magnetman

A bicycle is good for this. Facebook London boaters and River Thames Boaters. Also tell the CRT. I doubt it is far away and a bike ride in one direction is 50/50 likely to find it. I would go Paddington arm first as that is more remote and somewhere a bad actor would be able to do something more easily like repaint it. Unlikely to have come off CRT water as it is not possible to get out of Limehouse or Brentford other than by booking passage using your CRT licensing account. It will be on the GU or river Lea navigation. . As a backup I would also contact P&S marine in Watford as they handle a lot of road transport jobs. Outside chance if organised that it could have been put on a truck. I am not sure how arduously the boatyard check ownership. I recovered a narrowboat on the Thames recently which had been taken away without owner knowing. It turned out to be his ex. She had broken in and driven it a few locks down the River and he did have the keys so it was technically a theft but a domestic not a random. He clearly had no idea where it was. The successful recovery was facilitated by facebook Thames Boaters. Lots of people do go on fb so it is quite a handy tool. I am blocked from fb London Boaters due to my anti NBTA position so I can not place content on there. Someone else may be able to. It's a big group with a lot of followers.

And the forecast is showing sunny weather for at least the next week probably two. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

The one I had may have been the article which was subject to a recall around 2015. It was on the bottle itself and had an overpressure failure. I just binned it and replaced never checked but I did buy it on fleabay and it may well have been one of the recall products.

Worth putting another regulator on there I think. They can fail. I had one once which failed in the wrong way and admitted full bottle pressure ie liquid* to the cooker. It could have been a bit of a problematic situation if it had an auto ignition system but luckily I was using a clipper lighter and noticed the noise before applying the flame to the burner. Another dodged bullet. * ETA probably not actually liquid as it would be freezing and the phase change would happen very quickly but it was spitting frosty bits out of the burners. I reckon it would have gone up really badly had it been ignited. An interesting cup of tea.

The bow plates were hand forged in a fire. These were built by Bantocks according to historians but the MK1 or Type 1 nomenclature is probably made up. If you look at other station Boats the only ones which have a similarly attractive bow shape are the Yarwoods. It depends what one likes but I find the usual BCN dayboats rather boring and while interesting they do not have the grace. There is something a bit special about the early Bantock vessels. Wooden narrowboats were still being made long after Bantock started making iron vessels. For example Walkers of Rickmansworth (Tesco now) were making wooden vessels at least until the 1930s when they were supplying the GUCCCo.

That is one way of looking at it and if I may so a very positive approach. I started when I was 19 and am now 51 and won't be moving off the water as I in fact have no other options as have been afloat too long and I have serious resistance to change. Things happen and it does not suit everyone. Obviously this is a very personal subject and everyone's experience will be different. I would introduce a hazard associated with not having any other options especially if one has become accustomed to living ashore. Out of interest @mrsmelly did you retain the option by keeping a house or did you sell up and jump in at the deep end? That obviously makes a difference to the experience.

The Bantock front end which beerbeerbeerbeerbeer owns is a 'type 1'. These had wooden bottoms and also a wooden chine plank. The rest was rivetted wrought iron. I owned one of these for a short time which was a very early non cut motor conversion. Boat was 1884 conversion probably 1950s. It's this one which I believe is still at Roger Fullers yard. No idea where the big square block shaped item came from and this was after I sold it but this does shown the way they were constructed. Conversion later included a steel base and footings but the stepped knees were retained and it's obvious where the spikes would have been to attach the chine plank. (Image from national historic ships website). Lovely Boat that was but I am not the right person to own such a craft. I do like the 3 inch D guard irons on these old station Boats. Early Yarwoods vessels also had them. A lot of BCN vessels had plate type guard irons with a raised centre not sure what they are called but the D irons do it for me. I am afraid it was me who was guilty of constructing the awful bodge cabin but I also managed to avoid this vessel being cut and having a steel lid. That was what was going to happen to it a d my brief ownership prevented that happening. Of course it still may happen but at the same time it may be saved as an interesting old craft without excessive amounts of steel. I personally think putting steel lids on these spoils them. Monster prop on there and at the time it had a big air cooled 4 cylinder Petter engine. Fast one that was. I found those doors in a skip...

Also the thread title should be 'cold water heaters' as there would be no need to heat hot water. Or we could just have 'water heaters'.

The River Nene allows discharge into the waterway. Does the Gt Ouse not allow this? The Thames doesn't other than for the privatised water companies who can put thousands of tonnes of sewage in as and when they want to. I did think that the Gt Ouse was one of the few UK rivers where overboard discharge was allowed but I would also hope to be wrong.

Oh yes Mr Slocum. I did wonder if his adventure happened in his head rather than in reality.

Yes plus also the clans will get you. They like their land ownership. Historically societal collapse actually happens quite slowly and the people involved probably mostly don't realise it is happening. Change is the only constant.

Worth bearing in mind that as society gradually collapses there is an increased probability of wars. Lincolnshire is a significant target because there is defensive hardware in the area. The Scottish Isles may be sensible in some ways although the clans have a long history of violent conflict so one would need to have strong fortifications and willing helpers.

Yes I wonder which country would be better. France is interesting but it is always worth bearing in mind it is full of French people. My kids are half French so I do not particularly dislike them but they are very different to the English. Having said that Englandland is becoming somewhat overrun by terrible furriners. Maybe sailing around the world's in a slopp is the right plan after all.

Yes maybe identifying as a woman on that particular day.

I thought it would have been a woman.

Looking at the thread title maybe a great 'ouseboat would be the thing.

I seem to recall that someone on here has an email from Fogstar saying the BMS HVC is OK for this job. I think it's a bit dodgy but do not know enough about how the BMS board is impacted by regular switching. It may be fine. Logically it would seem to be something to deliberately avoid doing.

Yes it is interesting that Fogstar offer a ten year warranty and are happy for the BMS HVC to control charging. That could turn out to be a very large number of on off cycles for the BMS. I don't know how these electronic components 'age' but they must be very confident in the quality of the BMS boards.

I had wondered about what would happen if all content was producted in acronyms. It is slightly intriguing that people have jumped onto the Lithium Iron which happens to be LiFe. I don't hear people quoting the chemical formula for NMC batteries LiNiₓMnᵧCo₁₋ₓ₋ᵧO₂ LINIM coot?

3 letter acronyms are correct nomenclature. LIFePo4 is L F P. This is the same for all rhe other lithium battery chemistries. LMO LCO NCA NMC LFP LTO There are probably other obscure chemistries as well.

I thought it was his accomplice as he said 'you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'..

I wonder why the broker would get into discussion about the fine details relating to using an instantaneous gas water heater. Do they also offer Boat Safety inspections? It could be fun to engage this one in a conversation about lithium rechargeable batteries. And I'm like 'is their job not to just sell you the Boat ?'

The gearbox cable is nothing to do with engine idle speed. Two separate cables. I was wondering if the gearbox had momentarily jammed in ahead gear breaking the cable when you tried to shift to neutral. By the time you got to it the prop foul may have dislodged itself. Just speculation most probably wrong but a shaking engine can be related to bent prop or shaft which had been caused by an instantaneous prop foul like a piece of 2x4 being in the right place at the right time.