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Glad I could help.
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4 hours ago, Midnight said:
Not necessarily closed but C&RT called to 'discuss' our bookings for August. Following mutual agreement we have cancelled. Even if we got over to the Lancaster we can't risk not getting back as we fly to Canada on September 25.
Ooh, are you on a deadline to return to Yorkshire? Good luck with that!
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3 hours ago, Nightwatch said:
Many miles of mooring spots are unusable due to H&S issues regarding potential holes on the tow path edge.
See, I don't understand that Martyn. If there's a chuffing great hole in the edge right where I want to moor, I pull the boat forwards or backwards six feet and I can then easily get on and off.
It only matters where you want to step on and off the boat.
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2 hours ago, peterboat said:
The Lancaster canal is the longest lock free canal
Nah, it's got locks. It's got the longest lock free pound though.
If you're on the Lancaster you're a Muppet if you don't at the very least go down to Glasson Basin at least once.
Or of course you could also cross the Ribble and get on the main connected system.
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On 30/06/2024 at 22:25, jonathanA said:
Swmbo just sent me this pic off fb. Not sure if it's an old incident that farce book as thrown up or a recent thing?
I'm assuming the sunken boat got hung up on the top gates rather than cilled.
What's with all the camo netting ?
Bottom gates, Shirley.
As for the camo, I used to have a bright yellow roof and it's too bright and attracts too many insects. Netting is faster than paint to alter this!
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On 29/06/2024 at 22:37, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I know my place 😕
The pub? 🍻😃
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1 hour ago, jim mitchell said:
0.2 x 35p = 7p or is that flaky maths too ?
How big is your cup? I get more than one cup out of 1.7 litres/3 pints of water ...
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9 hours ago, blackrose said:
0.153 kWh ?
With only a guess at the time taken, the maths gets flaky.
My electric kettle uses around 0.2kWh to boil 1.7 litres of water at room temperature, measured with a power meter plug.
0.15-0.2kWh is probably a reasonable range for an electric kettle - or a penny a cup give or take at 35p/unit.
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2 hours ago, alan_fincher said:
Those thins discharged their combustion gases straight into the cabin, with no attempt to send them outside.
My hob and oven do exactly the same thing ...
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10 minutes ago, Midnight said:
I'm still trying to find some of the 46% who are 'satisfied'. I've spoken to a lot of boaters on this trip and so far it's 100% 'not satisfied'. So where are those 46%?
Anyone on here?
Did they raise the topic or did you?
When I meet someone who starts frothing at the mouth about their pet topic, I usually nod and smile and start backing away from them...
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4 hours ago, Steve_A said:
I'm not sure whether to make this a massive TLDR post about my reasons, expectations, illusions etc., or just cover the basics of looking at ones first boat?
Anyway, I'm looking for a 40-50' standard width vessel for solo living. It would be fair to say I am looking at the lower end of the price listings, but am happy to do some work to make a good boat better.
What's your budget? It may sound like a rude question but it's very important.
If it's twenty grand, buy a GRP (fibreglass) cruiser and get used to a 15 foot living space.
If it's thirty grand, you'll probably find a tired old steel boat that needs major work to the interior and/or the hull.
If it's fifty grand, you can get a good but old steel boat and upgrade the interior as funds/DIY skills/time allows.
If it's under ten grand, forget it - you'll be buying expensive heartache!
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2 hours ago, Rory_d said:
There is actually two skin tanks on the boat but only one of them is plumbed in.
That'll do it.
Get a competent boat fettler to replumb your entire cooling system.
If you say where you are based, someone here will know the best person to contact near you.
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4 hours ago, LadyG said:
You would need quite a few to move a narrowboat,
I disagree.
Many old goats singlehand narrow boats, and significantly more of them used to. 😉
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58 minutes ago, IanD said:
The problem is exactly that; without a concerned and informed "champion" like Barbara Castle
There was a comment last week on the forum that insisted that any Labour government wouldn't do anything for the canals.
There was one name that instantly sprang to mind ...
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59 minutes ago, IanD said:
Hang on, AFAIK I *did* say that, no edit is shown in that post!
"better anchors are recommended, even on the canals/rivers as opposed to coastal waters..."
Mea culpa, it was my careful editing of your post I referred to - deliberately stopping the quote just before the " /rivers"
1 hour ago, IanD said:P.S. I wouldn't put you on the naughty step, you use debate instead of insults... 🙂
That's because I'm a Master Debater. I know this because many people have told me this previously. I'm also partially deaf 🤣
1 hour ago, agg221 said:That's because you are supposed to hammer in an extra long mooring spike into the canal bed.,.
Alec
Nonsense, they go through the tarmac on the shiny new towpath where there's no mooring provision for boats. 😁. Allegedly.
(I did send photographs, full contact details and an offer to reimburse any damage, but for some odd reason CRT never responded!)
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Just now, IanD said:
I'm sure you know what I meant, as opposed to what I wrote... 😉
No, I can only go on what you write. Even if there was a very careful, deliberate edit to your quote ...
That said, I think based on current forum etiquette (or lack thereof) I'm now supposed to personally attack you enough to land on your naughty step 🤣
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On 24/06/2024 at 17:59, IanD said:
there are many very good reasons why bigger and especially better anchors are recommended, even on the canals
You're not supposed to use an anchor on the canal, they break the bottom puddling and cause leaks ...
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6 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I was in contact with CRT the other month regarding mooring. I ended up emailing a link to their (CRTs) website which explained the query.
..so customer asks CRT in person, CRT don’t know, so customer directs CRT employee to the CRT website for the answers.
By phone? You were talking to a random person in a call handling centre who are only allowed to read the script in front of them. They don't work for CRT, they work for a different company that gets paid by CRT.
Use email to enquiries.{CRT region}@ usual if it's region specific, or one of the national email addresses if not regional.
It takes longer, but it usually does end up in front of the person you need to get a decision from.
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I once had a chap of a certain age row an inflatable dinghy straight into my boat then proceed to give me a foul mouthed tirade.
I let him vent as long as he wanted, until he told me I should have given way to him. Which was when I pointed out I was moored on a lock landing and although the engine was running I hadn't actually moved at all ...
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6 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
The irritation was because they probably spent 3 million on new CRT signs uniforms and repainting their transport fleet, all of which they swore blind they weren't going to do.
So about 1.2% of one year's budget, spread over the last 12 years, or around 0.1% annualised. Yep, that's clearly the problem.
The other 99.9% of spend was obviously wisely spent on critical lock repairs and not worth mentioning ...
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On 18/06/2024 at 11:34, nicknorman said:
Although the Fal estuary is fairly sheltered, it is "the sea" and of course we wore lifejackets mostly because the probability of getting wet in an Enterprise sailing dinghy was quite high. Although in those days before the epidemic of risk aversion plagued society, they were solid buoyancy aid type things, rather then lifejackts.
Well yes, buoyancy aids are the correct thing to use when using anything expected to get you wet - dinghys, canoes, paddle boards.
Automatic inflatable lifejackets would be a fairly stupid thing to wear in/on one, and a cheap foam lifejacket (with a fixed collar - they're a different design to buoyancy aids) would make it very awkward to paddle or sail.
If you don't get why that is and blame it all on "elf n safety gone mad" then you're not assessing the risk quite as well as you think you are.
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1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:
Do you know that it actually needs new anodes? Their age doesn't matter if there's still plenty of sacrificial metal present.
And scrubbed clean with a wire brush so they can work. If they're caked up they don't do anything as they can't react.
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13 minutes ago, David Mack said:
And why is it difficult to tighten the original hex head bolts?
Wrong thread on 'em ... 😁
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8 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I would say that a heavily bow down cruiser was almost impossible to control directionally.
Interesting that one Tony. I used to own a Nauticus 27 and the general advice was to add 200kg of ballast right in the bow - cutting through the cabin seat moulding to do so - to improve handling.
I wasn't convinced at first, so I sat three people on the front and went for a cruise. Then I cut the fibreglass and added steel weights, the handling was so much better.
That was of course on one particular hull design, others will no doubt be different in trim and handling.
Advice on survey & pitting
in New to Boating?
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You know better Mike - if the pit is properly prepared the epoxy filler will end up more solid than the steel.
How to prepare the pit for the epoxy "is left as an exercise for the reader" as my textbooks used to say 😁
Welding is faster, cheaper and the heat will burn off any crud so is probably the correct answer!