TheBiscuits
-
Posts
11,265 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
68
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Blogs
Store
Posts posted by TheBiscuits
-
-
19 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
I suspect he's gone past a lot of fishermen on a competition. They do tend to be grumpy, whatever speed you go at, and wherever you are in the canal.
It's odd, but north of about Middlewich most of them seem friendly with the odd exception. South of there the proportions switch round so there's only the odd friendly one and mostly grumpy ones.
16 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:Well that has given me a clue what we are all rambling about. he could have been running his engine at 11pm to watch TV, that could end up someone in your face, or whipping the paddles up on someone else's boat in a lock. Turning a lock in someone's face because you were there first.
Yeah, but all of those would be only occasional incidents and from what I can gather the OP seems to be getting a lot of different people shouting.
-
The only thing I can think of that would cause that much aggro is going too fast.
@rhapsody blue, are you going as slowly as possible past moored boats? And are you cruising in the middle of the open water or are you keeping to the right even when there's no other boat coming towards you?
If your (new to you) boat is set up incorrectly then even at dead slow on the morse lever the boat might be going faster than you think. This is adjustable usually.
Watch carefully what happens to moored boats as you pass them - if they all seem to rock a lot or surge backwards and forwards as you pass them then you're going too fast, even if that's not what you're trying to do.
-
3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
This is why I don't participate, I was just having my second wee then.
Yeah, but if you're up you could be boating!
-
2 minutes ago, magnetman said:
None of my Victron MPPT controllers have fans.
Good for you. Mine isn't a Victron.
-
13 minutes ago, magnetman said:A photovoltaic module is not a machine.
machine noun [C] (PIECE OF EQUIPMENT)
So the solar panels are ok, but the MPPT controller that has fans must be switched off?
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, MtB said:
I'd suggest a Van Der Graaff generator doesn't!
It gets its energy from whatever motor is driving it...
Shocking!
Apropos of nothing, when I was doing A level Physics there was a girl in our group who had very long, fine hair and also didn't know what a Van de Graaff generator does.
So I "volunteered" her for the standard demonstration. 😁
It was weeks before she forgave me ...
-
1
-
-
1 minute ago, MtB said:
Not unless the moonlight generates a useable current, lol!!
Well yeah, but it'll be daylight before 8 am.
-
2 minutes ago, MtB said:
Yeahbutnobut nobody (except you and me) actually reads the T&Cs
Actually, as written there in what I posted I'm wondering if I should flick my solar panel isolator off until 8am tomorrow ...
Do my panels count as an electricity generator? I'm certainly within earshot of both houses and other boats. Hmm!
-
Just now, MtB said:
Its easy to see how the 'No engines between 8pm and 8am when moored' rule morphs into 'no boats may travel at night' though, innit.
Not if you read it!
-
It's also spectacular timing during the BCN marathon challenge. It'll come as quite a shock to the participants that they can't be boating!
-
10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Tune in at 8pm on U&Yesterday to... - Canal & River Trust Boating | Facebook I think NABO may also have it in hand
Ta. I can see a reeducation camp happening for tonight's social media person...
-
9 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
CRT just posted this on Facebook when talking about Robbie
Can you link that please Brian.
Words will be had!
-
2
-
-
19 minutes ago, dmr said:
£900 is a bit steep for an outdoor and insecure dock????
We're back on the short arms gag I think!
I was cross when Wigan Dry Dock went up to £250 then £300 for a week! It's £345 a week now.
-
1
-
-
2 hours ago, booke23 said:
What I have read is concerned boaters trying to work out what happened so they can establish learning points, to try to avoid the same thing happening to themselves.
The L&L Facebook group has a boat neighbour saying it was the boater that went in after his dog, near his own boat.
A bit difficult to kill the engine if you're the one in the water.
The comments above are worth repeating though - I phrase it as "If someone is in the water, immediately stop the engine. Don't try and stop the boat."
-
1 hour ago, MtB said:
Of course, silly me. We all use these for trading in dodgy boats obviously, now you mention it!
Might as well, they've been quite cheap since the Euro was adopted 😁🤣
-
Happy boating to all taking part.
It's worrying that it was six years ago we did it!
-
23 minutes ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
Well I’m sure you can make up the CC increase, what’s that a week “just one Cornetto”? 🍦
I remember the song as going "You must be joking, they cost 50p"
Not anymore they don't!
-
1 hour ago, IanD said:
If scroot is the plural of scrote, is boot the plural of boat? 😉
German, innit.
-
1 minute ago, nealeST said:
Yes they seem very obliging already, I'm being invited down to be shown around.
You're admitting it's you now then? I suspect you've accepted you have to cough up for the no home mooring surcharge! 😁
They should be fairly obliging if you're trying to give them money ...
-
25 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Is the ratio of ~33Vmp : ~39Voc a sign of a cheap panel?
No. But it's the maximum voltage possible that you need to cater for, not the voltage at maximum power output.
The JA Solar 440W panels at just over sixty quid are excellent value for money, sadly they don't fit on my roof!
Have you considered installing them as 2S2P (80V / 30A) or as two separate 2S strings (80V / 15A / 2 MPPTs)?
-
1
-
-
48 minutes ago, BoatingLifeUpNorth2 said:
If he doesn’t want to pay for his Home mooring Marina berth for all this initial period then the home mooring Marina may not be obliged to hold the berth without a substantial deposit.
Alternatively the marina might accept a 12 month mooring agreement with a starting date a couple of months from now.
CRT would still insist on a CC surcharge on the licence for the first couple of months, but he'd already have the paperwork to get the licence refunded and take out a new home mooring licence when the mooring contract begins.
-
1
-
-
4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
You are getting into high-voltage systems there.
Low voltage rather than extra low voltage if you ask the grownups.
Although if it's the city plumbing cheap ones you're thinking of they are rated at ~33Vmp but ~39Voc
You need to treat those as 40V panels, so select your wiring and controller accordingly or the magic smoke will come out.
-
8 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Simple deductive reasoning
Ah, wrong with confidence! My panels are rated at 20A each and are connected in series.
-
3 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
Small? Yes maybe to those thinking of panels in parallel. To a YouTube fashion victim like me who thinks in series, 1.7kW of solar can be delivered at 15 amps.
The 440 watt panel I am looking at states 13.5 amps and 33 volts at max power. Four of those panels in series is a decent amount of solar on a narrowboat.
Oh okay. You're also taking into account the different wiring regulations for anything over 60V then?
What makes you think my panels aren't in series?
Canal etiquette
in New to Boating?
Posted
Well nobody seems to be recently complaining about high water!