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I apologise. Your name reminds me of Dave Pegg of the band Fairport Convention, who is universally known as "Peggy". No offence intended.
For me, cash is the easiest and most convenient means of paying for something.
And the only thing that has to be accepted in any transaction.
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Well done, a fantastic day for you and even bread baking in the oven. Go job as the Americans say.
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What does Geo think?
I could not careless, it sounds at most as a police matter.
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The older I get, the more of a revolutionary I become. But I can afford to be.
I think that is the point as we get older and secure we no longer have to fit society's boxes and conform to its mythical rules to keep jobs or customers. I know when I reach the stage when my income and house were secure I said bugger it and life became a lot more relaxed and pleasant. I spend a lot of my time now advising those without the money to get good advice, so much nicer and they do appreciate being helped. I was supposed to retire in September, but didn't instead I work as I wish and everyone seems happy. I am not bored which keeps me alive.
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Well, according to Nicknorman we can't believe what he says either..
And you believe what NickNorman tells you. lol
You get a number of free passages though the lock, depending on the duration of your CRT licence (3 months or above)
"Fees for leisure craft passing through the Sea Lock at Sharpness. Lockage fee of £25 per boat per lockage Appropriate Canal and River Licence Long Term Licence holders (River & Canal or River Only) benefit from a number of inclusive lock passages: 12 Months -16 lock passages, 6 Months - 8 lock passages 3 Months-4 lock passages."
Not entirely sure that this information is correct as it was off the CRT website.
Maybe someone can phone the lockie...
Puzzled as to why you can't phone the lock keeper yourself?
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...thought you were going to work....
lol I haven't worn a top hat for years, as for gloves lol last time at Buck Have.
Been there for nearly 4 hours,but didn't want you to get lonely .
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as per usual missing the point entirely, just to suit your own agenda.
You will not get up Brentford without purchasing a licence, something that it has always been possible to do on arriving.
You will also not get through an EA controlled manned Thames lock without the prerequisite purchase of licence/registration/paper/whatever. However, you can purchase it there.
I think you missed the point on EA waters you have a right to navigate until you get to a point where they demand you register on CRT waters you have no right to navigate at all and by being there you are breaking the law.
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I regularly move boats from CRT or NT waters on to EA waters, move until I find a manned lock and purchase the short term licence for continued passage. I've done this for years too.
I have never considered checking whether I can't buy licences at manned Thames locks, the River Wey entrance or Brentford , I just arrive and buy one.
This is a ridiculous move, arranged by someone sat in an office or in a blue sky thinking meeting , just to tidy up paperwork.
There are differences between CRT & EA on most if not all EA rivers there is the right to navigate and the piece of paper is only a registration of the boat. On CRT waters on waters that are bona fide canals there is no right of navigation and it is the licence that gives that right.
is there not a law about them granting Safe Haven. I would think the lock keepers in particular and the CRT manager who dreamt this stupid idea from behind his computer would be open to manslaughter charges if the vessel floundered and people died as a result of their action.
Once again I am outraged by the actions of CRT. Not fit for purpose.
I would be interested on Nigel Moore and Dave Mayall's take on the law in these circumstances.
There is a right to safe haven, I have a feeling it is a common law one. But it might have been written into statute by now but I am not aware of a particular statute.
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This is a first, we agree without any robust discussions
Maybe my knowledge might just be better that some think. Mind you there is a cohort on here that only wants to do things the way they want to do them regardless of the overarching laws and rules. -
When you say a well planned trip could turn out to be disastrous you speak of future trips. Well clearly the pilots are now aware of the requirements and will check before setting off. If others do not check then it is not, in my view a well planned trip. When locking out onto or in off tidal waters I always think it is better to assume nothing and to check and double check everything.
There are people down there who quite regularly do that trip without a pilot and probably do it six or seven time a year, and buy a short term licence at Sharpness. It is not a difficult passage with the tide in the right boat.
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I would have thought that this trip was very weather dependant so if you were buying a visitor licence before you start and not knowing when you would arrive
One could be stuck at Portishead for days at this time of the year. In the past because of weather changes I have sat at Portishead for, IIRC four/five days when moving boats. A visitors licence bought before I left Bristol would not have enough time to get through CRT water to other waters. For non-CRT licensed boats I always used to by a licence at Sharpness.
Think this should have been well publicised. Not doing so could endanger boats and crews if the insistence no entry to the lock without a licence. I wonder what the Gloucester Harbour Board will say about it.
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It looks like a sod of a job. My guess is it is hard to get enough force on the four removal bolts because of having to restrain the propshaft.
Richard
I wonder if it would be possible to immobilise the shaft by strapping a length of wood to the prop using the weed hatch for access. The wood needs to be long enough to reach from the top of the weed hatch opening to the bottom of the prop so it can be secured across the blades to stop it turning by jamming in the weed hatch opening. If he tries this he will need to wear rubber washing up gloves to give his hands and arms some protection from the cold water.
Just might give enough stability to allow a greater torque to be applied to the bolts.
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I think you are correct. Other minerals are owned by the landowners, but you need planning permission to extract them
That I believe is correct
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I think not otherwise frackers would not be able to extract oil from vast areas that they do not own.
Surely the rights to oil, gas, coal, gold and silver are owned by the state, or old fashioned by the Crown and recovering them is by a licence granted by the Crown or State
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If you look at Pearley's photo at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock there are thread holes. Are there similar threaded hole's on your coupling?
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If I knew I was fighting a duel at dawn, I'd be unlikely to sleep much that night!
lol From all the films they spent their evening and nights well inebriated and passed out till the dawn
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Mrs Ever was last week stung by a wasp (twice! miserable creature that it was) that had decided to hibernate in the collar of a winter coat hung near the back door. They're even more grumpy than Geo at this time of the year.
lol I haven't been grumpy for years, think you misrepresent me lol
ETA My PA says I can be a tiny bit grumpy on Monday morning until I have had a cup of tea.
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I've always presumed because duelling was illegal and it was before the police woke up. I do like a tangent.
lol You have got my mind going
I can see your logic. The thought just came could it be there was a better chance of the duelists being sober and thus better able to aim and shoot or wield a sword more effectively having just risen from their beds.
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The real difficulty is when two boats arrive together from opposite sides.
One skippered by an optimist and the other a pessimist, who can't agree if the lock is half empty or half full.
For certain people that would be pistols at dawn on the towpath ETA Why is it always at dawn
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A run of about 3m'
You will get away with 10mm2 for that run
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sirweste, Wondering how things are going
ETA I am wondering whether something like a Victron 375W or even 120W or there abouts pure sine inverter might be the answer to the inverter overhead problem. Just a thought.
I fitted one to a friend's boat along side an MV 2K because 99% of the time the inverter load was under 30 watts or so, but the overhead on the inverter amounted to 50% of the load.
If I say the boat had a hairdryer and a 4kW generator, you will appreciate 230V AC was an important part of life aboard.
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The recommended fuse is 35a for a 24v DC unit so I suspect the draw will be quite a bit lower than 35a certainly nowhere near 40a which is the recommended fuse for a 12v DC unit.
I would have thought a 30A supply should cope happily.
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Yeah, I have no idea where that 40A came from. I found some specs above showing max at 24V of 25A
It came I think you will find from the OP post #3. I would have thought you would have seen it.
It needs a dedicated 40 amp supply, and I'm finding it difficult to find a converter that will supply that.
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May be cheaper to buy a new toilet at $650
http://www.allbatterysalesandservice.com/browse.cfm/4,6099.html
Well the ebay one is about £87
Siting multiple chargers
in Boat Equipment
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The chargers will compete and as has been said the one with the highest voltage setting will win be that alternator, mains charger or solar controller. While all the charging sources are below their trigger voltages they will work in parallel.
I would put an isolator switch in between the solar controller and the batteries but purely so that if you want to work on the batteries you can stop any charge/voltage coming from the solar controller to the batteries while you are working. It saves having to find light proof coverings and putting them over the panels to stop the generation while you work.