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1 hour ago, NarrowboatTor said:
Quite a few on the Oxford ( king Sutton to Cropredy) bumped twice front end (can they not steer straight at me, I mean I can't get onto the towpath?) stopped one from opening the bottom paddles before I'd shut the top gate. ( it's pretty obvious when wide open) and met one on every darned blind corner I tried cruising round with empty long straights ( why is that?).
Have you tried keeping to the right? 🤣
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1 hour ago, haggis said:
They are called bricks
Change the hearing aid batteries 😁😉
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49 minutes ago, BilgePump said:
Just looked at my 30? year old BWB key and it has more grooves than regular Yale door key, just like 4th pic in @Hudds Lad post above
And the second pic ...
... which is the other side of the same key!
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8 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:
here is either that giant linear 3 ring gas hob that seems to be designed for a commercial kitchen and featured in 50% of Crick exhibition narrowboats kitchen or scaled down lidded hobs for RV kitchens. Is your hybrid hob idea a design concept or a real product?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204830239027
No connection with the seller, just the first one I spotted on Google under £500
Edit to add: There's plenty of other makes and models available at varying price points.
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Ah ha! I've found them all.
They're all moving between Halsall and Wigan on the Leeds and Liverpool canal.
Because today is the Angling Trust Individual National Championships, which obviously isn't mentioned on the CRT event notices ... 17 miles of fishermen having a bad day.
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Lack of ambition - I Frances was fitted with a removable keel and a mast and sailed the Atlantic from Canada.
Not very well admittedly, but it got here!
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I'll give you a tenner for it, no survey, cash paid ...
😉🤣
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50 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Do they do a Belfast one, asking for a friend
No good for a boat: Belfast sinks.
I'll get my coat!
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2 hours ago, LadyG said:
Is that the one I almost moored on one night, when i say almost, there was enough room for a 56.75 fter in front of me, if I lifted my bow fender!
No, it's the one where you had a broken rudder. I seem to recall you were there for a little bit longer than half an hour! 😁
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3 hours ago, Gybe Ho said:
Does the switch to induction require wholescale replacement of pans?
As a rough rule of thumb, if a magnet sticks to the bottom of the pan it will work.
It's not the whole tale, but it's a very quick and easy check on your existing pans.
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1 minute ago, MtB said:
With Craftinsure, its 30 years for comprehensive
Yeah, and they've even improved it to a survey every 7 years (up from the previous 5 years) fairly recently. Provided the boat has been insured with Craftinsure for those 7 years - always worth checking the small print!
I needed a 5 year survey during one of the lockdowns, and couldn't get one, so I paid an additional waiver on my insurance for year 6.
At renewal in year 7 they offered me the same waiver again, but they'd just introduced the 7 years thing (new underwriter) so I queried it ... and didn't pay it!
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Deleted, edited into the post it was aimed for!
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3 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Bridge 12 on the Middlewich Branch
Which is between locks 2 and 3 , on the long pound that contains Aqueduct Marina.
I'd not take a fatty there, but it is technically possible.
I've no idea if there are any there though, I've not been that way for a few years.
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9 hours ago, BCN Challenge said:A feature of the BCN Challenge is that it is as near as almost makes no difference possible to complete the 24 hours in sensible light i.e. within civil twilight times.
Ooh, I beg to differ.
My favourite photo from the 2019 BCN Challenge:
Wednesbury Arm winding hole in the dark on a crap phone camera - I had to show Sue the GPS location tag to get the points!
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10 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
If they were the owner it is a criminal offence under the RCR (RCD) for the vessel to be sold without a PCA being completed first.
Is it? I thought it was a civil breach rather than a criminal offence.
There is quite a significant difference!
3 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:Untill you remember that the 2005 boat (19 years old - without documentation) now becomes 25 years old and requires regular surveys to be able to obtain insurance.
I was wondering about that when @MtB decided his (other) boat was more than 25 years old...
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16 hours ago, LadyG said:
I disconnect folks who overstay their welcome, implementing the one hour rule.
they don't like it!
Does that rule apply at Barrowford top lock services/water point?
Just asking ...
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1 minute ago, GUMPY said:
Give me an example of a fault where having the IT on the boat is safer. 🤔
I once dropped a mobile phone in the canal if that counts.
Having it on the boat would have been much safer!
Ah, wrong TLA 🤣
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22 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
(blame, to this day, is still being established)
So it was definitely your fault then 😁
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
Also, people who moor on the water tap and put the hose out even though they are not using it.
It's pretty obvious if they have one of those lay-flat hoses though. And yes, I have seen it.
I just breasted up and disconnected their hose from the turned-off tap and coupled mine up instead. Caused a right flurry of curtain twitching but nobody came out to say anything.
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1 minute ago, MtB said:
IIRC the ebay forgeries are cut to the right shape but on a blank of a slightly different grove profile. So may or may not fit into any given CRT lock.
Yes, exactly this. In my experience it's only brand new lock mechanisms that they don't work in, although I seem to recall a CRT bod telling me that 8 in 10 of the call outs to the "broken" guillotine lock at Todmorden were "fixed" by removing the clone key from the control box and inserting a real one!
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On 04/07/2024 at 09:55, MtB said:
Are there not two boats called Achilles though? One made from each end of the original butty?
At least three.
Don't forget the replica that David Lowe commissioned in the 1970s that's now eligible for the Historic Ships Register in it's own right!
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5 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
I have rings each side and two lines, the only downside I have found that if you need to pull the boat to the side in an empty wide lock the angle of pull is not so good.
Use the offside line in broad locks to get a better pull angle. Serious suggestion.
4 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:Wait until your see a fairlead ping off when the 5mm screws fail where they are tapped into 4mm steel
Yup, I was once nearly hit by a flying one. Not on my boat I hasten to add!
4 hours ago, IanD said:Of course a perfect boater would never do that, but where are you going to find one? 😉
On CWDF, obviously. This place is populated by paragons of the boating world.
Some of whom still have a boat and some of those even move their boats ... 😉
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34 minutes ago, Francis Herne said:
the 24-hour challenge (dated, usually correctly, no idea what happened with @MtB's).
I think the plaque was correctly dated, but Mike was having an issue with "recently" being 10 years ago ...
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4 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Now that’s a shocker ain’t it.
You can moor there through the day while you shop/drink/eat/whatever and spend money in our model village,afterwards you can sod off !!
6 hour limit last time I was there. Signposted on lovely blue signs.
They'd also added mooring rings a bit further along, but dumped so much stone against the piling I couldn't get within three feet of the towpath.
I'm not complaining though - just the other side of the next swingbridge heading for Leeds is Saltaire Brewery who have a tap room onsite ...
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How do you open lock gates ?
in General Boating
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I'm a bum pusher.
If we're allowed to say that these days!
But so's my wife!
If we're allowed to say that these days too!
I did used to be a rugby forward if that excuses me ...
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