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  3. It's a very different forum to the one I joined that enabled me to meet in person so many people who I count as friends for life now. We've lost a disproportionate number of female posters as well which is skewing the demographic and making it a very uncomfortable place to be at times, not just in political threads. It is a great shame.
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  4. I would expand that statement to read "The proliferation of political, or politically inspired threads from a small number of unpleasant members who have little of no interest in canals or boats is annoying" I seldom. if ever bother to open any thread started (almost daily) by one particular idividual, as I know it will invariably have serious racist or xenophobic undertones. Whilst I have no problem with the discussion of political issues in principal, it seems that most of the political threads are invariably started by individuals with an extreem right wing philospophy, which does not reflect the views of most of those member who I have met, and as MTB suggests could be the reason why many previously enthusiastic and useful members no longer participate.
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  5. In today's Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/aug/12/canal-boat-painting-in-pictures
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  7. What a cracking and very tiring weekend we had. Myself and my brother who came down to give me a hand got the boat from Hyde in Piccadilly Manchester ( 8 hr trip ) to Boothstown ( 5hr trip ) where we have left it for a week ready for the next run to Parbold. Weather wasnt to bad, first day was a bit moist but that busy with the bloomin locks i didnt notice much. It was interesting to visit Manchester from a different view point. I have been driving for years all over Manchester and it look so different from the canal. Bit rough, well very rough in areas and all kinds of `things` going on, morso under the city near Canal Street. Some of the locks in Manchester were flooded really bad and taken a good time to empty them. We got he first 19 done from Hyde to Piccadilly in the first day then Sunday got from Piccadilly to Boothstown in good time. It didnt start of to well as when as when we did the prep of the Friday night the engine would not start at all and in the end found it to be air in the fuel lines,and what a pig it is to get out. In the end we came back Saturday with a primer bulb to see if we can help push fuel through which did the trick while cracking the injectors a few times. The engine lift pump has failed i think and not a bad thing as i would like to fit an electric lift/fuel pump. So good weekend to get half way under the circumstances to the Ribble Link which is tidal, we are booked in for the 14th September to get to the Lancaster canal, around a 3hr trip give or take. The 6hrs to the mooring near my other boat. https://youtu.be/M1pYHPImWXI https://youtu.be/0ORmySvrI7s This was a quick blast to see ho it goes full wack. I feel happy as it will cope with ease on the Ribble https://youtu.be/ph_q-3J_8rQ I chained up the leg to give better draught which all went well and level the leg more, i need to sort the pin out yet though as the leg kicks up when in reverse. A few very close bridges, infact my brother was sure the canopy would be ok up to keep us dry from he rain on the first day. That did not last long. And a few locks had a little seepage lol.
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  9. It is very strange how a proportion of posters (and Dan) simply don't get how the presence of offensive/libellous posts on a site makes some of us not want to be associated with the site in the first place. It has nothing to do with reading the unpleasantness, or not. This is partly why so many of the bright and cheerful people who used to come here, no longer do. The whole place takes on a mean-tempered mood and new visitors look around, read a few of the sour and miserable political posts possibly by accident, decide this place is not for them, and leave.
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  14. Would you like the view from an expert? For background, I spent 10 years as Technical manager of a group developing surface tolerant 2 pack epoxy coatings for BP Chemicals in the 80's and have significant field experience of applying them in difficult environments (ie offshore splash zone etc). I know 2 pack epoxies. I know how they need to be applied. 2 pack epoxy is the best coating for a narrow boat. When applied to the manufacturers specs, the coatings should last 10 years. YES. 10 years and maybe more .......as long as they are applied right. Blacking lasts up to 2 years and can look pretty naff after just a few months. The only saving grace of blacking is that the steel is thick and boats last a long time as there is a lot of steel to corrode away. We bought our boat over 2 years ago and had it blacked after a few months. We've just had it blacked again. Why? It wasnt the cost. This time it was more the convenience of a quick 'in and out'. I think though now having seen how our first blacking survived and now the 2nd one (which was applied by a yard in good weather) is deteriorating...although will be ok for another year or so...... I will go for a two pack in a few years time. It's not urgent to me though. There is lots of steel left. I do not worry at all about my blacking (and I know coatings). Yes, we will switch to 2 pack but my biggest worry is finding a yard that will do it properly. I spent 10 years watching professional coating companies screwing up many many jobs even with paint inspectors monitoring the work. Temperature/moisture when applying is very difficult in the UK and the source of many problems. Last year there was an enquiry on here by someone who had a soft coating after their 2 packing and I organised some 3rd party testing of the coating in a UK based lab to check state of cure etc. The results clearly showed something had gone wrong in the application. An expensive mistake. It really does make me worry about finding a yard I can be convinced with who really knows what they are doing and don't cut corners which is the main cause of problems.
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  15. So I decided to go off for a couple of weeks, first week on my own second with Jayne, so I had to be near a train station for Jayne to catch up with me. Friday night we went to Kilnhurst to empty moorings a couple of miles and 3 locks down river, it was easily achieved but disappointed to find the ship inn was closed when we got there so we had a carry on curry instead . Saturday we got up to heavy rain all day! Sunday more of the same, Jayne caught bus back to moorings then drove home, Monday some sun so went down to Pastures [its all canal to there] arrived at Mexborough low lock to empty moorings find river well into the red and Sprotborough lock [next lock down] was closed, had a chat with Stuart a lockie and was told it will be in the red for a couple of days. Wednesday water just in red so left it until 1 o clock and went with another boat, made the run to Doncaster in heavy rain all the way, just as I tied up to empty moorings a full scale thunderstorm erupted for 2 and a half hours!!! Thursday some sun so drive batteries were recharging from the solar, I decided that I would wait there for Jayne on Friday evening. Friday, sunny hooray late afternoon Jayne arrived and we went to Barnby Dun to empty moorings, had a very good Chinese carry on . Saturday set off late morning reasonably sunny day arrived at Thorne over 3 hours later and moored up with ease [this place is normally packed] Sunday day off Sister and Brother in law came for a BBQ. Monday set off late for Bramwith lock nice mooring with walks at the end Tuesday late set off after a longish walk with dogs, arrived in Doncaster to empty moorings late afternoon and went for a pint or two and a spot of dinner Wednesday Jayne went into Donny for her eyebrows to be plucked and just missed a drunk/druggie kill a 78 year old lady with his Range Rover sport and then drive off " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png"> he was caught and is in deep dodah!!! we decided to go to Sprotborough and go for a good curry at the top of the hill, moorings nearly empty again!! Thursday back to the pastures very high headwinds all the way! Pastures moorings empty again! Friday we went to Kilnhurst cut end lovely mooring there so we stayed until Sunday had an easy time even though it was incredibly windy all the time, only a few boats moving and why they were in 50 MPH winds beats me Sunday swift run back to Rotherham leaving the batteries at 55% charged which is an ideal storage charge. At no point you will notice did we have a problem with range for out sort of cruising at all times the weather was the problem, yes we didnt go as far as we wanted but we didnt want to cruise in the rain very pointless to me as its all about enjoying yourself. Changes to be made, more solar, more batteries, and a better speed controller. The real problem though was the lack of boats boating for me the waterways were dead and the question is why?
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  18. Yes the forum racist/fascist, he has taken over where "naughty fox" left off. There is at least one other of the same ilk!
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  19. Sorry, this is nothing to do with radiators but every time I see the makers name (Elton Moss), i immediately think of a very nice dessert -) haggis
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  20. Yes I know it's a personal choice, but by kowtowing to Daesh gives them validity, at the expense of thousands of years of history. For that reason, I hope the owner never changes it, and he is less likely to do so, if people are educated as to the real meaning of the word, and that it does not belong to the wackadoodles who have purloined it.
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  21. The 'Shroppie Shelf' is not a regular step profile, but varies in the depth below the water, the thickness and the width. Gokart tyres can be useful, as they sink, but they will often fall below the shelf or roll into a gap between a couple of projections. Wheelbarrow wheels (8") work in most places, but are not wide enough for some. They are easy to store though. Car wheels will hold you off the shelf in most places, but are more cumbersome to deal with, and they leave quite a gap between the bank and the side of the boat. My experience? I've moored on the Shroppie for about 26 years and have tried most things. On piling the usual sort of rope fenders are fine, fitted with a variable length rope to adjust for variations, but nine times out of ten if I am on the shelf I use wheelbarrow wheels. The other alternative is knowing where to moor; places to avoid and places that are good moorings. On my mooring, which is on the Shroppie main line but on the offside, I have some very wide tyres which I hang down on chains fixed to a pin buried just behind the concrete edge. You can get plastic wheelbarrow wheels and tyres on eBay quite cheap. Wide tyres can be got from a tyre place who will be pleased to have you take them away as they cost them about a £1 to dispose of (legally). Tyres off a Range Rover Sport or similar should be big enough for your permanent mooring.
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  22. We have seen this boat a few times, and nothing wrong with that name. The fact a group of psychopaths have hijacked the name of a Egyptian god is irrelevant. Personally I would rather our media used the derogatory term Daesh, especially as apparently, the twats it refers too don't like it.
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  23. In situations like this, it is often a case that the seller badly wants the boat to go to someone who will love and appreciate it, rather than a trader or someone just looking to turn a profit. In cases like this being that person is more important than the price it is being sold for. It was a bit like this with my first ever boat. The seller sort of just asked "how much can you afford" and took the figure we said, as I think he liked us.
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  25. I've been considering and from all the comments unless I am keeping the boat another 10 years which I'm not doing 2 pack is not worth it. Before I sell up in 2025 costs would be 2 pak £1600 or 1x Blacking in 2022/3 £650 (2020 blacking is included in repaint) I have better things to spend nearly a grand on .......
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  26. Properly prepared and applied epoxy bitumen does not “chip off” etc. Nor does it abrade easily. We had ours done in 2012 and took it out in 2017 for a look, but unnecessary. Even after many, many locks. Once cleaned up, you couldn’t even see where the waterline was. Also not affected by diesel etc. “Normally” blacked boats seem to spend 1/2 their lives with rusty waterlines. Epoxy blacked ones do not. The blacking pigment can fade though, to a sort of grey or grey brown, although I think this depends on the make. Our hull after 5.5 years, after sanding to put on an extra coat (which wasn’t really necessary).
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  27. Blast, I blinked!
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  29. Rolls off the tongue and "sounds like it means"
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  30. Quite a few posts on this thread mention crew. If you have crew then I don't really understand what the issue is? I bring in a big 30 tonne boat on my own - with varying degrees of success. I think half the problem people have starts because they come in too fast and use too many revs to slow down. Then they are then forced to try to counteract the excessive revs and nine times out of ten they use too many revs to do that bit too, and so it goes on. I come in as slowly as possible and take the boat out of gear before approaching the bank letting it drift for a short time to see what it's doing. Then I go back into gear and apply the minimum revs to get the boat to do what I want it to do. It doesn't always work and occasionally I'll have to give it a blast in one direction or the other. But in most cases using high revs from the start for close quarters handling is unnecessary and just wrong.
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  34. I wrote an Isis for an owner many years ago. After all the flak he got in recent years, it’s now “ Jemima Puddleduck”...
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  38. Especially if the flue doesn't go out through the roof
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  39. I spoke to two different BSS inspectors who said they would fail the boat on the exhaust leak - not so much because the exhaust is leaking, but because the sooty deposits in the weed hatch compartment are liable to catch fire. Yes, I suppose I could clean up the compartment, re-wrap the exhaust and find a none-the-wiser inspector who will hopefully not notice. But as I ought to fix it regardless, I am going to try for that as first prize.
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  40. Of course somebody knows who the owner is, but in these days of Data Protection / G.D.P.R. Regulations a public Forum is not the place to disclose this information. If you are serious about pursuing IRONSIDES then I would recommend using the broker involved as I am sure any questions you have they will relay to the seller - and the seller has probably chosen to sell though a broker so as not to be hassled too much
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  44. You have never boated on the canals in the 1970s if you think the waterways have never been more unreliable or poor condition. It was a high order of magnitude worse then. I don't suppose you remember the collapse of Blissworth tunnel meaning the Grand union was cut in two for a few years in the 1980s? Your statement is not even close to being true.
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  48. I mark mine by tying a narrowboat to them with thick ropes. It really helps to draw attention to the small bits of metal if you have a colourful boat, with obvious decoration on it, left near the path in the wet bit ...
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  49. I get this all the time with my deep-ish drafted boats. It seems intuitively that a skilled boater ought to be able to bring a boat to a stop right up close to the bank and parallel to it, but not in my experience. Like you I find the instant astern is engaged to stop, the prop sends water forwards up both sides of the boat, and on the bank side, into the gap between boat and bank pushing the stern out so it is not possible to get close and parallel to the bank AND stationary at the same time, using the engine. Nowadays if I think of it, I stop the boat parallel to the bank 6 feet out, let the boat start going backwards then engage ahead with full rudder to push the stern into the bank just as the boat comes to a stop again. The bow swings out across the cut but I can now step off the stern onto the bank with centre line and pull the boat in. If that doesn't work, with the bow now pointing across the cut the stern is therefore pointing at the bank so just engaging astern again motors the stern into the bank anyway. Then step off as before. None of this mucking about is necessary when you have crew! All goes to the wall when there is offshore wind....
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