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9 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
It is apparently been proven that your immunity is only lasting about 5 months.
Every scientific organisation from the WHO downwards is saying herd immunity will not work, all that will happen is that millions will dies and the world will lose the older genarations (60 + years old) in adddition to a considerable number of 40+ year olds.
Sorry but that is untrue, antibodies wane after a short period of time, the immune system remembers viruses via T cells, once infected and recovered, you are immune.
If this isn't the case what is the point of vaccination.
Vaccines produce herd immunity, that is how they work.
There are enough scientists out there, epidemiology experts and nobel prize winners that are trying to get governments to go herd immunity but we are listening to government advisors that have interests in pharmaceutical companies manufacturing vaccines.
Sweden went down the herd immunity route and they seem to be doing OK.
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Herd immunity is the only thing that works, we will ultimately achieve this, locking down only delays this happening and causes countless deaths due to undiagnosed illness through people not being able to access health care.
I know this, as my cousin was buried last week after dying from liver cancer which was diagnosed too late due to the last lockdown.
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14 hours ago, LadyG said:
I didn't bother to watch, I'm on my boat, all I need is diesel and food: Pub lunch again tomorrow (the locals just ignore the expensive menu and order what they want).
Did the Boris explain why lockdown will work this time, and why it did not go according to plan last semester?
If lockdown works, why are we having another one.
If lockdown doesn't work, why are we having another one.
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3 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:
Maybe you spend more on thicker socks...?
Or smaller saloon? Our layout is lounge-dinette-galley as a continuous space - maybe 30'? ...
Or...
Different wife?
our boat is 45ft stove is in the middle, ticks over 24/7, we are pretty much open plan apart from bathroom, we are never cold.
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12 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:
My Eberspacher, wet radiators/calorifier water heater uses 0.5 litres of diesel per hour, maybe a bit less than 50p depending where your red diesel comes from. I get about 2.5 days of solid fuel stove continuous running per 20kg bag for £10 per bag.
That's a lot of coal, our 20kg lasts five days.
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8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
In your opinion, what are the differences between 'leisure batteries' and 'starter batteries' ?
What is the definition of 'Deep cycle batteries', ?
just the label I would imagine and a hefty price hike.
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15 minutes ago, frankling said:
...which will be many years in the future, I hope!
I just don't want to ever have to overplate, and want to be able to resell if this liveaboard plan turns out to be disastrous...
The thickness you posted are just fine, it looks a nice boat, if things don't work out, which I am sure they will, you will get most of your money back.
I had never been on a boat when I bought mine , I am now six years in and still loving it.
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6 hours ago, frankling said:
Hello All
I wonder if anyone out there can offer some advice. My life has turned a bit upside down, and in the chaos, I decided to sell my house and go for a liveaboard. I've been reading about boats and looking at boats since about May, and a couple of weeks ago thought I'd found the one for me. I got massively overenthusiastic, had a survey done, and now am paralysed by indecision.
I'm too much of a newbie at all this, and think I may have rushed into making an offer and am making an expensive mistake. If anyone can offer advice to stop me from potentially making the mistake bigger and even more expensive, that would be fantastic!
The website didn't have all that much information about the boat, so I did ask supplemental questions. However, I never asked anything about the most crucial bit, the hull. I thought that most canal boats were 10/6/4 or 8/6/4, with Springers being thinner. Since this boat isn't a Springer, it never even dawned on me that the steel might be not be a standard thickness. However, when it was pulled out of the water and the surveyor went to look at it, he determined that the base plate was originally 6.6mm, the swim 6.5mm and the side plating 5.0mm. The boat now is 5.9-6.0mm swim, 4.9-5.0mm side plating.
Absolutely kicking myself, because the boat had had a survey in 2017, but I never asked to look at it, since it was three years old and I was planning to get my own survey done anyway, but of course the 2017 survey would have mentioned the thin steel, and then I think I would have got cold feet and walked away. The boat was built in 1998, is 45 feet, and is selling for £35,000, which I'm now thinking sounds a lot for a cheaply-built 22-year-old boat? What would you advise - is it more sensible to leave this boat alone and wait for something to come along with a higher-quality hull? Or are those steel thicknesses fine and dandy as long as I keep looking after it?
I feel really lost with this. My parents lived on a narrowboat for 15 or 20 years, but I paid no attention to anything apart from the stove and the kettle on their boat at the time, and they are now too old and too far away from their boat-ownership days to help. I'm also not a very practical person - no knowledge of engines etc - and don't really know anyone who is practical who can look at boats with me. £35,000 is the top end of the budget, and it is such a huge sum to me that I am in a complete dilemma on this one. I have to admit that my love-at-first-sight feeling was a gut feeling induced by the interior - it just felt like home when I stepped aboard - and not by anything remotely practical.
All advice, comments, cries of "My god, you imbecile, what were you thinking" etc welcome. Thank you in advance for any help, and sorry for the wall o' text.
(P.S. I'm not sure if it's bad form to post a direct link to the boat in question so you can take a look at it?)
Edit: link to boat added: https://narrowboats.apolloduck.com/boat/narrow-boats-cruiser-stern/649928
my boat was built in 1981 and is 6/5/3, I expect it to still be floating long after I have passed on.
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15 minutes ago, LadyG said:
@Rickent I must be confused, or you are, it's not Foxes but another youtuber who is getting a boat built, they are the ones who are or were house owners and now rent or sold it, They then bought a second hand liveaboard.
Foxes have a practically new boat.
Foxes do indeed have a new boat, they made an announcement a couple of months ago saying they were going to be working with a number of boat builders to design and build a boat with innovative features and offered viewers the chance to put suggestions forward as to what features should be incorporated into the design, I assumed the funding from the channel was going to pay for this.
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9 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:
I fully understand that.
But my point is that I suspect l am pretty typical in that I subscribe but dont pay them anything.
Some even sell merchandise too, which I have never even considered purchasing.
Me too, but it wouldn't take much to start the cash rolling in.
A hard luck story with a boat full of holes seemed to do the job.
49 minutes ago, LadyG said:You don't get the point, they bought the boat and then got their subscribers.
The boat they are on now, yes.
They are starting a new project which allows people to make suggestions on the build, I don't think this will be funded by themselves.
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6 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Subscribers to youtube channels are not in any way required to donate anything.
A subscription to a channel is completely free.
I subscribe to several boaty ones and motoring ones and I have never paid any of them anything.
I know that, Patreon is the payment part, my point is, if enough of those subscribers make any sort of donation, we are soon talking big money.
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7 hours ago, LadyG said:
They probably bought and paid for the boat, which would cost far more than any moneys they got from youtube. I believe one guy sold his business, and maybe one had money in t'bank,
There is nothing wrong with earning money from youtube, but it's not as if they are like Will Prowse who has many thousands of subscribers, and has now bought a house ... A far cry from his homeless days, but he has worked at it for many years. One can only admire such a determined, intelligent, and all round nice guy.
Youtube advertising income is not going to buy a narrowboat.
Donations from subscribers certainly would though.
66 thousand subscribers to date.
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7 hours ago, LadyG said:
Not sure this is relevant, in fact it's irrelevant.
It was referring to the suggestion of YouTube vlogging to raise funds for boat repairs as the you tube channel Boating Beyond was mentioned, as Foxes afloat are vloggers, I assume it is this that is paying for said boat, therefore the comment was relevant.
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2 hours ago, matty40s said:
I cant believe you have forgotten about this pair already!!
I also think Foxes Afloat are having another boat built as well.
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2 hours ago, matty40s said:
Just happen to have some next to me...
snap.
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11 hours ago, matty40s said:
Just get some weather shield or hammerite on it, no obvious rust patches from that pic.
You havnt got the time, conditions and humidity to paint it properly with enamels outside now.
why make work, as time is against him just leave as is and start next spring, not going to rust much over winter looking at it.
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I saw this in the flesh in July and believe me it is ugly, the huge outboard hanging off the back is ridiculous.
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3 hours ago, cuthound said:
@matty40s of this parish.
This ^^^^
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15 hours ago, matty40s said:
You will also get bumped, scraped....
you shouldn't moor in locks, but that doesn't stop some people ????
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If the survey is 5 years old , it would be very wise to get another one. Hull survey at minimum.
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32 minutes ago, mark99 said:
As well as having as superb boat name.
Absolutely.
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27 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I think that there is a small error in this statement - unless you have found a way to generate heat from 'nothing'.
OK Alan, no electrical power.
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2 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Just keep the squirell on 24/7
Warm dry boat.
No power consumed.
No brainer.?
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11 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:Well, mine was kindly repainted by the previous owner when I bought it. Unfortunately in lumpy hammerite which took an entire summer to get off. As I have been on an income of (usually considerably) less than 12 grand all my life, I can't afford to have it professionally painted, so I do the best I can with a couple of cans of Weathershield. The boat's hit a few bridges and been hit by a few boats in its time, so it's a bit dented here and there. I've done my best with what I've got, which is a much loved unshiny old boat that has been either my home or leisure activity for thirty years. I don't polish the brass because life's too short. I do the best I can with what I can afford.
I also appreciate that some lucky people can afford professional care for their boats, and as long as they do it for the same reasons as me, and have an inclusive attitude to others pottering about, I'm all in favour. Almost all boats are interesting to look at, though sometimes the slightly more battered ones have more character, rather than looking like something out of Homes &Gardens - but the latter are nice too. Gives you something to aspire to!
What matters is the attitude of the person (usually a bloke) at the tiller. There is certainly a higher proportion who refuse to make eye contact, wave or say hello as they go past you than there used to be, and I'm afraid they are, in fact, usually on shiny boats. Still a minority though, and they do make me laugh.
What upset the OP wasn't, as far as I can see, the question, which was fair enough, nor the bloke's shiny boat, but the attitude. And also, in my opinion, she can justifiably get snotty about some of the attitudes shown by some in this thread, who, on the evidence of their willingness to go on the attack, would probably have responded to the approach even less charitably, assuming they had the nerve to act in person as they have online.
The problem with this forum, and it is not a very nice trait is that there is always a bunch of posters, and usually the same ones that are quick to jump on people for little or no reason, I once made the mistake of starting a thread about another boaters slightly unreasonable behaviour and got slaughtered, it really was quite shocking.
As for Lord Byrons Maggot, you passed my mooring in Barrow last year and she has oodles of character.
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