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Ive corrected the thread title for you also. Daniel

I know of one boat... And i think a number of static houseboats do it, but yeah, very rair! Dainel

Sounds like muchus funus! - Your going to have to put me in touch with your exhast chap tho, having simualar issues with cat/joint here. Daniel

Of cause, you can also get 12v florencent fittings, either 12v 2D lamp fittings as we have, or 12v CFLs that just go into a normal 12v lamp fitting. - Either way it solves having to have an inverter on standby all the time, and also the noise they can make. Daniel

Urrrm - Its damp, so you can have issues with the insulation absobing/retaining damp and premoting rust. - Heat rises, so you'll never loose *that* much heat downwards, and any you do will keep the bildges dried out. - And just generally when noah was building the ark he said it wasnt needed, so no one has ever bothered since. Or somthing like that? Daniel

Blimey, who got out of bed on the wrong side! Urrm yeah, grumpy daniel....

Sounds interesting. - Although as very few canalboats are conected to mains water im not sure what response you will get? Certianly i wish you well however. Daniel

Yeah, unfortunatly, i think that really is the issue. - Certian manufactors offer a service like the one you have put fwd. - Specialized actively incourage you to register your bike/frame#/address/etc with then online. - However when my last bike was nicked, the police didnt want to know about that, and wouldnt even take a note of the frame number when i asked them to. Basicaly, really, if truth be told, i think the only really way to actaully stop petty theft would be from the inside out, funding and requiring the police to do what i always though was there job. - And untill then i just spend my whole life worried that my bike wont be there when i come back 10minutes late, and shelling out over £100 in insurence for flaming pushbikes! Its a bad as the bloody railways. £120 ive just spend on rail tickets for next week, and thats with a 1/3 off rail card. Daniel

Heres millers first thread, excuse the shouting. - http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1130 Thread posted after the followup work carryed out by lees. - http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2079 Two threads about Lees from last year... - http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5083 - http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5285 And one you posted a while ago...? http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php...182&hl=lees Daniel

Im on a std contract package with 02, via carphonewarehouse, and i can use my phone to conect to the internet is i wish. - The package is nominaly £30/month one, down to £6.99/month via redemtion because i got a clearence phone. - Then the phone is just a nokia 6320i that i can conect to the pc via usb or bluetooth, with the nokia software installed. Its not cheap if you use it other than a very small amount, but for just checking emails the three times a year im away from my broadband conection for more than a day its pritty usefull. - Also worth noting the there are third party usb data cables avalable on ebay for a fraction on the inshop price of a actaull nokia one, mine charges the phone off the usb as well. Daniel

We used marine ply, its just easier that worry. Its thinner than 20mm tho, maybe 15mm ish. - Then thats laid in strips about 10inch wide, between 6/10foot long, ontop of hardwood beams running transversly ontop of the steelwork. We've got no insulation on the floor, just an inch of polystreine on the cabin, and 2inchs from the gunwal down. Never had a problem with that, although if i was building a boat to live on 52weeks of the year, i think i would stick a inch of close-cell polyertherne in there between the conreate and the floorboards. Daniel

If you search the forums i think there have been some past threads about lees' moroccan boats, as well as lee's in general, ill try and digg something up for you. - I also bealve our member 'miller' has a relativly recently receaved such as boat, and log some information about initiall issues that lees resloved for him. Daniel

Blimey, that is a bit extreme. Never seen that before. - I just you have to have 32amp ceeform plug on the side of your NB to match that then. - And then a good old 32 -> 16amp unfused addapater for 99% of the narrowboat on the system. Hey hoo, demand prevokes supply and all that! Daniel

Yeah, lol! Yes, i beleave its 30mins timeout on that? Maybe longer. And in terms of smell chuckers, may i suggest that there are an ample number of 3rd party spellcheckers for all commonly used internet browers, most of which are far better than the average web-based forum spellcheckers around. -And sometimes i even use one myself! Daniel

Yeah, it does depend on the exact details of the carrier. - Some of them just clamp onto the actaul 50mm ball itself just by friction. - Whereas some of them make use of the pair of bolt securing the ball on. See photos: Either way i think i would go for welding on a small amount of angle/box section and then bolting to that with the std two bolts. Daniel

As far as i know, diameter wise, i would be going for about the largest you can sensably fit onto the boat/hull giving suitable clearences top and bottom, so as to minimise slip. - Then you just have to try and match the pitch to the speed/power/gearing of the motor sort of thing. Bearing in mind that going excessivly oversquare isnt really recomended. - But people like the electric launch company certainly might be able to help. If there anything like the steam boat assosation people (mainly steam launches) there dab hands at playing with propellors. For the record, we've got around 15/20horsepower, with a max shaft speed of around 300rpm, and are using a 26*32inch crowther prop. And at the end of the day, if the worse comes to it, you can always swap the prop if it doesnt suit, and try somthing else. - With a NB its not quite as easy as a trailable launch as you having sliping/craining costs. But second hand propellors are fairly sailable items. Daniel

By all accounts its good paint, and phils deffonatly a good guy, with a even better reputation. - But i cant actually say ive used any of his paint. Daniel

In your situation i would go for a inveter/charger combi unit, which works just like a computer/server UPS system if you familuar with that. - With mains, it runs the 240 things of the main, and charges the batterys. - Then when the mains drops, it seamlessly switches over to inverter mode. Till your batterys are flat... - Many of them can also 'mix' the mains input, with the inveter output allowing you to draw peak currents the exceed your shorline rating. Which also brings me to the point that no normal shorline will be more than 16amps, and most are fused at much less (8/6 even as little as 2/4amp) Daniel

We went for the grit blasting aproach, which has worked well. - But it isnt done for free, and to do a good job you need all the windows and fittings out... - Infact, if you want to do a proper job, you should proberbly be doing the inside as well... However at this stage, i would be very tempted to wait for a line of good dry summer days, give it a half decent rub down, get some topcoat on, and see what it looks like in a year time. Daniel