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Trusted/reputable boat builders and other advice
Noah T replied to Philip's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
Sea Otter 41 on Apollo Duck at the moment has a Hobbit stove fitted. https://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/sea-otter-41/619185 -
if you want your boat painted very cheaply to a professional looking finish and with really, really good signwriting, Robert Naghi is your man. He doesn't do removing windows or taking the whole boat back to bare metal, but for you jddevel I guess that would not be an issue. Adding a couple of pics of my boat, recently painted by Robert Naghi.
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What happens to boat speed in tunnels / shallow / narrow sections?
Noah T replied to Canal Runner's topic in Boat Handling
Having gone through that tunnel a couple of weeks ago, my experience was a bit similar to the OP's (not being followed & harassed by pratt in a hurry, but losing speed). After a while I thought of dropping into neutral & / or giving a burst of reverse, which seemed to improve things for a few minutes each time. So I think that leaves, no doubt being drawn into the tunnel by boats going through it, probably are at least partially a cause of the problem. -
If you do decide to get a Bosch cordless jigsaw, why not get the 18v one? they are the same price (£79.99) from Clas Ohlson, or actually only about £72 if you decide to order one straight away, as they have a 10% discount on today (use code CLAS30447). I have a couple of the tools in this range and they are pretty good for my (DIY) purposes. The Li batteries last quite a while, and you can get a spare and put it on charge while using the tool. But NB- if you do want a spare battery don't buy it from Ohson as you can get them cheaper elsewhere.
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This is correct, or at least it was last year when I bought my boat from a brokerage. Congrats Jess-- on getting yourself back on the water BTW .
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How about 'Constance Moira'?
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Sorry to gang up against you, but your mrs is right about this. There are already around four or five boats with that name floating around the system. Even (or perhaps I especially) the cleverest punning boat name can lose its charm through repetition!
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Whilton is not the only boat yard that utilises this pretence. When I bought my boat from Gayton Marina last year, the staff persisted in going through the rigmarole of referring to the (mysterious) owner of the boat, although a bit of research on my part had revealed that both the 'broker' and the 'owner' were the one and the same ABC Leisure Group Ltd. Irrespective, it's a good boat and they agreed to sell it for a very decent price .
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We have a 40 amp New Model Tracer, wall mounted in our electricity cupboard. It's been connected since January this year, to 500w of panels. No fans or anything, but the cupboard it's in is quite large. So far I haven't noticed the controller getting at all hot, though obviously it's not running at anywhere near full capacity yet. Having said that, it was putting 17 amps into the batteries around 11am this morning .
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Oh well. There might come a time when I feel so assured as a member of this forum that I could feel comfortable labelling anyone who persists in disagreeing with me as 'insane', weird', 'obtuse' etc. Though perhaps I would decide not to. Meanwhile. Presuming you are mooring on a CRT-controlled waterway and you are over a CRT-controlled river or canal bed. Hence CRT would have some say in the matter.
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If we are back to the road parking analogy, the canal or river is not the same as your driveway. At best it would be equivalent to the street outside your house. In which case, anybody else would have the same rights as you to park there, unless you have obtained a local residents permit from your council.
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I'm aware of riparian rights, and have indeed looked up some material on these. However what I have seen suggests that these do not straightforwardly apply on navigable waterways. I should add that I am quite new to the boating world (bought my boat in July last year and have been CC'ing since then). I'm still forming my opinions about some of the issues. I have no problem with people thinking or saying that I'm wrong, and at the very least I have a lot to learn! But the hostility which has been expressed to me in some recent posts on this thread has given me a bit of a jolt. It seems to suggest that there are some people or opinions which should not be questioned, in any depth, on this forum. Perhaps there is an issue that I do not (at least so far) fit in to any of the (apparent) factions here.
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Hmmm. To me its not blatantly obvious that the combination of having a garden adjacent to the canal / navigable river, and buying a boating license, gives somebody sole control of the right to moor in the part of the waterway next to the garden. Especially given that the legal judgements, and the fact of the existence of EoG mooring charges by CRT, indicates that things cannot be quite so simple. I guess from the claims that I am therefore "insane", "plain weird", "posting rubbish", that I have touched a sensitive spot for some people.
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Ok,I'll try to break this down. It is that you believe that when a boater, who happens to have a garden facing the waterway, buys a license, that license includes specific rights regarding that part of the canal or river which is adjacent to the said garden? In that case, yes I did previously misunderstand you. But I suspect you would be badly mistaken.
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You seem to be assuming that a towpath mooring is readily available. That isn't always the case, eg in parts of London. Further, isn't your case that the towpath side is subject to the 14-day rule, whereas the offside bank is immune from it? In which case, that would make an offside mooring more (not less) attractive to quite a few boaters.