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I think they should stop the traffic lift the bridge up and let the boat threw. Just an inpatient boat not waiting for the bridge to lift clear.
Be a good excuse to over stay in that area build your boat too high then say i cant move the brdges are too low
Its a fixed road bridge. And a barge with a collapsible wheelhouse. He could have folded the wheelhouse but as he came through there shortly before with it up he assumed it would fit again. The pound was obviously a bit higher than previously.
Regarding the cyclist - I think he should have dismounted.
Funny whenever someone criticises certain cyclists someone comes along saying that people hate all cyclists.
This film was taken on the regents canal at Dalston AFAIK . you have to experience the cyclist problem in the area on the towpath to understand why people complain about it.
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Interesting looking at other videos this link shows up.
Overtaking stationary traffic up the inside at speed and somehow a surprised pedestrian, who has a reasonable expectation that all traffic has stopped, is in the wrong!
George ex nb Alton retired
When I am walking and there are high speed ---- cyclists about I always take the side of the path further from the water. Cyclists are willing to raise the overall danger level on the towpath by travelling at high speed. This means they can also be expected to take the more dangerous part of the path otherwise they are just rude to be honest.
Keep to the left ? Rules of the road? Is the towpath a road now?
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I've been under that bridge with wheelhouse up and an inch to spare. If someone had emptied the next lock up the surge could have put me against the bridge.
Odd because the same boat had been down to Limehouse including going under that bridge so he knew if he could clear it with W/H up.
Would not call that a "crash" personally but another prat cyclist is not a surprising phenomenon
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Yes I was specifically commenting on large overplated areas like entire hull sides or bottoms. Small patches seem to me to be sensible and indicate an attention to detail.
I heard from someone that commercial boats are not allowed to be overplated/doubled but that the knackered plating had to be removed and replaced completely.
Don't know if its true. Perhaps it was for seagoing boats which get more pounding
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I think the OP is probably taking the mickey bliss.
Its an obvious idea which has probably occurred to every gent who has ever had the good fortune to be on a boat where he is in charge of emptying (and filling) the lavatory tank.
It could be done but would need good sanitising and also a sensible designed skin fitting which deposited the waste outboard a bit I would have thought.
Also been "done" about a dozen times before on the forum - Google search will find it !
"Skin fitting" - sounds a bit rude oo-er matron
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To quote myself "I would definitely prefer a historic boat which had been rebottomed and refooted by cutting out all old material from just above the waterline rather than simply overplated."Define "proper"?
I am actually currently bringing Sickle home from extensive hull repairs at one of the very most respected yards specialising in such work.
The majority has been done by cutting out and replacing, but for certain areas the specialist surveyor has specified overplaying, so that is how it has been done, (for very valid reasons).
I don't think any of what has been done is "not proper".
The bow of Sickle has incidentally had two layers of plate all over for the last 74 years, since it was doubled up in 1942 for extra strength to break ice - even now it still seems "proper"!
That's what I mean by "proper". i think (could be wrong) that overplating large sections of underwater surface is a bit of a bodge compared with cutting out and welding in new material.
I have noticed some of the former and some of the latter. And I was talking about rebottoming and refooting not all underwater repairs.
All in my opinion - as all my posts are
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Replaced - does that mean cut out and new material welded in properly or just doubled/overplated? I would definitely prefer a historic boat which had been rebottomed and refooted by cutting out all old material from just above the waterline rather than simply overplated. Fortunately a lot of old narrow boats have had proper work done but by no means all of them.
Of course removing old material reduces the historic validity of the boat in some ways but overplating is storing up trouble IMO.
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Isn't that against forum rules? Personal comments etcI u detest...
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I have 7 100amp leisure batteries which do not seem to charge up properly this time of year the 880 watts of solar panels have be keeping them charged and have not had to run my generator <snip>
Did you have the 880w solar last winter?
Solar is great in the summer and with a proper controller will look after batteries. Once the weather starts to change ( which it does at this time of year) it usually becomes necessary to run a generator and this requires long hours to perform similar charging to a solar array.
I think what you are seeing is probably normal "oh its autumn now" type solar power behaviour.
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I thought they had stopped making biscuits in Reading.
Tesco do biscuits AND beer and all sorts of wonderful other things. And petrol. and you can -sometimes- moor outside.
Better than a biscuit factory any day !
Thames marina at Reading (Tingdean) usually has a few boats for sale, mix of narrow boats and yogurt pots. note come off M4 onto A329M and up A4 to Sonning to cross Thames as reading can get sticky.
Thames and Kennet sometimes abbreviated to T&K. I think Chris-B (baldock) previously of CWDF might be working in the brokerage there possibly - not sure on that.
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The government want everybody up to their eyeballs in mortgage debt to their banking masters. Then people have to work more years and pay more taxes. So anything, like boating, that might look like a alternative cheaper form of shelter has to be made to look less appealing and cost more. So anything is possible re a new Act.
Towpath mooring fees collected by private contractors - payable by anyone remaining more than 24hrs in one area?
It all depend on what happens to the EA waters.If the government suddenly decides to continue with their plan of handing over the EA navigations to the Trust, this will present an opportunity for a new act, into which they can place extra clauses for the whole of the "New Trust" with its new waterways. So it could well happen in the next three years.
Anyway Brexit isn't taking up any time in parliament yet because they have to work out what Brexit means Brexit actually means, and only once they have done and announced it can they start to debate it.
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cheers Ian Mac
Good point about the EA situation
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75,83,95.... About every ten years yet its been 21 years...
Probably is about time for another one to take account of current "usage patterns" which have changed a bit since 1995.
(coincidentally 1995 was my first year living on a canal boat)
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I'd have thought it would be one of the shorter ones like Sudbury which would get used for pushing ?
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Deduct 5 geek points for not knowing it was a Northwich from the picture of the stem post alone
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Better to fit standard domestic co monitors than none imo
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My ICC is somewhat less durable
It does have an RYA horrogran in it
This version also allows me to handle vessels with inverters on board
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Agreed but without widespread dissemination of the advice (like putting it as a requirement for a BS certificate) a lot of people will never become aware of the fact that a CO detector or 3 or 4 is a very good idea on a boat.
Not a lot of people read CanalWorld
As far as personal safety is concerned, I wouldn't bother worrying about what the BSS says. A carbon monoxide detector will alarm you if it detects carbon monixide, whether it was 'designed' for buses, planes, spaceships or prams. Just fit some, at head height in all bedrooms.
(My phone won't add quoted posts any more not sure why so I have to reply again with the post I was replying to
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Well I'm still here...
Luckily the plan backfired
(Or I am a conspiracy theorist)
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I'm sure the statistics must be published somewhere not sure where.
I assume that the BS scheme did result in a noticeable drop in the number of casualties in inland boat related incidents and accidents.
I wondered if it might be some sort of insurance thing going on and related to liability etc but it could equally be to do with employment in the sector.
My first thought when the BS became compulsory was that the "powers that be" simply wanted rid of the more scruffy type of characters with their dodgy boats and introducing safety requirements -might- be one way get them off the water.
Sorry this has wandered off topic somewhat !
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Also I think CO detectors may be inherently unstable in a damp environment so perhaps subject to failure ?
I have 3 on my barge. Happy to sometimes see a reading on the screens occasionally - at least it means they are working !!
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As I see it the BS scheme is mainly about the safety of other people and other people's boats not the boat owner themselves.
I've never quite understood why it came about in the first place.
Edit to remove ranty bit
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So...
are there any other yarwoods boats with this feature or has someone actually cut a rivet out and used the hole for a shackle ?
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A 24ft grp cruiser is pretty small.........Yet other boaters seem to manage to control a solid fuel stove perfectly adequately. I don't know the particular details about your boat but our boat had flammable material surrounding the flue and roof, so it was a case of suitably cutting it back then using non-flammable material (a piece of stainless steel sheet with a hole in it) to cover/trim the area. And of course, a suitable hearth. So I still believe that a normal solid fuel stove is the most sensible heating solution for a boater, irrespective of the construction material of the boat. I guess limited/no space, could make it a further complication though.
I agree that solid fuel is the best option on boats in general but very small stoves like the faversham and Davey hotpot and some cheap eBay welded things are a bit of a pain to keep in all the time and something like a boatman or a aarow acorn is going to make the boat uncomfortably warm
Still not sure if the boat is on mains electric. I am guessing it isn't.
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Bridge is too low for boat
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Sounds like a good rule to me
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