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  4. But do boat movers want to grow their business or are they content working alone, not employing anyone, doing a job they enjoy and making enough money to suit their life style. https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/
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  6. That may be what the manual or towpath expert tells you but insufficient battery cable size is only one cause of a low voltage warning. Note the word CAUSE, that is not the same as the actual fault. Base don you having to fiddle with the red switch my first suspicion, knowing the "red key" masters witches are known to be unreliable is that the switch has gone resistive, causing volt drop when a high load is applied to it. This assumes it is some indication of low voltage. I would suggest that you put both cables on the master switch onto one stud. If the noise goes away it shows the switch is a problem.
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  18. I am sure that many people are happy to price their work in a way that gives them an acceptable income rather than looking to maximise it. There is a lot of non-monitory value being your own boss with no manages to mess you about and take the mick. Likewise, being in a position to do a job you are happy to own rather than meet the demands of a company and its organization. Not everyone wants to build an empire or grab as much money as they can, being cintent is, I think, far more important.
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  20. I had a 22 year period of shared ownership, until I retired and bought my own boat. Overall it is an excellent way to see the system and learn about boats and canalling. I still have several friends who were previously co-owners. As others have said, it is the other co-owners who make or break the scheme Three things I found useful. Agree a voting system of say two thirds of owners to.agree a change rather than a simple majority. Some people don't like being put under pressure to make a decision, which often happens on a close vote. Appoint a strong chairperson to keep the annual owners meeting on track, unless you really do want to spend hours discussing curtains. Get one co-owner to act as a "clerk of works", who.will check the quality of the winter works and sign the work off. Boatyards are very variable when it comes to what they consider acceptable standards of work.
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  21. I would suggest you look to replace the red switch quite soon
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  27. How many mushroom vents, chimneys, windows, potholes, plank racks etc etc etc have you, where they are screwed in....and dont leak. Do it properly, it wont leak.
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  29. I would add that on the present info air/gas in the top of the skin tank is the most likely cause but work through the list I posted hours ago.
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  34. If you are not using spray foam insulation you need to add a layer between the insulation and the plywood, to form a continuous vapour proof barrier. This stops the warm, moisture laden, air from the inside of the boat getting to the cold outside steel and condensing. It will get through the smallest gap, so be conscientious. If you use kingspan type insulation, then tape every join between two pieces of insulation using aluminium tape. If using polystyrene sheets, cover them with builders plastic membrane, taping the joins as above. Beware of the effects of PVC cable insulation on polystyrene foam sheet. The plasticiser in the cable sheath can eat into the foam and the cable becomes much less flexible, but sits in a groove in the polystyrene. Spray foam in tins (from builders merchants, screwfix, toolstation etc.) is very useful for filling small holes and gaps at joins. The gun grades are easiest to use. N
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  36. The bubbling you hear is probably just the coolant boiling. Remember NEVER put cold water into an engine that has just overheated. Doing so may distort the head or bock or even crack one of them. 1. Check the drive (fan) belt is in good condition and tight. 2. follow the large diameter pipe/hose running from the top of the engine, it should lead you to the skin tank., either on the swim side or possibly on the bottom of the boat. In the case of the latter it is likely to self bleed. The former, in the majority of cases will not so look along the top and along the top of the inside face of the tank to locate the bleed scare or plug. Loosen it or take it out while you watch it and top up the header tank. I expect that you will find a fair bit of air or gas comes out before the coolant. Refill the header tank and run the engine, manipulating the large hoses where they might trap air. I would do this with the filler cap off. When you see movement in the header tank stop the engine and vent the skin tank again. If that does not solve the problem follow below. 3. look down the front of the engine below the water pump pulley. If you see rusty or antifreeze coloured stains or signs of coolant drips the water pump is leaking, but this is far less common. With the fan belt slack try to lift the pulley up and down. You should have no movement so if you do the pump is worn so will soon leak. 4. When an engine overheats the modern waxstat type thermostats can vent wax so they open at a higher temperature so if there has been no problem found so far take the thermostat out and replace or test it with a thermometer in a pan of water on the gas. There is a temperature stamped on either the flange or the bottom of the wax capsule. That's the temperature at which it should START to open.
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  38. Our boat has had a share up for sale for several months now. In previous years, shares have been bought up in a matter of days or weeks. I wonder if it’s the case that now folk are able to holiday abroad, holiday boating is cooling off somewhat? I was on board a couple of weeks ago and the hire base where we stay had quite a few boats still at the base. Back in June, all of their boats were out. I think it sometimes depends on how many weeks are left in the year for a share to sell quickly, or not.
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  39. That would be "Mac off of Cygnet" round here 😁
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  40. Unfortunately, to a lot of people this has the same meaning!
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  41. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board handed over the redundant South Docks to the Merseyside Development Corporation back in the 80s. MDC was eventually abolished and its assets transferred to English Partnerships, who IIRC became part of the Commission for the New Towns and then the Homes and Communities Agency. The docks were transferred to BW at the time they were building the Liverpool Link. Hence CRT has inherited the original dock company liability for the river walls.
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  43. The master copy of your emails should be sitting on a google server somewhere. Log on to https://mail.google.com/mail/ using any web browser. Put in your email address and password. The app on your Ipad (and indeed many other devices) should synchronise with this. You can access other Google functionality by clicking on this icon. For example I set my phone to save all the contact details (phone numbers mainly) on Google. This gives an automatic backup, for example if I were to drop my phone in the cut,
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