Daiboy
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Sorry if I'm missing something here. The BW (watermate?) key I have has opened bits both on the canal and on the river Thames (locks). Is there yet another Environmental Agency key that I should be aware of. I also have the "handcuff key" but still to use it.
Many thanks.
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I read this and wonder whether you are joking or not?
As a trader you will have to apply for a Trading Licence for your boat AND your butty. Have you looked at the rules for that? They are far more stringent that the standard "live aboard" ones you currently have to abide.
If, repeat if, CRT allow you that, you will then need to apply to the Local Authority for that area for another Permit and will need to abide by all the legislation for food preparation and storage, plus all the Health & Safety Regulations, especially if you are thinking of having people on your boat and butty.
Another Taff thinking that this might be a wind up or "trolling" (if that is the right terminology). Well done for speaking out.
Anyone thinking of entering an enterprise like this should have an ounce of understanding and that one cannot just "do it" and bugger the consequences.
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Oh Bugger, Collidge & Parts doesn't seem to be anyone's choice so far. Oh well, next year eh!
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I was moored for 6 months at Langley/Iver until June this year. There was a trading estate (or now called a business park) which had quite a few large companies one of which did the outside broadcast for the BBC. Every lunchtime a van would come a calling, open up the side hatch and people would pour out of the offices and workshops and descend on this van like a plague of locusts. Make sure that your area doesn't have this already.
Being facetious, towing a burger VAN behind a boat!!
The other thing you should think about is of course your weight distribution on board. These coffee, latte machines are quite heavy.
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I hate to see people (scientists?!!) playing around with nature. We're all doooomed. Do Be Do Be
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I took the title rather literally, expecting to see a photo with some plastic objects on the river.
As long as they were "plastic" floaters.
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Good idea but as has been stated before, you would have to think of a type of business plan as to what you would provide for consumption. Bacon butties, Chinese, Indian, pizza and the list goes on. You would, I presume, be at the mercy of the Environmental Health rules about cleanliness, 2 sinks one for washing hands and one for washing pots etc.. Would you need a traders licence for operation on the canals or rivers?
It will need a great deal of thinking, planning and internal alteration to your boat. Fridges and freezers to keep raw meat separate from cooked stuff, cookers and cool cabinets to keep food stable before selling.
Best of luck anyway and if it does come to fruition, let us know where you are operating from as I'm sure that we all will patronise your establishment !!
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Yesterday was drenching day for me as I wandered out minus waterproof coat then as didn't want to get any more of my clothes wet borrowed sons threadbare ripped tracky bottoms/outsized jacket and size 12 boots as had his dog to walk, I viewed so many smiley faces as i clumped down the road.
Tomorrow Dean as i tell myself is another day here on planet earth.
As your avatar, a picture paints a thousand words; or something like that. You in your outsized tracky bottoms, jacket and shoes, walking a dog through the rain, oh boy
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Unfortunately no. He/she will probably be given community work and be banned from keeping pets for a measurable time. Like to go and have a word with them though, with a big stick!!!!!
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Not at all sure that this is correct.
The stability of a floating object depends, among other things, on the water plane area. (The water plane is the shape of the surface of the water that is displaced by the boat). More specifically the transferse stability of the boat depends upon the second moment of area of the water plane taken from the longitudinal centre line.
This means that what is below the water surface has no effect on the stiffness or tenderness of the boat. So the V bottom would seem to have no effect on it.
However the V bottom will have an effect on the vertical centre of gravity, which will be higher than the CoG for a flat bottomed boat of the same draught. This is because there is less mass at the lower depth so this might have the effect of making the boat more tender.
As they say: it all depends.
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stiffness or tenderness
So the V bottom would seem to have no effect on it.
Oops sorry
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If you are on your own, sleep at an angle.
Pythagorus.
Ah! Mark99, that's what I mean. Use the hypotenuse angle.
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Excuse me people. This is a photograph of the unfortunate deceased on his boat. It could have been taken at any time and not just as he was entering the tunnel. I know the dangers of sitting or standing within the arc of the tiller arm but it does not mean that he was doing this through the tunnel. Yes the coiled rope at his feet is a danger and many other things from the photo could be considered dangerous or slightly ill thought out as one travels.
Anything could have happened in that tunnel!
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I cannot get my head around all this charging business. Today; battery monitor (Nasa BM2) reads soc at 59%. Went for a jolly to Uxbridge boat centre to pick up my new 3 way fridge and back. Total time around 4 hours give or take. Moored up and soc shows 75%, ok that's great I thought and left the engine running for a few more hours. BM2 now shows 80% at 13.5 volts and 28 amps.
All engine stop and have a drink. Sit at desk and use computer and (because it's new) have a sideways glance at BM2. Now showing 90% soc at 12.8 volts and only pulling 0.5 amp due to a light above my computer.
How is it still charging when I have no engine or generator running?
I think I understand that SOC means "state of charge" meaning how much there is left in the battery bank. Maybe not!
New battery bank of 4 x 110 amphour
HELP
Daiboy
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That's what I was driving at in my post about the total cost of claims on the inland waterways. I think, and I might be wrong here, that a lot of people are just looking for a reason to be personally unhappy about things and justify their moaning.
For my part, I insure my boat fully comp as it were (renewal is due on the 27th of next month, £186,45 for £85k cover including contents/personal effects). If another boat caused damage to mine I couldn't give a monkey's whether my insurer can recover the cost from a third party or not.
Uninsured boaters, just another item on a long list of things I don't worry a jot about.
Blinking hell Sabcat that's pretty reasonable. I have just paid mine; £237.50 for £35k cover for fully comp, contents, bike, generator etc. and this includes a £75 discount for NCB. I am with Collidge & Pts. Could I ask your insurer for next year?
Daiboy
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Hi Roger,
Went to Uxbridge and had a good look around but could find nothing of the type you want. Plenty of handles but all had rectangular ends.
Daiboy.
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Absolutely - but the OP has already bought her boat and there is a lot of winter between now and February.
There is little point in her having a frozen/burst water heater every weekend she returns to the boat, and at the end of the day its just a few minutes job to drain down when leaving the boat.
Yup, it must have been the hour. I stand corrected.
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It's better but still not easy. I still have a quick look up the boat every now and then to see if she's ok. This forum was very kind to me in my post "sad day on Abacus" in the living afloat section as they are with you now. It was good to let it out and as I said in my original post, it now seems real.
It will take time but as the saying goes "time is a healer" but she will never be forgotten.
But on one bright note, I get a little longer in bed in the mornings now!
Good luck fella.
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Chin up Bibcol I know exactly what you and your wife are going through as I lost my Minty on July 7th. With kind permission of a member "8 hairy feet", I would like to share with you both a poem she posted on my sad day. I'm 63 and starting to blubber again dammit .................
If it should be that I grow frail and weak,
And pain should keep me from my sleep,
Then will you do what must be done,
For this----the last battle can't be won,
You will be sad I understand,
But don't let grief then stay your hand,
For on this day more than the rest,
Your love and friendship must stand the test,
We have had so many happy years,
You wouldn't want me to suffer so,
When the time comes, please let me go,
Take me to where my needs they'll tend,
Only stay with me till the end,
And hold me firm and speak to me,
Until my eyes no longer see,
I know in time you will agree
It is a kindness you do for me,
Although my tail its last has waved
From pain and suffering I have been saved
Don't grieve that it must be you
Who has to decide this thing to do:
We've been close --- we two--these years
Don't let your heart hold any tears -
We used to get it a lot on the Stroudwater. There was a time when we had the purple variety.
Blunder Lock - Stroudwater Canal by imulford, on Flickr
Can't believe that was 20 years ago now!
Must have been as there's no handrail on the gate crossing planks !
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I never downsized for the move onto my first narrowboat. I'd just come back from living in Tokyo for 10 years with about 8 boxes of stuff. 6 years later I bought a widebeam and upsized. I've never had so much gear or living space in my life.
Check out my living space and weep!
Nice area Blackrose. Too small a tv and why do you have a radiator AND a big wood burning stove? To big a space to keep warm?
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It might be due to the hour or the few Bacardi & Cokes I've had but is this topic becoming rather frightening and worrisome to the OP. I absolutely agree that if you are not a liveaboard and intend to leave the boat for a couple of weeks/months in the depth of winter, then draining and switching off the batteries etc. is a very sound plan indeed.
However, the OP mentions that she/they will be living on board full time in February next year. She will not then have to go through this rigmarole every time she leaves the boat to go to work or go shopping. Just make sure that the boat is as secure as possible, well moored and look forward to returning to your home at the end of the day.
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Roger (Albion), I am going to pop into Uxbridge BC tomorrow about a fridge. I will have a look around and let you know if there are any there and the dimensions.
Dai
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Hmm, getting a bit long & drawn out . . .my wife's Welsh, so I do have a row of Welsh bunting along with a Welsh flag (also a row of English & Spanish flags too) - I'm putting them all out on Thursday as it's my Dad's 80th and we're partying on board - they all come down Friday as we cruise up the K&A.
I suppose it comes down to pride . . .a lot of the ex-servicemen . . . Dunkirk boats etc feel a sort of pride & attachment . . .originally, the monarch gave the military unit their colours and this went into battle and was literally fought over, so more at stake in those days . . . still, folk should be free to do what they want as long as it doesn't look unsightly or offend others . . .
Hi Profzarkof, the Dunkirk boats didn't "feel" a sort of pride or attachment, they were there in the blood and guts of that infamous fiasco. Showing your allegiance to a flag or banner does not make one less human. I agree that everyone should be free to express their nationality, but if it comes down to not showing their national flag because it "might" upset their neighbours, tough. Each one to their own.
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Dear Dai & Graham
Is this flag big enough?
(HMS OCEAN,Greenwich, May 2012)
(Thames Barrier, May 2012)
That's more like it! Where can I get one of those?
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River Nene - Key and License
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Bleeding hell, and they told me that this was a really relaxing way of life with little worries.
I take it I can purchase said keys if and when I get near the Nene. Will the lockies tell you what one might need before they let you through?
Thanks for the info by the way.
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