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10 minutes ago, LadyG said:
No, I had it speced to RYA Offshore for my own safety, you can't mess about in the hope tht you will manage with a grapnel.
I had two anchors, a biggy CQR which lived inside, amidships, and another modern thing, for most situations.
Not that this is the anchor thread, but a CQR is the worst anchor I have ever used
Not sure what "speced to RYA Offshore" means
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2 minutes ago, WotEver said:
Great, an anchor that folds flat.
And doesn't cost up to £300
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10 minutes ago, WotEver said:
I’ve never deployed an anchor myself and it’s very unlikely that I ever will, for any reason. However, I don’t find the advice in this thread even slightly confusing.
Two boaters with extensive lumpy water experience have pointed out that a Danforth deployed in an emergency is unlikely to assist you. They have backed up this assertion with a chart. Another boater gives his anecdotal experience mirroring what the others said would happen (the an anchor didn’t set).
Another member comes along, who also has a fair bit of lumpy water experience and plenty of experience using a Danforth, (unlike one of the other boaters),and says " it has its limitations But also has some advantages" . Backed up by some other members.
I choose to ignore the latter member.
Edited that for you
I thought this was a discussion forum
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As title, Regents canal
No, I don't watch This Morning, I leaned on the remote, honest.
Did she have a thread for a screw top on that glass of vodKa she was drinking
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16 minutes ago, LadyG said:
An independant inspection is also for your safety and is not just a pice of paper. What re you thnkng of☠️
My boat had a bit of paper when I bought it, I called the previous examiner back out, got a refund, even then he was vague as to BSS requirements, this idea that they can "interpret" is madness.
M y new Gas Safe one spent two hours on work [gas oven and gas instal were not not compliant, and never had been] plus an hour or more inspecting everything in detail.
Did you get one for your sea boat?
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34 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:
Not with a Danforth.
I have used delta's and Rocnas extensively. Neither will set well (maybe one in five ) when moving - it happens a lot in the med when the wind changes direction and you try to reset without starting the engine. Rocnas are one of the best setting anchors. Few people who used anchors a lot rated Danforths which mirrors the performance data Alan provided.
We sailed in Scotland for years and then lived on a 40ft sloop for 3 years sailing from the UK to the med and are both yachtmaster qualified so we do have some experience of anchoring.
It is bl**dy difficult to chuck an anchor overboard at 4 knts and expect the anchor to bite. Storage considerations are secondary. That anchor has to dig in.
As I said before, the best mitigation is to avoid the situation all together. In a lumpy water boat you would normally never go near a situation where you would be swept onto a weir (or lee shore) if the engine failed...and we always had our sails as a back up. Assessing risk was a big part of sailing. Lack of knowledge of anchors makes it difficult for your average canal boaters to asses the risks of rivers in flood.
I am v happy to agree that Danfoths are a pain to reset due to tide or wind change, but that's not an issue here,
I am also happy to agree that Rocnas etc are great anchors.
I have not had a problem setting any of my Danforths
Where do you stow your Rocna on your canal boat?
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19 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:
....and what you find is that not many anchors will set when thrown overboard moving at 4 knts.
No, What I have found I put in my earlier post,
A Danforth will set if dropped in while moving, it will be difficult to set if dropped in while stationary, Have you tried?
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5 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Ah, a bit like the Marie Celeste.
So you have never actually anchored then ?
why the condescending tone?
Yes I have anchored quite a bit on my own boats and other peoples, using a variety of anchors.
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Only been sailing on the sea for 20 years, not marina hopping.
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Mmm
So the Danforth will pull out with wind and tide changes, reasonably sure this won't apply when using the anchor as an emergency brake.
The Danforth is difficult to set, I suspect that this is due to ineptitude. If the anchor is thrown over the side with tens of m of chain and the boat is put in reverse, it is v likely to drag along the seabed, if it is dropped over the bow of a narrowboat heading at 4mph towards a weir, I suspect it will set.
As for the ability to stow flat, derided earlier in the thread,
I would have thought that the ability to be able to store an emergency anchor somewhere handy was highly preferable to some odd shaped thing stuck in a locker somewhere, giver the absence of a dedicated bow roller on most canal boats.
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The fiberglass foam sandwich that refrigerated vans are made from looks like a good building material to me but I have never been able to find any to buy
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I would wonder why a livaboard would need a trailable boat
our 18.5 foot boat has semi permanent bed.
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On 11/12/2019 at 11:29, DHutch said:
The site password requirements 'Strong' a mixture of upper and lowercase characters, numbers and special characters minimum 8 characters, which somewhat plays to the old fashioned hard for humans easy for machines requirement rather than a longer more human friendly option, however it also fits with requirements for other sites.
From what I know if the algorithm put more focus on length, but equally it will accept 'B0at12345' as an option, so it doesn't have to be a 24 digit hexadecimal code.
It might be that we can reasonably drop the strength requirement to 'Fair' which would allow simpler combinations of password. But equally there is actually very little harm in the case of our site in writing down the password, unlike bank details, the risk of attack coming someone stealing items from without your home is very low. Even with bank details, depending how and where your right them, the risk of a local attack is far lower than from an online source.
Daniel
yes please. my normal lower case, upper case, numbers, symbols, password comes up as fair, I have no idea what my password is for the site now as I had to add several characters before it became strong.
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just had to renew my password,
It has to be more complicated than my ebay account, my bank account, and my paypal account, so complicated there is no way I will be able to remember it so I have to write it down.
How safe is that..
crazy
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30 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
thankyou
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What is the title of the programme please?
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There is a nice slipway at denver sluice for getting on the great ouse
https://www.wilderness.org.uk/2007/05/denver-sluice-denver
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Need a boat moved any where in UK just ask WMS Marine Boat Transport 07789095032,
Based in Norfolk
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14 hours ago, mark99 said:
Used only this last night. Well seasoned (cut before Easter stacked out or rain in the full sun).
Suprisingly good - no gum lots of heat. Amazing how light it is without moisture. The glass in the woodburner is still very bright and very clean.
did it burn fast?
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3 hours ago, Jim Riley said:
Waste of time replying with twaddle more like. My special high power stereoscopic full colour vision devices told me that there were still lots of flowers, mostly flowers, yes there were a few seeds, but not many. It's colder oop North. My vast superspeed organic thought processor then told me it was worth the effort, there will be fewer next year. So Ra Ra to you?
Better use of your time would be chop it down before it flowers. So brum brum to you from me here in Cumbria where I was involved professionally with it's eradication from some areas
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On 08/09/2019 at 18:20, Jim Riley said:
Well, the past two hours have not been spent dawdling on t'internet. I've been chopping down Indian Balsam with a scythe. Not much else to be said really, as I said, opinions differed on whether or not it was reasonable in the circumstances and who decides that.
I of a pet hate, pacifically, demonstrable ignorance have the English language, it makes me go nucular and turn into an evil toe rag.
(How many errors are there in the last paragraph.)
The Pedants are revolting!
waste of time chopping it down now, it is an annual and has already seeded
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2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
This is the Screwfix one I got for the bedroom in addition to the existing detector in the main cabin area. Meets EN50291-2. There is an annoying white LED flash every few seconds that says it is working, Not so good for a sleeping area. A tiny bit of masking tape to just cover the LED mutes the light level enough so it can still be seen, but doesn't destroy your night vision!
Jen
Yes that's the one I have now
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Thank you
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I forgot my CO Detector, and need to buy one, I am near Blackburn, any ideas?
First visit in 2 months, some questions...
in General Boating
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Gosh, we are turning up the gas.
Why spend £300 on an anchor when a £30 or one he already has may do a perfectly adequate job?
I am v aware of my monikers history And share some of his attributes.