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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery. Micawber

It was a dark and stormy night in Limehouse (aka Bulbourne) . . There was quite a collection of historic boats for the filming which was supposed to be set in Limehouse. Owl, Hampton, Hood, Jaguar, Northolt and Holland were called upon to add background verisimilitude.

No I nicked a sink plunger !!!

The flue brushes that candlers sell are a waste of time, they fall apart and don't scrape the tar off the flue. I have a six foot length of 15mm plastic water pipe through the end of which I have partially driven sideways twelve 2" stainless wood screws. This scrapes the flue really well and doesn't wear out. It is also easier to stow. For wider chimneys, use longer screws!

That is the refrigerant gas, not the bottle gas used for cooking etc.

Please tell us.........we would love to know, Just how many of you are related to Heath Robinson?

The Willeymoor is a special place for me. Properly family owned and run, different generations on duty most nights and a nice atmosphere and cosy. All the eccentricities that go with that. Beer is generally excellent, multiple real ales well kept, more so in summer. Food is pub rather than gastro pub but fairly priced and welcomed after a day on the canal. There aren’t many places left like this.

Yes, lot of nice places around there.Apparently Einstein spent some time just outside cromer too. Dunno if he was there for the crabbing though. He did like boats though, and probably would have approved of this: https://myelectricsparks.com/yamaha-introduces-worlds-first-hydrogen-powered-outboard-engine-miami-boat-show/ BTW The PLA is looking for a deputy harbour master. I heard you might be looking for a job, so have put your name forward.

Yeah of course running internet/ WiFi you have to have a sim and there’s a monthly fee attached to that. with the aerial your watching Tv on a big screen and not say just a phone to stream. You may not have a Facebook account or do social media aerial may not be to good so you have the satellite system for your tv needs. you could write up a list of pro’s and con’s for each Aerial Satellite and Internet

Thanks truckcab79

Gas leak, jesus it's electric get a life

Sitting about in the boat in oold weather can bring on cold feet. Electric slippers are the thing to have. USB powered. about £16 on ebay or Amazon. As depicted.

Yeah, I think that’s Lime Kiln Lock we can see. The one I remember on the Cheshire flight is at the bottom of one of the locks at the lock mouth (and not on a bridge)

If it's stiff enough to break up clinker - does it also retain its original use ?

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Not bad, I've read worse. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/feb/17/after-five-years-on-a-narrowboat-ive-finally-reached-the-end-of-the-canal-network-lancaster-canal

It would seem logical to have a skin fitting on each side in the same location. Must say I do like the raised hopper solution put forward by @Peugeot 106 For the bucket and 3rd pump setup the idea would be to have a second separate float switch higher up than the pump wired to the pump manual control wires via a relay. So if the float on the pump itself failed then the second float would sort it out. Wire a third float switch to a flashing warning LED somewhere indoors to give notice if the bilge pump float fails. OR sort it out so that water does not enter the bilges. Maybe tricky if it was a wooden Boat. A bit odd that the bilge areas to the sides do not communicate with the bilge area beneath the stern gland. Obviously this is a rain ingress story.

We ate there last summer, and has been said, they standard pub meals at a standard price. With limited moorings, and in the middle of nowhere, they don't exactly have a large catchment for clientele. On many canals, there is little 'fine dining' for the same reasons, and a lot of boaters aren't exactly big spenders, but like to occupy the convenient moorings. Since Covid, there has been a big change in catering outlets, and the fabled'cost of living crisis' hasn't helped.

Because of what gabble wrote. There must be a reason why a pub with longstanding good reviews had what may have been one bad day.

Blizzard is on to something here. Heated clothing ought to be more efficient / cheaper than heating the whole boat or house). And it would work on deck too.

Clearly my humour detecting senses are conditioned to go into sleep mode when I log on to this site.

To keep it simple: Lead acid batteries. Tried and tested solution, relatively cheap. Use a VSR to link the systems if you have one alternator; with twin alternators the systems can be completely separate, although a VSR would enable one solar setup/generator/mains charger to keep both batteries topped up. If you don't keep on top of the charging routine you can wreck LA batteries very quickly. Lithium batteries. As far as I am aware there are no (affordable) lithium batteries capable of starting a diesel engine, so you need a lead acid starter battery. Domestic lithium bank can be charged from dedicated alternator, but you very quickly get into complex and expensive kit to do the job properly. £6k installation cost has been quoted here previously. Hybrid system where the alternator is connected to the LA starter battery which in turn charges the lithium domestic battery can vary from simple DIY lashups to more complex and expensive electronic charging (B2B) systems. Note that the DIY lashups contravene battery manufacturers' advice and emerging technical standards, and may render you uninsured. Doing it by the book will be significantly more expensive. If you have the mindset and the technical understanding you can implement your own solution, as some on here have done, but don't expect it to be cheap and simple.

I'm sure you're as aware as everyone else of the difficulties many pubs have had in the last few years with falling customer levels and difficulty getting/keeping staff, or at least you would be if you talked to them -- and the Willeymoor is no exception, it's a family-run pub in the middle of nowhere, and like many others isn't going to keep the kitchen (or the bar!) open with no custom. We visited twice, both midweek, and were made to feel very welcome both times in spite of there being few other customers. But then we turned up relatively early both times, having also phoned ahead to check when they were doing food, and ate and drank there until closing time, so I expect they were glad of the custom -- they did say they were much busier on Friday/Saturday. All the staff were family, they'd lost all the rest during Covid and couldn't find/afford replacements -- and we had a good old natter with them about this and many other things, it made for a convivial -- if quiet! -- evening. So maybe you were unlucky, or maybe the way you talked to the staff lead to the cool reception -- I don't know, I wan't there. But leaving the equivalent of a one-star review without explaining the details on a canal forum frequented by lots of boaters -- who form a large part of the pub's custom -- seems a trifle unfair, unless you actively *want* to help put them out of business... 😞 We went twice because though it was almost empty the food and beer were good and the staff were friendly, which is all I look for in a pub... 😉 Or you could try the pub and report back, since there have been both good and less good reports about it. If it's good then it deserves supporting. If it's not then it'll go to the wall -- but people not going will make this happen... What day were you there? Midweek the place is empty, but we were told it was busy at weekends...

The best bilge pump is a desperate man and a bucket.

That’s a good point about mooring within the Tardebigge flight. The pound @agg221 is referring to is probably the one on the bend which is between locks 33 and 34 so five locks up the flight. I’ve moored there at least twice before and also once further up the flight near the lock cottage with the radio aerials and big dogs. There are other places suitable for mooring too, such as beneath the reservoir near lock 50. If you do end up mooring within the flight make sure there is plenty of water in the pound, check the gates and paddles are fully closed on the lock below and observe the water level when you arrive and perhaps every hour or two before you go to bed.

You started the ad hominem attack, but of course when you do it, it doesn’t count. In your head. As I said at the outset, under normal circumstances the stray found current would not be problematic for heating/damage/fire risk. However in the event of a poor or bad connection it could be significant. And of course you would only be one human error away from disaster - someone decides to disconnect the battery negative and then you are left with the thin wires and PCB tracks to pass the entire system current. It is fundamentally bad design to create that sort of alternative current path gotcha. Same applies to alternative current paths created eg by a radio aerial earth connected to hull. It is probably not going to be an issue due to the differing current path resistances, but it could be under unusual circumstances. And while I think of it, I had similar thoughts on the CANBUS interface. In the end I had 2 pads on the PCB, CANBUS ground and system ground. Because CANBUS is a differential system I decided that most likely it would not be necessary to connect the 2 grounds together and this has shown to be correct, so another alternative current path was eliminated. A good design engineer thinks about these things and tries to eliminate these sort of issues that lie only just below the surface of a correctly functioning and correctly operated system.

Looking fantastic. Coming on really nicely. As does the Series. Here’s mine. Series 3. Left the factory as a truckcab like yours but now looks rather different and with a V8 sat in my workshop waiting for me to have time to swap it in. I only finished building the engine about 5 years ago and still haven’t got round to it. 🙄 Keep up the good work 👍