much do you.? It has other damping methods too...
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  23. Is there really a 'practice' of pouring stove ash into the cut? or is it just something that idiots do? I would no more pour the stove ash into the cut (bearing in mind that any coal ash will contain some nasty toxins such as arsenic,cadmium,lead, etc) than I would throw the black rubbish bag from the waste bin into the cut. I can only imagine that anyone who does tip their stove ash into the cut is of the same ilk as those who hang their plastic bags of dog sh*t on tree branches in some misplaced belief that 'someone' is going to clear it up after them.
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  24. While I greatly appreciate that this really is a very technical subject - Can we not just ask what other folks have and what do they use it for? And then just go with the one that fits best.
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  25. I am at Sheffield just put the dishwasher on, we have had tea via an electric kettle the list goes on solar is a great thing and for me suits my low carbon lifestyle
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  28. Your chain will weigh circa 2 Kg per metre, so if anchored in 10m of water (assuming 30m of rope warp as well) you are going to need to lift 30KG. Not easy. If in 3ft of water, then if you can drive forward over the anchor to retrieve it, then it is doable. I am not really sure what the question is. If it's about an NB, then deploying an anchor is likely to be in an emergency, to being able to drive over the anchor to retrieve it will not be an option ...so best to cut the rope.
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  31. It's a great feeling isn't it, no more noisy engines to run, no need to think about conserving energy for 8 months of the year. I fitted mine 5 years ago, best thing I ever did.
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  32. The converse used to happen on our Mooring on the Northern GU at Napton Junction. We never ran the engine in gear whilst moored, but even after a few weeks not mooving we had to plough our way off the mooring over a ridge of silt thrown up by boats passing us too quickly, and if we were away for four or six weeks, the ridge spread across our mooring, requiring us to plough oy way back into the bank. I should point out that we also had a deep drafted boat but once in the channel, there was plenty of depth for two deep boats to pass without any grounding.
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  34. I doubt that there's much need for modern boat owners to need run the engine in gear whilst moored, what with normouse battery banks to charge, huge alternators and inverters and often Travel powers running to power all the big Gizmo's onboard which very likely are all loading the engine down more than that it being in gear or traveling along with the prop going around anyway.
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  35. If the boats used reasonably regularly the berth shouldn't get silted up, just motoring away from it and returning usually keeps it clear. Its normally boats that never ever move that get silted in and possibly dumping their stove ashes overboard too which encourages more silt.
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  37. I know a Yarwood with a bit of fancy on the rams head: And it is a bit cleaner now, and awaiting refitting (along with a few other renovated bits and bobs) once this boat has completed its restoration:
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  41. Yes I've read the brexit thread.
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  42. Nom idea on the engine but if I may suggest you get rid of that 'Black & Decker' twin (orange cable) - having it running over the water pump and fan belt is not really 'good practice'.
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  43. This should be in a book of boater quotes.
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  44. Sorry but after re-reading the thread I have to revisit this. It really isn't evident at all. Also, comparing yourself to Frangar and Nut is just an attempt to seem better relatively. If one can only seem compassionate in relation to a pair of angry nut-jobs, then one has lost the argument. ?
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  45. I hope you threw it back in readiness for the BCN Challenge.
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  46. I've had times when I'd have been glad of something like that. Park benches and bus shelters for a while make you more tolerant of those wbo get stuck, and it's a lot harder to get yourself back on track now than it was fifty years ago. I can't see that a few sheds here and there ruin it for the rest of us. The way things are, there will be a lot more of them soon.
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  47. Several of my cats have behaved like both , but sensibly drew the line at invading russia
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  48. That is a dangerous practice as there is a 99% chance that someone is in the cabin holding a mug of tea.
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  49. Is that the one where you moor up and don't move at all ?
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  50. It is amazing what percentage of the time the gas runs out when you are actually using it - middle of boiling the kettle, Sunday Roast etc. Strangely enough I find the same with my stapler - stapling away doing jobs and then 'click' and no staple. Never runs out when I'm not using it !!!!
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