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For what it's worth... I'm really hoping it is a case of you get what you pay for:
We had a cheapy clarke inveter genny that we had for 18 months before the inverter on it gave up, but it was cheap, it did overheat once and I was surprised it lasted as long as it did.
So I was most disappointed after spunking over 600 quid on a Hyundai HY2000sei for the inverter on it to give up after less than 2 months (about 50 hrs) having never getting wet or being overloaded.
I found someone at the company who sold it to me willing to talk candidly. They admitted to me that if you get a "good one" it will last but that there seems to be some "quality control" issues and quite a lot of dud ones get out into the wild and fail in this way quite quickly.
I got my money back and have a honda eu20i on it's way to me.
I was seduced by the electric remote start on the hyundai but at the end of the day I'd rather do a pull start on something that works! Also the honda is about 10kg lighter.
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That's Banbury for you
Build on the flood plain then complain when it all floods
Build a flood relief scheme at vast cost to stop the flooding
Start building on the flood plain again
It sort of makes you grateful that your home floats!
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How's it looking today? (asked sitting listening to the rain drumming on the roof)
Is it down to CRT to know when various bits are passable? If I ring them will they have a handle on it?
Apologies if any of these are silly questions- first floods afloat!
Hi,
The flood gate is open now but I'm not sure about the Cherwell conditions beyond Shipton Weir Lock. You could try asking CRT, but I don't know if/how often they send someone down to look at the lever markers for that stretch anyway.
I'd still be inclined to give it a few more days, the Cherwell is still quite big in places
I'm glad I didn't win my bid for a mooring that came up by Shipton church last year now, I was warned about towpath flooding on the mooring at the time!
It doesn't flood very often on the actual towpath side but the offside moorings by the church do end up with water pouring over from a stream when the ground is saturated but it only happens once or twice a year. Nothing a nice pair of wellies wouldn't fix
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Gate is now open but I know nothing of the Cherwell conditions but boats have moved from Shipton, but they may just be waiting at the weir lock
Never mind that.
We just need enough time for Dusty to get down between the floods and the canal freezing over
Well yes, that too, It's very uncivilised having to move your own gas bottles
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Water level is much reduced now and one chap moored behind us heard from CaRT that the gate may be opened in the next day or so. Lets hope it doesn't rain too much more.
Having said that, I'm not sure what the situation will be like north of Shipton Wier Lock as I imagine the Cherwell it's self will still be quite exciting
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The result of this would be:
c. ......... and probably the real reason as to why the flood gate is there ....... the hydraulic pressure on the banks due to the high water levels would probably lead to a full breach of the canal.
PJ,
I hadn't thought of that aspect, but you are right. Especially as it was threatening to breach under normal circumstances a month or two ago.
I'm also glad to hear you have the availability of the services of the pub high up the list
Even though we may all need to snorkel there on Friday -
Now, I'm not familiar with all of this water management lark. But! Is the flood lock closed so that the level rises to allow an overflow to become active further up stream?
It would make sense to me.
What do I know.
It's the lesser of 2 evils, either they hold the water back slightly there so that it spills over into the field as it's doing, or, the canal further down over fills and it starts spilling over into the houses in thrupp and the lower bits of towpath along the thrupp moorings.
I admit it does look look like abit of a chocolate fire guard but it makes just about enough difference to be useful and slows the water enough for the weir at thrupp to be able to let water out fast enough to keep the level stable.
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Unsurprisingly the river Cherwell is a bit wetter than usual and the flood gate at br220 on the South Oxford Canal is closed and has been since Xmas eve when CaRT came to shut it.Hopefully anyone with any designs on going north have already abandoned hope of doing so for a while.
This was it this morning.
Rather classic moment on Sunday morning when a flotilla? of about 20 rowers/canoeists who have probably been displaced from the flooded Thames decided to come for a jolly up the nice safe canal, only to be stopped by the gate! They didn't look too cheerful...
Hope this helps
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I'm genuinely amazed by the ammount of washing people on this thread seem to do. Granted I am the only one on my boat, but I visit the launderette a maximum of once every 10 days, and that's only because I run out of socks. Do you wear things only once then just chuck them in the laundry?
I have to say I was quite surprised too. We do have a little 3.5kg washing machine but that gets run once a week for 2 adults and sometimes twice if it's time to wash bed linen or towels. I think the washer uses about 40litres a wash.
I had this drummed into me by my mom:
Clean underwear every day.
Clean top half every other day (excluding jumpers and other things that go over the top of the first layer which last a week).
Clean bottom half every week.
Towels and bedlinen every 2 weeks.
I don't have scabies yet and I don't think I smell
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Passed Clytie yesterday - a fine looking boat. Hope that Hercules looks as good when you have sorted it out.
I do hope I get to see Clytie in real life at some point soon...
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The indicator above Shipton lock shows yellow all of the time - even during the recent dry Summer (do you remember that
)I work on the ground that it's un-navagable when the flood gate at Shipton bridge is shut - that's if Pinkio remembers to shut it
Oi - who you telling to shut it!?
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You will probably find this link useful. It shows the level of the Cherwell at Thrupp:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/136497.aspx?stationId=7066
It's on the rise at the moment but otherwise it's at the lower end of typical range but as we saw last winter, things can change quite rapidly.
Maybe see you in the pub (The Boat inn - number 1 on PJ's extensive and thoroughly researched list)!
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I flicked through 76, 77 and 78 and there is only a picture of Hercules the BW working boat.
Thanks for looking - and yes I could only find something about Hercules the working boat.
I'm in the process of writing the former owner an email to see if she can clarify anything further.
Cheers!
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I agree with all of that.
None of what is described makes any sense, and I have never heard of Harborough fitting out someone else's high end shell.
I rather think the previous owner may have got their wires crossed!
Ok,
Back to the drawing board then!
I will see if I'm able to get hold of any other information - perhaps via Clytie.
Thanks for setting me straight
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I recently donated all my WW from the first issue to the WCBS if you find which issue it was in they should be able to help you purchase a copy which will in turn help raise funds for the restoration of all their boats.
btw if you do post it in H&H then Pete Harrison might know the issue he has been amazing in the past.
Hey,
Thanks! It would be great to find which issue it was, even better if I can buy it from somewhere where the money feeds directly back to the canals.
I need to know how to get the thread moved to H and H - I guess find a mod and PM them?
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Hi All,
Thanks for taking a look.
I have found these pictures online of Clytie too - she is a beautiful looking boat - Hercules is looking a little tired in comparison at the moment, but we are in the process of addressing that
I dug the boat listing out of Jim Shead's site a while ago and compared that to the Allen register - That was how I initially got the idea into my head that this was the sister or Hercules. Picture showing the style of the front deck and relatively close BW index numbers. I have emailed the Allen Register folk who didn't know about the "sister boat" story.
Herc is in drydock at the mo, but one of the chaps in the dock knows the family who own Clytie and got in touch to say that her sister boat was with them at the moment
Hence it would be great to find the article
Thanks
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Are you able to give some more details about what the article without it being via PM?
I know there are loads of forum members who have old issues and would happily have a flick through a few issues to see if they have what you are looking for.
Perhaps even the details of the builder or the names of the boats would help?
Sure
- I wasn't sure what was most appropriate. I guess it makes more sense than me repeating myself in PMs!This is the info I have been told:
Both boats were 70ft built by Les Allen and then fitted out by Harborough Marine and Launched in Loughborough Basin (If the last owners memory serves her correctly).
They were built to be liveaboards (I guess this was rather unusual at the time).
One boat, the one we now own is called "Hercules" and we think the sister boat is called "Clytie" (Someone recently confirmed that they thought this was correct as they remembered them when they were new).
I'm don't know exactly when she was built, one lot of our documents say 1975, some say 76 and I'm guessing it could have been up to year after the shell was built that they were launched, once they had been fitted out.
I do like a good mystery
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Hi,
I'm not sure if this is more appropriate for the history forum or the wanted forum - mods, please move it if I have got it wrong.
When we purchased our most recent boat we were told by the previous owners that when our boat and it's identical twin were launched there was a write up in waterways world about it. This was probably around 1975/6 or 7.
I have tried searching the Waterways World article online archive - However the only on reference to our boat's name from around that time is not the correct one - I brought a 2nd hand copy from ebay to check. It seems like they probably don't have everything on there from that far back.
In the past forum folks have been very helpful in me searching out info from their archives for info on my last boat Rowan - I was wondering if anyone still has an archive of WW from around that time that they would be willing to check to see if they can find this article? Then I would at least know what issue I need to get my hands on.
Please PM me if you are able to help and I can give you the details of what to look for.
Thanks in advance.
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We had the same issue over the weekend.
The back firebrick isn't needed anymore and the side ones have to be put in before the boiler is screwed into place...
Also if you had a heat shield on the back of the stove that you removed before drilling the backplate out for the boiler make sure that you refit the 4 screws (even though you cant use the heat shield anymore).
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I nearly had a nervous break down thanks to that extra shielding on the back.
Another difference in this version of the squirrel is that it doesn't have the punch out bits in the backplate for fitting a boiler. When the new stove and separate boiler arrived there was much peering behind that shield trying to spot the punch out bits to put the boiler into. We didn't want to remove the extra shield in case we needed to send it back or sell it (panic had now set in when we could't see or feel the dents).
What the extra back plate obscures is the two tiny centre holes for your hole saw for you to cut your own right through.
Phew!
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I miss being able to have a conversation with people that doesn't involved questions about, how warm it is, how I goto the toilet, where my posts goes, how I keep my food cold, if I have a bed and how much everything costs. Or being introduced as "This is Helen, she lives on a boat" which starts the whole vicious cycle of questions for the 1000th time.
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I don't have one of those, but I have just bought a stove with an oven built on top for £349 brand new, which seems good. I asked someone who already had one and they liked it, so these ovens do work on top of the stove. Not much good for a tiny boat though.
Casp'
OOoh who makes that one? I have been looking at the chilli penguin ones but been put off a bit by the price...
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As I understand it, as told to us by a working boat woman, it's ok to rename a boat but the following procedure is to be followed to avoid the bad luck.
1. Get the boat out of the water.
2. Make some sort of model of the boat out of wood or paper with it's name written on it.
3. Sink the afore mentioned model.
4. Put the boat back in with it's new name.
Superstitious lot
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Have just been doing a bit of research on the same subject and are on the brink of going with Collidge & Partners. Good to hear others have a reasonable opinion of them.
Although in the end we decided against insuring contents with anyone as quite frankly we don't own much of value aside from a couple of items which are better covered in a separate policy anyway. The boat itself is the thing we can't afford to replace and can't live without!
I think the addition of 10k of contents added about £120 to the policy for the year as we had a quote with and without.
Hope this helps
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Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.
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Thanks for sharing the old pic of Rowan, it’s made my evening. I haven’t been on the forum in years but an email arrived telling me you linked to my for sale post. I have 100’s of pictures of Rowan from when we owned her and some historic ones I gathered. Plus some branded cups that Middlewich gift shop used to sell ❤️ Miss her very much ❤️