Rob-M
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Do you have a battery charger switched on, when we first purchased our boat we initially didn't realise the previous owners had taken the battery charger so plugging in to shore power wasn't charging the batteries and 12v pumps and lights still discharged the batteries.
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Check in the cupboards, there should be some reasonably thick cables from the batteries to the inverter so if you have a couple of thick cables disappearing from your batteries try tracking where they go.
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Google image search showed a couple of pages claiming it to be a UK canal as well as the link Matty has provided above.
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There is one on the Avon, can't remember which, that I've heard of working boats going through in reverse and I've seen a working boat reverse down the crow.
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1 hour ago, Journeyman36 said:
hopefully it's not something I'll have to do in future but who knows
Depends where you travel, there are other locks where full length boats have to pass through in reverse.
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1 hour ago, Richard T said:
Another one?
Perry Barr...?
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27 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
I use an app on me iPhone called PictureThis (when you open the app it'll try to get you to subscribe, but there's a hard to see "Cancel" at top right of screen which allows use for free but doesn't save your searches after an amount of time). You take a snap of the plant and it identifies it with pretty near-perfect results. I've even used this from the tiller with the camera zoomed in as far as it'll go to snap stuff on the offside and towpath. Very useful and way quicker than leafing through the old Collins Gem
You can use Google Lens to do image searches of anything from a phone camera.
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39 minutes ago, Tonka said:
Why not go to the Dog & Doublet. Used to do good meals there but I have not eaten there since the pandemic
We stopped at the Dog and Doublet this year, dining was interesting as they had standard pub grub in the afternoon but switched to Chinese at 5pm for the evening food. Meal was ok.
17 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:my preference would be to go up to Brum via the Stourbridge Flight,
not the quickest or easiest but possibly the most interesting if you consider all the things to see before you get to Netherton Tunnel,
I have no advice with trains over that way though
There is a station in Stourbridge that I've used, not far from the end of the Stourbridge branch.
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26 minutes ago, Lady M said:
I'm not sure that any individual is invited to vote in more than one 'constituency'.
I've had both the license holder nominations and the volunteer nominations and able to vote on both. Different candidates in each one.
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I would add Gower Branch to take in the BCNs staircase, I like to mix the old and new main lines with a combination of Brades locks, Spon Lane locks and Smethwick locks.
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7 hours ago, agg221 said:
I have looked at the topic, but am not aware of what it is referring to. Should I be?
Alec
As a license holder you should have received details of the C&RT council elections, if you also volunteer you would have received the volunteer candidates to vote for them as well.
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17 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
How about in the bridge holes?
I did pass a cruiser this year moored in the bridge hole just before Handsacre.
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The worse boats moored that I regularly encounter are narrowboats that in the last couple of years have decided mooring on the bend in Little Haywood is a good location. They are a right pita as the over hanging trees on the offside make it just about wide enough for two narrowboats to get through so with one moored up and the high probability of a hire boat or day boat coming the other way the chances of touching the moored boat is quite high. I've commented to a few when they stick their head out to complain that they are moored in a stupid location.
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1 minute ago, magnetman said:
Athy
He was stood on the stern last time we went past.
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When we moored at Saul junction I tended to go up to Stourport if heading for the Shroppie and Worcester or Droitwich if heading elsewhere. Never really looked at the timings as didn't feel it made much difference but always felt going up Tardebigge and down Wolverhampton was a lot of extra work
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Are you certain it won't fit through Napton locks, has it been tried and failed.
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Looks to be the same location as featured here, https://new.millsarchive.org/mills/index/?which=3456
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10 minutes ago, David Mack said:
In my experience of strong crosswinds, it can work out fine up to that point. But as soon as you take off the astern power and go to forward, the boat is blown back onto the bank before you have built up enough forward speed to be able to steer against the wind.
I've had that issue when single handing and getting caught by the wind. Eventually I used the reverse back in to tree lined section to get shelter from the wind and was then able to off the bank.
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Glass goes black due to not burning the stove hot enough, when I really get ours roaring the glass cleans off quite quickly.
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23 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Did you finally do a Google image search.
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39 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I’m not getting the 3 Men in a Boat clue at the moment either,
Unless of course it’s on the Oxford,
cant be anywhere on the Thames??
Perhaps the clue was linked to it being a photo taken during a cruise of 3 boats with a man in each boat.
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I've used CRT showers plenty of times, sometimes I'll use a shower whilst filling our water tank, sometimes I am moving a working boat with no onboard facilities.
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7 minutes ago, MartynG said:
This is not a rule.
It is just something imagined as a possibility by a forum member.
It was copied from the CRT faq related to the new surcharges.
Mooring choice between Wolverhampton and Crewe
in General Boating
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We have been in Great Haywood for the last 5 years, we like it as a location as there are 3 directions to travel. There are good weekend trips if you are occasional boaters. We also made use of the option to use other Lakeland marinas, leaving the boat in Saul Junction and Tatenhall when we have gone off for longer trips.