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Takes a very long time to screw in, judging by how much the grass has grown between the before and after picture. ? Jen

Wasn't me. I havent got a shovel.

Not according to the Urban Dictionary .... ?

The Thames Conservancy Act 1932, in relation to moorings in the Thames belonging to the navigation authority, (and no subsequent Thames legislation or byelaw has over-ridden this) states that "No charge shall be made for vessels tied up or moored at night or for a reasonable time when not at work unless the traffic of the Thames is thereby impeded." No specific time limit is stated. It was this clause, when the EA was reminded of it, that stopped their nonsense about having to register arrival at a mooring or be subject to penalties. There is no legislation that permits that.

Obvious really : The steerer was on the 'steering board' side and could only see down that side of the boat, so green was used to show other boats that they could be seen. The 'other side' light was Red as a warning to other boats that they couldn't be seen.

I'm not sure reference to the colregs is very relevant unless you're going for full compliance. Just install some nav lights to make to boat visible at night so that other boaters know which way you're heading.

The 'steerboard' was deployed on the right hand side as most sailors were right handed. As Alan said, the steerboards would clash if boats passed on the left. We drive on the left as most soldiers were right handed and needed that hand free whist riding a horse to use a sword. Goes back to roman times.

I like the Coventry. It’s relatively straight, wide and deep and has some decent stretches free of moored boats so overall it makes for pretty good cruising in my experience. Unremarkable it might be but large parts of it are pleasant enough and the mix of town and country is what canals are about for me. One can’t exist without the other. JP

Why don’t people run a 6 volt pump and six volt lights off their 12 volt batteries. Everything would last twice as long saving generators being on all the time. Also why can’t I run storage heaters off my solar panels. After all solar panels work off the sun what is hot.

4. Oops! This is the problem with not reading the power label on the back of the machine, usually near where the wire comes in ... 5, 6, 7. That's about what we would expect to see on a 2300W machine. If you use 10V as a rule of thumb to allow for inefficiencies in the inverter, you would expect to see 230A which is close enough to what you measured. Testing on a 90 degree wash won't draw a higher current, it will just hold it at the 200+ Amps level for a lot longer. It's a good test of your batteries as it will draw a lot of power from them for quite a while, and you will see what bad things happens to your cell voltages.

Then you'll never be bored whilst owning a boat. I'm sure you have heard the meaning of boat ? Bring Out Another Thousand £

Looks rather like Sharpness https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/246/sharpness

Thanks Alan. I think the Dutch oven will fit the bill if I insert a suitable sized wire cake rack inside to keep food from burning on the bottom of it. I need to heat ready meals,lasagne,ribs in sauce etc.to make a change from my usual boat diet of bacon sandwiches and corned beef and beans.

And an indication of national characteristics. We had a guy do some work for us a few years ago who had done street works all over Europe he reckoned that the german pipes and cables were always where the plan said, the English might or might not be and in Spain bore no relationship whatsoever even if there was a plan.

It looks correct, (the same as it was) is the direction on the cover shown as anti-clockwise ?

Looks right to me. The "legs" face in the opposite direction to rotation in use, dragging not pushing.

He deserves it

These work for us and you can connect two together for extra security, they hammer in and screw out (if you will pardon the expression) you do need some sort of cap to minimise damage to the head from the hammering

And the twist on a spiral staircase is designed for right handed swordsmen to defend more effectively

Absobloominglutely!

Full nav lights are a PITA in tunnels as you can't tell if the white light in front is a stern light or a boat with just a tunnel light.

ivan&alice Nowt to do with lithium but regarding washer info, if you put your model number in internet search and then pick Hotpoint site it will show you your machine and then go down to documents and the info is there. Not the element rating, but I used to work for them.

On most canals and narrow rivers you would really only need the port and starboard side lights to face forward to warn boats coming towards you of your position in the dark. On open water its a different matter, boats might be moving in any direction so nav lights need to be fitted correctly with port and starboard lights giving the correct cut off angles coupled with their white bow and stern white lights, so that other boats can tell in pitch blackness almost exactly in which direction you are moving and you the same with them, to prevent colisions.

For railway fans you can moor at Alvecote and walk to the Statfold Barn Railway. It has a large collection of narrow gauge - generally 2ft- locos. Check for opening days before going https://statfoldbarnrailway.co.uk/

Blimey, you are lucky, I've never seen them doing any more than the top two! ?

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My favourite stupid question "what would happen if you opened the gates at both ends at once?" My favourite answer "dunno, try it and see".

I think a point to consider in the event of morse cable failure is that the way in which one moves one's boat is a significant factor. For example, one would hope that when going from forward into astern the boat had already been slowed down to the extent that most of the forward momentum had been dissipated and any impact didn't result in a catastrophic collision. I'm often amazed at the speed that some boaters are going when they decide to slam the gearbox into hard astern. They leave themselves no margin of error and should a cable snap they would be completely fooked! I don't understand why they become so reliant on using high engine revs in forward and astern? Perhaps it's how they drive their cars - hard on the accelerator and hard on the brakes. It might just be the result of single-handing a big boat, or perhaps it's just my innate mechanical sympathy, but when I'm coming to a stop I slow the boat down well in advance and I tend to knock the gearbox into neutral for a few seconds to see what the boat is doing under its own momentum and I avoid slamming the gearbox into astern. I see far too many boaters using far too many revs to get the boat to do what it will do with much gentler persuasion.

Boats pass Port-to-Port (left side to left side) so 'drive on the 'right'. The reason being that ships steering was a big rudder on the side (not at the rear) this was called the "steerboard", (steering oar) later known as 'starboard', if boat were to pass starboard to starboard their steering could be compromised (not enough room) or the steerboards could touch, fare easier to pass Port to Port and have full control. 'Port side' was so called because that is the side they came into port and moored up on, (because the steerboard was in the way on the other side). It goes back centuries :

Here's my view (for what it's worth), as a local (born in Nuneaton and lived about a mile away from the canal for many years) I'd agree that the Coventry Canal is unremarkable -I wouldn't use the words beautiful, exciting or tedious, it's probably an 'averagely pleasant' waterway. It's also got a lot of interesting industrial history along its length, especially at the Coventry end. It's certainly worth boating the length into Coventry Basin. Nuneaton as a town is much nicer than it's usually given credit for - it's worth walking into the centre from Boot Wharf, through the park. And at Hartshill you can walk up to Hartshill Hayes country park which has good views down into the Anker Valley/ north Warwickshire plain. So although maybe it's not a 'destination waterway', there's no need to rush through without stopping !

Mission accomplished! Top half painted (that's the blue, light blue, and white). Leaving the bottom half to see what's under the flaking paint. Hopefully some nice gelcoat. Even cleaned the fenders and put new ropes on them!

The boats isn't the problem. Finding the cash for CRT to build out the charging point certainly is. MP

Take it with you and put the old socket back when you swap boats ...

Give the other face where the gasket sits on the body of the pump a quick clean off too, saves having a leak. Be sure to fit the impeller with its legs dragging not pushing when the pump rotates. Use the lube in the kit. Look what you are learning, you would pay lots to learn all this in college.?

If you have more days you can break the down from Napton at Long Itchington, and make theaproach to Leamington the second night, then it is around 10 locks a day. For the next day you could stop 3 locks up Hatton and reduce the next day to 18 locks. At Lapworth you can stop just before the Boot and take (off the top of my head) 5 locks off Lapworth so the next day will only be 14 locks. You are then on the Birmingham level, so there is just 1 lock to take you to Merry Hill (over 2 or 3 days). Then you have Delph and Stourbridge to do.