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  5. I've a feeling this one is just gonna run and run...
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  6. That was very useful. 20 minutes to remove the Webasto, a couple of hours dismantling and cleaning the insides in the kitchen (much of which was spent getting the pipe olive off the rather short stub of fuel pipe which I didn't want to cut as there wouldn't be enough to reassemble) and half an hour to fit. Nice hot water and radiator this morning ?
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  7. Surely there's a decimal point missing there? 7.5 p per mile would be in line with current fuel tax receipts I'd have thought? I reckoned on my old diesel car doing about 10 miles / litre of fuel, so 75p/mile is equivalent to diesel at £7.50 per litre in tax alone
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  11. But the bubbles look really good when the two mix. Really seems like it is doing something even if it is not. N
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  17. My intention was only to find out the correct way to pass anglers. We all have to share limited space, cyclists, walkers, anglers, and boaters (with diverse cruising/mooring patterns). Some of us are more than one of the above. All of us are here by the grace of the British taxpayer and none have the ultimate right to the space so best we live and let live and try to be accommodating. Not sure if that is virtue signalling but I reckon if we all try to get along we will all be happier for it.
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  18. We have a river only licence for our boat - although our current mooring is off line so technically we don't need one. We then buy an Explorer licence for when we venture onto the canals. Typically south of Leicester, west of Shardlow or the Erewash. The other year we used our river licence on the Severn. As we hold a river licence we get a 50% discount on the Explorer one. We find this a very cost effective way of boating. We keep a log of when we use the Explorer licence.
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  19. I buy sealed as it is almost impossible to get to the batteries to top them up so they are never going to be checked. As they are coming up to 7 years old they've not done bad.
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  20. So they are...I live and learn. Again, down to individual manufacturers, I suspect. Personally, I’m tired of the picky pedants, I’m sure that they would have had short shrift long ago....
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  23. The Moselle again. If you are sitting behind in a lock it pays to stay tethered until the wash dies down.
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  26. I have this image in the RCHS Collection as 69295 Bow Hauling near Almond Aqueduct, Union Canal, G C W Wheeler took the photo and the date was 1952.
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  27. Review of 2030. At long last, after more than 5 years of constant fighting leading to 100s of boats being damaged and 1000s of bargees being injure, the last tree within 5 miles of any canal has finally been felled and the wood distributed amongst the few survivors of the 'wood-wars'. As the new ice-age starts we expect to see the 'last-gasp' for the canals as the bargees finally die-off due to being unable to move, cook or even stay warm. The end of an era - "We will remember them".
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  29. The Noctua industrial fans have an MTBF of 150000 hours, which is 17 years running 24h a day -- and the IP67 rated ones are not only completely dust tight but waterproof up to 1m water depth, which should come in handy if your boat sinks... ?
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  32. Just received this reply from CRT, some good news there. We currently anticipate that the repairs will be completed in Spring 2021, unfortunately due to the extensive nature of the works we do not yet have a exact date for completion. When we do have any updates they will be published on the stoppage notice on our website.
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  34. CaRT do have an interest though as their licence income (still non-trivial) would be decimated if the number of boats were reduced to the level of electric boats. Of course, the conspiracy theorists may possible argue that CaRT wants to get rid of boats/boaters anyway!
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  35. When I saw the thread title I wondered if Barnoldswick had become the Bermuda Triangle of the Leeds and Liverpool. ??
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  37. Good question BSP! I have no answer for you, but I would like to add the further complication of not killing the good bacteria and enzymes for those of us not using chemicals. I've never been macerator diving but, like many here, I live with the spectre of it. I'll be reading the flood of wise counsel with interest...
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  39. But how much? Do you turn pump off to allow it to stay in the system and work it's magic before flushing through?
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  41. £2m.....reduce the charity's carbon footprint...... That'll be electric BMW hybrids for the top brass then..
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  47. Thanks for coming on here and commenting. To me I would not have expected that a “cartoon” such as the original photograph on this thread, that does not reflect an actual waterway scene, would have been acceptable. I suspect most others entering would have thought the same and that you would need to submit an actual photograph, not a digital painting which is a mirrored and edited composite of multiple photographs. I would be interested in how the rules for a competition like this are framed, but I was unable to find them, do you have link to them?
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  48. One of the component parts is not a true image of one of your favourite canals, since it is a mirror image. A mirror of the boats might have been acceptable, given that boats are more or less symmetrical (apart from the signwriting). But the house and bridge are not, and presenting them the wrong way round is a misrepresentation. The Southern Stratford was restored to navigation more than 55 years ago. And at that time Balham and Edgeware would have looked very different. Their neglect over recent years is to be regretted (although thankfully they are now on the way up again under new ownership), and I fail to see how planting a recent(ish) picture of them in decay onto a background of a long-reopened canal can relate in any way to the canal's restoration. Using a composite in this way is a charade, and if the rules of the competition allow it, then to my mind the rules should be changed.
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  49. As Seamus Ennis once said (and was pronounced as often saying by his Son) - "I may be wrong but I very much doubt it". ?
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  50. I've never known me to be anything but right, honest! Waterways Journal 10 has an article about boats on the central Scottish waterways, with the caption for the photo I put up suggesting that the location was Provan Hall Colliery on the Monkland Canal. I don't know the Scottish canals well enough to be certain about your photo, but my feeling would be the Union Canal, though my rightness may be suspect in this case.
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