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The concrete edging on the right in the second picture is where the feeder for the G&S enters the canal from the River Frome and the reason that the section of the canal was kept navigable to Saul Junction (apart from Walk Bridge of course).

Use whatever you want. S275 steel is used structurally all over the place in buildings and there is nothing structural about the holes in your cabin at the moment so just blank them up with whatever is at hand.

I think that when that image has been posted before the general consensus has been that the only way to comply with it all is to install the stove on the boat next door. As to to the original image in the thread, I think our curtains in our front windows are about as close to the flue as that rail and we’ve never had any issues. The curtains don’t really get overly hot at all even when the fire is really raging.

Nothing gets done if you report it either, even for obvious breaches of the forum rules. Just an anonymous “no action has been taken” email. Seems the mods can’t be bothered any more.

He mentions it in the video, it’s an exhaust scrubber for the main engine to save having to run on low sulphur fuel.

New update video from "What's Going On With Shipping?"

On this day 1992. Blunder Lock, Stroudwater Navigation. Blunder Lock was the second lock on the canal to be fitted with gates by the Cotswold Canals Trust. The gates we made by the Rochdale Canal Workshops. I'd been at school all day and had a games lesson in the afternoon and I remember throwing my shirt, blazer and trousers over my rugby kit and running home and quickly getting changed before grabbing my bike and dad's camera and cycling the 3 miles down the canal.

I didn't realise that was a thing.

They’ve replied in the post above yours.

Why were you moored there? Did you think "this is a nice spot. I think I'll moor here"? If you did, the chances are they did too.

The AIS I saw on MarineTraffic shows the tanker moving at a few knots after the impact suggesting that it was being pushed for a bit. All the videos I've seen have shown the pumps and radar working on the tanker. Even the location is still being updated on the trackers. I don't think its anything to do with generators on the Solong being knocked off their mountings or suchlike. If you think about it, the Stena Immaculate is sitting happily swinging on its anchor with its engine off and just a generator working to power systems. Suddenly it is hit and a fire starts. The crew start any fire fighting pumps (if they're actually not started automatically on a tanker) and suchlike and abandon ship leaving everything running because it is full of stuff which burns very well. The Solong is running at 16 knots on its engine when it hits the Immaculate. A fire starts at the bow and the crew hit the big red stop everything button* and abandon ship hence the power is off on the Solong and not the Immaculate. *this bit may be more complicated than that.

Only if you want it to be. The facts are that that ship travelled almost exactly the same course several times over the last year at the same speed but this time there was a tanker in the way and for whatever reason they didn't avoid it. The fact that the captain was Russian doesn't mean a thing as you don't know who, if anyone, was on the bridge at the time. Short video from the cargo ship bridge after the impact.

Means nothing. Lots of mariners are Russian and are crewing ships sailing under all sorts of flags.

Nothing apparently about it. As the video I linked to yesterday said, imagine an ice cube tray when viewed from above. Tankers aren’t one big hull full of oil.