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15 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Turns out the legs go into some sort of sockets and hang down under the boat.
Presumably so that if your fish struggle you can kick it.
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I wouldn't want outdrives on a canal boat for the reasons already cited. My Bounty had a weed-hatch, so some of them definitely come with that option.
Also - the sliding wheelhouses might be lovely in the summer (if they still work, a lot of them are quite old and knackered now) but the "big sunroof" versions will be easier to insulate
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A friend of mine has lived on one of the single-level, Frank Wildes versions for years very comfortably. Mind you he is on a residential mooring with boats either side so he raised the roof by a foot for headroom and insulation, did away with all the side-windows, put a double-glazed panoramic window in the bow and stuck a double-glazed wheelhouse over the after-deck (with forward tilted windows, creating what he described as the world's first broads trawler 🤣) so probably not really relevant to a CCer, but I do see many live-aboard versions going up and down so it's do-able. I had a Bounty 44 which was very comfortable for cruising in winter, but not sure that I would like to have lived on it 24/7
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6 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Whatever mooring rights it might have, you aren't going to be able to keep a very big boat there.
True, but I had a lot of fun in Reading with a little Viking 20 at the end of the garden. If you live by the waterway, you only really need a day-boat or weekender for going shopping or to the pub...
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A more affordable place "believed" to have mooring and fishing rights on the Shropshire Union
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137793665
Or with a 60' mooring on the appropriately named Longmoor lane in Sandiacre
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I googled it and found a five page thread on here about them... https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/topic/26919-dis-markers/
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2 hours ago, NB Alnwick said:
and what may happen to an obviously abandoned boat?
It goes on eBay as "an easy summer project"
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If you put the shorter boat on the inside as above it will be secure, but the gap will fill up with detritus and dead things.
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Does seem to be starting then failing which could well be the slow-running jet as @Mad Harold says
@bigfatmatt can you try starting it with a little bit of throttle? There should be a button on the throttle controller that allows you to move the throttle forward without clunking it into gear; I would try giving it a little bit of juice which would sidestep the jet or help clear a dirty plug
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32 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
If you’re tyred of it they’d be doing you a wheel favour
It is an old story that goes round every now and again
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Looks as if there is a meeting of the Linssen Owners club on the Thames somewhere - I have seen upwards of a dozen going upstream today, mainly French, Dutch, and German flagged, and these are the big shiny buggers, not the little 30-40' jobbies that "only" cost £2-300,000.00. I would be surprised if any of them were less than half a million, so there are definitely some rich man's playthings out there.
Also a young bloke on a little Shetland who looked very happy and waved, so not just a playground for the rich.
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32 minutes ago, Boatshed London said:
The About Us page has been written by Chat GPT.
That sounds about right. I am a moderator on another forum, and a tool that I use to detect AI generated text reckons there is a 90% chance that the about us page was created by an AI.
That doesn't necessarily detract from their business model -- there is nothing wrong with using the tools available to you -- but just confirming the suspicions of the new user (who, judging by the username, isn't entirely impartial) 😎
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Just noticed that the same post appears twice in my "new content" list - possibly due to two additions being made in close proximity?
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9 hours ago, LadyG said:
the boat with the right of way
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I have often thought that Councils could provide the aquatic equivalent of social housing; basic, functional marinas where people could live on boats and pay a small/token/subsidise rent. It can't cost an order of magnitude more to provide and maintain what is essentially a hole in the ground than it does to build and maintain a council estate?
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1 hour ago, Mad Harold said:
don't like to think about his toilet facilities
From the article (my italics) -- "George Ward, 62, is camping on the canal towpath close to Smelly Bridge near Bradford on Avon."
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19 minutes ago, magnetman said:
That is a beaver stern.
I don't know why it is called that but I believe whoever coined the phrase was in polite and genteel company at the time.
Often seen on gentleman's launches on the Thames made many yars ago.
There are a few beaver stern slipper launches as well, without cabins.
Also GRP boats like the Starley Sundowner.
I like a nice beaver,
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Oh man. I live in a wooden house (within an hour or so of @system 4-50 ) that needs painting... but the prep involved to use a "proper" gloss like Dulux Weathershield is not insubstantial, whereas I can use something like Sadolin Superdec pretty much straight out of the can with a good hose-down... and in my experience the superdec outlasts proper paint.
Bugger. Free paint with loads of work, or loads of money with less work... how lazy am I...???
(actually, also, do I want to live in a pea-green house??)
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Fun facts...
The decimal system is not based, as most people would (probably) say, on the numbers one to ten, it is based on the numbers zero to nine.
The Romans couldn't use the decimal system, or anything like it, because they had no symbol for zero - zero was "invented" around fifteen hundred years ago in India.
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I quite like the concept of what three words, but I can see the problems too, especially as it uses plurals. The w3w that identifies my front gate can also be a place in Norfolk (Norfolk Virginia!!) or Quebec depending on which of the three words is pluralised, which does seem a little vulnerable, and also the 3m squares can easily put you inside or outside of building, or on the bridge/in the river!
I did offer three words to a courier who couldn't find my address recently... they couldn't find it with w3w either. I suspect the eBay seller rather than the courier, but at least I tried.
Interestingly, although the company have used 40,000 words, they could have made do with 4,000 which could open up the possibility of a numerical equivalent that might be better? 1234.5678.1234 - people tend to be able to remember four digit numbers, it would be easy enough to remember three of them.
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11 hours ago, magnetman said:
Victron AGM are good. I have a little humble 7ah 12v AGM from Victron which is used for the preheat on my Perkins P4 engine as the terminals happen to line up with the brass bolts on the preheater.
I have a little Victron AGM which I use for bench-testing pretty much anything from inverters to blown-air heaters. On the table right now as I try to fathom the workings of a cheap dash-cam which came complete with Chinese instructions... (there is a translation, but the Chinese probably makes more sense!)
Mine is 8AH, I think it's for a mobility scooter or similar, extraordinarily useful thing to have sitting around.
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3 hours ago, MtB said:
That's interesting, there's no mention of this at all on the wiki page for the London Stone.
It being there to mark the limit of tidal navigation on the River Thames makes a lot more sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone
Ah, well here lies a problem with the interweb, because this London stone wiki page does mention it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone_(riparian) which also has a picture of the Staines stone complete with grooves worn by tow-ropes!
Also, another interesting thing about St Aines (you knew there was more than one, right?) is this little bollard
There's another one buried in undergrowth by what is now Regus offices, and another by the towpath near Halfords.
They are excise markers. If you passed these markers going into London carrying coal or wine, you were liable to pay a duty which, I believe, helped pay for the bridges across the tideway!
(I have passed the Halfords one on the way back from Sainsbury's many times, but I think my wine was duty paid...)
2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:But do they own it, The Crown owns most of the Norfolk Broads but the Broads Authority control it
Ah, now there you have me. I thought they owned it as part of the port, but it isn't a hill I am willing to die on.
Sorry for the thread drift, but when you live somewhere as dull as Staines, it's good to find some interesting bits that don't involve Sacha Baron Cohen...😁
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14 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I can't remember exactly how it works below Staines but riverbed ownership is something like corporation of London or Crown estate.
Port of London Authority.
Before the locks and weirs were built, diurnal tides would slosh up as far as the London stone (just about perceivable by all accounts) at Staines so it was considered the limit of tidal navigation, therefore under the jurisdiction of the City of London, then the PLA
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5 hours ago, IanD said:
And it looks like one of those horrible ultra-fat-tyre bikes (or usually e-bikes...) I keep seeing on the towpath... 😉
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/04/can-an-e-bikes-fat-tires-be-offset-by-a-fat-battery/
I am torn between hating those things...and thinking that they look quite fun and wanting to be young enough to annoy people of my age!
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Electric unicycles on canal towpaths
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You can see a hand pop out and give him a slap just before he comes off the scooter. good policing; I will wager they live for days like that.