Gypsey_Kings

Tough luck on the fouled prop...Had a few trying problems myself lately (inverter, calorfier), so I can sympathise. Do not think I will make Wheaton Aston tomorrow (from Great Haywood) but may catch up to you a day or two afterwards... would be good to have a chat...

Hi Thanks everyone for the great info... The fanstastic forum does it again ..!!! Junior - Looks like I will be on the Stafs and Worcs tomorrow., so will be missing out on you... sorry - will be looking out for you on the way back... Nicknorman, Cheshire cat, Oldboater & Ditchcrawler - I stopped at the Taft farm boat (still 65p) but no-one around anywhere. Cotswoldsman - Wheaton Aston, I had been searching for that...after reading about it a week or so ago (Facebook or CWF)...couldn't remember the name or find it again. I think I have enough left in the tank to make it there - thank you.. edit - spelling

Any fuel boats between Rugeley and Great Haywood or on the nor thern Staffs & Worcs?

Hi First time this far north - so as the title says...any cheap fuel - Rugeley to Great Haywood or then down the Northern Stafs & Worcs (to Autherley)? Thanks in advance for any advice...

Thanks everyone for the tips and routes.. I added up the locks and distances etc of the different routes (from the info on Heron maps) ... from Napton to Hurleston Junction... some interesting figures ... 1) High road - Napton, Braunston, Coventry canal to Fradley, Trent & Mersey to Middlewich and then south to Hurleston Junction.. - 75 locks, 48.75 hours and 117 miles 2) Low road - Napton, Grand Union to Kingswood Junction, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham main line to Autherley Junction and then up the Shroppie.. - 118 locks, 52.75 hours and 94.75 miles 3) Lo-Hi X-over - Napton, Grand Union to Kingswood Junction, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham main line to Autherley Junction, up the Staffs & Worcs to Great Haywood, Trent & Mersey to Middlewich and then south to Hurleston Junction.. - 130 locks, 60.75 hours and 108.75 miles 4) Hi-Lo X-over - Napton, Braunston, Coventry canal to Fradley, Trent & Mersey to Great Haywood, down the Staffs & Worcs to Autherley Junction and then up the Shroppie.. - 63 locks, 50 hours and 130.25 miles Looks like route 4 is my choice, even though it is 130 miles it's only a couple of hours difference to route 1 and route 2 and has the least number of locks. Route 3 seems to be the worst, nearly double the locks and 10 hours longer. Thanks again to everyone for the advice ...

Rob-M - Thanks for the comments, Harecastle should'nt be a problem. monkeyhanger - Thanks for your input, What interesting techniques on the Llangollen canal would that be? reversing !! Hi Keeping Up, Would that be 1) Grand Union, Birmingham - north Stratford - Trent & Mersey to Middlewich or 2) Coventry, Trent & Mersey - north Stratford - Shropshire? I did have a look at this routeas it seems to miss all the big flights... Hi Arbutus, This is starting to look like a very good route....thanks...(from my direction it would be turn left at Great Haywood onto Staffs & Worcs !!)

Hi, So we are going to see the famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct leaving from Fenny Compton (Just north of Banbury on the Oxford canal), and the question to all those experienced boaters out there, is which way would be the best for us... Us being SWMBO and myself only, both of us retired. SWMBO refuses to steer the boat, so has to do all the locks. Time and distance is not an issue but locks are. Double locks are terrible but single locks not so bad. If they are close together than I can close them for her while she goes to set the next one... The route I'm thinking of is..up the Oxford, left at Napton onto the top of the Grand Union canal. Then off at the Kingswood junction onto the Stratford-upon-Avon to Kings Norton Junction, turn right going north to the Birmingham Main line to Autherley Junction and then north up the Shropshire Union canal to the Llangollen canal. see https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zjsJ2QUJ-Z-A.kMfF21e046r8&usp=sharing Looks like over 100 locks this way!! An alternative is to go to Braunston and use the Coventry canal and then the Trent & Mersey to Middlewich and then down to the Llangollen. My calcs say 75 locks this way!! Any advice from the great wealth of knowledge that is on the forum would be very appreciated... thanks in advance Clive

In my opinion the crash was not Tim's fault at all, not that Tim doesn't bang about a bit !!!... Playing back my decoders recording of the program you can see that Tim was moving over to the other side of the bank after suddenly seeing the other boat through those dreadfull willows (been there ... very hard to see ... could do with maintenance). And he was not traveling fast either. The other boat carried on straight down the middle into him, without slowing down and the helmsman was not even visible till he suddenly popped up after hitting Tim !!!! What a plonker... To me 'contact sport' (hate the term) should only mean nudging the sides etc like Tim did in the diamond lock, but not hitting other boat's. The only time I think there should be boat to boat contact is nudging each other when sharing locks or breasting up. Anything else is very poor helsmanship,even with wind, current or poor visiblity you should be going at the appropriate speed or using ropes to avoid contact - even sharing a lock is possible without contact (other than fenders)... Just my 2p's worth... Fantastic program, as good as if not better tahn the first series... now eagerly looking forward to the rest of this series... (edit for late night spelling & grammar )

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Anyone care to debate if current in a dc circuit flows from + to - or from - to + ...

now showing back in stock at £250! Thank you - Just purchased mine .... They have 1 left in stock now..!!!

Also be aware of the CTE (centre tapped earth) - connect that to neutral at your peril !!!

Your readings do make sense - based on two ASSUMPTIONSi 1) you have 4 x 12v volt batts in parrallel connection and 2) the readings are not taken accurately ie no decimal places (although clamp meter readings do have a degree of inaccuracy due to magnetic feilds from other cables interfering with the one under test) so in the following way... Positive side... 23A-5A=18A then 18A-5.5A=12.5A then 12.5A-6A=6.5A Negative side... 23A-6.5A=16.5A then 16.5A-6=10.5A then 10.5A-5.5A=5A So as you can see the currents through each battery is different, thus causing the changes...