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Murflynn

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  1. 35 minutes ago, blackrose said:

    Once you've realised how difficult and expensive  a proper residential Thames mooring would be to obtain, you might want to consider some of the non-residential long-term Thames moorings which plenty of people live on unofficially. Penton Hook, Bell Weir, etc. Still expensive of course but cheaper than residential. 

     

    that statement may represent an act of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.   😉

  2. 15 minutes ago, IanM said:

    Just using this thread to test a BBCode link to a Flickr picture.

     

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/28FcvSk][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/1828/43106779971_c1ff32e577_c.jpg[/img][/url]

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/28FcvSk]Braunston Historic Boat Festival 2018[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/imulford/]Ian[/url], on Flickr

     

    If it doesn't work, is their any update on when it could be brought back as I want to link to a lot of pictures already on Flickr and I don't want to have to resize them and upload them individually if the linking doesn't work.

     

    Edited to add: Obviously it doesn't work still.😠

     

    please don't introduce flickering images into the forum.  It can cause dizziness and delirium for many otherwise healthy beings.

  3. I suggest that the lines that should be buried are the local distribution cables, AFAIK these are generally 3.3kV. 

     

    I am fully aware that HV transmission cables (e.g. 240kV and higher) cannot be buried in a cost efficient manner, but in my experience those are not the cables that may be affected by falling trees because they are raised well out of danger.

  4. 13 minutes ago, LadyG said:

    I could have one at the bow and one at the stern, as I have two domestic banks plus one starter bank but to date I've been unable to find a good electrician, each one makes things worse than they were before they came aboard. One of them removed the big charger inverter, the washing machine now gets no power, and I'm not even sure if I can now connect to shorepower. 

    The USB sockets at the stern no longer work, and the radio ( newly installed) works intermittently. 

     

    prob'ly best to sell the boat and buy one with a simple leccy system that you can understand.   :rolleyes:

  5. reminds me of people who claim to "build their own house".  Turns out in 99% of cases that they commissioned a builder to build a house.

     

    not in my dad's case.  In 1951 he bought a one acre plot of land on the edge of the green belt in Surrey and installed a caravan on site.  That was our home for 8 years while he struggled (assisted by Mum, and later by me and my bruvver) to prepare the site and then to design and build a substantial 4 bedroom house during summer evenings and every weekend.   Concrete and mortar was mixed on site, much of it by hand.  The only trades he contracted out were plumbing, electrics and roofing, plus an architect to approve and sign his drawings.  Scaffolding was telegraph poles set in concrete supporting steel tubes and boards.   During several long cold dark winters he transferred his efforts to dismantling and rebuilding a 1938 Riley 1.5 saloon.

  6. 2 hours ago, robtheplod said:

    Is CO lighter than air?  I'm assuming so as CO detectors tend to be high up.....

     

    molecular weights:

     

    air - a mixture of :

    O2 ... 32

    N2 ... 28

     

    CO ... 28

     

    effectively the same in practice, so the molecules just mix indiscriminately   ...........  in still air there will be a marginally higher concentration at high level.

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  7. 22 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

    In float mode, the current is low anyway, only a few amps at most, so the voltage drop will be correspondingly low. It is only in bulk charge of a depleted battery bank that the voltages could be lower than expected, assuming no compensation is applied.

    Jen

     

    agree, but the consequence of thin cables will be a delay to reaching float mode.  

    I guess that many folk rely on their solar to keep the batteries charged up while the boat is unoccupied, not to charge them from a seriously depleted condition.

    'orses fer coarses.

  8. 2 hours ago, George and Dragon said:

    .....................   the danger of failing to fully charge the batteries because of volt drop is perhaps a little overstated.

     absolutely.

    my 75A MPPT is about 3m away from the batteries, I have 300W solar. 

    my batteries show a constant 13.9V when the MPPT indicator LED indicates charging has gone into float mode.

    the cables are 6sq.mm.

  9. 11 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    Move boat to where, when every useful mooring is given over to paying winter moorings?

     

    the word useful is shirley very pertinent here.

     

    perhaps the solution is for all winter moorings (many/most of which are just used as boat storage facilities) to be miles from anywhere, i.e. not useful for the genuine cruising boatowner.

  10. 20 hours ago, Graham Davis said:

     

    1/

    I think you need to learn to read, especially what the Act really says, not what you think it does.

    2/

    Ever heard the term "barrack room lawyer", because boy do you come over as one!

     

    bring back national service, that's wot I say  ......................  there'd be a little more respect for the rest of society and a little less anti-social free-thinking loutery.

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  11. 11 hours ago, LadyG said:

    I'm not going to expand on this, but if you  can't access the actual policy online, if that how it works, then check the payments have been made and no loose cannon has pressed the delete button. 

     

    please don't.  we are sufficiently confused already.

  12. 11 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

    Since no one else has, I'll point out that boats are more likely to have showers than baths. Finding a boater in a bath is harder as a result and I wouldn't recommend filling in an on-line survey in the bath unless the gadget is waterproof.

    .................... according to Biscuits this topic is limited to street-lighting, and no, I didn't read the questions - better things to do  ....  but Jen, surely the issue isn't about waterproof writing materials, it would be more about whether, during these gloomy winter months, you could fill in the questionnaire while sitting in the bath if the street-lighting in the vicinity is inadequate for you to see what you are doing.  I am of course assuming that the socially-challenged boat dwellers in this notorious location will only have candles for their bathroom lighting. 

  13. I might comment that many folk who live in boats moored along the Avon and the western end of the K&A canal may not be complying with the Authority's rules related to mooring and/or living aboard and therefore some or most of them are unlikely to give you honest answers to your questions.  Are you aware of C&RT's position on these matters?  If not, there are thousands of relevant posts on hundreds of threads on this website, which you may like to read as background material.

  14. 15 hours ago, peterboat said:

    You have to read the article, also having done the conversion on my own widebeam I know it's a lot lighter than the diesel engine that's after fitting a genny as well. Given that mostly I am going forward drag from draught is the enemy of power usage.

    I would like an engine room so weight would be further forward as well so that should help 

    drag from draught?  I assume you are referring to the drag related to the displacement of water while moving through relatively shallow (and narrow in many cases) water rather than surface friction. 

    I don't believe that a well-designed pencil shaped hull moving in deep water (where surface area / friction drag is the main component) will be significantly slower that a similar but more shallow hull (at typical canal speeds), and the directional stability will be better.

     

    PS  ...............  I've just seen your reply to Jen - confirming the drag displacement factor.

  15. 15 hours ago, blackrose said:

    My 2005 Liverpool Boat's HIN isn't compliant either, although I bought it as a partly completed craft (sailaway) if that's relevant? Anyway the non-compliant HIN number has never bothered me since I never intended to fit it out in accordance with the RCD

     

    Mike, my 2005 Scouseboat sailaway (Annexe 3) did not have an HIN - the only reference would have been a works hull number.  The HIN was applied for by the "builder" - the one who completes the boat - i.e. you or me.  In my case, as a private person, the HIN was issued by the RYA when I completed the RCD paperwork.

  16. 3 minutes ago, Stilllearning said:

    If you have other windows the same size, couldn’t you swap one so that you have a smoked glass one in, say, the bathroom?

    or you could sell the boat and buy another that has no broken windows - yes I know that is a stupid comment but replacing items (even car parts) can be very frustrating.

     

    I would be tempted to buy a new window and Nike - "Just Do It" - frustrating drilling new holes and sealing the frame in the cabin side, but a guaranteed result if the overall dimensions match.

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