magnetman

It is when someone has a company which solicits orders for products the fulfilment of which falls onto a supplier not related to the company. Basically one gets a good name in the market then uses that as a tool to sell products shipped by others to make a profit. Interesting but also slightly flawed business model. It could explain problematic stock levels but that can also happen with a company which ships orders directly.

Is Bimble a drop shipper?

Its good to keep this topic going. I personally think comparing a leisure use canal Boat to a workboat is potentially a mistake because they are actually not particularly similar. HDPE workboats are likely to be consumables associated with a profitable business so they do not need to be particularly durable. After x number of use cycles the item can be sent to landfill or recycled where facilities exist. HDPE workboats are also probably optimised for easy road transport to facilitate movement between job sites. The narrowboat you are presenting to the market is presumably designed to last longer than a business consumable and it also is not specifically a road transportable vessel. I think what will happen here is there will be interest but you will need to look at producing smaller versions perhaps with the self draining water ballast and a vee bottom like the Sea Otters did. That seems to me to be a better way to take advantage of the material. Its interesting. I actually really like the idea but I am not convinced it will work particularly well with larger and heavier narrowboats.

That is a great idea.

What about thermal expansion? If you have metal window frames won't they move very slightly relative to the HDPE cabin on very hot days? This might have been discussed earlier I can't remember.

The saloon launch is not that thin yet. Give it a few years we'll get there !

I rather miss the fire in summer. I found a rather good collection of rejected Azobe wood decking under a bridge yesterday. No good as timber but for firewood I'm like O M G. Brilliant stuff. From the Ekki trees in Liberia. Good bit of conflict timber always helps. Its got a specific gravity of over 1.00 ! So it sinks in water. As it will be getting warmer I shall cut it and store under the front deck where there is a randomised assortment of other articles and firewood products.

The very deep did rot Oh christ ! That ever this should be Yea slimy things Did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea.

Ah. I probably should have put Thames rather than EA in general. Apologies for that oversight. I guess it may be different on the Anglian waterways. What are the enforcement notices for ? Failure to display registration plate?

I don't bother with displaying the reg these days. I know one is supposed to but when I printed one with an inkjet machine it faded very quickly. All EA LWK (Lock and weir keepers) as well as patrol Boat officers have DEFRA iphones with a reduced version of the EA registration database installed. Tap the Boat name in and it comes up with the size of the craft and whether it is currently registered. So the lock keeper can acquire this information assuming the vessel name is correctly displayed without needing to get into a discussion with the person in charge of the Boat. Of course this does mean someone could quite easily pass their Boat off as another one but thats also easy to do if you are printing your own registration 'plate'. The simple fact is that when the EA stopped issuing registration plates with serial numbers and holograms which they printed themselves the result was that the only function of the home printed registration plate is to pacify other people on Boats who may harbour suspicions.

I wonder if sprayfoam would stick to the plastic. Always been a bit suspicious of sprayfoam as it would be a long time before one found out if the adhesive bond was good. Obviously some clever people use spray foam as a way to remove the need for lining but it does look a bit odd when it goes yellow.

The OP said EA. And I noticed the wording has been updated to reflect that the EA sell vessel registrations not licences.

Yes I remember them. I think you can request them when phoning the EA to renew the registration but I did not actually ask.

And I was like 'how big are the bags?'

True. I used to do this for several years when traveling the canal system with mad dogs, a mad mother and an expensive but really bad quality mid 90s Land Rover Defender and several bicycles. It was quite interesting to see reactions. The more notable incidents were the failure of a potential car thief to break the steering lock followed by the garage callout man being able to do it properly, being reported to law enforcement for possible badger baiting and another incident where the rozzers turned up because someone thought the vehicle had been dumped and that there may be a dead body in it. I would not do it again. The pressed nature of real index number plates complicates things. Much easier to get a fake car plate than a fake Boat plate.

Under the bed. Assuming the space is not already being used for storing half a ton of used food.

In this scenario both parties are protected. What one must be cautious of is a circumstance where someone else's CO monitor is not working because if that happens they may be incapacitated and unable to sort out problems you are having with their equipment. One way to solve this rather basic problem is to not moor beside other Boats i am burning Ekki wood on the fire today and I have a notice 'please do not moor beside this vessel as Ekki is known to produce the high levels of Carbon Monoxide as a byproduct of combustion'

Yes. The words 'up to' are often put in a smaller font when used in marketing materials.

i know someone with a proper filtration system and he had his water tested by the bored. Not that water! Anyway the results came back and proved that the output was of higher purity than the ordinary household taps in the area. He is an unusual person in that he has since grown an extra thumb on his right hand which came out of the side of the original but the water is very clean. Maybe its true what they say about a peck of dirt. Beer kegs are good for extra clean water storage. High grade stainless steel. 60 litres in a standard keg. I did find a full one just floating in the River but I took the view that as it was Fullers it was for the ducks. They went quackers for it. Still have the keg.

20 tonnes of water sounds pretty good.

The filtering Gerry can is interesting. Never used one and I don't know how many litres it can do but there will presumably be consumables needed. Its probably designed for life support ie drinking water rather than large volumes. People do quite often have multiple stage filters and reverse osmosis RO units which can in some cases make the water cleaner than ordinary tap water. There is a hazard associated with routinely drinking RO treated water which is that the process removes the minerals and it is possible to get elf problems drinking demineralised water. I can do months on a tank of water because I discovered that after a certain amount of time not washing one becomes 'self cleaning' and I buy new socks and charity shop clothes from time to time. Water use goes down a lot.

Yes but what I was getting at was that having the BS scheme in the first place encourages this behaviour. If it didn't exist as a requirement the gas system would have been left in place. I know someone who has lived in various different Boats for over 50 years with the gas bottle in the cabin. Not at all dangerous because after use it is just there beside you and you close the valve. Very low risk of gas leaking if it is closed off. The BS scheme insists the gas bottle is outside or in a locker making it far less likely the user will close the valve after each use which means the lines are always charged with gas and a continuous supply is available to feed a leak or even worse a fire I've seen Calor bottles with all the paint burnt off but still full of gas. A gas bottle with a closed valve is safer than one open and connected. The BS scheme encourages people to leave the valve open after use. That is one effect of asking for the bottles to be in a locker or out of the way of doors and windows. It is encouraging 'live' gas bottles because even though it is not arduous it is fairly unlikely that people would be in the habit of closing the valve after every use.