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Not sure but it looks like the burner in the Victory stove is a pressurised system like a primus stove. I've never used one of these so I don't know what they are like to use.
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Yes but you'd need several friends. Also if you sold the boat to a friend of a friend for a pound then maybe they would no longer be your friend but would have your boat?
For some reason I think this leads to trouble
and if you keep using the same friend someone at CRT will notice it. -
Yes but the op is talking about the paraffin version which has a much smaller flue. I assumed the paraffin one was same as the diesel one ie drip feed but not certain about that now
the 'burner' is a heated mushroom in a combustion chamber directly connected to the flue ( 56mm) onto which the diesel drips.
edited to clarify I mean the Taylor''s
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Yes and maybe the tube itself could be used as a beer cooler?
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I spoke to an old hand who knows of four bow thruster leaks and one that sunk the boat. The tube was, in each case, made of welded tube and the weld failed. If seamless tube was used failure would take much longer and be slower. On passenger ships, where you can stand up in the 'tunnel', it is normal to weld in a liner. The liner is of stainless steel and can be renewed. It's also protected with sacrificial anodes. If I built a boat with a thruster I would want a watertight bulkhead aft of the thruster and a designated bilge pump and alarm. The motor could be off to one side and fitted on a sleeve that came above the waterline so that the seal could be serviced afloat.
Does anyone have any old photos of narrowboat sterns craned out of the water under a bridge - used to be quite common practice, presumably they chose a bridge with no traffic!
I wonder if impact of the front of the boat with lock entrance walls could actually cause a weld failure due to flexing of the hull?
Yes we had that problem, right under the prop, but was cured, last 10-15 years it have not come back
Is it to do with the propeller being too close to the tube wall?
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(You cross posted with me MtB
) I had exactly the same thought and suspect the title was designed for maximum exposure -
Maybe it would be worth having a pinned topic for boats people want to see again or owners who people want to get in touch with?
"Lost boat" is an odd title - perhaps the boat actually belongs to the OP and has been stolen?
Anyway if there was a pinned topic then people could say things like the previous poster and give reasons etc. Would be much more straightforward in a way. I'd be interested to know where my old boats have got to (Hancock and lane marlin re-named "encore" les Allen 40 footer renamed "kerensa". There are others but I know where they are.
Mightbe an interesting topic !
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Of course if there is no burner in it then the boat safety scheme doesn't come into it anyway - its just a decorative item with no functional purpose. So maybe having the removeable burner is actually rather a Good Thing ! I wonder how much better than a normal portable paraffin burner it is - and how much of the moisture generated would actually be drawn out of the tiny flue ?
(Eta looked up the Taylors 079k and I see what you mean it does have a very small flue - but does the burner sit a bit below the flue or is it actually connected directly to it ?
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I thought the Taylors paraffin burning bulkhead heater had the same specifications as the diesel burning version.
If as you say it is a standalone burner with a surround like the victory then the victory may well be okay. As far as I know Taylor's have a very good reputation in the yotting world.
Of course yots are quite different to canal boats and not always subject to the BS.
Its a nice looking item
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Looking at the item it seems to be some sort of open paraffin burner with an external surround arrangement including a flue. I don't know what the bs scheme says about this sort of thing but it doesn't look particularly suitable for boats in my opinion.
Edit to correct a bit
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I've never had one of these heaters.
I have seen a bulkhead heater with a very small flue which could well have been 22mm so I don't think that's necessarily an error. If it was 22mm then maybe a compression bulkhead fitting could be used for the roof?
A Taylors 079 has a fairly large flue something like 60mm or more so it would be a bit awkward to adapt if this item does actually have a 22mm (7/8") flue on it.
If it is installed with such a small flue I would be tempted to put a digital carbon monoxide monitor in the same space just to make sure nothing naughty happens
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The topic is about the tubes rusting through
(But I do agree !! )
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Surely not
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I bought my first ever bag of coal from Ivor on Mountbatten at braunston turn in 1994
it was just Mountbatten then. I like the boats. Does seem quite a lot for a motor and a butty but I am not at all up to date with values. As far as I know Ivor had £10k in a carrier bag when he bought Mountbatten. Don't know when that was - 1990 ish? Someone will know. So if its now worth £40k that's reasonable but not as good as house values.
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talking about bowthrusters on here is almost as bad as religion
.Anyway. Bowthrusters are ----------------
Going back to the op I wonder if these leaking tubes were just random or if there was a bias towards any particular boat builder or equipment manufacturer?
Age of boats? I suppose if the tube is thinner stuff than the hull plating then it will go through quicker - how long have bowthrusters been around for on canal boats? Maybe it's the first generation beginning to show their age.
Typo
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Aluminium is OK if it suitably thick. I made an aluminium tiller bar for a normal trad narrow boat years ago. I think it was 1.1/2 inch (38.1mm) diameter with a 1/8" (3.2mm) wall thickness. Not certain on those specifications so worth checking.
My favourite tiller bar was on a small old Les Allen narrow boat when I bought it - it was chrome plated mild steel with wear from use so it wasn't too shiny - it looked really great
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Me too.
I wouldn't want to fish for that information as it is a little invasive. Just if we knew where it was we could ask people in that area to drop him/her a message to call us.
Didn't think I'd pull out so many trolls from under bridges whilst asking for someone to call us.
I won't do it again. All I really wanted was a " Yes, Its Burt .. he is moored next to me, I'll ask him in the pub later"
Sorry if I've upset anyone, you may now continue to watch your goats from the safety of your bridges
Happy Friday.. Now we can all get back to discussing Brexit and the downfall of the UK or rise of a super nation
( Whole new can of Worms!)Ouch
pull out so many trolls from under bridges? That's a fairly serious accusation I don't know if you are accustomed to regular use of internet forums?
I can not see any goats just ducks and coots sorry
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I disagree with the use of the word scummy - slightly trollish use of language liable to cause aggrevation but I do think using cwdf to 'find' boats is dodgy personally.
Edit to change aggregation to aggrevation
Ask the op?I disagree.
We don't actually know that this is about money owing, but even if it is, how on EARTH is it "scummy" to try to track down somebody who owes you money.
Has the owners granny just had a heart attack
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And a boat name was included which while not being a person's name is an identifier - unless the boat is called Kingfisher
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If you read it again you will notice the words "if anyone knows of its location..."I didn't see anything wrong with your asking about the boat in question. I read it that if any of us were to see the boat/owner to ask them to give you a call, not for us to tell you of the location of said boat.
No harm in passing a message along is there, reason for the message is non of our business really.
I read this as asking for the location of a boat. It always makes me a bit uneasy when someone does this - unless it is a stolen boat in which case cwdf is a very valuable resource
or I suppose someone who needs to be contacted by family for some sort of emergency.Edit for precision
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Can you expand on "finish our business with him" so we know the reason for your request for a location?
(Crossed with RedPandaBear - mindereader
)has an outstanding bill.
No duck jokes please
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My daughters have been aware of and using swear words since they could talk. Elder one who is now 6 used to sit in back of car and mumble "f***ing traffic"
now that they are more talkative they don't use swear words much at all despite their parents doing so !!By the way do you think coot shit would work? I have a couple of floating wheels (car wheels with inflated tyres) by the boat for nesting and there is a big dollop on there but it is not a duck which deposited it.
Is it worth scraping up and putting in a jar.
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I did consider a mag drill but it is on a slightly curved part of the steelwork.
My makita 6337 14.4 (older type) is pretty good for heavy duty work including holesaws. I have done holesaws before but I was thinking this 46mm -might- be doable with jigsaw but I suspect it would break the blades as it is a small hole.
Duck waste (are we allowed to say shti?) Is a good one
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magnetman, I can assure you that we have implicit trust in this couple having known them for many, many years, It is actually Mrs T's niece and her husband.
We have supplied Towergate Mardon with their names and address. I also write a covering letter "To whom it may concern", saying I give them full permission to use the boat between stated dates.
They have yet never failed to return our boat.
Yes it was not a personal comment just an observation about an insurance company
and if you keep using the same friend someone at CRT will notice it.
) I had exactly the same thought and suspect the title was designed for maximum exposure 
pull out so many trolls from under bridges? 
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Is this the boat which was moored just above Cassio Bridge lock on the offside moorings until a few years ago.