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  1. Or perhaps a case of a new boater who doesn't yet know what can and can't be done or what is worth doing and whats not - nor will they be the first person to need to remove a holding tank (if they do) so hardly reinventing the wheel. Off the top of my head I can think of two YouTube channels where people have posted their narrowboat refits/fit outs; Narrowboat Helen is a channel that shows and older boat being stripped out and refitted, and Narrowboat Zero Gravity is a new boat being fitted out for the first time. The chap from NB Helen is experienced and this is not his first NB project and the couple from NB ZG are new to the whole thing but put a lot of research and work into getting it right which they share on their channel. Both of these YouTube channels will give you a better idea what is going on under the floor and behind the walls. Plus they're just really interesting. Just remember that everybody had to start some where and nobody just instantly knows everything, you will learn what you need to learn as you go along, so please don't be put off by those who might belittle you for not having the knowledge that they took many decades to acquire. There search function in the top right hand side of the site header is very useful. It might be worth considering that a a boat that needs a lot of work done might be cheaper to buy but might work out more expensive in the long run by the time you get the work finished. I'm not sure but from reading your first post you might be muddling up grey water and black water. Black water is you toilet waste and grey water is your sink etc. Welcome to the forum and good luck with your new adventure.
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  2. I can only suggest people follow Tim's link to get an idea just how hard IWA has worked over the past 10 years on route and noise mitigation. There are several significant examples of route changes brought about by tireless and very professional, high calibre intervention and, in more than one instance, this has resulted in actual cost savings to HS2. IWA's volunteer planners have worked incredibly hard to present viable alternatives to alignments that would have blighted a waterway location or compromised a future restoration. To read their submissions is to see true professionalism at work and a dedication to ensuring that our waterways can be enjoyed in the future. I, for one, take my hat off to them and they have my unwavering admiration for all the unpaid hours that they have now devoted to finding viable, alternative routes for HS2 alignments. It has clearly ensured their credibility with HS2 engineers and they are now, justifiably, held in high esteem.
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  3. Clockwork will be the power of the future. Springs can be wound by either Workzone cordless drill from Aldi, or for excercise which folk need very badly with a huge key or a Stanley hand drill. Women can use the Stanley breast drill. Broken springs, pinions and governors ect replacement will be properly described with pictures in your Haynes workshop manual. Cordless drills will be recharged whilst driving along by what is known as ''The bump method'' the cars motion of jogging up and down over potholes and sleeping policemen and women. For fast boost charging of the drill battery one simply drives along bouncing in and out of all the drainholes grids along the kirb, by useing the bump method over the drain holes continuousely with the cordless drill attached in the keyhole you have, in effect as well as clockwork motor also electric to power the wheels. With this cutting edge form of ccccclockwork technology car propulsion with the simple aforesaid winding up aids will ensure that you will always arrive at your destination. A little 3 in 1 oil will need to be applied to the clockwork motion every two milliom miles. This form of lowbrid car will be called ''The Clockbatdrill car'' and will be very cheap. Tesla's and the likes, we s--t em. Bizzard, missmanaging indirector and inventor of the Clockbatdrill lowbrid car company.
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  6. I am a member of both the IWA and NABOI and your comments may ring true to both organisations, although the stock answer might be instead of being a non-member why not join them and help to spread the message.. In IWA we do try to promote what we do at local boating related events but it can sometimes be an uphill struggle getting the massage across. With particular regard to IWA, one thing we have to remember is that without their efforts in earlier times, and the continuing efforts of the Waterways Recovery Group, we may not have such had such valuable asset to play on! Why not look out for your local IWA meetings - we meet once a month for example - where you be able to meet up with like minded people and maybe learn something about what is going on. Howard
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  8. Are you alleginging it is one of those "Schrodinger boats"? A Schrodinger Boat is a boat that is always there when you look at it, but the instant you look away, it goes off cruising. Then when you look back again, you find it returned from it's cruise to the exact same place, facing the same way, the last possible instant before you looked back.
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  9. It was the IWA who brought about the change from HS2's original plans of crossing the Trent & Mersey near Fradley Junction in 3 places to just one place now. They, together with some professional architects, worked out an alternative route which crossed the canal just once instead of the originally planned 3 places and also saved HS2 £55m. Understandably HS2 agreed to it. Another thing the IWA have been working hard on is noise mitigation. HS2 currently are only agreeing to these measures where there are fixed dwellings but the IWA are arguing that boats are dwellings too ,whether they are continuous cruisers, people on holiday, or boaters moored in a more permanent mooring such as a marina or an online one. They are campaigning to have noise mitigation measures put in place wherever to line gets close to a canal/river. They are currently being 'listened to' but how successful they are we will have to wait and see. But whatever the outcome fair play to them for all their efforts. The IWA also do a lot of work reviewing planning applications throughout the country and raise objections to the ones which will have a detrimental affect on the canal environment. They have been quite successful with some of these over the years. Sometimes it may be modifications to plans and other times it's resulted in a complete abandonment of them.
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  13. Sorry but even your Clockbatdrill car has a carbon footprint to manufacture it. Here is a truly zero-carbon car, the only one designed and made so far in the history of mankind: . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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  14. I guess those with 'more experience' actually have little real experience of anchoring. There are very few rivers that flow with the speed and power of the Sea, yet we seem to manage to recover our anchor every time we use it (most days). There is no way I could afford to lose a £1000 anchor every day. You actually use the boat (under power) to recover the anchor, very little manual work involved.
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  16. Nice little video about a day in the life of a fuel boat.
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  21. He is and even as we speak even more wind turbines go up and online
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  23. It means that you have an earth leak on the 230V mains. It must be small or the RCD would have tripped. Turn off the main isolator in the consumer unit. Do the LEDs go out? If not then it’s damp somewhere between the shore power inlet and the consumer unit. If they do go out then it’s an appliance. Turn the isolator back on and disconnect the appliances one by one until you find the culprit. Good luck
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  25. Fazakerly! Who said we have 'chosen' one technology. All technologies are up for grabs. The best one will win. What is certain is that burning carbon rich fossil fuels ie diesel, petrol, fuel oil and coal has to be phased out. EVs are a solution but not the only one. Hydrogen has been around as a fuel since the 80's. That is 40 years. BP/Shell/Exxon all have spent a fortune trying to get it to work. I know the resistance of the fossil fuel industry was huge but if Hydrogen had been good enough then the big oil majors would have pushed it. The fact is it wasnt as there has not been a good enough way to store it and supply it. I think we will have to wait for a better technological breakthrough to succeed EVs. Battery technology will improve exponentially now. If anyone can think of an economic way of separating oxygen and hydrogen from water then please let me know.
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  29. In my case only a couple of decades as I'm not nearly as old as almost everybody else here. With the best will in the world being cynical can quite often come across as belittling to someone who doesn't know you, plus she is asking a question based on the knowledge that she has at this time and is trying to check things out, for some people it's not obvious where or how they should go about checking things out and this seems like the place to do it; it can be difficult to use the search function if you don't know the correct word or as with using "tank" as you keyword it can give you a hell of a lot of threads none of which might actually seem to answer your question. It might be "here we go again" for the older forumites but the new first time posters don't know that or that the reason the forum is being actively unwelcoming to them is because the question they are asking was once asked five years ago so everybody's bored of it now. It would be more helpful and better for the forum's long term sustainability if when people were feeling cynical they politely advised the new member where they could find the material needed to do the research rather than making snide, condescending comments about the fact that the OP comes from London. None of this was aimed at you personally or specifically BR even though I quoted you. Back to @Alice And The WonderCat if you are still looking for YouTube videos then try searching for the "Minimal List" they had to remove their black water tank and they posted a couple of videos and did a blog post, and then on composting toilets "The Narrowboat Experience" have one and they love it and have posted quite a few videos about their experience, and then the "London Boat Girl" she had one and decided it wasn't for her so she doesn't have one anymore but she did a couple of good, honest vlogs about her pros and cons, she is definitely not a hater of them but it wasn't for her and she explains why, making some fair points. https://www.minimallist.co.uk/2018/06/removing-our-black-water-tank-and.html https://narrowboatexperience.com London Boat Girl doesn't have a blog but can be found on YT and Facebook.
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  30. I can recommend Pat Tierney, who is based (on a boat) on the Brandon Ouse. I can send you a personal message with his contact details if you are interested.
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  32. You can tell if it’s one of those...it has an NBTA sticker in the window.....
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  34. Bob mike doesn't want to change his life he is happy to destroy the world making excuses that nothing works other than petrol and diesel! You could imagine him with his horse and boat saying that these new fangled steam engines in boats will never work...............???
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  41. But you didn't remove the water tank when you fitted your rubber bag. The OP said she wanted to remove the water tank which isn't possible with an integral tank. But I agree that a liner may be the solution she's looking for. Quite possibly. One can have all sorts of interesting ideas about what one wants to do when buying a boat. The reality of owning a boat can be quite different.
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  42. The monitoring systems have not picked up on this but this could be because it seems to be sporadic and not affecting all users. The logs on the server do not provide any explanation either though I'm aware our hosting provider has had some issues in the past week which may have affected our firewall but presents no security risk. Please let me know if anyone encounters this issue again after 18:00 today and I will investigate further though due to commitments outside of Canal World it may take me longer to get to it. Due to this, I will be standing down from my voluntary role here shortly but will be around until someone else is recruited.
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  47. About five years ago we built a 70’ Northwich shaped working boat which ended up in Ian Rothen’s fleet as a crane boat under the name Hebe ( I think ). It was built for a private customer as a carrying boat, but never was used as such, and whilst still not a carrying boat in the conventional sense it is out doing a job of work. I haven’t and recent photos though Steve
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  48. I didn’t realise that I had changed my name to Barry Morsde
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  49. A bit like boats today with the roofs covered in flowers and junk, They peep around the sides
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  50. ???? Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini was released in 1960 by Brian Hyland. The only novelty record by Andrew Lloyd Webber that I’m aware of is Tetris:
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