Chertsey
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Being so close to the ashby you should do it, lovely peaceful stretch.
Does it get busy in the school hols? Would it be better to aim for before they break up?
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I think PB would rather any river than the BCN :-)
But it looks like we'll be braving the bottom road this year now we're based on the Cov., for Easter excitement at Brownhills. Also on the agenda to do for the first time is the Ashby, maybe in July. Then there's Braunston (I have a whim, not shared by anyone else, to try to get there non stop from Alvecote, dawn to dusk), and Alvecote itself. Apart from that there should be a long overdue docking for blacking, an overhaul of the engine, and completing the redecoration (also long overdue) of the back cabin.
It's getting increasingly difficult for me to get long stretches of time off work so longer jaunts like this year's fabulous GU-Wey-Thames trip may be a thing of the past for a while :-(
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Where does he put his windlass?
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Yes they go down well on canals where the team is focused on getting the fastest time and sod the rest.
I'm not clear how doing locks quickly could inconvenience anyone else?
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Happy memories of cruising the ML in Warrior, which was built to go under Ramsey Hollow Bridge before it was raised. There were scratches on the foremost mushroom vent from when John Shotbolt took it too fast one time. Been under all the others but they'd raised Ramsey Hollow by the time we got there. Not going to try it in the current boat!
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That sounds a very Sheffield sort of solution.
I really can't say I hold with renaming everything 'Quays', especially on canals where AFAIK there were never quays, only wharves. I guess it just sounds better to those who have the job of selling the houses/flats.
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You're in beautiful Bugsworth Basin and you want to watch TV?
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No not used now as a hotel boat but still on her moorings, being used as a livaboard now by the owners, A&G Passenger boats, Sheffield. I hear it is used to do RYA Helmsmen courses only now. Also heard from friends that they are going out of business with the pub they run The Quays 1819 at Victoria Quays, which will be closing within the week. They appear to still be running the large trip boat for day trips and parties.
I don't think they are very clued up on business as I thought it was only a matter of time before the pub closed as the few times I passed it was empty and the other times closed.
The problem with 'Victoria Quays' (i.e. Sheffield Basin) is that it is at the wrong end of town, and rather cut off. It could be lovely if it had the footfall but it always seems a bit bleak when I go down there. That's my non-expert assessment anyway.
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I remember watching Little House on the Prairie as a child; they were always burning the place down by sweeping a lamp off the table with their voluminous skirts.
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Pehaps he also only has a dynamo.
(Joke, as I believe he probably has rather more than that!)
I only have a dynamo :-)
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Poke around in antiques places - much more fun than looking online. I got some fabulous barley sugar twist brass in the form of fire irons (yes, very long ones) in such a place in Stratford. Two of them will be joined with a rosette to make a fiddle rail for the stove, the others fiddles for shelves. Stair rods might work too for a hanging rail? I actually have a pair of brass hames (bits of horse harness) as hanging rails; possibly not very 'proper' but handy because they just hang on hooks and can come off for cleaning.
I might be remembering wrong or have completely the wrong person, but haven't you (Junior) got a Grand Union? In which case, what do you want an oil lamp for?
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I doubt Dane's restoration, (or indeed any other) would have occurred under any kind of charitable trust if someone were asked to pay a five figure sum for whatever they were starting off with.
I have often had "interesting" discussions with Carl about the viability of wooden boats in the past, but I suspect he is spot on that until the owner realises that they can only possibly saved if virtually gifted to someone able to deal with them, they are probably not going to survive.
Also, being harsh, I know, but who would choose to crowd fund an attempt to save them whilst they stay in their current ownership. Presumably a heap of money has already been poured into them over the years - why will another £10K achieve what clearly has not happened so far?
I suspect that everyone with the desire plus the skills and/or money to restore a wooden narrow boat has already got one by now.
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The two other people had tagged in the son, not the actual addressee. As the tagging you suggested as being "ignored" only happened 2 hours ago I suspect the person tagged has not had the opportunity to log into FB and notice it yet.
Not everyone is on FB 24/7
Not everyone is on FB at all.
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Is there anything to say you have to do it in one go?
You don't lose 'boater bonus points' for backing out of a maneuver and trying again
Yes you do!
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This suggests there's something wrong. It should be possible to put out a stove full of fuel by completely closing the air vent.
I'd check that the air vent is sealing correctly, the door seal is sealing correctly and that there are not gaps or cracks elsewhere in the stove.
Once you have control of the burn rate, all the other problems will go away.
MP.
This is no doubt true, but on some stoves (e.g. my Epping) the air vent (damper?) will never seal completely.
I find the secret is to be patient and put up with cooking for a day or two (and I'm in a back cabin!) while a layer of ash builds up in the bottom. This will do a great deal to reduce the air flow. After that, riddle only very judiciously and a tiny bit at a time. Once this is achieved, I can keep the fire in indefinitely, including overnight (eight hours plus) without overheating.
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Obviously not for nothing did working boats have much taller mushroom vents fitted.
George ex nb Alton retired
And far fewer of them! But this worked on Warrior too. More sophisticated might to be a disc of some flat but absorbant material that could be slotted round the vent and thus less liable to blow away (or hamper ventilation). It doesn't need to absorb the water (i.e. it doesn't matter if it's soaked through), just the impact to stop it bouncing.
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Same here, often a few drops, and occasionally hail
Not much you can do about it as far as I can tell.Wrap a rag around the base of the vent on the outside; it will absorb the drops and stop them bouncing.
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I haven't braved downhill yet. I can't (I've tried a lot) walk on the gunnels on the clothed up section, nor, mostly, on the cloth batten - either the cloths are too tight, or there's an upright in the way - I just can't get enough purchase to be confident. I imagine Halsall isn't clothed up. So I am guessing that my only option will be to get the gates open, then haul the boat forward until the extended back end deck gets under the ladder. I shall try in the summer; I didn't fancy trying it for the first time last week. My first single handing uphill went brilliantly though and I had a magical trip, at the end of October.
Yes, I've seen John Jackson on Roach use the same method. I'll try it next time I'm locking on Scorpio as maybe the tumblehome means you don't get covered in slime.
Yes, I often walk around from stern to back end in narrow locks without getting slimed. Possibly have deeper gunnels (albeit on a slightly wider boat) than on a modern boat.
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We have two tanks, each of which is, I think, 100 gallons. Only one is currently in use but next year we are going to balance them. With no bath and no shower we'll probably manage to stay out for a month without needing to refill.
Lots of 'historic' boats don't have any significant fresh water capacity but it is incredibly useful. Basically we've two salvaged domestic cold water tanks on 18" hign platforms in the back end, with a tap at the bottom. The space underneath is good for keeping stuff cool too.
I really cannot see how one person gets thru som much water . If you ve got 500 litres and its lasting 10 days then how you use 50 litres per day is beyond me completely .
Ive no idea how big my tank is . Its a 58 ft trad , Liverpool boat co narrowboat and so if anyone else does know i d be intetested to find out please .
Anyhow , im on my todd too and i go weeks - at least 3 between fill ups . I shower each day ... Navy style , washing up once a day and often but not always make tea etc with bottled water .I once knew of a Liverpool boat with an integral tank which never emptied - it turned out to have a leak below the waterline.
I use tank water for tea - I won't drink it raw but PB does, with no ill effects.
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Gosh it's hard work isn't it :-)
Winterised Chertsey yesterday - put the last topcloth on.
Do endorse what Bizzard says heaters - especially Palomas, the original and best but replacement parts hard to come by.
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Yes, we can accept both that they weren't originally called that, but also that it's a useful term to use now, post hoc as it were.
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I can think of a number of reasons to be in a hurry.
One of your dogs is desperate for a leak and there's nowhere to get into the side.
You're on that evil smelling section of the North Oxford
You're trying to make the 3pm cut off for Harecastle tunnel and the boat in front has held you up several times once to salvage a plastic bag from the canal FFS, then "ooh I must take a photograph of that" without pulling into the side.
It's getting dark and you know there's only one decent mooring spot left at Fradley.
Crikey that couple we just shared a lock with were a bit weird weren't they...
You're navigating the Wigan flight.
You're in Blackburn, Nuneaton, Ashton (insert your own selection here)
You're on the Bridgewater expressway, yesssss....
Cor blimey, good luck going fast through Nuneaton.
I think I have only come across that situation about half a dozen times, maybe a few more.
I think it is quite hard sometimes for people to judge where is a good safe place to let someone pass, so instead pretend not to notice that they're there.
It's worse in a way when someone tries to let you by somewhere that's not really suitable.
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Sorry with statements like that, I feel I can no longer post any thing to this forum that would be of use/helpful to this site. Best of luck, . Bye.
It's not you (or any of us); NC is (deliberately?) missing the point. I thought she'd got over that years ago.
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Why not just use the tyre and forego the rope fender altogether?
IMO a fender is there to do a job. If/when it needs replacing it gets replaced. Fendering fenders to make them last longer is IMO just plain silly.
It's not 'fendering' the fenders, it's covering them - it's part of the fender. If it both makes them last longer and slide up lock gates better, what's not to like?
A traditional rope front fender will start to fray and wear out quite quickly; a covered one will last years, even decades. Why wear things out and replace them for the sake of it? A fender is there to do a job, yes, but it's not meant to be sacrificial.
Some people do just use a tyre (or two - wasn't there a photo on the forum recently?) but they don't give the same protection, and it's a devil of a job to get them to stay in the right place.. If something has been tried and tested and used for decades, then there's probably something going for it.
We are only talking about the bow fender. A tyre alone would not give the cushioning required when a steel narrowboat moves forward from the cill to the gate but rope does really have the wear resistance for long life. An ideal bow fender would be a composite of the two but I don't think such an item exists
But surely that's exactly what a traditional rope fender covered with a section of tyre is. (Apologies if that was deliberate irony)
We use tyres at High Marnham.
The pontoon is already festooned with them for the ski boats so we don't bother deploying our own. No point when the pontoon is already fendered up for us.
That's not Naughty Cal in the photo then...
Not much you can do about it as far as I can tell.
2017 boating plans!
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Otherwise engaged then. Going to have to be July I think.