walter

Hi Sebrof, It states on the website that you can go on the Thames BUT that you have to time the tide! So please quote the whole sentence not just a section. Anybody sensible would time the tide depending to where you like to go or you waste a lot of energy. If the flow rate of the river of your choice is higher then the cruising speed of bauhaus you getting nowhere. (its also on the website) It’s not a leisure boat you cruise the Thames, if I want to get to Lime house I would most likely hire a tug barge.

Hi everybody, Bauhausbarge is advertised as a cruising houseboat, does not suit everybody and is neither suitable for every mooring. However, there are plenty of moorings on the canals, rivers, lakes, coast in Britain and on the continent which would suit bauhaus as well or even better, providing you with more energy. Bauhaus provides 1400kw/h of free energy a year and even in 25 years 1120kw/h. So over the course of the next 25 years you harvest in the region of 30000kw/h. How you use this energy is up to you, either 2000km cruising a year or hot turkey. Bauhausbarge does exactly what it states on the website nothing more and nothing less. See: www.bauhausbarge.com Please spend at least 5min on this website ‘home, concept, shell, FAQ and all pages if you haven’t fallen asleep yet before forming an opinion. Bauhausbarge is not more of a nightmare to cruise then any other 14 foot wide or 70 foot long narrow boat. Having cruised extensively a narrow boat as well as on a 14 foot wide Dutch barge I did not intent to make my live/cruising more difficult. You stand on the back deck like on a narrow or wide beam narrow style boat, the entrance does not conceal your view. Check out the pictures on which you can see the side decks as well. Here are a few quotes from the website: ‘cruise leisurely at walking speed or 4-5 km/h and you can do 8km/h very inefficient’. ….’you can travel around 50km on one charge but more in the sun or if you add a small generator’….’in summer you can sell electricity as you probably produce more then you use’ End of quotes. A battery bank and solar panels do not have to sink a boat! 22kw/h of energy in Lithium Iron battery is 200kg not 1.2 tons. Such a battery back is not even that expensive but to get them it is the challenge. I cannot fly over to China and take them home in my hand luggage. Fortunately there are hybrid cars which have such batteries and this technology has become cheaper and will become more available. Solar panels have gone down in price hugely. The challenge on bauhaus was to get the right ones and all of them weight under 100kg. There is a fantastic electro/diesel hybrid www.hybridmarine.co.uk and have a look what else goes on. www.solarhouseboat.eu www.yachtconcept.com At last even if we leave all environmental issues out of the equation, we still have one main challenge and that’s simply the fact that in time we will run out of the oil. Unfortunately, long before we run out, the price of the oil will fluctuate tremendously depending on availability, supply and demand, but the price will increase in the long term. Quite a few people try very hart to find alternatives, investing a great deal of their own time and money, the more people do that the more oil the others have. So, la vivre la difference! Bauhausbarge.com

Hi Semitrad, you may find my reply less peculiar if you care to scroll up to post no. 10 where stated the reason why I/we like/have to sell bauhaus. Quote: We like/have to sell this barge because of ongoing uncertainties on the mooring, also to live with two children, one school now and both of us working and no shop nearby is all a bit difficult. Its now with a broker. End of quote. Then Matty ask me why I sell, having all these convieniences near by... Must move on now, it has been an interseting learning experience 'I may be some time' bauhausbarge

Hi Matty40s, In reply to whats wrong with the mooring walter? You should read first before writing, and you should not jump to conclusions. If your comment was ment to be sarcastic then you very unkind as well. whats wrong with the mooring. Nothing if you dont have two little children and you dont mind balancing on a 150m long path which varies in width from 40-70cm, overhanging with trees and vegetation before you reach the main road. With one child walking and one in the pram its a challange and a risk that I am not willing to take on a daily basis. Sainsbury is from my boat exactly 1800m not more and not less. Its a personal thing! Perhaps you like to discuss your personal issues on this public platform but leave me out of the equation. Live and let live Walter

Thanks Chagall, or you can put bauhausbarge into any searchengine and you find my website. Just to be clear I do not see this forum as a sales platform. On the website you can read over 30min to an hour in various sections why things done the way there done. Also a lot of links to different websites I find interesting. I changed the website quite a bit since I first launched in April this year. I removed the detailed description on insulation but essentially there is more info then a couple of months ago and I hope I got no more mistakes. I would be greateful if any of you would contact me if you see any other mistrakes. please pay in particular attention to the home page, concept design, FAQ,interested, heating, shell, like to buy bauhaus. Thank you all Walter

No, not sold yet. so dont be shy... got loots of interest but mainly from landliving creatures and people thinking I offer the free help and advice line. A lot of thoughts went into this barge, I have been researching all aspects for many years. bauhaus enabeled me to put all this knowledge into practice which was not easy. We been living on boats for many years and our first daughter was bought up on a barge. I belive that a selfsufficient society will most likely be a fairer society and this can be created by using the most up to date energy saving appliances, insulation, efficient use of space and resources. I did not intent to sell bauhaus and I started to set up an website to show whats possible with profen technology. So, NO we dont have to wait for the future, for another 100 years for the aliens....its all here ready to be used and bauhaus is the proof it works. We like/have to sell this barge because of ongoing uncertaitentys on the mooring, also to live with two children, one school now and both of us working and no shop nearby is all a bit difficult. Its now with a broker. Walter

just came across this forum. The 52 inch propeller was my mistake its of course something arround 52cm...I corected my website now. I also added a FAQ section on my website bauhausbarge. The Lynch motor or engine is amazing and everything you need to know is on my website including other examples where this motor has been used very successfully and also a link to the company. Otherwise just put lynch into any searchengine. If you put (de) behind your searchengine you will find that the lynch motor is incredebly highly respected in Germany and used on motor gliders other boats and so on. Its british engeniering at its best unfortuanately because its not German nobody buys it here on this Island. Well, a few but if this would have been a German invention I am convinced every boat, car, lawnmower would have one. Also, with bauhaus you dont travel 4mph!!! you travel at 30% engine power i.e. 3 HORSPOWER between 4-5km/h any more will be highly inefficient and you stop bauhaus even at 8km/h within 6 seconds. exactly like any other boat. The batterie will last at least 10 years if properly maintained, its exactly the same as your car battery just 20 times the size and since when do you need to replace those every 2 years?? hope that helps regards, the boater behind bauhausbarge