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  3. LPG cooker with high level grill ? Recommendations

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    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    Thanks. I'll probably do that then, insulation board with aluminium or stainless thin sheet over it. I wouldn't consider tiling the 'ceiling' lining although it would be quite attractive - that seems to be asking for trouble. I suppose one could drill a small hole in the centre of each tile, properly centred, countersink and put a single screw in it, as well as the tile adhesive - then grout over the screw head. If all the holes were exactly central then it would look like it was meant to be like that, and the tiles wouldn't drop on yer head !!

  5. LPG cooker with high level grill ? Recommendations

    in Boat Equipment

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    Have to agree with you there.

    Saw this on another forum For cookers the zone is 20 mm side clearance on the lower part of the cooker (oven sides) and then 150 mm each side for the top part of the cooker (above the level of the burners and pan supports). The upper zone extends vertically to either 610 mm above the top of the cooker if it has an eye-level grill, or 760 mm if the highest point is the hob burners."

    So if the cooker is 1460mm tall and clearance is another 610mm then you need a boat with a ceiling of just over 2 meters high.

     

    Thanks for pointing that out.

     

    Floor to ceiling is 2.05 metres where the cooker is going and there is the option to remove lining above the cooker and fit a heatproof plate of aluminium or something :) so I think I can just about get away with it.

     

    Thanks also for the calor link, 5thhorseman

     

    It is going in the centre against a vertical partition so the cabin tumblehome isn't a problem in this instance

    I know Beko is a bit of a pants brand but we've had a Beko washing machine on the boat since I got it and we do a lot of washing (Children 2.5 and 4.5 yrs old and a missus) and its been no problem at all, runs on the generator as well which is a bonus.

     

    Think I might get that Beko on the Calor website, it looks pretty good and will obviously be jetted for LPG already

  6. LPG cooker with high level grill ? Recommendations

    in Boat Equipment

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    I'm planning to take out my cooker and hopefully replace it with another cooker but this time with a high level (eye level?) grill.

     

    Does anyone have one? any recommendations? Obviously it has to be LPG and being a new fit it needs FFDs which are good but its a standard domestic size so maybe a domestic one could be bought and re-jetted or something? I'm quite drawn to the idea of a 3 ring rather than a 4 ring hob, I just think they look good.

     

    any info or comment welcome

     

    ta

     

  8. Thank god for smoke alarms

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    It seems to me that this is because the BSS is targeted at preventing boats being a danger to other people and other boats, rather than preventing boats being a danger to their owners.

    Its not really about personal safety inside the vessel. otherwise CO and Smoke alarms and LPG sniffers would surely be essential and tested on each inspection unsure.png

     

    maybe a requirement will be brought in but it (BSS) has been going about 15 or 20 years now and plenty of people have suffered CO poisoning so there obviously isn't an interest in having this requirement in the test.

     

    edit to add BSS in brackets to clarify

  15. shotguns on a boat

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    I believe it was smaller than a 410 it was somewhere near the size of an 8 or 9mm I seem to remember an old boy near us had an old Lee Metford rifle converted to garden gun and he used to use black powder cartridges

     

    I knew a chap years ago who had a 9mm shotgun on a boat. It wouldn't really do that much damage but was quite a handy ratting gun and good for scaring away 'sub humans' as he called them (those nasty little scrote type yobboes). Trouble is that it all ended in tears when his boat was raided by SO19 because someone reported him for having a firearm on board :rolleyes:

  17. Opinions and advice on my first boat

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Hello Ladies and Gents,

     

    My first post to the forum after a week of geeking out reading various posts.

     

    So I'm in the process of viewing boats for my first purchase and a plan to live aboard. With a budget of £30k and looking for something around the 60ft mark and a preference to cruiser sterns for fixing my bikes outside when the weather permits. Liveaboard as I am an contract Engineer so never really know where my next 12months will be and so can't really buy a house.

     

    So I have this boat in mind - which is stretching my budget somewhat but seems worth it.

    http://www.apolloduck.com/feature.phtml?id=392973

     

    Breifly: she's a 60ft Gorton 2007 build with an older 3.152 perkins engine, recently redecorated internally and had hull blackening and safety thing this year.

     

    Pricewise it seems very good for the age and seeming quality of the interior. I would need to add another leisure battery or two and I would also consider about quite a big interior reshuffle to make the living space a bit more open plan. Engine wise I'd prefer someting newer that likely better on fuel bu I'm a softie for British built stuff having had a few minis over the years.

     

     

    Anyone got any advice for when I view her in the next couple of days?

     

    Cheers very much!

     

     

    The D3 is a very nice unit, plenty of power and reliable. the only thing you might find is it may possibly be a little bit noisy compared with a Beta or Vetus for example. I like an growly engine I can hear but its all personal taste.

     

    Looks like a nice boat :)

  18. low stern

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    Definitely not but Naughty is claiming there was 12 inch thick ice which a cruiser was stuck in and that it was cut out of that ice and pieces of the ice removed to a building and observed. I'm interested in what one would use to cut 12 inch thick ice. Some sort of saw I suppose.


    so yes I suppose I used the work 'break' incorrectly as it was obviously 'cut' not broken.

     

    sorry :smiley_offtopic.gif

  19. Size....

    in Living Afloat

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    My boat is 58ft long and 12ft wide. an English barge smile.png

     

    4 of us live on it full time (no we don't own any 'bricks and mortar' anywhere). 2 adults and two small children 2.5 and 4.5 years old. and counting. Its tiny in here for 4 smile.png

  23. low stern

    in General Boating

    Posted · Edited by magnetman

    I was moored in Cookham Lock cut on the Thames winter of 1995/6 I think it was, it froze solid (the lock cut I mean). Got a photo of it somewhere. A chap in a tug called White Heather which used to moor up near there at Cookham Dean/Winter Hill came through the ice, she had a 6 cylinder Ford cargo engine with a large propeller and she just about got through but it was thick. it even froze the main river in some places a little bit.

  24. low stern

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Yes I see it now, its the warming effect of increased temperature during daytime (normally) which would give the towel its insulating properties.

     

    must say that I have left boats unheated in winter before and never had any problems, never drained down a water system or anything and nothing has broken so far. maybe keeping the water IN the system is better as it creates some sort of thermal mass or something. and it doesn't really get that cold in UK anyway, at least not yet...

  25. Steve Hudson

    in General Boating

    Posted

    Thats very sad news. I never met him but he is certainly a legend in terms of narrow boats.

     

    He built a very individual style of boat which while not everyone's cup of tea, appealed to a lot of people and his boats are all over the canal system giving people pleasure. People out enjoying their boating is a Good Thing.

     

    For this we can thank him. RIP and condolences to his family :(

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