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4 minutes ago, Momac said:
Not really . The OP indicates the boat would be 50 yards from the house .
And that there's a shore power connection on the mooring, although I didn't know that when I posted.
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1 minute ago, harrybsmith said:
And yes, I'm looking at a mooring because that absolute rustbucket project boat some may remember my thread on is now ready to float off into the sunset
Pictures or it didn't happen ... 😁
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Just now, MtB said:
But without more details we don't know that. All we know is the OP's landlord seems to own a mooring 50 yards away. Quite a long shoreline but fine if its all private land but if it turns out to be say, a towpath mooring or on publicly accessible land then maybe a cable is not that great an idea.
I think we need to find out more about this mooring on offer to really advise properly.
True, but they are (important) implementation details - Lady G was suggesting avoiding the idea entirely.
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Just now, LadyG said:
I'd avoid any extention cable from the house!
Why? As long as it's a weatherproof shore power cable it would be the correct answer.
Just like all the marina based boats on shore power hookup.
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22 minutes ago, NarrowboatTor said:
Works on my 3kw victron inverter, better?
Not really, we've had it before where someone says I have an XYZ model inverter and an ABC model washer so someone else buys the same model number of inverter and washer and they don't work.
I'm not disputing for a second that yours work together, I'm just pointing out to anyone else who buys the same kit won't be guaranteed that they'll play nicely together!
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37 minutes ago, NarrowboatTor said:
Works on a victron 3kw inverter
Your machine works with your inverter. Doesn't guarantee that the same model of machine will work with the same model of inverter!
They're odd like that, especially the digital washing machines.
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3 minutes ago, magnetman said:
To be fair if it was a GRP with no outboard it is likely to be very shallow.
I used to have a GRP with no outboard. It had an inboard diesel ...
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10 minutes ago, agg221 said:
I will modify my statement to 'Lights in the back cabin are the worst for this within my control'.
Fair enough. The first time I did a night cruise on my current boat, the ridiculously bright "power on" green lamp on the Beta control panel got insulation tape stuck over it!
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Just now, magnetman said:
If everyone just used standard nav lights but without the forward facing white it would work perfectly well and nobody would be blinded.
The forward facing white is a legal requirement, although usually ignored - another unenforced BW byelaw.
The Bridgewater Canal specify that the tunnel lamp is not acceptable for this, and also require a white stern lamp and red/green navigation lights. BW/CRT only require a forward white but if you have nav lights there's nothing to stop you using them.
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2 minutes ago, agg221 said:
I quite often boat after dark and will admit I don't always put a light on. I find I can't get the light in a position where it actually helps, and it disrupts my night vision.
Exactly this, although I do add a "forward facing white light" so I can be seen coming - a weak bike light strapped to the bow that doesn't even try to light anything up ahead.
4 minutes ago, agg221 said:Lights in the back cabin are the worst for this - look down and when you look up again everything in front is now completely black.
I'd disagree with this, the absolute worst are super high power head torches or bike lights on the towpath, closely followed by idiot boats who have football stadium lights on a sensor - the ones that completely blind you just as you're trying to steer round their boat!
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1 hour ago, blackrose said:
Also a couple of the midi fuses from my battery chargers to my batteries have lost the front of the insulation. I'll change them when I have time but am I ok to continue using them?
The fuses will obviously still work, but I'd be tempted to tape the damaged covers back over them, or substitute something (plastic food packaging?) for any completely missing ones.
If you're not thinking about battery work it would be very easy to contact them with something conductive. Then the electric might escape ...
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5 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
How many times do we have to explain that to all but fully recharge lead acid batteries will take many, many hours, certainly far more than three, possibly four times longer.
That's why he ran the engine for a few hours, presumably while doing other stuff on the boat, then physically removed the battery and took it away to charge it...
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48 minutes ago, Rod Stewart said:
Shell fish, guppy, salmon, shrimp and crab and lobster, flounder.I hate fish, but I think most of all I hate fresh fish, like trout. I hate fresh trout. My least-hated, favourite fish would be sole. That way you don't have to see the eyes. Sole has no eyes.
Greenied for the Radio KAOS reference
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2 hours ago, Cheshire cat said:
I saw elsewhere that the sewage processing plant has some kind of problem caused by the breach and UU are having to tanker away the sludge on a daily basis.
I did wonder if United Utilities had been cynical enough to open the sewage valves fully while someone else was responsible for massive uncontrolled flooding of a sewage farm ...
"Not out fault Guv, it's down to that Bridgewater lot wot flooded us four feet deep!"
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3 hours ago, agg221 said:
Individually their powers are limited, but a rat army could knaw/burrow/scurry its way through any obstacle. They could clear trees and rebuild embankments.[...].
What it needs is someone to coordinate and control them.
Mrs Frisby is probably better at organising rats, certainly the more intelligent ones! The Pied Piper just led them to their death.
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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
But they would tarmac them edge to edge so you couldn't moor
It doesn't work ...
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8 minutes ago, Paul C said:
In the obvious place - in the 1995 Waterways Act itself.
Where?
I can't find the term "continuous cruiser" in the actual act, so please quote the section and subsection numbers to help me find it.
Here's a link to make it easier for you:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1995/1/enacted
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Just now, Paul C said:
Except it does
Where? As a legally defined phrase, not what BW and now CRT call it.
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5 hours ago, IanD said:
"We also deal with cases for liveaboard boaters especially cases concerning the so called Continuous Cruising Guidance."
Doesn't suggest any kind of impartiality or even legal expertise, does it? Rather that they have a large axe to grind... 😉
It's an accurate statement. It's "so called" because it is not a defined legal term, it was what BW wanted it to be.
There's been a staggering amount of bile spouted since BW started using the phrase, with many on this forum making up their own rules as to what "continuous cruising" should be defined as.
Except it doesn't exist. The legal phrase is "boat without a home mooring" but that makes it harder for some to justify trying to socially cleanse the "wrong sort" off their private playground.
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21 minutes ago, MtB said:
Quite.
And I'm inclined to suggest if a toen is so interesting that someone wants to moor there for two weeks rather than be out boating (and thereby stopping other boaters from visiting), they could perhaps visit the town by car and stay in a hotel.
While still moving the boat presumably...
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On 21/12/2024 at 19:28, bigolslabomeat said:
Mrs won't let me hang an "under new management" banner on the side....
What does she think of "Under old management?"
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28 minutes ago, magnetman said:
From the blog
"There appears to be Peel L&P (decommissioned) which owns (ed) The Bridgewater Canal Company Limited which has assets of approximately £23m and a Bridgewater Canal Trust which generates revenue from boating, fishing, drainage and sale of water.
Peel Land & Property was closed a while ago, and the Bridgewater Canal Company is now a part of Peel Ports Group.
They have a very complicated internal structure under the Peel umbrella.
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21 hours ago, magnetman said:
The regulations do make it an offence under the licence and the unsurance to be in charge of the Boat when under the influence of alcohol or other drugs.
Continuously boozing may be a cunning way to circumvent the need to be continuously cruising.
[Citation needed]
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8 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Just as C&RT is a charity but does not feed the hungry or save the Panda.
Wasn't Panda the woman who had the bicycle powered narrow boat in that K&A film?
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Another canal side property for sale
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You could use the change to restore the canal