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  1. There is a lot of reasons not to move. Anxiety moving anxiety. Starting the engine fills me with anxiety so i wont. mooring anxiety i might not find a new mooring so i better not move tunnel anxiety theres a tunnel ahead i dont like them. Better stay. lock anxiety ( you get the drift) depression i cant be arsed to move. no body cares about me moving or not. its worse elsewhere so i might as well stay here. they dont like me in the next village mania im too busy painting the local area to bother with the rules. lll move when ive put the engine gearbox prop back on which i removed at 3 in the morning to polish. psychopathology i dont give a fig about moving or following societies rules .. looser. move me if you want im not doing it. Im important you know. im entitled to be here my children are in the local school. schizophrenic what boat what canal what rules 14 days what when how. I move when i hear the right voice. drug dependent my dealers handy and i get methadone from the pharmacy. Its an illness you know. See the problem . Havent even scratched the surface of physical reasons. God help us , but ive heard most of that by adaptation over the last 40 years.
    5 points
  2. It occurs to me that the canal at some point was wide enough for two boats, So why not let the other boat past? If there was a race on, you were participating in it. Just let the aquatic BMW driver past, and ... relax. As my Auntie used to say "Yer a long time dead, kid".
    5 points
  3. Squash em with a Flypress.
    3 points
  4. Hi A friend of mine owns such a boat. He has several hire fleets but also a single boat a 55 footer for long term hire. Its muck cheap for a couple of months and in season works out about 2100 pounds per month which I am sure you will realise is massively cheaper than by the week hire boats. He does multiples of months and of course its not some cowboy trying to make money from his private non licensed non insured boat. If you are interested pm me and I will give you details.
    3 points
  5. Please bare with this, I think it is relevant. A little example of so called marine engineer's/fitters on the cut. My Bukh has always smoked a bit at low speed like when passing moored boats and is much worse after a prolonged period of idling. When I first got the boat I had the injectors overhauled and it made no difference. Then I changed the valve stem oil seals and checked the stems for wear. Again no difference so I had a chat with TW Marine, the Bukh inland specialists who told me that when the DV36 started to be fitted in canal boats the smoking became apparent and Bukh had spent a long time in the UK trying various injection pressures and injection timing to cure it, all without success. They/Viking afloat also converted the water jacketed exhaust manifold to a dry one to try to raise the exhaust temperature. Again without success. Now I have known for far too long that despite their advant6ages direct injection engines can smoke a bit at low speed and power because of lack of turbulence in the cylinders. Modern designs are far better because of computer modelling of air flow and combustion. This is why most of our marinised engines use indirect injection. As the engine has all but zero oil consumption and starts very easily from cold (as a direct injected engine should) I took TW Marine's advice and happily live with it. On Thursday a walker on the towpath started coughing loudly and told me the engine was smoking badly, it was not, it was more of a haze and he was very insistent it was smoking badly so I started to explain that for the DV36 such smoke was to be expected. He denied this, told me he was a marine engineer (which I very much doubt because proper marine engineers would normally have a degree and work on real ships) and I needed the injectors done. I told him they had been and not made no difference, he countered that it needed valve stem oil seals so I again told him they had been done and it made no difference. The he said it needed the head off to grind the valves. At that I gave up. I believe he was touting for business trying to scare gullible boaters and I very much doubt he held any qualifications in small diesel engine maintenance. Now the point of this post is that 70 liveboard is totally relying upon unknown third parties to ensure a safe installation of said frame generator and if the OP happened to pick the chap above I have the gravest of doubts the installation would be anything but a bodge and there for likely unsafe. I still think the poster has and keeps giving very poor advice that is best ignored.
    3 points
  6. His risk, not yours. If you had let him past earlier it would not have been your problem - and your nice new paintwork might have remained virgin. You would also have had undisputed entitlement to the moral high ground.
    2 points
  7. Didn't you know that the Continual Moorers down the west end of the K&A are exempt from CaRT rules? They are under NBTA rules.
    2 points
  8. My rule of thumb is if I think I can turn the lock and get through it and out of the way before the other boat arrives to enter it, then I'll turn it. If not, then I'll wait. Water-saving considerations aside, that is.
    2 points
  9. Apparently there's a boat moored up by the Warwickshire Fly bridge on't Grand Union, I hear not only has it been there for a lot more than 48 hours, but everybody including Waterways knows it's there.
    2 points
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  11. We also do long term hire and will permit single handing to people with suitable experience. hth, Anthony
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  13. Of course. As always ? Its worth a try for people who ask nice polite questions on line isnt it ol. sport
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  15. Clearly not true. The boat coming the other way was the far side of another lock. How does your rule fit in with this? How about a boat two locks away?
    2 points
  16. In terms of personal effort and faff, I am a minimalist. In a flight I would look forward one or two locks to see what is happening, and in the circumstances you describe I would have left the lock ready for the ascending boat. Time for a quick drink and a breather. It is difficult to judge what happened from a distance, and I am certainly not saying that my approach is the only way.
    2 points
  17. Did you get through the lock before they were ready to come in? And did they have crew on the lockside to claim it as 'their' lock? If the answers are yes and no, then it wasn't 'their' lock, and they weren't delayed. So whats the problem?
    2 points
  18. Show me a self employed person that has never claimed something against tax that wasn't 100% for business use and I will show you a liar.
    2 points
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  20. I reckon autocolin got to him ...
    1 point
  21. Now my widebeam had tiller steering, when I converted it to electric I also installed wheel steering [hydraulic] which has low turns lock to lock, it also has a rudder indicator. now for speed its a tiller, for comfort its the wheel everytime, its taken me a while to get used to it, but now its a dodle, I do have a wheelhouse sit does make sense and if going through narrow gaps it helps with a 12 foot widebeam to be able to see down one side. One other advantage is it sails where its pointed, I can take my hands of the wheel and dash inside pop the kettle on and get back out, and its still going straight, couldnt do that with the tiller
    1 point
  22. But what about the occasions where you wait above an empty lock because you can see an approaching boat in the distance, but when they get to the lock they stop and bang in a couple of pins, you go down to chat and they say they are stopping?
    1 point
  23. That was a faff about, useless with tech stuff but managed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1pl8Vtess&t=295s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ZyXZbqG7Y
    1 point
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  25. I think the casualty was lucky, I was once taken 50 miles to hospital in an ambulance it was so uncomfortable I think I would rather have been in the back of a van. TBH I would be reluctant to jump to conclusions based on a Telegraph article. From what I know about the voluntary services ( my brother in law is a coastguard and my wife is ex mountain rescue) there can be a lot of interpersonal friction, - these services are typically populated by strong personalities. So there may be a lot more to these stories than is being made public.
    1 point
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  28. We did meet someone on the Marsh Lane Visitor moorings who had done just that - they were recovering from a major operation and couldn't move their boat. I don't think anyone can have any problems with that sort of over staying.
    1 point
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  30. No they don't , believe it if you wish but its bo110x
    1 point
  31. The Bridgewater seems to be 'a law unto itself'. They don't refer to it as the Sale flying club for no reason We had similar issues last year ... best just to let them pass, they're going to overtake anyway. Rog
    1 point
  32. One of the reasons I run a gps as a speedometer so if I am accused of being to slow or fast I know what speed I was doing and can ask the other person if he knows what Noah said to the animals as they left the ark and to follow that instruction.
    1 point
  33. Just remember that we also have "gas" storage lockers and "petrol" tanks / cans / storage Gas is that light 'floaty stuff' used to power your cooker / hob Petrol is that smelly liquidy stuff that powers your outboard or car. One Nation divided by two languages !!
    1 point
  34. I think that that boat covered with rubbish just north just of Nantwich has been there 48 years.
    1 point
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  38. Yes this is what we should be discussing here.
    1 point
  39. I have also done that and then felt guilty!!..the opposing boatman gave me the finger when i apologised and his lady gave me a death stare!!...I will wait if i experience it again?
    1 point
  40. We travel in convoy with friends fairly often and the issue of picking up stirred up debris is a real problem for the following boats. We tend to try and get up front if we can to avoid it as NC seems to be quite apt at picking up the crap in between the props! Some boats it doesn't seem to bother but others find it a real issue.
    1 point
  41. TBH I think on balance we would have waited, especially if Andersens had sent crew ahead, but this sort of thing is a 50/50 call. As you say there's something to be said for keeping things moving with that middle pound being a bit tight for space. It's certainly not worth getting worked up about, and even if the hire boat staff felt they were in the right that's a pretty shabby way to behave in front of a novice crew under instruction. I'm surprised, as we keep our boat on the Middlewich branch and have had nothing but positive feedback from Andersen hirers we have met.
    1 point
  42. The owner is waiting for crt to ‘fix’ the stratford so he can go to long itchington.
    1 point
  43. Agreed - the Cat is a 'volume produced' boat. My other boat (Cruiser) is a custom built 'one-off'. The guy who had it built knew exactly what hull he wanted (it was an offshore trawler) but the company that built them had gone bust so he bought the moulds from the receivers. He then bought a small boat builder and had them build the boat to his requirements - Twin engine (the original was a single) and a safe range of 2000miles, on-suite shower, separate on-suite toilet and basin to the master cabin. Shower room & toilet to the forward cabin, separate kitchen, separate dining room and separate saloon. He knew exactly which engines he wanted (A matched pair of Ford 6-cylinder Dover engines) and travelled all over Europe to find them. He bought the engines and shipped them back to the UK where they were totally disassembled and rebuilt to the original specs. I have all of the various invoices etc and bill of sale. It was built in 2003, I bought it in 2015 and it had 73 hours 'on the clocks' it hadn't had much use - just a rich-man's fantasy. There are still hundreds of the original boats out there fishing.
    1 point
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  46. I went to a talk by Jay from RCR about engine maintenance and electrics, he was a very knowledgeable bloke and was good at answering questions and explaining things. If the courses they run are as good it should cover the OPs requirements.
    1 point
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  48. This video explains why portable or mobile units are very inefficient compared with proper plumbed in units. Just out of interest, what sort of solar setup are you planning?
    1 point
  49. You'll have to bear with me on this repair as it is quite a few years since I sorted the problem on the several cassettes that I had. The magnet is mounted on a swinging arm inside the case which is restrained from moving too far by protruding lumps sticking out from the inside surface. If the cassette is swung around too violently, when swilling with water after emptying for example, the arm can get dislodged past the lower protrusion and hangs down inside the cassette. When the level rises the arm cannot move up far enough to switch the light on because it is trapped below the lowest protrusion. I removed the sliding plate, rubber diaphragm etc (from memory, two covering plastic quarter-moon shaped things which when unclipped allow access to 6 retaining screws underneath) and reached inside to force the arm back up over the limiting protrusion to its correct position (it really doesn't have a huge range of motion when located correctly). Then reassemble. I was pretty convinced that it was the vigorous shaking when flushing out the cassette that caused the problem and adopted a new flushing technique which was to stand, leaning over the cassette and looking at the top of it, then swing the cassette in a rotary motion (bit like the hands of a clock say between 10 minutes past and 10 minutes to the hour). I never had the problem recur after changing my technique. Hope this helps. Roger
    1 point
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