magnetman

My residential mooring is 22m x 4.1m but my Boat is only 10m x 3m. Mooring fee is the same regardless of Boat size. Its not a marina.

Always worth being aware of the ultracrepidarians. The internet has changed the game. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ultracrepidarian ."In Book 35 of his Natural History, Pliny the Elder records that a shoemaker noted that one figure had the wrong number of straps on his crepida, a kind of elaborate sandal. Delighted to see it fixed the next day, he supposedly began to critique the form of the leg, so annoying Apelles that the painter came out to tell him to mind his own business: that a shoemaker should restrict his commentary to the shoes. This became a Latin proverb as ne suprā crepidam sūtor iūdicāret (“Let not the cobbler pass judgment beyond the shoes”)." Ultracrepidarianism is more common than one might at first assume. The Appelles geyser sounds quite shrewd. He would hide behind his paintings and listen to the criticisms. No flies on that one.

Someone must have had fun working it all out taking into account extraction and transport for the manufactured stuff compared with trees. Having said that I do disagree with cutting living trees.

You are right. I quite often get asked by staff at stations if I am 'alright' because I like looking at the tracks. Oddly my family has a very high suicide rate. Maybe these staff members are trained to see these things. I have no intention of following family tradition but the staff may be able to spot things. I actually had to tell someone at Maidenhead station quite recently that I was not going to jump because he definitely thought I was ! It is an interesting topic. Displacing the problem of suicide from railways could result in non professional non trained people finding the body. In the case of a train the driver must know the inevitability of animal and occasional human strikes. There is nothing they can do. One of my uncles used a 12 bore to rearrange his head. He was found by a random passer by. I wonder how well they dealt with that discovery. Its not ideal. Its never ideal but preventing railway deliberate deaths may be moving the problem elsewhere.

Actually I wired in a 12v-3.7v buck converter to the contacts instead of. battery. In order to fool the phone into thinking it has a battery one must solder a resistor of a certain value across two of the terminals. That way it will run off a 12v battery.

The thread I linked above is worth reading as it gives general information on how a dry sump engine such as this should be managed. The poster Timleech is RIP but was a very knowledgeable gentleman whose comments are always worth reading.

to be fair there is a big advantage if one has access to free firewood it has not been banned yet.

Is this a dry sump engine? Only one I can find is this I don't know but I'm thinking that JP engines are sometimes dry sump. engine has no dipstick Certainly a very handsome engine.

One could fit a solenoid valve in the fuel line with a hidden switch but then as with all these things one would have to remember to switch it on !

Was that on the Great Ouse somewhere down Huntingdon way? Hartford marina

79ft narrow Boat? It will be quite technical to get a 70ft narrow Boat onto land unless you can somehow drag it sideways out of the water. If the Boat is elsewhere its going to need cranes both ends and a large transporter wagon. All of these pieces of machinery will need proper roadways. I wouldn't touch it with a largepole.

Definitely a better option and can be delivered using a bog standard hiab truck whereas a narrow Boat might be too heavy. Indeed. It will be interesting to see how policy makers deal with it. People moan about the CRT but it will be a .gov body with real powers which eventually sorts it out. This country is changing fast isn't it.

I once made a reed switch mooring alarm from an old Nokia button phone. You program no.2 speed dial to be your own phone number then dismantle the phone and solder thin wires onto the copper pads beneath no 2. Wire that to normally closed (NC) reed switch. Put a magnet beside the reed switch and it will be open circuit. If the magnet is moved (door open. Boat no longer moored etc) the NC reed switch closes the contact and phone dials your number. reed switch was inside a window stuck to a magnetic 2p coin and the magnet was stuck to this outside with fishing line leading to a tent peg on the bank. If the Boat becomes detached from the mooring you get a phone call when the magnet drops off the window. It did work.

I think it is a little disingenuous to suggest there will be no surprises. In this sort of situation it is regarded as wise to understand who might be looking at this kind of Boat given current circumstances. I believe it is a difficult Boat to sell. It is a nice Boat. Having owned a similar sized barge for ten yars I know it is too big for me. Interesting but it is a not something I would want to own

There was a website called pocketdiallers where someone was doing really good phone mods for triggering and also for alerting. one could do both at the same time. bang bang Maybe they got looked at.

How does one get the ash out ?

I think it would be better to change the fire rather than alter it. It may look like a wood burner but there will be extra gubbins and bits missing which may be a tricky issue to resolve for a number of different reasons.

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Green stamps. Isn't that an ageing thing?

Yes but your life will be better by water and for this you will be thankful.