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Let them shoot. Climate change is a natural phenomemen, it happens roughly every 10,000 years. All the driving of electric boats and cars will not stop it. If it kills us all off, which I don't think it will, that cannot be an all bad thing at the moment. I do believe that this just another scam to control what we do and think just like covid. Luckily at my age I don't really care and like a couple of others I live up a mountain and if the water reaches me there wont be anyone left anyway to worry about it. Google C40 and see what they want to do and that is chaired by Kahn, I rest my case.

I was shot at when cruising down the Selby Canal by this yobbo. I saw him walkin up the towpath with an uncovered rifle over his shoulder. It was one of the rare sunny and warm days in Yorkshire so there were lots of parents and children on the towpath. I took a picture of him and he promptly fired his rifle at me. Luckily it missed and pinged off the side of the boat. It was back in BW days and there were actual waterways police back then so I reported the incident with the picture but as far as I am aware nothing was done. I also had rocks thrown at the boat from one of the bridges on the Selby Canal one of which narrowly missed my grandaughter. They ran when they saw my camera so I didn't manage to get any pictures of those scroats.

It wouldn't use inserts if it was copper pipe and assuming that pipe is plastic then as suggested it would be better changing it to copper. But if it stays as plastic then how do you think the olive would crush down to provide a seal if there is nothing to for it to crush too? That is why it would need an insert. Anyway I wont be looking at this thread again because these threads nearly always end as arguments.

I would think you would need inserts if that pipe is plastic otherwise the olive will not crush and the pipe will collapse. Something like this:- https://hgvdirect.co.uk/pack-tube-inserts-8mm-dia-pipe-6mm-id-p-40063.html

I've had both. A 30 foot narrowboat and a grp cruiser. My cruiser was a Shetland and getting into the cockpit was a bit of a trial as the side was high so it meant lifting a leg or two which even at 65 was a tad hard. The narrowboats that I have had was just a step onto the back which 99% of the times was at the mooring or pontoon level. The other problem I found with the shetland was keeping it in straight line especially if there was a bit of wind. It wasn't too bad but I found the narrowboat much easier. A friend of mine had a 56 foot narrowboat (Zuny I think) that had a covered cockpit and wheel steering. I did helm that a few times and it was okay. I have given up boating now as I moved to an area without any near canals.....Ah no it was Zuni, this one....... ooppss that's copyrighted so it's gone.

What does an ethanol fireplace bring to a living space? Any living space can include an open fireplace design now that ethanol fireplaces are widely available and accepted as an effective source of heat. Whether you are building, renovating or renting, you can introduce an open flame appliance at any time. I thought about one of these in the house we have just moved to. We have no chimney and there was a very old gas fire with an external flue which looked ugly. So I had all that ripped out with the idea that one of these flickering ethanol fire things which didn't need a chimney would be a good idea. problem was they gave out very little heat. Okay a lack of heat wasn't particularly a problem as we have central heating but they didn't look good in my opinion so we settled for an electric jobby with a flickering flame effect that was oodles cheaper, didn't need to be installed by some bod with a bit of paper and gave a decent amount of heat when switched on.

When I had this problem on my BMC 1.5 and a friend's BMC it was the O rings. They are fairly easy to change and this is the thread that helped me.

I used closed cell adhesive foam tape on my windows. My frames were screwed in and I had to reseal two windows. They weren't leaking when I got rid of that boat 5 yrears later.

The last boat that I had a couple of years ago had one in that was leaking. I replaced it with the same type of bladder and cover and it was fairly easy. Of course everything was in place so I didn't have to run pipes or connect up pumps or anything. I no longer have that boat but it was all okay when I sold it.

Unfortunately not. It depends on how well they have been looked after. With the best will in the world steel and water do not play well together. Also the effects of electricity on steel hulls has to be factored in. You need to do a lot of research and also realise that most of the things that you need to know about buying a narrowboat will be down to you. You will have to get a survey but that is absolutely no guarantee that the boat you choose is good. Also you must realise that sellers will not point out the bad bits no matter who they are. Good luck, I have bought 3 boats before I stopped using the canals and they were all good. My first one was well over 30 years old. Buyer beware and um caveat empress or what it's called which basically means the same thing.

Those wires are quite tight on that sharpish edge of the engine. My guess is that that blue and black wire chaffed against that edge wearing the insulation until it shorted with the engine. Witout knowing where that black and blue wire goes it's imposible to say for sure that that is what caused the isolator burn out but it could have. I would rejoin the black and blue wire and replace the isolator and then keep an eye on things whilst running the engine or whatever it was you did when it burnt out. If all is well then some protection is required between that loom and the edge of the engine.

They are brilliant pieces of kit. The only idiots are the ones behind, who seem to think a pram hood makes you slow, and can't be bothered to try to pass and then come on a tin pot forum to complain. How stupid is that?

Most, if not all, presenters are total twits.

I bought my first boat when I was 60. I gave it up when I got to 70. I'd had 3 boats in that time. I enjoyed the time I had but a move to South Wales, where I was a long way away from a canal and the roads to the nearest navigable canal were basically cart tracks, made the decision to give up permanently for me. I will admit that my age, 72, did play a significant part in that decision.

Having owned both, 2 narrowboats and a GRP cruiser, I prefered the cruiser although all the disadvantages posted applied. It was nimbler, it was nicer to sit in and drive and the cabin was better although smaller than both my narrowboats. I wasn't a live aboard and I don't think I would have considered living on my cruiser. The cruiser was a lot cheaper to buy than both my narrowboats. As for windy conditions, I had problems with windy conditions with all my boats. If the wind took the cruiser when trying to moor up it was much easier to control than both my narrowboats as it was very much lighter.

Whilst the wording could have been a tad clearer if you think "that makes no sense" then you are part of the problem although you are not alone. I gave up the canals two years ago as I could see then the possible way things were going.

Okay a futile attempt at keeping dirt out.

Maybe the glove fingers are a futile attempt of containing the injector leakoff diesel. Looking at the small part of the drive pulley that can be seen, and it really isn't very clear, but looks like it might be a grooved pulley rather than a V pulley. If it is then the alternator pulley would have to be a grooved pulley as well and that isn't normal on what looks like a Lucas alternator.

I'm pretty sure that all the early 1977 cars I had had AC 127 alternators fitted. They were an Austin 1300, a MK3 Cortina, a 2.2 Rover and a Vauxhall Chevette. I went to Hyundai after those. The last one I bought for my boat with a BMC 1.5 I got from Ebay. That was a couple or three years ago.

Personally, (and don't forget that I have no boat any more nor do I volunteer for CRT any more,) I think that CRT would love to get rid of boaters and that is a view that I have held for a long time. The biggest problem for them is where would the 30 or so thousand livaboards go. Also there are a lot of businesses up and down the canal system that rely soley on the canals and boaters. Whilst I still think that CRT would love to see the canals boatless I cannot see anything happening any time soon nor in the forseeable long term. But what do I know.

I very much doubt that anyone on here is in a position to help. I was a member of the IWA for a while but I didn't see them doing much for boaters. I have owned 3 boats over a period of ten years on the canals and I could see the way the Canal and River trust was and is going IMO. I volunteered for CRT for a period of 12 years on the education side. Because of the way I interpreted the direction CRT were taking, especially with regards to boaters, I decided to leave, I now have no interaction with the Canal and River Trust. In my opinion the Canal and River Trust would love to see the canals devoid of boaters. That isn't very easy for them to implement owing to the number of people living full time in boats and boaters do pay a proportion of CRT's income. But I definetly felt that, for boaters at least, the Canal and River Trust had very little time. There are other boating organisations that might, and I stress might, take up your concerns but IMO CRT just run rough shod over everything to do with boating. Personally I'm glad I'm away from it. I don't often agree with Tracy D'arth, but on this occasion that post is correct.

When I had my first narrowboat, a 30 footer trad stern with a BMC 1.5 engine called Keb, the original engine cover, which was a solid sheet of marine ply, had a lining of what looked to me like a horsehair layer then a layer of lead and then another layer of horsehair, a lead sandwich sort of affair. Anyway the the original engine cover had started to delaminate so I replaced it with a sheet of 18mm buffalo board. I didn't replace the sound deadening until much later but it was amazing how much difference that lead sandwich made. Downside was that it also made the deck board VERY heavy.

I had 12 years in the army during the days when there was no such thing as staybright plastic. Loads and loads of brass to keep shiny every day or a day peeling spuds was the order. I never knew a brasso soaked rag, and we had lots of them, catch fire or damage anything but they did stink a bit. As said put it in a zippy bag if your concerned.

When I looked at a boat a couple or three years ago that had had some overplating done we found burnt wood on fixed furniture items inside the boat where the welding had taken place on the outside. Needless to say we didn't investigate further nor did we buy the boat. So, personally I would remove everything in the area where any welding is going to take place.

I fitted a twin wall flue in my narrowboat. Not because of any regulations, basically there aren't any, although it is wise to kepp any hot bits away from any burny bits. Anyway the reason I fitted a twin wall was because my grandchildren were often on the boat and my stove was next to the steps that led to the cratch. It was very easy to grab the flue when ascending the steps. I could not keep my hand on the flue when It was a single wall cast iron frue and would probably have got burnt had I tried. The twin wall was very cool in comparison and a lot of radiated heat from the single wall cast iron flue was lost when I changed it.