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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.

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".

Squash em with a Flypress.

Flame height? Blast radius? ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We also do long term hire and will permit single handing to people with suitable experience. hth, Anthony

Of course. As always ? Its worth a try for people who ask nice polite questions on line isnt it ol. sport

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?

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.

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?

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.

Like this...

I can remember very clearly my first and only stint of living aboard...two years of temperamental access to electricity, of arriving back home after days away for work to a damp and freezing cold boat in the depths of winter, and of moving the boat in the pitch dark after work when all I wanted to do was cook and sleep. ...and yet, here I am, longing to live on the cut again as a continuous cruiser and very seriously looking at boats (from afar thankfully, currently in the Alps). Boat life - you really can't beat it, can you?

Most narrowboaters don't realise how slow they are travelling. I use GPS and most of the boats I pass are doing less than 3mph but I reckon they think they are on the limit. When Magictime says he slowed to around 3mph I suspect he was actually doing less than that and on the Bridgewater less than 3mph is practically an obstruction. I'm not excusing the behaviour of the overtaking boat but you can't assume that just because the boat behind is going much faster than you he's some sort of speed demon. Some of us just like to go as "fast" as practicable, some like to travel at a more sedate pace, we should have consideration for each other.

When we traveled down to Market Harborough we didn't have any problem finding a mooring outside the basin for us or the other boat traveling with us. There were also spaces in the basin at that time as all the hire boats were out. And to add the boat we were traveling with was a converted old working boat so deep drafted.

As I have already said, I installed standby generator sets for a living. A typical frame generator will be around 100dBA at 1 metre. As Wotever pointed put, they are air cooled, which ultimately limits how quiet they can be made, because the water jacket reduces noise and they need larger air inlet and outlet to handle the cooling air As well as the aspiration air. Larger holes mean more noise breakout. The best, professional noise attenuation enclosures (which cost £1000's) can reduce the noise by a maximum of 40dBA. Then the building or in this case, the boat will possibly reduce the breakout noise by maybe 10dBA. I always aimed for 70dBA at 1 metre from the perimeter for sites without near neighbours, and 50dBA at 1 metre in residential areas. A single skinned wooden enclosed might reduce the noise levels by 15dBA. To get a frame generator down to 50dBA at 1 metre would require a huge amount of money spending on the enclosure, which would be double skinned, lined on the inside with perforated steel panels with multi-layere noise insulation material, optimised to take out specific frequencies in between. The seal to the baseplate will either be mastic or two layers of rubber tubing like a car door. It will also need air inlet and outlet attenuation, typically baffles of noise attenuation material sandwiched in perforated panels and exhaust attenuation and noise attenuation around cable and fuel line entries to prevent noise breakout. Finally the frame of the generator will need mounting on anti-vibration mounts to minimise the transmission of vibration to the hull. A commercial "silent" generator will have all of the above, and this is why they cost so much (As I said in my earlier post). Whilst the amatuer can reduce noise levels by quite a bit, he will never be able to achieve the low noise levels needed to run an embedded generator that won't disturb near neighbours, especially after 20:00.

It would be unnecessary for that category - the cranial proboscis is a dead give-away.

I saw a tame other when I passed through Hopwas on the Coventry Canal ? https://www.vintageinn.co.uk/restaurants/midlands/thetameotterhopwastamworth?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb

Bluddy phat phingers and spill chucker hanging up against me. ? I'm sure they change my words after I have checked them and posted. ? For those of you without clairvoyant skills it should have read "whilst in the dim and distant past".

No clue of your requirements since I am in the states. But on a practical point you need ventilation so that any fumes are removed and not allowed to build it. I remember in the 60's my dad had an outboard runabout and had to add to vents to the compartment where the gas was stored (2 5 gallon metal tanks) so that air would flow through. New rules required it on ALL boats.

I think that proves the point I was hinting at - you can't take at face value how someone describes themselves. Howard

Nothing like hours at the tiller in cold wet weather then mooring up and stepping down into a warm cosy boat, but it wouldn't feel as cosy without the suffering beforehand, that's why I think boating is popular, the upsides are magnified by the downsides, creating a sharp contrast.

I like Cuthound's definition of an engineer (I hope he doesn't mind me plagiarising it): "Someone who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge". It could be applied to many of the "Marine Engineers" found on and around the cut, although in my experience there are some notable exceptions. Howard

Never discount what your grandma uses or does. she has way more lifes experience, has done way more than you have and will always know more than you do ?

Why do you think working boats have priority? My commercial licence very clearly states that I don't have any precedence at locks or visitor moorings, despite what some boats will tell you! I believe the commercial boats used to have right of way, but that hasn't been the case for a long time. It is of course courteous to wave a trip boat through if you are just bimbling along, but they only have the right to ask.

It's quite startling how inaccurate my boathandling becomes under such circumstances. Usually I can put the boat exactly where I want it regardless of wind or water, but obnoxious gits seem to make it awfully difficult to steer ... maybe it's performance pressure!

Living on a boat and not going boating is a pretty odd thing to want to do, all the disadvantages and none of the fun. Go boating at weekends and in the holidays (assuming you work) and then live on a leisure mooring without feeling guilty about it. ................Dave

Shit, my portholes have been in for 18 years so I am living on borrowed time

That's taking the Part P that is! ?

I have people coming in to do jobs on the house that I know how to do and exactly how long they should take. Why don't I do them myself ? Because legally I can't as despite having the same test gear, the knowledge and ability as the guy coming in I would have to be registered and its cheaper to get someone in than pay the registration fee.

My liveaboard widebeam was tiller and thats my preference. I have used chain and hydraulic steered widebeams for work in the past, its what you get used to really. The widebeam with wheel steering was 86 feet by a tad over 20 foot beam with 16 feet six inch air draught with front steering. My liveaboard was tiny at only fifty by ten so tiller steering made sense. If you mean something smallish say a 60 or 70 foot by 12 or 14 then I would go tiller every time if it were me.

1.88 amps...at 240v ... will draw (allowing for inverter loss)...about 40 amps from a 12 volt battery.....that is the 'late' 12 volt battery....the one that has just collapsed in a heap... ?

Florida, probably.