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  1. It will be a few years yet. Based on the picture above, Toyota have still got to develop seats, doors, windows, a roof and all the rest of the car. It won't be a practical solution till they do. That's the trouble with announcing a new technology too early. ? Those batteries look uncomfortable to sit on for long journeys and there doesn't seem to be any way to steer.
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  5. Are you using Paypal? If so then please be aware that I was nearly scammed in this way when I sold a van a few years ago. Hopefully they have tightened up on it by now so that it doesn't happen these days, but it would be prudent to check. If you are not then my experience might at least be useful to any others who are selling a large item this way. I advertised the van on Autotrader and after no interest for a few days, I suddenly had an enquiry by email which quickly turned into a sale. The buyer said he wasn't able to come and look at the van because he was housebound recovering from a serious operation but had seen enough from the photos to decide to buy it, and would arrange for a courier to collect it. There had been just one brief email asking if I would reduce the price, and I was surprised how they readily accepted my reduction of only £100 (on the original price of £8,950. As they were housebound I offered to deliver the van to them if they were within a reasonable distance and asked them whereabouts they lived, and was again surprised when I received no reply. Then the money appeared in my Paypal account, but just as I was about to go ahead I thought something didn't feel quite right. I Googled 'Paypal scams' which did indeed indicate that it was probably a scam. Apparently, the buyer makes up and excuse as to why they cannot collect the item in person, such as being housebound, working abroad, or on the oil rigs etc. You see the money in your paypal account so you let the courier collect the item, and as soon as they are away with it they, contact Paypal to say that it is faulty, or not as advertised so Paypal tell them to return the item (which of course they don't) and they refund them the money. Although the money is showing as being in your account, Paypal won't have released those funds to you until the transaction is complete. So I could have ended up with no van and no money. I emailed the so called buyer saying that I was withdrawing the sale because I believed it was a scam, and it showed it was a scam because I heard nothing back from them. Thank goodness my gut instinct stopped me going ahead.
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  12. No. Bank transfer to a separate account to our day to day account and will then be transferred straight into a different savings account.
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  14. Ive just had to sort a new supplier for my mothers house which meant going through her electrical consumption for the year and out of interest I thought I would compare it with what we have used on the Hook up for the boat as we have been onboard more or less continually since getting back on the mooring in Sept which is unusual as we are usually working away a lot. Turns out its fairly similar for a year 3 Bed House with one occupant 2221 kWh, (Actual reading) Boat with 2 occupants 2777 kWh (Usage is estimated for the year based on reading from Sept-Feb) Boat does have Immersion & a low wattage oil fired rad on for some of the time which does increase usage...House has gas CH...But we are probably going to burn just over a Tonne of solid fuel on the boat this winter. This probably says more about the amount of electrical toys we have aboard than anything else!..we dont have a Microwave or washing machine etc tho. It also proves what Ive always said in that running costs of a live aboard boat arent much different to a house really.
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  15. Well we are six races into the first to seven wins into the Prada cup to decide who the challenger is. Until the second race yesterday things were all going the Italian's way. Team GB Brittania seems neither to like light winds and going round corners, loosing ground each tack and gybe but above very light winds seemed to be able to match the straight line speed of Luna Rosa. They had never led in all the legs of all of the races until last race. Yesterdays second race in slightly more wind, and the right jib choice this time suited Team GB better, and this rewarded them with their first well deserved win, something we all cheered for here, as each GB win prolongs the series. On shore was not without it's controversy either, as a mystery covid case in Auckland ramped up our alert levels, initially two steps to lockdown but by the time racing began now only one step, but this one step has restrictions on gathering sizes, ruling out sailing close into the city hills and severly diminishing the commercial benifits to our hospitality venues severly missing overseas tourists. Team GB sided with a longer break to racing, to after the probable easing of covid level on Monday night, which would have reinstated the cup village commercial buzz, but also to next week's stronger wind forecasts. Luna Rosa understandably wanted to maintain their momentum and insisted the race be sailed in accordance with the previously agreed Covid protocols for our different alert levels. Any way a win for the Brits has re-established the much needed competition in the series. The boats really do impress 40knots in only 10knots of wind, leaving barely a bit of spray but barely a ripple. The races are normally about 12 nautical miles, normally accomplished in under half an hour
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  20. They had a Pandemic Preparation exercise in 2016, and discovered how woefully unprepared we were. I dont think they took much notice of it, as evidenced by the PPE fiasco, along with the Test and Trace fiasco, along with locking down to late and opening up too early, and not closing the borders. It looked like they had actually learned their lessons when they gave the vaccine job to an organisation that knows what it's doing, but then they half heartedly closed the borders almost a year late, allowing people from red listed countries to mix with people not from red listed countries, on planes, and in airports, (I dont know who got that job). So.... What would I have done differently? Pretty much everything, most without hindsight.
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  24. Retrospect? The only people who swore blind there wouldn't be a second or third wave were the government. Everyone else with half a brain and any understanding of viral transmission said endlessly there would be, especially the experts that Gove said we had no need of. Nor would anyone not innately corrupt have given vital jobs (such as track and trace) and huge sums of money to completely untrained people (but political supporters) with no medical knowledge. Nor would most people have spent a fortune setting up huge multibed "Nightingale" hospitals while being told, again endlessly, that there weren't any staff to run them. I'm terribly sorry if you think this is political bias, but it isn't. It's just series of examples of a combination of ignorance, corruption and the refusal to learn or face facts - probably fairly normal British management practice, really. I have no idea whether any other party would have done better, probably not, but that makes no difference to what we got. And that, certainly, wasn't wisdom.
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  26. Surely you don't need to call them, you can check the current status by watching how quickly your phone drifts off downstream
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  27. Nearly 20 years ago, when I was teaching on a Maritime Studies MSc at a college in Piraeus, I taught maritime law to the chief pilot of the Corith Canal!
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  39. I bought this boat from GHBS I look at all brokers including the much maligned Whilton as they also get good boats. I saw this boat after first ringing them and asking what they would accept for it cash the same day. They got back to me within an hour with a bottom price. I went to see it at 11am and paid full money for it at 1120am. A cracking good boat with a few minor points that I saw that needed addressing. The bloke I saw at the brokerage sat in his chair with sunglasses in his hair and should have had a Stetson on and have a horse tied up outside his GF was there a nice girl cant remember their names, this was 2015. Had I not known about boats I would probably have walked away as the cows droppings were all over the place. However I also saw the owner luckily who rocked up. No survey, never have, never will. Snooze and you lose. In 2015 boats were selling well but today is barmy. Looking at some of the prices lately I am not concerned re selling mine whatsoever as it will be very sensibly priced. Change hands
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  40. Boats are indeed selling immediately. I spoke to the broker I use last month re selling mine and he cant get any boats and they all fly out. Like eveyything in life buying a boat is a risk. Snooze and you lose. A buyer in the hand is worth ten maybe buyers. Cash is King.
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  42. having the flu jab reduces the severity of the flu .and over the years in our case its does just that.so in my understanding the covid jab will do much the same thing and more ,yes .im not a . scientist.im just some one who listens to the people who know much more then me .and i do as they tell me .be it the right or wrong way .i will always take the scientist advice .and never the advice of some of the clowns on here stay safe .them that dont want to heed what we are told join the circus
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  43. my main concern is that there is no visible means of retaining the springs and shocks. That will make it doubly uncomfortable to sit on those batteries.
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  49. In a corner of Friesland near Heerenveen, where the waterways had dwindled in status, this 250 tonne capacity vessel suddenly appeared. The single soul who guided it came out of his wheelhouse to scratch with a bit of glasspaper at some miniscule blemish in the paintwork while waiting for the bridge to be opened, a remarkable structure in itself, with tilting overhead wires. I wondered for a time whether to post the top photo on the 'March of the Widebeams' thread to see where it might take us, but decided against.
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