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3 hours ago, RLWP said:
What's happening??
There's an annual 24 hour challenge event on the BCN. I'm quite surprised you haven't heard of it before ...
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12 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
Something like a trough aqueduct is of course going to make the effect more significant, but most of us spend less than 0.1% of our time
Don't exaggerate Nick. I think you're probably an order of magnitude out here, maybe two!
0.01% or 0.001% is far more likely. I'm not sure exactly how many yards of narrow aqueduct trough there are out of 2,000 miles of CRT waterways, but I'd be astonished if it was over 2 miles ...
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Is it only me who stops the boat if being overtaken, but without pulling into the side and mooring up?
Wave them past, stop the boat in the water towards the right of the channel, apply minimal power just as the bow starts being drawn towards them to prevent a collision then carry on when they're past.
It doesn't have to be complicated!
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1 hour ago, IanD said:
IIRC the Highway Code says you should always leave a gap, but many drivers ignore this
They misremember it when mooring though .... Gits!
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4 hours ago, Graham and Jo said:
play pass the pig
Shouldn't this be on the widebeams thread?
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9 hours ago, Graham and Jo said:
I wouldn't mind a few less narrow boats moored so close to the bollards for the lock that I can't fit Dotterel between them and the bridge.
I find it entertaining to breast up to them while working the lock.
When they complain - which they always do if they're onboard - I just shrug and point out I can't use the lock landing because they're moored on it.
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5 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:
the horribly early start on Sunday and the attempts to nurse tiredness and hangovers while fighting with low pounds
Use the @tree monkey and @matty40s technique - just keep drinking the whisky and you won't have a hangover (yet) at 6am Sunday ...
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2 hours ago, Loddon said:
Upwell is shallow
That's where that bloke who keeps throwing garden waste in the water lives ...
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7 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Nothing makes a great deal of difference to an air cooled Lister. I've got insulation sheets under the deck planks and they do cut it down a bit but it certainly aint quiet. Noise cancelling earphones work, though !
Half past two!
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18 hours ago, rusty69 said:
Well, yes. Didn't I say I had been having trouble sleeping during the wee hours? Gotta catch up sometime.
Most of the forum members find the sleep hours and the wee hours are the same anyway.
You're a youngster so shouldn't be having this issue yet ...
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6 hours ago, Chewbacka said:
Panels (rather than controller to batteries) only need fuses if you have several in parallel, which you probably don’t.
I think that's bad advice.
6 hours ago, Chewbacka said:With a VoC of 46v if you put your panels in series you will be getting some fairly high open circuit D.C. voltages, so exposed terminals etc need guarding, and a warning notice by the controller wouldn’t be a bad idea.
But that is very good advice.
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I did suggest this to them quite a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who did.
The paper pumpout cards have always seemed to be more trouble than they are worth - everyone either trades or refunds half the cards they get, and can't rely on them working after that.
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3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I read it as he doesn't want a plastic seat, and also wanted the 'soft close'.
I've never really understood why anyone would want a device that makes it take longer to open or close the toilet seat ...
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Yeah, that's the one. I didn't know it was the womble song though.
I thought that one went "Underground" before The Jam did ...
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2 minutes ago, rusty69 said:
As good as Gulpers are, I don't think they are powerful enough to make the orinoco flow. Or any other womble.
Nah, the "Save a whale" one ...
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5 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
This music it plays while pumping is pretty annoying though.
Enya?
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6 hours ago, IanD said:
trump facts...
I think we call those "alternative truths" now 😁
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On 04/05/2023 at 10:51, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Cows are just short horses.
There's no need to call them that, and your autocorrect is getting worse! 🤣
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4 minutes ago, Bob Chamberlain said:
Alternatively you could drill those out and tap the holes to use small machine screws or similar.
That's what I'd recommend if the previous rivets have failed.
Or just hook on more gently! 😁
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6 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Everything was so much better in the old days...
Knees, back, bladder control ....
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9 hours ago, MtB said:
I'm inclined to agree with the previous suggestion they are for weed cutting and the boat has some other form of propulsion
Viewing the boat manufacturers website will change your mind ...
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Sadly we have to duck again this year.
It's a choice of building a bigger brewery or doing the BCN challenge and the brewery won.
We'll play again another year, and we'll bring beer!
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41 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
Viagra was originally invented by the eggheads at Rowntree's when they were trying to find a harder coating for the new blue Smarties. It turned out to be useless for confectionary, but an unexpected benefit was the creation of thumb tacks.
Reported for unnecessary Americanism.
Drawing pins, dammit!
Also, Smarties have been made by Nestlé for the last 30+ years ...
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3 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
I'm now fascinated with this route - it appears to be the lowest cross country route and certainly the lowest across the central watershed of England. I think the Staffs and Worcs Summit is only around 340 feet above sea level and all other options for a "corner to corner" route get quite a bit higher
We seem to have missed lowest canal off the list of canal extremities the other week.
Is this really a towpath improvement ?
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