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  7. Ooh, I beg to differ. My favourite photo from the 2019 BCN Challenge: Wednesbury Arm winding hole in the dark on a crap phone camera - I had to show Sue the GPS location tag to get the points!
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  11. it’s pretty obvious when I have tap on, water pisses out of splits in hose and pours proper from joints.
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  15. Watering up at market Drayton at a double point spot with a hire boat on one , enjoying breakfast on the back , and me on the other one.Boat came in , plenty of room,moored and then demands to know how long we had been there and did we know of the 30minute rule .Eh was my response need water not my fault the pressure is so low it's a trickle and takes about an hour to fill . Hire boaters were stunned by his aggressive standing, Me told him to do one !!!! or else .Filled up in 50minutes left grumpy behind .One of those weeks I am bumping heads with all the knob heeds on the shroppie lol
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  16. "Please be advised there is a windblown tree at Bridge 12 on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal, which is blocking navigation. Contractors have been informed and we anticipate they will be on site to remove the obstruction tomorrow. Navigation will remain open, however, wide beams will not be able to pass until the tree has been removed." I'm a bit intrigued as to how a widebeam could get on to the Middlewich Branch, seeing as how all the locks are narrow, and there's one at each end. Still, it's nice that CRT lets them know.
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  18. That's interesting, I still can't help think that even with a properly installed on board It the screen should be connected to the shore earth. It seems to me that a primary to screen fault relies on the shore rcd triping when someone bridges boat to shore and that's fine I suppose. However adding unlikely occurrence to the already unlikely, if someone is in the water and touches the live hull they could receive a dangerous shock, potentially leading to drowning. I think its largely academic/theoretical but I can't see an obvious fault mode where screen to boat earth is preferable to screen to shore. I think the most likely fault is, as you said earlier, insulation breakdown possibly due to overloading/overheating and I can't see it matters much where the screen is connected so long as the appropriate breaker trips.
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  19. It has, but that's mainly because power goes up with speed^3, and in most canals by far the biggest source of the drag is from the narrow/shallow channels, not hull surface drag. I found I can use double the power in return for half the speed on a narrow/shallow canal like the Peak Forest compared to a wide/deep one like the Sheffield and South Yorkshire...
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  21. If they set off late and get to Hopwas on the first evening I would think they were doing unbelievably well! I think you meant Hopwood 😁
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  25. Is that a rule you've made up yourself? I might start doing that for other things... The 15 minute lock rule: Get though in 15 mins otherwise I start opening paddles and gates to force you out of the lock via whichever end is quickest. The 24 hour "I like that visitor mooring too" rule: Move on from that desirable visitor mooring within 24 hours of me seeing it or I set your boat adrift in the night. The 2 minute elsan rule: Get out of my way when I want to use the elsan point or I dump my cassette all over your feet. Do you actually have any right to disconnect someone else's hose just because they've exceeded some arbitrary time frame that you have in your mind? Of course they didn't like it - you have no right to do it.
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  26. The instructions my dad use to give out to hirers when he did handovers at Alvechurch was you could boat whilst the grass was green, once you could no longer see grass as green it was too dark to continue boating.
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  27. So it was definitely your fault then 😁
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  28. It can be the condition of the water and / or where they are kept. One memer on this forum went from 'loads a thickness to amost being a submarine in 18 months. And he is not unique - several other reported similar Nothing to do with quality of the build, nothing to do with lack of maintenance It can just be electrical currents in the water, or it can be microbial corrosion.or a myriad of other problems. Would you like any other little rays of sushine, or do you prefer the fiction of Narrowbaoting as viewed on You Tube ?
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  29. I like your style LadyG, but remember there are some twits out there who like and invite confrontation so be very careful. (I’m sure you’re aware, but still, take care)
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  30. You used to get accompanied to either Tardebigge top lock or Bittell depending which way you were going. There was also a model of a lock to demonstrate the workings if heading towards Brum.
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  35. And that's where most of the drag comes from -- for the water to flow backwards past the hull quite fast, it has to drop in level from bow to stern, this can be several inches as you can see looking at the bank. Which means the ~18ton boat is essentially having to be pushed uphill and that's what takes all the extra energy, not the surface drag which is what weed makes worse but which is low on low-speed canals anyway.
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  36. Thats one helluva coincidence, so was mine!!
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  37. 😀 It is until you discover Kingston Marine in East Cowes, it is a strange place and I recall it is technically a municipal boatyard that generates a profit for the local Council.
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  39. An unused narrow boat will grow weed around the water line. But after a few days boating it is mostly gone, so not something to worry about with a boat that is used. And sometimes you will be inside the boat wandering what the hammering noise is outside. Nothing to worry about, it's just the ducks pecking at the weed on your hull!
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  40. If the OP is hiring and doing the Birmingham mini ring, then they are probably hiring for 4 nights, and whilst there are a good few places he could stop on the way into Birmingham, he will not want to waste one of his 4 nights on the boat doing that and then not stopping in Birmingham and having an even longer day on the second day getting to CdeB. Try to get off early as you can, ie get to the yard early, get you stuff on the boat as soon as they will let you, and make it known that you are ready for the handover, then as long as it does not get dark on you carry on to the centre of Birmingham where there will be a mooring available, even if it is on the main line and you have to bang pins in. At the time of the BCN Challenge it was light at 4am and dark at 10pm, so that would be fine.
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  41. Ask around at Wolverhampton Boat Club and the Hawne Basin moorers. There are possibilities at Autherley, Teddesley and Otherton but I don't know anything about them. There are yards on the Shroppie at the A5 bridge and Norbury too. N
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  42. If the OP wants to add extra metallic coatings to his steel boat, then I would have thought hot zinc spray or the likes of Zinger/Gavlafroid applied to the blasted hull and the over-coated with Epoxy would give better protection for corrosion. That is provided it is compatible with the Epoxy coating. I thought Coppercoat was simply a hard copper antifouling, not corrosion protection, especially as GRP hulls do not need such protection.
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  43. Magic, they require rather hefty transformers.
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  45. Only had mine off 4 times in 45 years, I always use a boat hook from the bank / bridge hole or lock side. The secret is alway watch your wash / engine noises and a occasional chuck back keeps most things where they belong, on the bottom of the canal.
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  46. Another option is to cut a simple hinged hatch in the deck and add drains. The hatch can then be as big as you want. We also have a fully welded plate sealing off the counter so if the weed hatch failed it would not result in water in the boat. Access is very good. It’s a very long way down in our boat but my 13yo daughter can clear the prop (I should add that she volunteered!) Alec
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  47. The longest we have had to wait was an hour. This was because the hire boat had got stuck in the middle of the flash at Winsford and all RCR & their boatyard could suggest was pump out all your water and see if that lightens enough (so they said). Personally I top up at almost every unoccupied water point I come to so never take long.
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  49. You can’t book any mooring in central Birmingham, unless you want to go into the private Sherborne Wharf marina (assuming they have space). But it is nothing to worry about, there are a lot of opportunities for on-line moorings and it’s highly unlikely you won’t find a space somewhere. My preference is on the mainline between old turn junction and St Vincent street bridge, but there are opportunities above Farmer’s bridge top lock/outside the NIA, at the start of the Oozels St loop, and between Gas St basin and the Mailbox, plus a few other spaces. Most of Cambrian Wharf is now permanent moorings although there are a few spaces. Overall, I wouldn’t worry about it and central Birmingham is great by canal. If you turn down Oozels St loop bear in mind that at the far end you can’t turn right due to the angles (unless you have a very short boat) but there is a basin a bit further along towards Wolverhampton, you can turn in the entrance, or you can go round the interesting Icknield port loop.
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