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  1. Thanks to both of you for that info. I have done some more searching, the stuff looked like the cable in this link, although that is not rated as outdoor cable unless protected. The clear outer sheath will not be UV resistant. However it will provide some mechanical protection. SY armoured flexible cable. I have only linked one example of this, not necessarily the exact number of cores and conductor area.
  2. I am considering fitting solar panels and these will have to be mounted on the front half of the boat. I expect to run the cable back along the roof before taking it inside to avoid having to make a hidden route internally. I have been looking at installations on other boats in passing during my current journey and a lot of these had only a single cable running over the roof with what appeared to be a reinforced translucent outer sheath and obviously at least two cores. I have tried to find such cable as it will be neater than having both a positive and a negative wire, but have come up empty handed. Does anyone know of this type of cable. The other thought I had is, is it just reinforced plastic hose with the two standard cables run through together.
  3. The biggest power draw on the washing machine is heating up cold water, not the motor turning the drum. I installed a washing machine on our boat over the winter and put a thermostatic mixer valve on the water supply, taking from both hot and cold feeds. I set this up for just over 30degC by filling some saucepans from the hose with a thermometer in and run 30degC washes. The heater is never called upon so we only ever see the inverter pulling 30 to 40 Amps for the motor. I turned the engine off during a wash cycle once, when I had to wait for an hour at Bingley locks and new I had warm water.
  4. PeterF

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    The Stockton and Darlington Railway was not built to connect the coal fields of Stockton and Darlington, but to connect the coal fields of Darlington to the River Tees at Stockton for onward shipment. I also think one of the black and white photos of dereliction was a retouched photo of Elland Wharf after the 2015 Boxing Day floods, I would like to see it again to confirm though.
  5. Same here with a C263. When I bought the spare cassette, I found it was cheaper to buy a refresh kit (cassette and a toilet seat combined, maybe some other bits and pieces as well) rather than just the spare cassette on it's own.
  6. I fitted a double lip oil seal on mine to act as a weather guard, checked the ID of the casting and OD of the rudder stock and found one to match. There was enough of a recess between the tpp of the bearing and the top of the casting foe most of the seal to sit in. When I grease it some grease comes up into the oil seal, hence the greasy deposit on the top. Of course I had to remove the tiller to do this, which was more difficult than expected, but eventually came free.
  7. Came through this morning, no signs of any spill
  8. Travelled from Leeds to Rodley today, the lock keepers at the staircase locks below Rodley said something to us about it and there was some environment agency staff on site. They were considering if they needed to close the canal or not or use some movable booms and I have not received any emails from the stoppages service. If it is travelling downstream it has not got to us. I will see tomorrow morning.
  9. My boat has a double thickness bulkhead between galley and kitchen with wall cupboards hung on this bulkhead in the galley and a cabinet in the bathroom, so it could be to take extra weight.
  10. A few years ago on the Huddersfield narrow at Slaithewaite a hire narrowboat did not realise there was a slipway and ended up grounding the bows. It was a devil to get it back off again. Seeing this reminded me of it, sort if a reverse problem.
  11. I believe that many of the adhesives require specific gaps between the two components, with the gaps needing to be tightly controlled, the adhesive is not gap filling. Very amenable to new build with well made components, but not to adding patches to an uneven aged surface.
  12. Sounds like it is working fine. After one hour the hot water tank will be up to temperature and the heat demand will reduce, so the circulating water gets hotter and the unit shuts down so it does not over heat. I have four radiators plus hot water on mine, but the boat fitter put thermostatic valves on three of the radiators, if I use them to control the room temperature, the Hydronic shuts down after 90 minutes.
  13. Has it got the circulating water up to the internal thermostat setting after that period, shutting down the firing until the circulating water cools down, and then needs to relight.
  14. Quite an interesting topic, I moor on Calder & Hebble and have what was quoted as a 55ft boat, using the length quoted by the broker I brought it from, which was as stated in the original builders manual. I like the length because I can open lock gates whilst lying along the lock wall, no need for jiggling. We are now looking for a new boat so I measured the boat and came up with 54ft 6in over steel not including fenders. I measured it from the pontoon and bit by bit through the boat, with measurements within 1/2in of each other. Now I need to look for a 54ft 6in boat.
  15. I think you have come up with the right answer even though your calcs contain a large error. You start with calcualtion of the heat capacity of the air in the boat, but the value for the specific heat capacity of air is 1005J/kg°C so your answer is wrong to be stated in kJ, is is just in Joules, out by a factor of 1000. q = (2 x 2 x 4m2) x (1.225) x (1005) x (17-2) = 295470 J Therefore the heat loss from the air is worth 0.003 kW The majority of the heat capacity in the boat is not the air, the air is miniscule in comparison, it is in all the 100s of kg of wood in the walls and furniture, the metal in the stove and cooker and other contents of the boat. The wood of the walls is closer to the inside temeprature than the outside because the insulation keeps the walls hotter. The boat is lined with 12mm ply, cabin is 4m long and 2m x 2m as per your calc, assume would density is 700kg/m³ and Cp is 1700J/kg°C q = (4 x (2 + 2 + 2 + 2)) x 0.012 x 700 x 1700 x (17-2) = 6854400 J which is 23 times the amount of heat stroed in the air. Then you need to start adding in all the other contents of the boat and this then gives you the thermal mass. It is the same as the old myth when looking in the fridge, "do not keep the door open long or the warm air will get in and mean a lot more electricty it used and the contents will get hot. The thermal mass of air is tiny compared to the thermal mass of solids because the air is 700 to 1000 times less dense than wood / water / butter and 8000 times less dense than steel.
  16. I believe that there was a similar sinking at least 5 years ago with a hire boat. This was related to me by the boat yard we moored at up until early 2009 before we journeyed along the Huddersfield in 2009.
  17. Last year on the Huddersfield Broad we saw a large orange goldfish / carp or such like, must have been 12-15" long, first time I have seen one, seen several terrapins in the Midlands canals over the years.
  18. Do not forget that you will need a Calder & Hebble spike to operate the locks on the journey from Wakefield to Sowerby bridge if you have never travelled that route before and do not have one. See C&H spike and Skipton to Sowerby Bridge Should also have said that there are many spots for mooring above Calder grive and up to Sowerby Bridge including but not limited to Above Figure of 3 locks Shepley Bridge Opposite Sought Pennine Boat Club Cooper Bridge Above Kirkless top lock Brighouse Above Cromwell lock Eland Salterhebble Never had trouble at any of the above.
  19. I went through tunnel both ways last year and that was 6 months after a full repaint and not a scratch in the tunnel. Pilots were great had a different one for each trip - they always told me when to beware of projections so I could avoid them all. Went over the Rochdale both ways this summer and that was quiet. Recommend both canals, but perhaps I should not as a pennine boater I enjoy the quietness, it is a rare day when you have to queue for even 1 boat in a lock.
  20. We went through Tuel lane a few days ago and all is fine, no water shortages within 3 days of Sowerbey Bridge. We met lots of Shire cruisers on the Rochdale last week, some up as far as lock 33 in one week round trip so you should have no problems. Peter.
  21. Well, Set out for my 2 week holiday Sat 17th (soon after St Swithin's day) to go from Brighouse, up the Calder & Hebble then the Rochdale, over the top and then back again the 2nd week. We seriously considered if we should go up or not with all of the restrictions on summit passage, water shortages the previous week in Sowerby Bridge etc. I have a couple of things to report. on returning from my journey. 1. St Swithin appears to be better at predicting rain than the BBC, there have been few days we did not see rain over the past 14 days. 2. There was water applenty on the Rochdale up to the summit apart from a couple of leaky pounds on either side, perhaps helped by reference to point 1 above. 3. On average there is only 1 boat movement a day over the summit and chatting to several walkers on the towpath they have all commented on the small numbers of boats travelling. Due to the small number of boats travelling we have only managed to share locks some 16 times out of 120 lockings, but at least on the whole the Rochdale locks are easier to work than the Calder & Hebble ones (I have at last found the advanatge of the C&H being our home water - everywhere else then feels easy in comparison). 4. Tuel lane is working well now with the back pumping system in place. 5. For those that have not ventured onto the Rochdale the scenery is truly amazing. The view of myself and my wife agrees with this is that it is better than the HNC. The hills seem so much more immediate on the Rochdale, more intimate and up close and I thoroughly recommend a trip on it. Perhaps not within 40 days of St Swithin's day though if it rained then. Peterf.
  22. Have used epoxy to glue these previously, and also cyano (super glue) with a spray activator.
  23. Here is a link to one of the topics http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php...&pid=242379 Also text from my post There have been reports of liquids in regulators on caravans / motorhomes, but I believe this is linked to remote gas regulators with HP hoses between the bottles and resultors rather than the bottle regualtors. See clicky and read the pdf document for details Edited to correct the clicky
  24. I'll second the comment re Shepley Bridge Marina, we moored there for 2½ years until earlier this year without problem and he often has moorings available. We were in same situation of buying boat and trawling around for mooring and Brian came up trumps.
  25. Just to confirm whgat has been written above, I bought a gasket kit for the 2 gaskets between the burner and combustion chamber, watched the Youtube video until I understood it, followed the details and cleaned everything out and have gone from an EB that took 3 goes to light and produced lots of smoke for the first 5 minutes of oepration to one that lights first time without smoke, all for about £15 and a couple of hours work. Peterf
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