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5 hours ago, Tigerr said:
Canal jumping suicides are something of a rarity
Well yes. A broken ankle and damp knees is the most likely outcome of jumping off a canal bridge on most parts of the network!
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On 01/02/2024 at 15:53, Alan de Enfield said:
C&RT and BW before them have placed their own intepretation on the requirements for making a no-home mooring decalaration, but intepretation is all that it is.
And are they ("the Board") satisfied? Which is the actual legal test ...
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3 minutes ago, MtB said:
Would that give me a tender behind?
No, that's the fees that make you feel like that...
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
I pay CRT for a 57ft space and have a 45ft boat on it. Somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to sign up for such a deal, obvioiusly.
Stick a 10ft tender on the moorings so you get more value for money
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On 26/01/2024 at 13:57, Oddjob said:
If you want to be a volly lockee just turn up with a windless and get cracking how on the west end of the Leeds and Liverpool there is a Facebook page you go asking for help going down and they turn up mob handed!
If you mean the Wigan Flight Crew, most of them are official CRT vollies.
They also like to point out it's not a booking system - there's no guarantee anyone will turn up just because you've posted on Facebook.
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2 hours ago, nicknorman said:
we have inductance in the wires
You wouldn't recommend the long thin wire is coiled up then?
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4 minutes ago, MtB said:
I have to say I was disappointed by the Brxit vote result but consoled myself with the thought of all the Brexit benefits we were about to get.
I'm still waiting for even one.
You'll legally be allowed to buy English wines in smaller bottles (pints) if anyone bothers producing any.
That's more of a maybe than a full one though ...
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15 hours ago, dmr said:
I think its easy to have a bad time on the 18 [...] and over equate this with bad maintanance.
Attitude matters too. The first time I descended the 18 I was sharing with another boat, they swore "never ever again" and we quite enjoyed it!
Yes, it can be hard work and you might need to move some water around but it's a stunning canal.
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On 18/01/2024 at 19:17, ditchcrawler said:
Not surprised. I think their Wigan on is 110Volt so you have to hire suitable equipment
After you've signed the paperwork to agree you won't use a step up transformer ....
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22 minutes ago, agg221 said:
None of the above addresses the question of where the hydrogen comes from, but there are several answers to that, some more palatable than others; some short-term, some medium, some long to the point of being nothing more than aspirations at this point.
You do rather seem to be avoiding @IanD's main point of concern.
It's all technically feasible, but it uses between 2 and 4 times the energy input compared to the useful energy output.
Does it make more sense to charge the batteries 4 times using the same input power or to fill the hydrogen fuel cell once?
The only sensible use of Hydrogen as a fuel is to convert it to Helium, but that's called fusion ... and has been thirty years in the future for the last 80 years or so!
Personally I don't believe we'll get there unless we figure out how to control gravity, so our nearest useful fusion reactor is about 92 million miles thataway! ☀️
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1 hour ago, Stilllearning said:
Or from below, in my experience, as I look to my right and watch sawdust burning on top of the log on the woodburner.
If the sawdust is sat on top of the log it's getting top air not bottom air ....
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2 hours ago, MtB said:
it would like pushing water uphill.
Hydrogen hydroxide you mean? Just rebrand it ...
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3 hours ago, kevinl said:
wallpaper paste ... 20 minutes in the oven at gas mark 4
That seems an expensive way to make firewood!
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The best way is just compress it, but it works better with shavings than sawdust.
Thousands of tonnes of pressure makes it stick together ...
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I thought standard emulsion was classed as non-flammable, it's acceptable to use it near a stove on a non-combustible surface.
Oil based gloss not so much!
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38 minutes ago, cuthound said:
I'm surprised no one has suggested this yet!
That's not for shackles.
You're only supposed to blow the doors off
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3 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:
Presumably the boater's facilities will be lost then?
There are WC facilities contained in the building and accessed from the towpath. A long lease of these facilities will be granted to the seller on completion. See the legal pack for further details.
So presumably not ...
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Fit some of those annoying windlass driven hydraulic pumps to it, no need for a power pack then, and make the wide beam crew operate them ...
That should reduce the effort for CRT staff and volunteers!
As there's a valid diversion route for the three or four hours it's out of position why not arrange/hope for a mechanical breakdown while it's in it's layby?
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On 31/12/2023 at 16:39, Willonaboat said:
But can it transport a cassette full of shite
It's got a multi pack of Brewdog Punk IPA ...
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1 minute ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I can imagine folk still doing it that way for nostalgiaAh, that's alright then. I was worried it still needed to be done that way after the multimillion pound rebuild!
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1 minute ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Hurleston?
They still doing it there?
Hopefully not after they fully rebuilt it!
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3 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
The usual blue connectors are only mildly water resistant (IP44)
... And they are usually mounted upside down on boats so they look more waterproof but are actually much less waterproof when connected!
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9 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
My 'other boat' is 38 feet long and 60+ feet air draft - it is also 22 foot beam which makes it awkward to use on the canals - it won't quite fit thru any of the locks (but it is fine on the 'big rivers')
It'd be fine on the ship canals ...
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7 hours ago, IanD said:
For example, if [stupid]=[moored all day on a water point] then you can usually breast up to a narrowboat, but not usually to a wideboat.
Why not? I have, and then run my hose through their pram cover to fill my boat tank.
I need to be feeling more agile than usual to scramble over their roof, but that's been known too!
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A pint with?
in General Boating
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Every day for those five years?