Alan de Enfield

And in Autumn a single leaf can block the drain, the bottom of the stairwell then floods to such an extent it overflows the step, and into the cabin, the boat then slowly sinks unless regularly checked. I know because I bought a 'sunk and recovered' 3 year old boat for a pittance that has suffered from the problem. Edited for system glitch of multiple posting of the last post on a page.

As we know, a post 1997 boat SHOULD have a CE marked hull plate to comply with the the RCD. Without it it is non compliant.

I take it you are either trying to make a joke, or have a very poor understanding of mains electical teminology

I think you may be one of the confused, Maybe you are not old enough to have been educated in the avoirdupois system Table of Units Unit Abbreviation As Pounds As Kilos Notes grain gr 1/7000 0.0000648kg As troy grain - introduced by Elizabeth I dram dr 1/256 0.001772kg Defined as 1/16th of an ounce previously known as the "part" ounce oz 1/16 0.0283kg Commonly used in US and UK recipes pound lb 1 0.45359237kg Base unit of avoirdupois system stone st 14 6.35kg Not used in the US customary system quarter qtr 28 12.70kg Equivalent of 2 stone or a quarter of a hundredweight hundredweight cwt 112 50.80kg Defined as 8 stone in the British Imperial system ton t 2240 1016kg Known as the long ton to differentiate from the US short ton Tonne 1000 kg is called a tonne or metric ton, which is approximately 2,204.6 pounds. 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) The ton is a unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg). It is a statute measure in the United Kingdom. Seeing as we are not in America, the 'American' (or 'short) ton at 2000lbs is not relevant

They were very different days. Sticking your thumb out was an accepted way of achieving cheap travel - even the RAF did it - go by any RAF base on a Friday afternoon after they closed down for the weekend and thre would be dozens of then with thier thumbs stuck out

If you had deleted it before I posted I would not have been able to quote it.

Did you read what I writ ?

Not much fun when you purchase a ton of something and find you have been supplied with a tonne and you've been diddled out of 40 lbs of product.

I charge my 19v laptop battery from 12v via a cigarette lighter socket 5 amp = £16 on ebay Edit to add - I also have a 5v USB to 10v or 12v output for chathng batteries. I think it was 99p inc postage from China

Mine was the 850cc 3-cylinder as I found out after having to be towed up a 1:4 hill (Sutton Bank - Yorkshire). On investigating the problem it was found that the distributor was cracked and it was only firing "on 3". It had a 'full life' - I used it to carry the camping gear for our Venture Scout camp - bit exciting as the roof-rails that the roof-rack fitted to were just square section of fibreglass, this was only recognised as a problem when the roof rack came sliding over the bonnet during heavy braking. I rolled it into a ditch after overtaking a car in fairly deep snow late evening on my way back from college, I lost the front wheel in the deep snow in the centre of the road and off we went - I'm sure the car I'd overtaken had a good chuckle as he passed me (no - he didn't stop) I took the passenger seat out and fitted a sort of fold flat deck chair so I could sleep in it at the gliding club. With the 8-track fitted and a small camping stove it was home from home. Its demise started when I was t-boned on the A1. I was proceeding down a slight hill at an impressive 75mph when a car pulled out of a petrol station straight into the pasenger door, which shattered and half the side fell out. His excuse was he thought he had plenty of time as those don't go very fast. I went down to London in it and picked up a hitch-hiker, she was a bit aprehensive about it, and when I pulled into services some time later to top up the water, she said she needed the toilet, and, she never reappeared. O' those were the days !

You are just a youngster. In the very early 70's I was doing my HNC Lec.eng. at college - one day I saw a 3-wheeler reliant at the side of the road with smoke coming out of it, by the time I drew level with it it was a 'real blaze', and by the time I got passed it it had all but burnt away to an engine and gearbox (I believe even the chassis was wood on some of them) Fibreglass burns well ! It must have gone from a wisp of smoke to smoking remains in under a minute. (I did get one shortly afterwards tho.)

WRONG A UK ton is 2400 lbs

It's not as difficult as you may imagine - for example, the engines on the Eurofighter are each held in with one bolt and two clips. you can drop it out onto a trolly in a matter if minutes and then have full 360 degrees access. Wiring is a bit more complex as it has over 5000 metres of cabling.

Boat licensing Commission gives update In January, the Commission which is looking into boat licensing on our canals and rivers, met for the first time. Since then, many of you have shared your views through an engagement survey – thank you to everyone who took part. The 4,678 responses, which include a wide range of comments, is informing the Commission’s ongoing work. The Commission members – Andrew Cowan, a former senior partner at Devonshire's law firm; Penelope Barber, an elected boating representative on our Council; and trustee Sir Chris Kelly, a former senior civil servant and former boat owner – are now having conversations with a wide range of boating organisations, as well as walking the towpaths to gain an understanding of life on the cut and hear boaters’ thoughts. On top of that, they are reviewing a wide range of background, history, and data, and have attended several briefing days where they’ve questioned and challenged the Trust’s ways of thinking and asked for more information so they can continue their research. Given the scale and seriousness of the task, the Commission now expects to make their recommendations to our Board of Trustees in November. Commission chair Andrew Cowan said: “Learning about boating on the canals and hearing the voices of boaters has been fascinating. From the freight-carrying origins, through the near loss of navigation last century, to the popularity of both leisure boating and, increasingly living aboard, the canals and boats are inseparable. We want to understand the needs of not just today’s boaters but those who come after, so we can think about whether the current licensing framework is fit for the future and recommend how it can be used to best support boaters while enabling the Trust to meet its charitable obligations to safeguard the canals for the public benefit, for wildlife, and for heritage. I’ve particularly enjoyed seeing canal life first hand and would like to thank all those boaters, and people within the Trust, who have been so welcoming, and continue to share their knowledge with us.”

Wasn't that when they hit Trent Bridge ? I never found a report on the Holme lock incident

I was at the top of Holme lock waiting to descend when the 'Princess' was in a rush to leave the lock and crushed a GRP cruiser that was in front of him as he tried to squeeze past (I know it wasn't you) Called up on the VHF by various boats (and even the lockie) - just said take it up with the boat owners and carried on. A right-mess of boats trying to get out of the lock !

As explained in the owners manual ..........................

It was from the Collins dictionary. Strange - we use 'mil' on a frequent basis on the forums discussing 'old' British firearms. For example : there is 10 mil between go and no-go on the headspace. Although 'mil' and 'thou' are used interchangeably

milin British English (mɪl ) noun 1. a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch 2. an obsolete pharmaceutical unit of volume equal to one millilitre 3. a unit of angular measure, used in gunnery, equal to one sixty-four-hundredth of a circumference

The reason being that the lockies (and some grp boaters) do not trust the handling standards on steel NBs and their inability to come to stop without crunching the GRP boat in front, let the steel boats go in 1st and then the boats with 'more to lose' (and better control) can go in gently behind the steel boats. Having heard the noise made by crunching a grp cruiser when a NB decided to try & race to get in front of it in the lock entrance at Holme lock on the Trent, I'd always stand back and go in last - I'll pass them within 100 yards of leaving the lock anyway.

But a Swedish mile is 10 kilometres (6.2 UK miles) with the notation being "mil", whereas a "mil" for 'us' is 1,000th of an inch.

A 3-way fridge on 12v does draw a continuous 8 amps according to the owners manual. However a quality, designed for boats, 12v fridge only uses ~ 28-30Ah per day which is why I changed mine over.