magnetman

The thing about going down the wrong side of the canal is interesting. It could happen and people would be agitated. Someone might holler 'Go on the right side!' but the car driver mentality could say to itself 'The left side is the right side to be on'

People could get annoyed by this and start shouting. Maybe 'you alright geyser' or 'good afternoon buddy/pal/chap'. A general mix of phrases would be less aggressive than saying Hello to everyone. For a start some may object to the principle of the first verbal interaction starting with the word 'Hell'..

It could be a facebook thing. If someone was erroneously or correctly identified as being a low person then others may object to them being there. Canals are not very big.

Black Prince hire have this on their website Canal etiquette at a glance Max speed is 4mph Slow down to almost a tick over when cruising past moored boats Move to the RIGHT-HAND SIDE (opposite to driving) of the canal if another boat is coming towards you. Move off the service point when you’ve finished using it (e.g. water point) Follow good lock etiquette. Don’t cruise after 8pm or before 8am in the morning. Do not run engines or generators between 8pm to 8am whilst moored. Keep the towpath next to the boat free of litter and obstructions. Clean up after your dogs. Offer assistance to any boater when it seems appropriate and is safe to do so. Say hello!

What is it about 7ft from base to top of cabin?

Yes I saw that. To be fair widebeams are brilliant for demonising and general scapegoating. I'm sure a few people would have words if they saw a widebeam coming down Napton flight on its side.

Perhaps the OP has a really terrible Boat which is blatantly dangerous, not displaying a licence and has fake rivets with a rude name going to fast. With a rope dangling in the water and plastic fenders leaving the paddles and gates open. And a vulgar parrot. A lot of people get upset by vulgar parrots.

Properly designed hardware can avoid the use of fans in a lot of cases. Specially cases with well designed heat sinks. But as I understand it this is mainly a circuit design story. Cheap junk = cooling fans. The cooling fan will be what fails first. It will get blocked up with dust and the bearings are bad quality then the fan stops working and the overheat cutout stops the controller from operating. Much better to get a controller which is not relying on a cooling fan.

None of my Victron MPPT controllers have fans.

Hey, just what you see pal.

So the 8-8 rule does not apply to products which generate electricity without moving parts.

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To be fair the canals were originally put in with quite a lot of surplus depth to deal with problems and the trading Boats were deeper. Logical outcome is a bit like the china thing one puts under the teacup and occasionally sees flying through the air helmed by aliens.

It would be a bit nasty if the puddle banks breached. More likely to happen after heavy rain than in a drought but odd weather can do odd things.

Its an odd mechanism. I think it must be a vertical screw setup a bit similar to the Hatton candlesticks. These rely on some sort of shock absorber to prevent overrun damage. Maybe this one needs new shock absorbers. Only a theory but its definitely a bit of a funny one. Has anyone seen inside the box?

I did make the fire with a blow torch hole just above the grate with a screwed on lid. It's good for adding extra air with a blow pipe or bellows. Caution needed as sometimes if there is a sudden flame it elects a large dusty flame. I did get zapped by it once when using tinned mackerel oil as an accelerant. Bit dodgy in a way. No harm.

That was my only heating all of last winter and I don't ever spend a single night anywhere other than on the Boat. Cold mornings just mean basic problem solving in the form of lighting the fire. Twigs from trees for kindling and logs from fallen branches cut with a small cordless tree fellers saw.

I can get 18 inches in it from above (as the actress said to the bishop). For front loading the logs need to be six inches or less. Top entrance is sized to allow standard 4x4 fence post type timber with a bit of clearance. I have no need to keep it in overnight as I have a bed with a duvet and a wool blanket and also a felt blanket and I am very manly.

We made my stove to have the top removable as well as a porthole on the front. The thermal mass thing is a disadvantage as it means the fire takes longer to warm up. Mine is 5mm thick 8 inch box section steel. Chucks the heat out very quickly and reacts to fueling but it does need feeding regularly. Hand fired stove innit.

Army felt blankets and dunlopillo wool blankets are good. Natural materials rather than plastic stuff. Also for extra heat in winter sliced road cones and non metal street signs are good. Oh yes and those plastic traffic barriers which always seem to get into the waterways. Less plastic waste in the water. OLD ROPE.

I burn almost exclusively wood and this little fire will not stay in overnight. It will stay in on smokes less fuel such as the lovely Phurnacite or Home fire but that is for exceptional circumstances. As for outlawing burning this is a real worry. Messing around with the basic building blocks of human civilisation is a bad idea in general.

Yes. The stove I partly designed and had made is around 3kw and makes the cabin in my 40x9ft saloon launch extremely warm if needed. Done two winters full time with that one never got cold apart from mornings. I let the fire go out overnight. As I have done 31 winters with solid fuel or wood stoves I have had quite a few different types. Boilers are a luxury but also something to go wrong. I prefer just the fire itself as simple as possible no glass to break and no moving riddle grate. I also have a two part dismantleable stainless steel flue which has been very good. 15kw seems rather enormous to me. For narrows over 50ft there is an argument for having a fire at each end but that means extra fuel and cleaning so not suitable for all. I suppose a nice solution would be to have a Diesel heater excluding boiler in the saloon and a small multifuel at the back somewhere. That would be quite good.

It's a great photo.

The River is extremely quiet around Marlow and Maidenhead. Hardly anyone out at all. Will be interesting to see what the weekend is like. It seems like Boating has gone out of fashion.

I think it has an air cooled Lister. I remember this Boat from the mid 00s around the Bulbourne and Tring areas. SR2 or SR3 in there I reckon.