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Interesting comments above (and welcome back Dr B!). I've fairly recently returned to CWDF after really quite a long time away. I don't find it particularly lacking in participants, even allowing for the fact that the political stuff is getting diverted somewhere that I largely dot have to see it - a major improvement in my view. I am discouraged however to see some have retuned who seem to think it more important to make the last derogatory post in a thread than to actually address topics about boats, canals and rivers. But the "noise" is still very much secondary to the genuine, and often very interesting content. Long may it remain so.

But how do you find the cat?

Yarrkshirre if CRT has it's way...

Our lab Rosie And Athena

Surely in Wales they would be Corgie rather then Dinky

This boat has a cat aboard who is well travelled https://oleanna.co.uk/

When we initially did this the conversation we had with our designer( we had help from a boat designer ) at the time was about making a wide beam and so we agreed that we would make this however, looking back we should have stuck with a narrow boat rather than the wide beam size as most canals are more designed for a narrow boat rather than a wide beam I think if and when we do another one it will be more narrowboat etc size

I have always regarded Hollingworth Lake as an inland mini Blackpool! The closest point on the canal is Smithy Bridge.

The Rochdale canal Hear me out. You moor in Littleborough and then its a brisk walk up the road to Hollingworth Lake. There’s a nice walk round the lake with a few “beaches” and “coves”, a Watersports centre for paddleboards/kayaks, a pub called “The Beach” which does food carvery style, and just across the road from the lake are a chippy, cafés, diners and even an amusement arcade with grabbers and penny pushers!! You can probably even get harassed by gulls for your food, just like at the seaside!

If I understand the question correctly then unusually I have to disagree with Eeyore. If the inverter output is not already tied to earth (ie it’s floating), there is no live or neutral. Whichever is connected to earth becomes the neutral, the other one being the live.

Why? It seems informative and has engendered discussion. If he had put a link to a selling website then I could understand, but he has simply put an invitation to ask him more questions and an ordinary email address to allow this. I think it gets fed into a large shredding machine and the results are pelleted for reuse. Definitely much more recyclable than GRP, and arguably recyclable with lower energy inputs than steel/aluminium.

If the OP doesn't already have a petrol outboard then (depending on the charging arrangements) I think the best move would be to remove the engine and replace it with a battery bank, this would at least partly solve the ballast issue and give a much greater range - thus removing the need for a back up petrol outboard. This all assumes the batteries can be charged on board when the boat is not in use.

Not necessarily. Some of them might get sucked away down the wires to a different house. Probably, but you'd have to look really closely to read them....

Today’s Update: Looks like priority has been given to Canal traffic.

15 tonnes of Lithium batteries? It could make quite a good rapid recharge station for passing electric boats. Cover in solar and fill it with batteries. People could plug in for an hour or two to top up their cruising range.

This will be an electric boat I think.

I've encountered bras like that.

Lark in a very unusual place for a narrowboat. @Captain Pegg this is the mark to beat on the Challenge I think! 😀 (only shallow-drafted boats need apply)

How did you climb the lamp posts?

No experience with cats but we have had boating hols with our previous Jack Russel Dennis and we had him with us for our five years of boat ownership. He took to boating like a duck to water (pun intended).

No they don't. "Drift velocity, the average speed at which electrons travel in a conductor when subjected to an electric field, is about 1mm per second. It’s the electromagnetic wave rippling through the electrons that propagates at close to the speed of light. The dimensions of the wire and electrical properties like its inductance affect the exact propagation speed, but usually it will be around 90 per cent of the speed of light – about 270,000 km/s." https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-fast-does-electricity-flow/ Or as https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2014/02/19/what-is-the-speed-of-electricity/ puts it : "Consider this analogy. A long line of people is waiting to enter a restaurant. Each person fidgets nervously about in their spot in line. The person at the end of the line grows impatient and shoves the person in front of him. In turn, when each person in the line receives a shove from the person behind him, he shoves the person in front of him. The shove will therefore be passed along from person to person, forwards through the line. The shove will reach the restaurant doors long before the last person in line personally makes it to the doors. In this analogy, the people represent the electrons, their arms represent the electromagnetic field, and the shove represents a fluctuation or wave in the electromagnetic field. The speed at which each person fidgets represents the individual electron velocity, the speed at which each person individually progresses through the line represents the electron drift velocity, and the speed at which the shove travels through the line represents the signal velocity. Based on this simple analogy, we would expect the signal velocity to be very fast, the individual velocity to be somewhat fast, and the drift velocity to be slow."

This would be ideal. About 130kg apparently. Elevated large solar panel as a shade for the helm. Could be a really nice setup. Basic lead acid say 25kg per 100ah so you could put in 500ah the motor probably uses about 50 amps flat out so 10 hours of range. Nice ! charged up when not in use by the 365w solar panel. Not much good in winter but would probably stay well charged in summer if not used intensively every day.

If you've painted over rust, then that bond is going to fail anyway, unless you have removed all the loose rust and used a product designed for rusty surfaces. At one time hammerite might have been such a product, but it has been reformulated (presumably to reduce VOCs) and I doubt the current version is any good.

Good morning rgreg (and Graham) Thank you so much - that's exactly what I needed to know. It's extremely kind of you to help me out so quickly. Kind regards Chris

France found a different use for Set-Aside land. Almost anywhere you drive you will suddenly come across a roundabout, one with no other roads than the one you are on and fields off to each side. We decided that there must be warehouses full of them, and local départements can use them to decorate roads that otherwise might be a bit boring. Tam

Well yes, blindingly obviously, which was my point. Poking fun at Octopus et al who are allowed tariffs claiming 100% renewable electricity, to which your comment also applies, dunnit!!

Stock-pile. It was all part of the EU plan that each country had to take a minimum number (millions) of road cones each year to keep the road cone manufacturers in business (a bit like the butter mountains and the wine lakes). Being a relatively small landmass our storage areas were soon filled and the only place left to store the road cones was on the roads. Hope that answers your question.

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But 'Black Lives Matter', irrespective of you being a pot or a kettle.

Swiftly slice the stern line with ones sword cane before returning the blade to the walking stick and hobbling off down the towing path like an old codger. Grey beard needed. And a hat. I say! Your line seems to have parted. How wafully shocking.

You have proof of vaccinations so you can go to any practice as long as they have the same vaccines. The rest is cheap you just pay like I do

No you wouldn't. You need to rate the shunt for the maximum current it is going to see, not the battery bank AH capacity. What size inverter do you have? That will be the biggest current draw. Add in extra current for lights, pumps, 12V fridges and the like. Get a shunt in excess of that. A 3000VA inverter, for example, could draw 250A to 300A, or more from the batteries, if it will support short term extra power supply. For most boats, a 500A shunt should suffice.