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Are they actually circuit breakers and that one will not stay set (as it's overloaded?)?

Now if everyone moved a little further than their neighbours it wouldn't be long before the canal is full of continuous cruisers! (which is no bad thing)

Spotted that about 30 mS after pressing "post" - and will now be merged...

Steel is roughly 8 Ton a cubic metre (eight times denser than water) so 16 Ton = 2 cubic metres

Keep posting (sensible) questions, and you will soon be able to - I'm a Town Councillor for one of the Parishes in Milton Keynes with a "canalside" presence (and an interest in waterways!) so have quite a bit to do with an Electric boat that might drop visitors off once or twice a week...

if @Andrew Grainger will give me contact details (by PM) I'll try and put him in touch with the people who run Electra - they learnt a lot and not just about boats, but moorings, parking, wheelchairs, turning points, the general public etc...

I hope they were screws, not nails! Otherwise, wishing you a speedy and ongoing recovery.

Depending on definition of boating... We live in Wolverton and used to walk regularly with the dog to Cosgrove and back (on one nice day we did Stoke Bruan and back, but that's another story!); I'd usually hang a windlass on my belt and if we overtook a boat moving slowly past the moorings below the lock we'd ask if they were going up. If they were, we'd draw a paddle and have the gates open, ready. If there was a boat in the lock, we'd offer to close gates and paddles so they could make a slick exit. Not all accepted, but the offer was there (and I think the windless still in the Garage; the dog doesn't walk that far any more)

Don't know about Cats, but Ollie tolerates certain four legged furry animals of a non-canine species. Wouldn't like to leave him alone with one, though... Especially when the rabbit hops off the dog bed leaving a diet of nutritious droppings...

Oh the irony...

Done - and a few posts which were duplicated across threads, hidden.

Even further off topic - Government contracts have hung on similar issues - I recall one (which never got to court) where contractor supplied software crashed (roughly) once a day (for each of over 300 users) and the contractors' response amounted to "while we admit ..... the time to reboot the workstation is ... which means we are still within contract of 98.2% availability..."

My mistake - put a black mark in my book - I saw the second and third posts but not the first...

It's possible that the poster didn't realise new posters require approval - pressed "submit reply" - nothing (appeared to) happen, so they posted again six minutes later. Even experienced posters have been known to press "submit reply" a second time when a bad network connection means they didn't see their first reply...

Thanks Tim I'm struggling to keep up with comments (but keep them coming) - I'm up to about 2nd November for comments on this forum, I think I'm up-to-date for comments on my website and acutely aware that batch 3 is heading back to @magpie patrick and batch 4 is in the post on the way for scanning...

Thanks, David - and you did. Unfortunately it's beyond the power of mere Mod's, so we've pushed the problem upstairs to the Admins...

@GuyDG As a first time poster, do you have any connection with the Seller? If so, please could you make that clear. Thanks.

@RichM - time for your skilled hands, I think...

There's probably a whole thread on this single topic (@magpie patrick - you listening?) Logically, separate windlass's should not be the norm - if someone asked you, without prior knowledge, to design a sluice, would you not have a fixed handle or crank to operate it (I've never seen, for example, a bucket in a well with a removable handle) I assume (but that's all it is) that at some point someone said, "what if someone unqualified came and operated the sluice?" and the obvious answer in a pre-stilsons era was to remove the handle and give "qualified people" their own handle to bring with them.

Many years ago we used to dive a lake at a local sailing club - The deal was we had 10:00 to 11:30 (while they prepped the boats) - surface after 11:30, and you could find Lasers and Larks turning round your SMB. Anyway, one Sunday we turned up to find the Sailing Committee nearly in tears. Clubhouse broken into. First thing I found at 6M at the end of the pontoon was a very large pair of Bolt Croppers! With a padlock next to them... Police said I could keep neither.

Check that your laptop is trying to access Https://canalworld.net (the "s" just before the : is important) It's the secure browsing protocol, http may still work but web browsers are getting increasingly jittery about accepting insecure sites.