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The environment agency used to send out Moor Alongside window stickers with licenses - not sure if they are available from CRT as well
And I am not sure if you can get a sticker saying the opposite
something like "go away I like the view out of my windows" -
The topic title includes the words Holiday and London.
Surely some mistake
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Not yet
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This was meant to be in general boating not sure why it went in this section
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One of the first things I thought was swim platform but I ruled it out immediately due to it being such thick metal.
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I suppose it could be a step for getting out with that is a possibility.
It seemed to be very heavy duty and deliberately put on for a particular reason which to my mind has some sort of mechanical purpose.
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I have seen a lot of narrow boats but never seen this before.
Is it a hydrofoil for high speed operarions
Ice plates
It looked like 12mm plate so quite a serious thing.
A modern narrow boat non commercial about 28ft long.
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One of the narrow boats I previously owned had a Russell Newbery DM2 in a stern engine room. When I bought it there was deep pile carpet on the floor around the engine. I removed it as I thought it was ridiculous. I always wondered after that if it had been put in as soundproofing - it was pretty loud considering there was nothing between engine and steerer!Several boatmen in the 50s boasted of carpeted engine 'oles, showing how well they kept their engines.
(or how willing they were to roll them up before doing work!)
More accurate term might be "sound deadening" I suppose as it was not a barrier between sound source and ears but may have contributed to a reduction in reflected sound ? Possibly
Hi! Thanks for your reply! The board would cover the engine about a metre sq, so would have to be strong enough
18mm hexagrip would be fine - so would 18mm plywood. Not sure it's worth putting phenolic ply down unless it is subjected to heavy wear. Plywood painted with some sort of non slip additive would probably be just as good.
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£100k for a mooring on Hall Farm in Rickmansworth??
What is the world coming to? Do they know about the undesirables opposite at tge Bitchworth moorings
Regents park yes I can understand a big premium being added to the boat value.. but Ricky?
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Maybe it hasn't been filled with water at that stage. When they filled it the whole thing went "kerracklonkeerp"And those support brackets look none too safe for carrying all that weight. They seem to be held up by just two screws.
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Hello everyone.
I`m thinking of doing something like this on my wood burner.
I`m thinking this coil ( in the photo below ) is not installed correctly ?
I was always under the impression that the cold in line should exit at the bottom of the tank and go to the bottom of the coil , then wind upwards and exit the coil at the top winding , re entering the tank at the top ( thermosyphon )?
Have I got it wrong ?
I don't think thermosyphon would work with such thin pipe would it?
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Hexagrip or gorilla board is one option.
Also known as phenolic ply it is quite durable (often used for van or trailer interiors and deck boards on cruiser stern narrow boats. It is non slip.
A bit "industrial for internal use but some people like that and it would suit an engine room in my opinion. Don't know about fireproofing.
Are you talking about an engine "room" or any engine "bay" ie can you walk right round the engine standing up?
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I thought they were maggot drowners? Danglers seems to be technically incorrect as when dangling the maggot one is not in fact fishing.
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Part of the name is submerged and therefore not visible.
Something like "used to have..." Or similar
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Does seem an odd price.
I suppose if you can get £200 for a windlass...
Perhaps there is some cachet in old completely nackered boats.
In which case someone will be raiding Harefield flash
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Long shaft is one of the traditional terms for what is often called a "Barge pole" nowadays. You can also have a Severn shaft, which was about 20' long, or a hitcher which was the east Anglian term. There were other terms used around the country.
The other one is the cabin shaft, which lives on the cabin top- what people nowadays call a boathook, with the hook sharpened on one side to cut through rubbish on the blade.
Thames locks have Hitcher poles. Nowadays they are aluminium shafts witg iron hooks. I was fortunate enough to find one with the magnet a couple of years ago - nowhere near a lock - by picking up the iron hook part. The shaft is long I haven't measured it but I think its about 15ft.
Above Oxford where the locks have balance beams the hitcher pole is used to pull or push the the opposite gate closed or open to save the lock keeper having to walk round.
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I bought a small fibreglass boat last year and an old friend (who is 70 years old and been living on the water since the 60s) described it as a 'Noddy Boat'. It happens to be a bit of an odd boat but I didn't realise that was an older term for fibreglass boats.
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Years ago I very cleverly bought a copper kettle from a junk shop. It was a nice item and not in bad condition with the spout well soldered on etc.
I put it on and made some tea. The tea tasted foul. Made some more. Still tasted foul.
Inspection of the kettle was in order and following a good look I found that someone had been stubbing out cigarettes in the top of the spout and there was still a fag end in it
Its definitely worth checking for the silly unexpected things.
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I worry about the boat sinking even though there is only about 6 inches under it before it hits the bottom of the canal
It plays on my mind. In the past I have had very weird dreams about the boat sinking in very strange circumstances.
Its a good picture
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I was thinking that forum member NMEA might have one. Maybe worth a pm?
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First thing to check is if it is a built in tank (effectively the inside of the hull plating usually at the front - therefore subject to internal rusting)
You could try completely emptying the tank then refilling. Probably worth doing it through the filler if it is directly above the tank. Use a pump with a hose attached so you can suck out all the water then refill the tank completely. Then drain again and repeat a few times. A build up of crud in the tank could contribute to a taste problem, specially if it is a built in tank.
Other than that maybe filtering is an option. In my experience a clean tank (built in or otherwise) tastes the same as normal tap water. I did once have a problem when I bought a new hose which seemed to have some sort of detergent in it which was transferred to the tank on first use and took a while to flush out of the system.
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When I was passing a match and met a boat coming the other way a fisherman once said to me "you are spoiling my swim" he wasn't even in the water
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When I was looking for my first narrow boat in 1994 I went to Cosgrove to see a 36ft Springer. While walking along the towpath near the acqueduct I got talking to someone in an old wooden workboat. When i said about the boat I had come to see they eloquently explained that if you get a piece of wood and put it in the water it floats - get a piece of metal and it sinks. Strangely it seems to be the opposite when it comes to canal boats !
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Anyone lost a ring this weekend in the CRT loo at the top of the Buckby flight?
I found one just now and have handed it in behind bar at the New Inn
It will need to be described to be released.
Was it actually in the loo?
Perhaps someone had thrown it in there in disgust due to some sort of infidelity issue or similar.
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Fair enough
I took it the wrong way sorry about that.
whats this all about? odd steel plate welded to front of boat
in New to Boating?
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Thanks Roger
It does seem to have a hydrodynamic purpose of some sort. I would have thought ballasting would be suitable but if the boat was heavily built and required no ballast with tanks full but was still a bir heavy at the front then it could be a solution I suppose.
It didn't seem to have unusually low gunnels so I don't see extra ballast causing a problem.