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  5. most unusual narrow boat you have seen

    in General Boating

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    That's a pretty standard type, there's loads of them about, fairly low wash so can apply for the speed limit exemption, and able to carry up to 9 casualties if, in the worst case scenario, an eight sinks.

    Interesting about carrying the casualties. I like the old cox's boats long and thin with outboard in a well and two seats but had noticed they seem to be being retired. This could be a reason.

  7. Just brought a widebeam riveted house boat advise needed..

    in New to Boating?

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    I am with Brian on this one, it has much of a Thames Conservancy work flat about it. I just hope the OP has not wasted their money in trying for a bargain.

    It does look similar to the Thames Conservancy work punts I agree with that. It is not exactly the same there are some slight differences.

     

    It is of course possible that it is a purpose built houseboat hull. Houseboating was very popular on the Thames in the early 1900s although they were usually larger than this.

    Here is a rather poor photo I took in 2014

    I went past that in my kayak a couple of hours ago (south stoke between Goring and Wallingford). It is rather different to the boat in the op if you look carefully. Thames Conservancy punts were very similar to ordinary ladies and gentlemen type punts. Op boat is quite noticeably different in some ways.

     

    Not at all. I've seen this as a very efficient way of overplating a BCN day boat, the steel tray was fitted to the iron above the waterline. I guess it became a bit wider but one a wide boat that's not a problem,

     

    The boat was called Leviathan and was notorious for a while for the style of it's interior.

     

    It took 3 welders a day to make the tray, the boat was floated into the dock and lowered into the tray.

     

     

    Edited for spelling

    Is this what's known as a 'shoe' ?

  13. Mud weights

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    I agree - I can't really see mud weights holding a narrow boat on a small canal. Useful as an extra option but not really going to do the job.

     

    Possibly ok on rivers ?

     

     

    Spud legs would work but pretty sure CRT would be very upset about them being used !!

  14. Could the canal network solve our energy worries?

    in General Boating

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    What's so important about polar bears anyway.

     

    It could in theory work but the amount of added infrastructure would probably make it pointless. Its a nice idea. They have turbines on a couple of the weirs in the Thames (Romney at Windsor and another one not sure which one)

    I think it would be better to line motorways with wind turbines to take advantage of the wind generated by moving cars.

  15. Mud weights

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    Cast your own, cement and gravel on a bucket, piece of chain on the mixture fasten to. Or go to your local hardware store and ask for a long weight.

    If you do that you'll still be there the next day ;)

    If you can get old brake rotors (discs) bolt three or four of them together it should make quite a good mud weight. My local tyre and exhaust centre leave them outside for people to take as they ate virtually worthless scrap. I use a single one as a dinghy anchor - several of them stacked is going to be pretty good I expect.

     

    Typo

  18. Napton flight - Boat stuck

    in General Boating

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    Can the cyclists get past alright ?

     

    :rolleyes:

    Snipe noted.

     

    Buckland lock was already nicknamed the banana lock due to the bulge in the wall.

     

    I have every respect for C&RT when they get things right. Seeing the number of lock walls gradually getting worse over the years, I'm not impressed with the prioritisation in the office department.

  19. Three Fellows Carrying slide on ebay

    in History & Heritage

    Posted

     

    I stand corrected!

     

    Now I have looked at the basin on Google Earth, I can see that I was making a wrong assumption that all 6 boats would need room to be alongside each other, and that it was not wide enough for this.

     

    What had escaped me is that it is long enough for a pair of boats to be in front of another pair, so in fact could probably accommodate 4 pairs in all.

     

    Am I right in thinking it now has a fixed bridge, so is no longer accessible at all?

    I think its still a swing bridge but it had been fixed shut somehow I can't remember exactly but possibly a bolted steel plate. Whether it could be reinstated as a swing bridge not sure :unsure:

  22. Jabsco par-max 4 leak

    in Boat Equipment

    Posted

    I replace my shurflo pump when it starts leaking. My boat is full time 24/7 residential with family of 4 on board and a bath so it does a lot of hours. A friend recently told me he had successfully extended the life of a similar pump by just putting sikaflex around the seam where it was leaking. This was done while the pump was dry.

     

    Seems like a reasonable solution may be worth trying with the Jabsco?

    I used my old shurflo pump motor to propel one of my kayaks :) off topic sorry but they are quite good motors as it happens it is a shame they get binned.

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