magnetman

Willow is a nightmare like that. I got a black eye a couple of years ago when I took the kayak through a more or less unnavigable chanel. (Abbey stream Chertsey). I did not have a saw so when I was blocked by a willow branch I used my adonis strength to bend it out of the way then it whipped back and slapped me really hard in the face. Bad. I survived. But yes tree management around waterways is an interesting and rather expensive subject.

The best narrow I had was made with floor mounted tanks and the fillers were just inside the engineroom side doors with steel surrounds overflowing out of a small gap under one door. Great. Another Boat I owned had the filler not above the tank with a pipe leading off at an angle just below the filler. Virtually impossible to arrange a syphon system. Obviously these were put in when the vessels were built but I think making the route indirect or hiding the location of the fillers is the best approach really. A lock always seems to me to imply an attempt to secure something valuable so maybe someone with a visible lock tends to keep their tank full. It would need some fairly heavy metal work but it could be worth considering making up a combined tank inspection hatch with a filler in the middle which has a baffle plate a few inches below it.

I can imagine people trying to force the gates open not realising there is a mechanical prop device. Wants to be something fairly weak. Some people are really strong. When dipping the magnet back in the day I would occasionally find steel windlasses with severely bent handles. It was ignorang strong people trying to force the paddle to go the wrong way against the ratchet.

A forked branch can do this.

Yes she was a visiting health worker and regularly played with the crew. That is why my maternal aunt's cousin's sisters chose her as a wife. She was the nuclear option.

They also stole one of my rhino horn tiddlywinks which I got from a maternal aunt's cousin's sisters' wife. Another family hairloom gone.

To be accurate the thread does not actually go all the way to the base of the hex head as there is a machined radius seat below the head which locates in a matching machined seat in the ring. All parts are aluminium. So I would say they are not actually setscrews per se. There is probably a name for these. I am guessing when originally put together these screws were meant to be self locking under a certain torque.

Oh right. Of course. So are allowed to navigate at night as long as while navigating you do not moor and run an engine or generator. I am not sure how one would navigate and be moored at the same time. Does this mean one would need to turn off the engine when waiting for locks or is that not classed as mooring.

One hopes 10.9.2 does not say one must have a ruddy great headlight on the front to destroy everyone else's night vision abilities.

It was in Plymouth. It was Hilda and Agnes. Yes it can be split otherwise the photo would not be in there.

They are bolts you were correct.

It did give them an advantage due to their lack of moral compass. They basically cheated.

I was worried about getting the Benz. In the end I got the BMW instead.

Decompression chamber porthole. We did the competition in a submarine you see..

These are the only people who have ever beaten me at Tiddlywinks. I had their picture framed for the memories of a great day.

I have a lot of tiddlywinks experience. Mine.are real ivory tiddlywinks handed down from my mother's mother's mother's mother's father. A family hairloom. I won't bore you with the details of my conquests in far off lands but let's just say I have played tiddlywinks in a greater number of diverse geographical locations on land and water than anyone else here. Fore shore. .

Had a look at JG speedfit do not make what I suggested maybe because they tend to snap off.

Can you not get a pushfit adapter part which has a 12mm tube on one side and a 15mm insert connection on the other end.

Cor that's an interesting improvement on discipline. presumably it is a metal band applies with a proper banding machine. Not long before people behaving badly get branded. Red hot irons and all that.

There is a glaring error here !

I did 2 engines and a Rayburn stove using the old railway bridge below Lot Mead lock at Rickmansworth back in the late 00s. Ebury way it's just a footpath so no worries about road or rail authority complaining.

Fouled prop is an interesting possibility. i don't know much about these things but do the pressure relief valves lose effectiveness over time? Maybe the spring loses its strength. There might be an adjustment for it. Someone who knows more can give advice. I also wonder if a weak PRV could potentially open when passing over shallow parts of the canal due to increased propeller loading.

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