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  5. A week is a short time, so I'd have to prioritise the most important things only. Day 1. Get out my crayons and design a new logo for the trust to replace the sinking tyre one. Day 2. Educate signal crayfish to share the space with white clawed crayfish. Day 3. Improve the customer experience when contacting CaRT by recording new on-hold music on my Hammond organ. Day 4. Get the volunteers out with core drills to make water vole palaces in the canal banks. Day 5. CaRT love signs, yet so many cannot be seen at night, leading to a loss of well being for our visitors. Initiate a priority 1 program to install lights to illuminate all blue signs after dark. Well that was exhausting. A well deserved weekend coming up. Jen 😀
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  8. Easy, focus on canals, navigation, boats, wildlife and history like wot you should, forget about wellbeens and cycle racing. "there are 1000's of miles of roads for cycle racing, but only one canal system, and that was built for boats, look after it" Watching a boat going through a lock makes people feel well, jumping out of the way of an abusive cyclist does not.
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  13. Dish washers tend to mean you need more dishes unless you want to put the dishwasher on after every meal. On a boat this means you not only have to have space for the dishwasher , which a you say could have given you more storage space, but you also need more space for more dishes. A dishwasher on board would be well down my list of priorities Haggis
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  14. A good general rule is never use electricity to produce heat if t is supplied from a battery, and that includes heating water in a washing machine or dishwasher. It is different if you have an adequate generator on board but then you run into CaRT's 8pm to 8am ban or running engine unless moving. I would put a washing machine I could hot fill from the boat's domestic water supply before a dishwasher for live-a-boards. Anyway, judging from my experience you already have a suitable model called a husband.
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  15. The number one priority for whomever is in charge is to secure continued public funding from Government after the current grant agreement expires in 2027. Without it the waterways are doomed. Conc entrating on boaters requirements only will simply not do that.
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  16. I'd change all the new signs to black and white, and replace all the nasty stainless steel water tap bollard things with proper, historically appropriate black-painted cast iron jobbies again. After dredging all the canals to 5ft again, obviously.
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  17. This was clear when we moored up yesterday, you can just see langrick which is about 3.1/2 kilometres from here , second picture is after 4 hours with 2 weed cutters , doing a very good job
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  18. Is that not primarily a 'murican accessory ? Not many bears need cooling on the UK canal system.
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  19. I did the antifoul on my 33ft cruiser myself two years ago - wet sanded, barrier coat , antifoul for about £150 for paint and materials plus the lift out and back at about £300. It was the first time it had been antifouled in 5 years and only really needed it for cosmetic reasons. I have lift out every two years to service outdrives which you would not need with an outboard engine. Based on the Trent at Farndon. The boat is due for a lift out this winter but hope no more than a jet wash is required . The waterline usually needs a clean as there tends to be a limescale build up. There is no real need to let GRP hulls dry out every couple of years - its a myth. I do my own inboard engine servicing which saves a fortune . I think the expert was pulling your leg Should be able to find a boat almost like new at that age
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  20. There might one in the Andromeda galaxy, if you're passing through, but this one's fairly good.
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  21. It must make boating an ordeal. Apart from the boat handling issues, pissing off everyone you encounter has to suck what little joy is left right out of your heart. Why would anyone subject themselves to it?
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  23. It's worse than that. 3kw will draw 300 Ah, but the inverter inefficiency means it will draw up to 400 Ah from the battery. That in turn will require up to 520 Ah to be put back into lead acid batteries. This is the stage that you start to look very seriously lithium batteries. Also look at the options for mounting rotary clotheslines on narrowboats. By and large, twin tubes tend to spin the content dryer than a front loader.
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  25. What do you expect I'm a monkey
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  26. We had a shared boat which was fitted with a dishwasher which was supposed to be a great plus point for all the owners. Out of 12 owners, only one actually used it- the rest used it for extra storage - and as soon as we could we got rid of it. To a slightly lesser extent the same thing also happened with the electric bread bin, (otherwise known as the microwave!). On the other hand, I would definitely vote for a washing machine . Howard
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  27. Dishwashers are mostly a pointless waste of time and water whether on a boat or in a house. The time it takes to properly load and stack a dishwasher, having first rinsed all the big bits off, is about the same as the time it takes to just wash things in a sink. And then you're waiting another hour or more for the dishwasher cycle. For one or two people on a boat, the daily washing up is likely to take around 10 minutes. 15 if you've cooked something complicated. Maybe for very large households there's a place for them but on a boat it's a non-starter. I think some boat fitters put them in to market the vessel as a premium build.
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  28. First item to be dispensed with in 2000 on our boat was a dishwasher. The question how do you run it was answered by ‘well you have to have the engine running’ . The second question was do you want it or shall I skip it.
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  29. Pinned or pin less are the two ways of attaching the blade to the machine. With a pinned blade similar to a hacksaw blade you would need to pilot drill a hole a bit bigger for clearance so the small pin can go through the piece of wood. If you are just doing outside cuts then this would not be a problem. If you are wanting to do fine interior cuts you can drill much smaller holes to take the pin less blade. I am sure there are better explanations on the web.😃
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  31. I have a Hegner scroll saw and they are a fantastic tool to have. I got mine secondhand a few years ago and it was built in 1998 and had little use. They are very expensive, but if you can find a secondhand one going cheap then you should snap it up. If you do buy a scroll saw make sure it takes pin less blades. Scroll sawing is a great hobby. 👍🏻
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  32. Be careful what you wish for! There are potentially far more walkers, cyclists, anglers and the rest out there than boaters, who might well vote to spend more money on towpaths, interpretation boards and wellbeing stuff, and less on all that expensive dredging, lock gate repairs, paddle maintenance....
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  33. Not quite true - there is a product called copper coat that has been shown to last in excess of 20 years. There are several 'long life' products for use on GRP boats, which very few inland waterways boaters bother to investigate or use. Sailing yacht ‘Zest’ Berth Swanwick Marina, Hampshire Treated with Coppercoat™ July 1993 These pictures show Zest as lifted in July 2005, after 12 years afloat. After the usual 15 minutes pressure wash and inspection Zest was ready for relaunch. ‘Zest’ is kept afloat 365 days a year and has not been re-anti-fouled since first treated in 1993. What Is Coppercoat – Coppercoat Antifoul No you do not - I lift mine out every 4 or 5 years to be jet washed, and then dropped back in. It is unfortunate that ill informed rumours from non-GRP boaters, become circulated on the internet and eventually become 'gospel'. Badly maintained, 'beaten up' hulls with damage, or poorly made hulls, can need drying out as part of osmosis treatment, but this is not the norm.
    2 points
  34. Fro the days when wire cable was used for making fast. Terrible stuff, and dangerous. I inherited some when I bought the Secunda You had to wear gloves, and check regularly for strands that might have parted. Artificial fibre ropes took over, to the relief of all concerned.
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  35. They were loading that lot up on the vans Thursday afternoon when i used the services at Grendon, nice to see a quick fix, but is it another plaster applied? Lock 17 on the T&M has a ratchet strap wrapped it to keep it together, been like it for three months, lock 14 on the T&M is leaking badly from the top gate, you can see why when you open the top paddles, boats get pulled in that fast you cant stop so hit the gate, unless of course you open the paddles one click at a time. Maybe instead of signs telling everyone apart from boaters that its great by water, they could put some simple signs up at certain locks telling people the way the lock reacts, its ok if you have been through it before, but for first timers its always difficult to judge a lock.
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  36. I'll bet a lot of folk in Dudley were wondering why their garage doors had just opened themselves
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  37. I know it may seem like a daft suggestion but here goes anyway ... ever thought about using ear defenders when cruising? At least your hearing will be protected, and you can get wireless/bluetooth ones so you can listen to the radio or whatever too ... much cheaper than a new engine
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  41. Readily available on Amazon - where else ? The choice of several :
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  46. Offer all the Friends Recruiters alternative employment as Lengthsmen and assistants; see how many stay. Withdraw funding from cycle path towpath improvements unless the local councils want to provide it, along with the provision of steps and handrails for pedestrians. use the money for dredging and mooring stabilisation.
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  47. Ok, another massive debate subject. To what depth should the canals be dredged (were money to be no object), in order to keep them historically accurate? The tops of the vintage/historic concrete pilings on bits of the cut around Braunston have the legend "Dredge to 5' 6"" cast into them.
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