Scholar Gypsy

have you tried clicking the "full version" link at the bottom of the page? With my android smartphone that seems to deliver most of the functionality you need - though I must confess I usually post a link to a photo rather than fiddle around with HTML editing. {note: unfortunately the little toggle arrow (top right just above the editing box) which makes the full menu appear, is not visible in my android browser.

I too use Autoglym, which I am very pleased with. A quick wash and shampoo, followed by spray wax, keeps it looking good. Polish only needed twice a year. (This is the first time we have ever had shampoo on the boat, for any purpose ....)

I think you need to work out which of the engine connections is the flow, and which the return. (on my engine the flow is the higher one: the calorifier is connected into the bypass circuit. Then I think the flow from the engine goes to the lower coil connection on the calorifier. Actually, I am not sure it makes a huge difference - unlike the secondary circuit where the cold goes in ast the bottom & out at the top.

... not quite as lucky as the guy who dropped his signet ring in Godmanchester lock this summer. after 30 mins of walking around he found it with his feet. The bottom of the lock was surprisingly clean, apparently.

in domestic supplies, the neutral circuit is earthed. Have a look at the way one of those little transformers on a pole is wired up. (photo following) ok, have had lunch now, looking at this transformer.. http://judgefamily.org.uk/2014/garnllys-transformer.jpg

I agree.

the moorings on the straight alongside the main road, between the Wise Alderman and the Jolly Boatman. I didn't know it has a name..

To bring this back on topic, I agree with many of the comments above on the Nene - we've had some fabulous trips on it recently. I hope the meeting goes well. I agree a few more facilities would be useful though with a bit of prior planning / phone calls I did manage to empty the Elsan quite easily (Hint: caravan parks are helpful!). I do wonder if we might try some more creative thinking about short term moorings. There's a bit of a default assumption that a good mooring means a nice straight solid bank, with piling, neatly mown grass, and bollards, so that you can get on and off anywhere along the boat. Personally I would be happy with a nice solid post a foot or two out from the bank, that I could tie the upstream end to, and then use the plank to get ashore if I want to, and put a loose line (or a mud anchor) at the other end. If space is tight then herringbone moorings could reduce the space demands.

Nice film - did you really not hit the sides? I am trying to work out how to use this software to download (for similar reasons) the little film of the Pageant preparations back in 2012 - on Swiss TV website here. Did Corona often work with Jaguar? I recall a happy day in about 1974 shovelling coal into sacks on Jaguar, just south of Thrupp.

See here for a somewhat extreme example of the very sensible point being made here

I happened to come across this 2009 guidance that the OP might find helpful.

Just to add that if there is another boat on the other side of the pontoon then I find it is a very good idea (for both boats) to run a line (not too tight) connecting the bows (or whichever end is stuck out in the middle of nowhere). That can reduce the swinging quite a bit. You can do this in a way that is easy for the other boat to unhook the line and chuck it back on your boat when they leave. if using an anchor or mudweight a float should reduce the risk of wrapping things around the prop - if other boats can work out why it is there.. I would use a stern spring, running forward from the back of the boat, to hold the stern a safe distance from the bank. This also enables you, provided you are confident the level won't change too much, to tighten the line from the bows and so hold the boat into the pontoon (more effective than a centre line in my experience). I also run a thin line through the hole in the top of the rudder, tied off to a fender eye, to hold the rudder hard over and thus out of harm's way.

Moorings in March now reopened...

Please see earlier thread on the South Oxford, and there is also a recent one about moorings on the Northern Oxford.

Quite the cleanest and most fragrant Elsan point I have ever seen - just over the Zebra crossing, in the caravan park.

My first thought was the "flush" effect - ie the wave you create when opening the paddles bouncing off the next lock/bridgehole and coming back uphill. My second thought - given people have observed this with a long pound/reach below - is that there is also a Bernoulli effect. Water that is flowing (ie below the lock gates) will be lower than the level in the wider pound further down (where there is to a first approximation no flow). You certainly see that effect when emptying a lock (and any boat waiting outside that is too near the gate will flow "downhill" and hit the gate). But I am not sure I buy that, as the flow out the lock reduces as it empties. Of course working out the flow when the lock empties is quite a hard problem to solve anyway. It is tempting to imagine it goes vertically down until it reaches the bottom of the lock, and then horizontally along the bottom of the lock and out through the paddles, but that is not correct (unless you had baffles in the lock, a bit counterproductive). Viscosity and turbulence effects need to be taken into account. I have experienced a similar effect with a guillotine gate - eg the remaining manual ones on the Nene. I hope to take a fluid dynamics professor on the boat soon, and will ask him....

Fair point, although strictly the download is CSV, so you can use what you like to process and/or represent the data ....

To ease this, I would suggest: try the maps. or select all the canals you need and do one search or download the whole list into Excel and then filter the rows you want from the 170 winter stoppages.

About 2 weeks ago. I got this email, and think the info is here. "Hello Following our two periods of public consultation, we have reviewed feedback and further refined our work plans. The proposed winter notices are now finalised and information is available within our main notices pages. If we make any further changes to winter closures, these will be shown on our website and email alerts will be sent out to relevant subscribers. To view all our notices please go to the notices section of our website. 29 August 2014"

That does look good - though not sure I would know what to do in a luxury toilet..... More detail, including a map, and info on how to reserve a space, here. [i have no connection with this project].

Just out of curiosity: what happens to an ex-member's posts in this circumstance? I can imagine that the database that generates the name of the poster and all the other personal information by each posting might get a bit confused...

It wasn't much use for Mary Queen of Scots, though ....

I agree with comments above - esp the utility of the grid reference. The bits about mooring fishing and swimming are necessary, I suppose. I am disappoionted the EA could not find a logo for "no climbing on this structure". I did see some youths doing just that on the guillotine at Lower Barnwell - it looked quite fun.

Or grid references, which the environment agency use on the Nene (for example).

PS I assume yours is a v-belt not a flat one? Does it also drive the water pump?