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Ahoy SC.
You are now a star in a reasonably priced boat.
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The perspex suggestion of Chertsey's is a good plan.
A whole sheet slid down slots from above or double hinged doors.
But to be honest with just ordinary DIY skills the existing steel doors could be converted.It doesn't need cabinet makers skills to do the following.
Take interior wood trim off,cut out rectangular window holes with jigsaw or angle grinder with metal cutting disc.You will cut straighter with an angle grinder.
Stick laminated glass with glazing silicon overlapping by about an inch on inside face. Adapt inside panels a little to fit over the 4mm or so of glass put panel back.
For the outside face,saw thin plywood sheet to the size of the doors,cut out window apertures,stick panels on steel door faces with Gripfill or No nails.Now get from any of the DIY places lengths of moulding,this comes in all widths and patterns,hardwood,usually Ramin. Buy a cheap Mitre-saw,and spend a pleasant hour or two planning and cutting with mitre saw,nice moulding surround,panel work ect.Stick onto ply panels using exterior PVA wood glue.Varnish,paint,Danish oil to finish,stand back and admire. All for i'd say less than £100.bizzard.
PS.A surform is handy for shaping edges of ply and a couple of sharp chisels for odd relieving for locks,hinges ect.
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WaS that when you entered the tunnel, or when you finally made it back out ?
We didn't back out we kept at it,going forward.The north end keeper asked if we'd broken down in there. 1 3/4 hrs.
Good old Lister SR2, the rhythm of which at that speed was heaven.
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Ah!
I think we have had the misfortune to be the next boat fed in 2 minutes after you entered Harecastle.......
It was July or August 1991.
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They invariably are upside down though. bizzard.
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Ah, but what's in the can?
Only windlasses i've ever seen or life savings?.As virtually all boats have got a water tank and pump these days,just extra weight and top hamper.
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Hey Biz, you're close, why don't you go and fetch him?
He couldn't afford me.If i was near or passing,yes. It would be a 50 or more mile round trip.
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On the tiller every time,out of the way ect ect.You need the cabin top for drinks, soda syphon ect,so chuck all those dopey mops and cans overboard.I also use a garden led light zip tied to the tiller as a stern light at night,yes everything on the tiller and out of the way. bizzard.
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...and while you're bowhauling, stick a sign on the back asking if someone could give you a tow.
Put a sign on your back saying hitch on behind £5 per mile.
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I once in my old boat Patience set it on dead slow ahead went below with a girl friend and had n-----,while the boat ricochet,d its way northbound on its own through the Harecastle tunnel.
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ahhh thanks, I have tried mr town... he's way too expensive. Mick has brought us from paddington and can go no further due to other commitments,
so I will try the others first thing on monday....
anybody out there have any numbers for the blokes on the coal boats.. would be very much apreciated
Save money and manhaul it,with someone to steer,knock up a harness,a rope fixed it to your centre cleat,the steerer can help by poling too.Easy peasy. You could have been halfway there by now. bizzard.
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He had 'Leninskaja Tereshkova' AKA Mrs Benkinsop' standing next to the examiner, through out the exam. All 6"5',
Built like a brick outhouse, holding her rolling pin. No examiner would dare fail it, with that hanging over them.
Firesprite
Back in the wet and windy Fens
Yes Mrs Blenkinsop did play a big part in the whole examination affair.
And as he had several other boats to examine here too,she plied im with Woods Navy rum,which only urged him to start flogging fire extinguishers,of which he had a large stock in his car and sold 7 of em,and so happily slurring wrote Fire distinquishers on folks bills. Mrs B.saw to it that all boats passed. bizzard.
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Sweet!
Thank you SC.
How did you get the weed hatch washing machine passed?
(well done)
As it wasn't listed at all in the BSS thing he had to pass it,even though i was doing me washing when he arrived. bizzard.
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Lady Olga passed her medical today.
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I float on Guiness it helps to keep my harp in tune and my hull black.
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Or do what I saw done on a fellow Black Prince boat at Tattenhall Marina. Buy a large rubber mat, the kind you get in shop entrances, maybe 4ft by 6ft, however big the hatch boards are on your boat, and lay it on top of the deck. Keeps the rain out, safe enough to walk on and easy to roll up out the way.
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a brilliant invention indeed!
if suitable tyres could be developed,you world certainly have a world beating F1 car.
i can, however foresee a slight maintenance problem.
when racing cars go into the pits,a complete tyre change can be carried out in 3-4 seconds.
how long would it take to DESCALE your hyper-steam vehicle?
i assume you would use a FODEN STEAM WAGGON as your base vehicle,with lowered suspension of course?
it would spend ages in the pits having its brass polished!
My car would have won the race before the others had even thought about their first pit stop. If still sane and physically in tact,my driver would have drunk all the Champagne,done the press interview and be dozing in the sun before the others had even thought about a first pit stop.
No certainly Not a Foden,being an overtype too top heavy,i might give a Sentinel undertype a fleeting glance though but with solid tyres as they might stand the strain better.
Weight wouldn't be a problem though as it would help the tyres to obtain maximum traction.But generally the Internal water injection engine could be popped straight into say a Ferrari or whatever,as i'm sure all the teams will be clammering for the privilidge of adopting it,but with many modifications of steering and suspension components.All those flimsy bits of Dural and carbon fibre and stuff would have to be chucked out and say forged steel used instead.Also the drivers head restraint will need revising.PS Only boilers need frequent descaling.
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sounds great bizzard,glad you mentioned the patent , i was just thinking the other day that i could power my narrowboat with a steam plant such as the one you and your accomplice have invented.
i was going to build a butty to house the humungus gas containers,but decided to go to the pub instead.
Once in its stride and up to heat with an insulated enclosure around cylinder head flame nozzle,quite economical.
Its power was phenominal.
I'm sure if an engine of this type were installed in an F1 racing car it would completely astound all concerned.No other conventionally powered F1 car would stand an earthly.In fact working it all out our experiments told us that it would have completed a lap before the opposition had cleared the starting grid.But there's no known tyre than could withstand or transmit to the track surface such an overwhelming abundance of power.That Berney Eccleston chap would be jumpin for joy.
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And sends clouds of unpleasant and probably toxin laden smoke down the way for the neighbours to breathe in too...
One of our neighbours burns all his plastic milk bottles every week - in spite of the fact we have a recycling collection for them. Just what you need on a pleasant weekend morning - the stench of burning plastic all around the place...
It should be fine though as you probably won't be affected in the boat!
Andy
Here here!
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Once upon a time.
Once upon a time i built two scale fully working coal fired model steam railway locomotives during the winter after work, one 3.5'' and one 5'' gauge one of which is on loan to a museum.
Anyway whilst doing this i experimented with other methods of steam power and in collaboration with another steam nut developed a water injection engine,and built a working small model.
As you probably know most steam engines and steam turbines are external combustion engines,requiring a separate boiler to generate the steam.
Our invention required no boiler,therefore was very economical on space needed,its biggest asset.Water being injected directly
into the combustion chamber or expansion chamber of the engine above the piston,similar to a normal internal combustion car type engine.The cylinder head is heated from very hot to red hot with a blow torch,water is then injected which instantly flashes into HP steam and sets the engine in motion.Exhaust via a poppet valve.
Power and speed control was adjusted by varying the amount of water injected and the intensity of the blowlamp.
It ran very successfully.
Before anyone gets any ideas it is Patented not in my name but that of my collaborator. bizzard
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Agreed dont use water, you just get steam and ash clouds but salt? How does that help Bizz?
Best way of moderating a solid fuel stove running away with itself in my experience is to take the ash pan out from underneath and tip the contents over the top of the burning coals, then put it back and shut the fire down as hard as possible. If the pan is empty a couple of spadefuls of earth does just as good a job.
Anyway have you seen the price of salt recently? Nearly as expensive as fire extinguishers. Actually don't ever use a fire extinguisher to try to slow a runaway stove. We did once when young and naïve. It made no difference and the mess inside the boat was PHENOMENAL. Huge clouds of ash billowed out and settled EVERYWHERE. Even worse than the jug of water we poured down the chimney. The stove continued to rage unabated until we thought of the earth and mud idea. I think we came close to losing the boat, it was that hot. (A timber boat by the way.)
Salt or Sodium Chloride,was quite a well known and distinguished extinguisher of fires.Haven't you seen the fire brigade sprinkling it on car fires when they've run out of other stuff,they're not keen on attending car fires after the shops shut.Sugar does the opposite and is a good way of reviving a fire.Salt was often used in the old days for taming kitchen stoves and ranges,most housewives kept it handy for this purpose,my mum did too. You can also smoke salt for an extra tasty seasoning.You can buy it in bulk quite cheaply. bizzard.
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Well thank goodness all that's over.
We're Phutt-Phutting along quite merrily now.The crew seem to have settled to their tasks,Mrs B's tidied her curlers and turban and has now got the kettle on for tea.The propulsion tube is not getting too hot for Trixie's feet,so she's been entertaining the more lustful members of the crew by going through her whole gymnastic routine,multiple cartwheels,ballet twiddles the lot.The astern thrust valve operator has been testing his valve amid massive blasts of compressed air,and now declares us ready to stop on a ''tanner''.Soon we will be veering to port,not the drink, swerving left,and really opening up,the stoker having stacked up a huge pile of sticks in readiness for the maximum speed trials.
Meanwhile old Jellymould Billow on HMS Timid has been enjoying himself bawling out orders and dubious sailing instructions to any vessels in our vicinity,like ''Haul your wind''this is a Royal Navy Vessel,and bare away to a Bikini clad girl on a floating Gin palace,can't you see we're ''Forereaching,sail green4-0''which is all baloney,the only thing forereaching on Southampton water is Trixies father who's still queezey,swooping and planing along on his Elsan at the end of the towrope.
We will soon be in the chop of the English channel,where weather conditions permitting Mrs Blenkinsop and Trixie have promised to demonstrate mountaineering,tightrope walking,and Trixi's dad having brought his swing,will perform trapeze tricks,''TAKE COVER'',all when we reach the Needles. To be continued. Ttfn. Bizzard.
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It would need to be for a pretty big engine I think, then!
It's about 4 or 5 times the size of the pumps I have for that purpose on either of our engines.
It has every indication of having been used for water, not oil.
The object depicted is without doubt an Edwardian Christmas balloon blowerupperer.
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When it's icy, we spread hot ash on the towpath (technically a halingway around here) to provide some grip for passers by.
Good idea,but sounds like a Hindhu penance,that's if they stroll past bare footed.
bizzard.
A new Wheeeezer 
ANNOUNCEMENT! I seem to have a boat!
in New to Boating?
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She'll be full of it, the excitement,planning and all.She'll pop up sooner later with a question like. ''What sort of fenders do i need.''i expect. bozzard.