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2 hours ago, Paul C said:
Aren't most hireboat handovers about 2-3pm Saturday? I know a few do Friday handovers to space things out.
I think Friday, Saturday and Monday afternoons are still the busiest for handover but after the first Covid lockdown they started spreading them throughout the week. One of the Calcutt staff told me at the time that Hoseasons had encouraged this. It seems some (many?) hire bases have continued this to some degree. We went up Calcutt locks last Sunday and a Calcutt hire boat was in the top lock getting tuition. They were doing Sunday to Wednesday.
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Seemed pretty busy Napton to Braunston earlier this week, plenty of moving boats along there but not so many moored. They all seemed to end up in Braunston, we had a very limited choice of moorings when we arrived mid-afternoon on Tuesday. Lovely weather on Tuesday, rather less lovely Wednesday and Thursday. Of course it's lovely again now we're back home for Easter!
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Here's mine...
Impressive eh?
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
Interestingly, google returned 'no results' to the query "Who said "Nothing grips a man like old age and poverty"?"
But Google's "Bard" AI reckons it it often attributed to Mark Twain but there is no evidence.
From ChatGPT...
This quote is often attributed to the Irish playwright and novelist, George Bernard Shaw. However, it is important to note that the exact wording and phrasing of this quote may vary in different sources.
Having been playing with ChatGPT for the last half hour I have no confidence that answer is true.
I've been asking about the outcome of a Cheltenham race. First it denied the race even existed, despite the answer quoting its full name (which I hadn't!).
Then, when I said yes it does, it apologised for the confusion and gave me the name of the winning horse and jockey. Both were wrong.
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2 hours ago, Loddon said:
I'll just leave this here🥴👿
Are they the same person?
Having had a quick re-read of the last half dozen pages of the Miss Max thread I thought the tone was was a bit different. I can't say I noticed any threats of violence, veiled or otherwise, in the Miss Max thread. Unlike some of the OP's posts in this thread - and I didn't see the post(s) that were deleted for going too far.
Maybe the link was just posted as another example of a thread gone wrong and not to imply it was the same person?
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Put it in the cupboard for now, there's bound to be another one along before too much longer.
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9 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
As has been said, be careful what you wish for.
Is ex- member a change of screen name or is the OP an ex member by choice or force?
I suspect it was by force, probably to remove them before the veiled threats of violence turned into death threats.
1 minute ago, MtB said:One can, by re-registering with a near-identical username.
That presumably isn't the case here though as the new name has been applied to the OP's existing posts.
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23 minutes ago, Goliath said:
I see they are now am ex member
That's a shame, I was quite enjoying this thread.
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51 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
I deleted it.
So did I.
I never even got to the stage of wondering if it was a scam or not, I just couldn't be bothered to even read it let alone take part.
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8 minutes ago, Goliath said:
That’s where the man takes his trainees to learn to wind the boat
Down Calcutt locks, wind there, and back up again.
I'd forgotten about Paul Smith on Orient. He's been away on his winter cruising break and due to re-start his training days in about a month. No doubt it will be gone by then.
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18 minutes ago, john6767 said:
That is one of Calcutt’s private “picnic” moorings though, so anyone with Calcutt’s permission could be moored there. I don’t think is directly opposite the entrance though is it?
It's a bit to the Calcutt side rather than bang in the middle but you can still see it from inside the marina looking out under the bridge. Probably wouldn't cause a problem going towards or coming from the Stockton direction but it gets in the way of anyone trying to go out towards, or come back in from, the Calcutt direction. Depending on boat length I think you have a choice of hitting the work boat or hitting the side of the entrance judging by watching a 57' foot boat come back in yesterday. I've not seen a boat moored there before in the last 8 years, a little bit further on yes but not at that spot.
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Example 1.
Opposite the entrance to a marina.
(note: Ventnor Marina Sunrise basin in this example)
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I'm struggling to figure out which one out of two of the posters on this thread (and others) is worse!
It seems pretty close, is a poll needed?
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If your main concern is battery state when discharging why can't you just supplement your existing method by monitoring the rested voltage? The only system I have is a cheap plug-in voltmeter in the cabin (initially checked for accuracy using a multi-strengths voltage reading on the solar MPPT controller) to make sure the voltage at bedtime is at least 12.6 and in the morning it's still well above 12.3.
I have managed to get a decent life out of cheap lead acid batteries so far using only this method of monitoring. I did consider a smartgauge but wasn't at all sure I'd do any better than I do without one.
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Just now, robtheplod said:
Does draining the calorifier depend on where it is? in the engine bay or in the boat itself? I've not drained ours yet as we pop back to the boat regularly but it is inside the boat which i'm thinking may help?
Good point. If mine was under the bed I wouldn't worry in the slightest. Unfortunately it's in the engine room of my trad-stern boat so it loses warmth quite quickly even though I have a hot water cylinder jacket wrapped around it on top of its own insulation. How soon it would freeze enough to cause a problem I just don't know. I'm hoping that one night of temperatures in the low (negative) single figures won't see enough ice forming to cause a problem.
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Might not apply to your boat but on mine there is a stop-cock in the pipe about 6 inches from the tank. I turn this off, open the tap until all the water in the pipe has been drained, turn off the pump and leave the tap open before I go home.
I suspect it makes no difference as the pipework is well below the waterline but I do it anyway as it's so easy.
I have never been able to drain the calorifier so I leave a thermostat-controlled tube heater under it in winter. Unfortunately I didn't put it there when I left the boat 9 days ago as, at the time, tonight was forecast to be +4°C. It's now forecast to be -4°C so I am a bit concerned but probably not enough to do a round trip of nearly two and a half hours to put it back.
If Jen is right about the 24 hour average then it should be ok. I hope.
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Similar but I normally like to see 12.7 at bedtime with the fridge not running and the surface charge gone.
I also hope to see 12.5 in the morning but sometimes I'm too late as the solar has woken up before me.
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3 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
Intrigued to know what you missed from the boat if you don't mind me asking?
I'm quite interested in that as well. And what, if anything, you miss about NC.
From time to time (usually during winter) I contemplate selling but the fear of missing it terribly later holds me back. My next door neighbours at the marina sold their boat 7 or 8 years ago. The new owner brought it to our marina and became my neighbour. 2 or 3 years later he sold it after he'd bought a bigger boat but it remained as my next door neighbour as the people he sold it to were the people he'd bought it from!
They missed it so much they decided to look for another boat to buy and spotted their old boat up for sale, by coincidence, so they bought it back.
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29 minutes ago, Athy said:
Welcome to the forum, Duck. Er, isn't that a goose i9n your photo?
My wife and I often refer to ducks "eating the boat". It's astonishing how much noise they make when they're pecking at it.
I don't mind it once I'm up but I'm not so keen when they wake me up at silly o'clock.
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Aah Alexa.
The last "person" I speak to at night and the first I speak to in the morning. Except when I'm on the boat.
Frankly I don't care if she's listening all the time, I can't imagine she'll hear anything of much interest to anyone.
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32 minutes ago, mightyslay3r said:
ahh well, just thought i'd pass on my findings
Passing on your findings is good but if it's vague and gives no source then it doesn't really help anyone. That's why I wanted to know more.
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10 minutes ago, mightyslay3r said:
daily mirror
Ok then, I'll add some detail to make the information useful.
It looks like this is is what was being referred to https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/warning-issued-drivers-filling-up-29341455?int_source=nba
So the "fuel" being referred to is diesel and it's all about the current high diesel premium so it won't affect petrol cars. My diesel tank needs filling so I may see if I can wait a little bit longer but it looks like RAC wishful thinking to me. Hopefully it will happen but it's only going to be a 20p reduction per litre at the very most. Significant but I'm not sure I'd go quite as far as the RAC in calling it huge. Not for me with my low mileage anyway, more significant for gas guzzlers.
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39 minutes ago, mightyslay3r said:
BREAKING NEWS:
seems like fuel is coming down in price with a bang guys.... within the next 2 weeks....
What type of fuel?
Where did you get this information from?
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The Big Getaway....or not...
in General Boating
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Looks well nasty, thanks for warning us off it. I'll be steering well clear of that dump.