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10 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Flourescein. A standard way of tracing water flow underground. Cavers use it a lot. There are detectors that will work on concentrations too low to see, if you are concerned about turning large volumes green. Innocuous stuff, but some people get upset!
Saw it some years back being used in the Macclesfield Canal, actually in Macc beside a building site.
I've used fluorescein at sea in a previous life to find leaks in condensers on steam turbines. Used in conjunction with fluorescent lamps (as stated by IanD).
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Or neither of those two options, but a trip to Chester or along the Middlewich branch?
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10 minutes ago, ronnietucker said:
Yeah, in one of his recent videos he was advertising watches.
Didn't he moan about not making enough money from YouTube and move to a pay only site for his videos?
Yes, I believe so. He’s back on YouTube at present with season 10, going down the S. Oxford.
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16 minutes ago, MIKE P said:
Kevin
Yes, it is! Well I knew it began with a K!
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1 hour ago, Mike Tee said:
The guy on ‘Aslan’ is straightforward - can’t remember his site but somebody will.Also, cruising the cut.
That’s Keith, known as Country House Gent, his site is Travels by Narrowboat.
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2 hours ago, robtheplod said:
We had a few on the syndicate who liked to spend their time varnishing everything in sight and then complaining about it...
One of our previous owners had a share in our boat and also a share in another. He used to enjoy our AGMs as we rattled through the agenda in good time, but then dreaded the other one as it used to get bogged down in the most trivial of items.
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3 hours ago, Paul C said:
Apologies - I think I got it muddled with the Black Prince one, that's in the middle??
Yes the Black Prince base is further towards Worcester, in fact, it’s beyond the bottom of the Tardebigge flight, so lots of locks to get to Brum.
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6 minutes ago, Paul C said:
The other thing he'll (probably) need is a companion - hire firms are often unable, due to insurance limitations, to hire to a single hander. There are exceptions but there might not be near Birmingham.
The driving of a boat is part of the fun and part of the holiday, loads of people do it, don't fear it. Hence why there is hardly any call for skippered boats.
Tardebigge is a terrible place to start a trip to Brum, unless you like locks - a lot.
The Anglo Welsh base at Tardebigge is at the top of the flight, so lock free into Birmingham.
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Our shared owners boat is reverse layout, ie from the rear-galley, dinette, bathroom, fixed double, lounge with en-suite. This suited us when our son and daughter came with us as it allowed three distinct sleeping areas each with access to a WC at night without disturbing anybody.
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2 hours ago, Tonka said:
Perhaps they have bought 2 on a BOGOF deal
Black Friday offer?
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If I remember correctly, Hexagon narrowboats were/are built in Poland. Before they went bust, Ownerships had some Polish built narrowboats, possibly by Hexagon?
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1 minute ago, cuthound said:
Over the 22 years that I had a share in two shareboats (1992-2001 and 2002-2013) they both averaged 11,000 hours per year.
The first boat had its Mitsubishi engine changed at 8,000 hours and the second its Turkish built BMC 1.8 at 13,500 hours.
Extra zero on your figures Mr Hound! There’s only 8,760 hours in a year!
The Beta 43 which replaced the BMC referenced above, was fitted in 2014 and is just approaching 10,000 hours. It’s running well, and has been regularly serviced.
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1 hour ago, john6767 said:
Doesn’t the licence holder share all the emails with you, that is for you to organise is it not? Relying on a random person posting links on Facebook does not seem like a good way of getting your information.
The designated licence holder is actually away on board at present. And I thought this was a forum, not Facebook? This forum is a far better source of canal related info than F/B.
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56 minutes ago, john6767 said:
The link to the consultation is in the email that everyone already has, what am I missing?
I don’t get it as I’m not the designated licence holder for our shared owners boat.
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1 hour ago, Mike Todd said:
Probably waste to energy. NB such systems do need a good proportion of burnable material and some had their economics undermined when the feeding LA opted for segregated collection in order to 'prove' their green credentials.
This is an issue that is more complex than the political system can generally cope with!
Yes, that’s what I thought. They have plenty of skips for recycling, ie cardboard, garden waste, oil, metal, clothing, etc. I guess that the material used to produce energy is the wood and suitable stuff in the general waste.
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I went to our local tip last week.
On driving out, there is a sign stating that 99.7% of the waste is diverted from landfill. What would be nice to know is exactly what happens to it all.
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11 minutes ago, saxplayer said:
Heading up the 21 on Sun then later to the Black Country museum. Can any one tell what the state of the weed is on the old/new main line
cheers
One of our owners has just done that trip this week. He said there’s a fair bit of weed, but he had a couple of trips down the weedhatch to remove discarded clothing. Quite a lot of rubbish to be seen too.
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3 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
Yep. Them too. Lots of hire bases in that neck of the woods. Because there’s lots of lovely canal.
Napton Narrowboats is another.
And Black Prince at Wigrams.
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Our boat is fairly deep, somewhere around 30” or a shade more and we did Llangollen three times in the last three years. Several of the other owners have made it too. It’s a bit shallow near bridge 34W, we were scraping the bottom for maybe 50 yards or so, but shouldn’t be a problem for you.
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4 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:
Some of the ex-Ownerships shareboats, ours old one being one, were actaully 59" not the 58" as listed. Apparently due to them being specced with a corner bath rather than a hip bath which required Mr Reeves to add an extra foot to fit everything else in. Shhhhh, don't tell.
That’s something I not heard before. Ours is a Reeves with corner bath, so perhaps we’ve got the extra foot! We’ve never been anywhere on the system with the shorter locks, so we haven’t had to lift fenders to fit in locks.
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For me living south of the Thames, Essex is the North!!
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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
......he is use to people calling him Brian
Yes, I fell into that trap last year on the Llangollen.
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30 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
Been found here as well. A "company" hires a warehouse, fills it full of mixed waste and partially sorted recycling, and disappears. When the owners find rent is owing, everything, document wise, is a fake.
Also, well documented instances of such stuff being dumped by 40 tonners down rural roads. blocking them.
This happened just a mile or so from us. Unit full of plastic, went up in smoke and took sometime for the fire service to put out. Renters of the unit who filled it were long gone.
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6 minutes ago, cuthound said:
I've never tried electric beer. What's it like?
It’s shocking.
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Midlands Canal Turns Green
in General Boating
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I got sucked into fluorescent lamps when I should have said UV lamps for detecting holes in condenser tubes.