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5 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I am sure that they have done much work on climate from ice cores by looking at things like included pollen and such like, but I don't know enough about it to definite.
I am sure you are correct, but at best it can still only produce calculated estimates, rather than authenticated information. As an aside, I have in my History records, copies of two letters written in the early 1800's which, amongst other things, talk about the weather, one written at the end of December 1818 in Street, Somerset, refers to the warm sunny weather with fruit trees in leaf and about to flower, which I am sure you will agree is early. The other written during the winter of the early 1820's on False Duck Island in Lake Ontario Canada, refers tho the lake not freezing over that year, thus preventing the occupants from taking their horses on the annual trip across the lake to the Quaker Monthly meeting on the mainland. It is possible to suggest that these two anecdotal incidents contribute to evidence of unusually warm weather across the globe during the early decades of the 19th century. Or maybe not!
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8 minutes ago, peterboat said:
I thought they had done it from the ice caps?
As a rough measure, I guess it would have some validity, but hardly an accurate measure of authenticated temperature. Were they actually measuring ice caps in the 18th century, and why?
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On 09/04/2024 at 22:26, Richard Carter said:
Yes, Rennie. I thought Robin Hewitt fetched her off the Thames but that doesn't rule out a Wey connection. Engine taken out and some steelwork done (Farrington) soon after arrival in Braunston, draught is deep at 3'6'' (my possibly faulty memory from over 30 years ago). And yes, Jona at UCC is the person to ask.
scrumpylurcher's post noted, I couldn't possibly comment ...
It is my understanding that the tug will not have a new engine installed, whilst the square box welded into the centre of the superstructure still remains in place.
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Can someone please advise why reports of global warming always refer to "Pre-Industrial" temperatures. It is my understanding that no authenticated average temperature readings exist from before the 1880's, long after the industrialization of the Western World commenced. Would it not be more appropriate to quote accurate time scales, rather than compomise them with broad generalizations?
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Am I alone in recalling the 1950's/60's, when all the weather "experts" were predicting a return to a third ice age within the foreseeable future?
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22 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:
Somebody hasn't been paying attention. For years it has been
knownpredicted that climate change means warmer, wetter summers for northern Europe. -
Calcutt stock filters for the BMC1.6 engine
Edited to add:- I found that the cheapest place to purchase BMC oil filters was the local Agricultural Merchants. I used to buy both oil and fuel filters for my BMC 1.5 in bulk, and got trade discount, which made them about a quarter of the cost from the local Chandleries.
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3 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
C&RT have told me that all mooring agreements are cancelled when a property changes hands. New owners have to apply.
The cases which I referred to are not "mooring agrements" but legally enforceable entitlements enshrined in the deeds of the property, which cannot be cancelled.
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Check the deeds of your new property. Whether C&RT have any rights will depend on how the land was initially sold for housing, and what it's former status was. I know of several sites where the land was sold to include historical mooring rights, those rights were contained within the deeds, which also transferred the mooring rights to any new owner, so it is worth spending some time on the research.
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I found that TCut and 0000 grade wire wool worked well, as far as as could tell it was just a stronger version of Brasso.
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13 hours ago, Richard T said:
Bumped any thoughts @David Schweizer or @dave moore?
None of the items displayed suggest any painter known to me. The water can and dipper do not display the swift flair of a professional painter, and are probably the work of an amateur or a boatman. The cabin block is well excuted with hints of a northern style, but a bit too meticulously to suggest that it is the work of a dockyard painter. In conclusion, I suspect that, probably, none of them are the work of professional painters. Dave may not agree, but he is far more knowledgeable than me, Phil Speight may well recognise the painters, he hasn't posted on here for something like ten years but has facebook site advertising his painting courses.
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2 hours ago, jacko264 said:
What colour will you paint it Ford major blue I hope 😀
Like This, perhaps.
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1 hour ago, Lady M said:
If you had cruised the K&A, perhaps your final sentence would be a bit different.
Agreeed, I live only a couple of miles from the K&A, and moored on it for several winters, cruising out to the Thames and beyond over the summer. During that time, I came to the conclusion that the K&A is not a wide canal, but a narrow canal with wide locks.
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20 hours ago, MtB said:
Didn't there used to be a thing called a "Mooring Licence"?
Pretty sure boats with a CRT or BW mooring used to display two license 'discs' back in the day. One being the normal boat license and the other being one's mooring license when mooring on line.
I had one for several years, from recollection it was called a Mooring Permit, and had a large green capital "M" on it.
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11 hours ago, IanD said:
Of course a discussion was expected, but some of the complaints just don't make sense given that it was a general interest TV programme about the canals not an in-depth online tutorial for students studying industrial archaeology... 😉
And that is not what I expected. If I wanted that, I would be looking for an appropriately qualified presenter, but isn't Mark Benton an actor?
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1 hour ago, Arthur Marshall said:
My argument with it was the tone of the commentary. The talking heads were mostly ok, even the Cunk lady, but the main bloke and script was dreadful - patronising in that "this is jolly good fun, isn't it?" way of a 1950s government information film, or one of those Disney wildlife things they used to show in schools. As if, because he was talking to stupid, ignorant people, he'd be pretending to share the joke that this wasn't really serious, now, was it?
The error is thinking people don't want a bit of depth, a bit of knowledge, the sense that these canals actually mattered to people - both those earning their living back in the day and those renovating or using it now.
And nine year olds being used to light the dynamite fuses because they could run faster than grown men, that's really funny, isn't it? That's a real joke. I wonder how many died. That was when I felt it had gone beyone the pale. A serious point could and should have been made, but no, it was just a laugh a minute, building canals, and everyone was having a damn good time. There was the bit about some people losing all their money in the bubble while a few made a fortune, and that being jolly good, too. So much for economics.
I thought it was appalling. Nice pictures, though.
That more than adequately describes what I paraphrased as "poor amateurish production" with the link person's childish sense of humour and regular use of adolescent colloquialisms. I could not watch him for long, even if the subject being presented was something outside my knowledge or experience.
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We only watched the first fifteen minutes before turning it off. What we saw was a poor amateurish production, comprising of numerous talking heads interspersed with still pictures which rarely related to the narrative. The only live presentation was of someone digging out a canal undergoing restoration with a mechanical digger, accompanied by narrative relating to digging the canals with shovels and barrows!! People are being paid to produce this rubbish.
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My money is on the galley tap innards being stuck, especially if it is a ceramic disc type. I usually had to dismantle and clean my galley tap every spring after it had not been usd for five or six months.
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3 hours ago, RichM said:
It is back up but nothing obvious in the logs as to what it's not happy about which doesn't help me prevent it happening again...
I have allocated more memory to ElasticSearch and will rebuild the search index and will go from there.
Not on my compuiter it isn't. Still getting " No results to show in this stream"
Edit: One hour later and now working correctly.
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Not working again, just displayig message that "there is nothing to view"
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20 hours ago, MtB said:
Hmmm a J4 I'd say.
I'd buy it!
Edit: On looking more closerer prolly a K4. Too big for my 45ft tiddler!
Not neccessarily. About 25 years ago I was single handing over the Chilterms, and paired up with an old tug, which I believe was moored at Aylesbury. It was powered by a K4, and the owner admitted that it was a bit OTT, but apparently he was descended from the Kelvin family, so it was important to him. Unfortunately I cannot recall the name of the tug.
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
I'd have thought the For Sale section here would be as likely to find a buyer as anywhere else on line. The large bookselling firms are only going to reach people who already know about the book and are searching for it, whereas everyone here already has an interest in NBs and quite a few of us like vintage engines too.
I already have a copy myself by the way!
I would be happy to try and sell it on the forum, but how much should I ask for it? I know what it cost more than twenty years ago. It was expensive, and it wasn't out of print then.
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I have a copy of the above book (2nd Edition Aug 2002) in excellent condition which I am considering selling, as I no longer refer to it. The problem is that I have no idea of it's current value or where the best place to sell it might be, I have looked on ebay, and Abe books, but neither have had a record of any copy for sale recently. Any advice would be most welcome.
Its official we've, broken the climate
in General Boating
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If that comment was directed at me, may I explain that I am neither Motivated nor Upset. I am merely interested in authenticated information which informs the debate. Your "Cut and Paste" article is interesting and essentially correct, but it fails to explain the science. I have no intention of going into detail, but basicly the earth needs (a lot) of carbon dioxide to maintain the temperature which is required to sustain life, Half the carbon dioxide produced radiates out into the atmosphere, but half is radiated back to earth where it generates warmth. The problem at the moment is that more CO2 is being produced than the amount needed, hence the warming efect, I could go into molecular changes etc, but it does not change the facts.