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6 minutes ago, IanD said:
You do know what AFAIK stands for, don't you? 😉
yeah but ............. that just leaves you vulnerable to the suggestion that you don't actually know very much.
............... just sayin' 😉
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17 hours ago, Barneyp said:
Well the thread is now 4 pages long with multiple contributors including you so clearly the answer is yes they do.
You see you're still here even after your previous post.
I think what is clear is that there is no definitive answer, while the regulations/law may be clear the enforcement isn't.
not many rules and regulations are enforced in Modern England; mind you, DVSA operates an Enforcement Site in Abingdon, which somehow sounds a bit like a South American Nazi establishment. I wish they would enforce the rules affecting bikes and scooters. Happy Xmas everybody !!!
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Mr Brown is not shy of describing his wife in excruciating detail - well that's how I read it anyway:
"My wife thought that painting it like an underground train would only appeal to railway enthusiasts, but she's popular with all sorts. She has a real energy to her, lots of towpath users stop and ask to take pictures with her. She's called Wiggles because she has excess weight above the water line which makes her move around."
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18 minutes ago, MtB said:
Depends where you are. On the moon it weighs a lot less.
1 litre of water has a mass of 1kg.
at STP of course. nice to see someone using scientific dimensions properly. pedants' delight.
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10 hours ago, MtB said:
F*ck me, you have a talking car?!
I often have private conversations with my car. It never answers back and is always ready to absorb my explosive expressions of anger when other drivers act like frigging eejits. Best car I've ever had (Yeti 1.2 turbo petrol).
14 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:Must have been a hardy sole, all the big stores and supermarkets around here see to have set their air curtains to blow cold air.
I never said it was a big supermarket. It was a small supermarket. I don't like big supermarkets.
I have no idea if the base of her shoes was soft or hard, although I suspect the former - soft soled sheepskin booties more than likely.
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2 hours ago, Sea Dog said:
Shut that door few gawd's sake! It bloomin' freezing out there...
This morning I took exception to a woman who was chatting away on her idiot phone while standing in the open doorway of the supermarket, thus preventing the doors from closing. My car said the outside temperature was minus 8C. God knows how many kWH were consumed just to accommodate her selfishness.
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12 hours ago, magnetman said:
15 years is good!
One of my boats has been ballasted with poured concrete since new and I seem to think its pretty good.
I think the bad stories mostly come from older boats being bodged up.
There is always this in the back of one's mind. Concrete is not all it's cracked up to be.
Its isn't load bearing so probably fine.
.................... and this in the country that, history suggests, invented concrete more than 2,000 years ago.
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come on guys, it's no more difficult than trying to renovate a neglected Victorian terraced house in central London in a no parking zone.
it only requires stripping out all the internal fitting out, excavation and repairs to the foundations including installing a DPC, removing all the damaged or failing plaster and lath, replacing all the rotten floor timbers and staircase, removing the roof tiles, replacing all the rotten roof timbers, installing underfelt and tiles, replastering walls and ceilings throughout, replacing the plumbing and wiring and then adding the finishing touches such as fitted furniture and storage, painting ..........
...................... well you know the rest .................. 😉
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we're waiting for your response about the extent your experience of a narrowboat on the canals, if any.
the plan and cross section drawings that you provided suggest that you don't even know the shape of a narrowboat.
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13 hours ago, David Mack said:
Highway Code applies - keep left at roundabouts, ignore navigation rules.
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20 hours ago, Mike Tee said:
He added: "Because we can shut down the turbines, which have sluice gates in them, we can then stop surge tide coming through from the North Sea, like it did in 1953 and 2013, and stop it damaging the countryside and preserving The Wash as it is today."
wot he said ^^^ - but water is water and can't be compressed, and if the surge doesn't occur in the wash, it will occur somewhere else, I wonder where that would be ..........................
why?
the surge is the result of the coastal configuration (like any significant inlet), which if dammed would eliminate the underlying causes of surge.
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1 hour ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
I did that once. Didn't even get 3.5m, let alone 350. Destroyed the electrical bollard! Very embarrassing.
time for honesty - who has never ever done that?
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a bit like asking how long is a piece of string I'm afraid. IMHO there is only one factor that fixes the price of a boat - how much is the prospective purchaser willing to offer?
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I hope not.
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17 hours ago, MtB said:
"Pedants' Corner" actually.
But you knew that really didn't you!?
😎 .................. and it's not correct to write A/hrs or A/H or Amp/hours either; I (and possibly you) cannot find a way to divide a unit of current by time although Einstein may argue that he can (could).
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pedants corner - battery capacity is measured in Amp.hours, not Amps.
a fundamental understanding of what is being measured should be an essential starting point before any meaningful discussion can take place.
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I used to use welding cables in such situations. Nice and flexible and easy to terminate with a large crimping tool. I would be interested to learn if that was bad practice.
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ask Poirot. 😎
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1 hour ago, Higgs said:
As the subject of magnetics has cropped up, some care should be used. I speak from experience. Magnetic strips and neodymium magnets should be disturbed frequently; they have a habit of sticking like concrete to some paint, and probably varnish. Adjust them daily or every few days.
having spent 50 years in the construction industry I am enlightened to find only now that concrete sticks to paint. 😲
perhaps faeces and shovel is what you wanted to say but daren't. 😎
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14 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:
I was reading somewhere today that it has been a really bad year for avian flu.
It normally dies down in summer but doesn't appear to have done that this year.
well. I would never have guessed .................. 😏
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well in a much smaller boat with a draft of less than 50cm I didn't get much past the Red House, certainly nowhere near the weir.
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....................... and there's me wondering how a bloke thinks he can make a profit by buying a boat that needs the internal fit out that needs to be refreshed/replaced and then sell it on, 'speshully after he's paid the drydock fees, surveyor's fees, his own expenses and wages, never mind a temporary CRT licence. And all that without any current experience of the canals, just a rusty inaccurate memory from 15 years ago when he was nowt but a callow youf wearing rose tinted specs.
ahhh ........ but I forgot, Daddy worked on the canals and OP was born on a boat so it's in his DNA ............. 😎
and he's got A levels ................ reely 'elpful .............................
dream on ...................... 😏
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OP should try leaving his untaxed car parked on the road. he knows what will happen. why does he think canals are different? 🙄
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3 hours ago, pete.i said:
A couple of things are for certain. The capacity in batteries just isn't there at the moment therefore the range is abysmal. The infrastructure isn't there to warrant the, massive, extra cost of electric power compared to convential propulsion means. The, massive, extra cost of purchasing an electric vehicle, be it a car or a boat, is absolutely prohibitive unless you have a load of disposable money. You will never convince the electric enthusiasts of any of the arguments. It would be HUGELY unlikely that any of them would say that they were wrong, a bit like the compost bog arguments. Eventually we will all go electric because that is what various governments want. Eventually either the infrastructure will be there along with the efficiency of electric vehicles or some other technology will have taken over, which is what I think will happen. I'm sticking with petrol for the time being and it is highly unlikely that I will change my mind before I peg it. I do not have a boat any more and I'm not likely to have another one so, for me, electric or diesel boat is a moot point. But as for cars I will not have an EV or a hybrid until I am forced to. My daughter's partner, who is disabled, has had to have an MG EV as mobility only supplies EVs now apparently. this MG is claimed to be one of the best for mileage on a full charge. That claim is 300 miles. This is a manufacturer's claim and in actuallity it will be significantly less.
I have 2 electric "day-boats" and I have given up serious cruising. Mooring outside my back door on the Thames so charging is easy.
Regarding EV's as I am now retired and have little need for regular long journeys, doing perhaps 2k miles per year, there is no advantage to me getting an EV, either for myself or for the planet. For high mileage drivers EV's should become the only practical and affordable solution. I suggest that road tax should be abolished and petrol and diesel should attract huge tax increases. Low mileage users would suffer little increase in overall running costs, while high mileage users (and the companies they work for when the companies are paying expenses) would have a real financial motivation to go EV.
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in the case of conventional Lead Acid leisure batteries in my experience sealed batteries may still require topping up, which can be done by removing the vinyl stickers and levering off the black plastic strip covering the holes above each cell. Maybe I'm wrong but I believe there is no difference in the batteries except that the cells in sealed batteries are more difficult to access. Of course if you leave the red plugs in place then they are sealed to the extent that they may explode (well ... leak badly at the least).