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On 14/03/2024 at 14:00, haggis said:
Are navigation lights now essential for a narrow boat on the Manchester Ship Canal?
https://waterways.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Manchester-Ship-Canal-advice-for-small-craft.pdf
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I recently did a wash while the boat was ashore with assistance from various brushes , a mop and microfibre cloths .
I also used some Demon Foam mixed with plenty of water which worked very well at dissolving muck from being ashore near trees . Brushing into the slip resistant surfaces was necessary but the foam had done it work and the dirt lifted easily.
Some folks may worry about the foam in the aquatic environment in which case the cleaning product may be used sparingly.
If you use a jet wash then be prepared to clean the adjacent boats in the marina of all the muck that you may blast onto them.
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On 29/02/2024 at 10:29, Alan de Enfield said:
My 36 foot GRP cruiser weighs 11.5 tons (according to the crane driver)
Was that with full tanks?
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A survey is essential before you buy it.
You need to be sure it is structurally sound .
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45 minutes ago, Onewheeler said:
Found it! I hadn't realised that I'd had it done about six weeks before the due date (and the examiner didn't post date it to the due date as he should have done 😠)
As you have found the surveyors details perhaps you could ask the surveyor to amend the expiry date.
Assuming you do have the previous certificate of course.
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40 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Go searching in your mail system, you should have had an email with the details
Good suggestion.
The surveyor should have emailed the certificate to the OP .
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2 minutes ago, Ex Brummie said:
If you consult your boat records on the CaRT website, it will tell you the details.
I.I.R.C. examiners no loger issue a paper cert, just on line by email.
The OP says he is not a C&RT customer
BSS contact form
https://www.boatsafetyscheme.org/contact-us/contact-us-form/
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1 hour ago, Mad Harold said:
Also you could get your boating "fix" rather cheaper with a small,trailerable sailing boat or dingy on inland lakes and reservoirs.
Don't know what club membership fees are, but Probably a lot less than £15K.
Yes there are multiple options whether boaty or otherwise .
17 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:I fear that we either pay up or canals will close
If paying up means £15k a year as suggested it is obvious that folks will look elsewhere .
It is already possible to make a donation of £15k a year if individuals wish to do so but I doubt most boaters feel obliged to donate when they are already paying fees. It does seem a historical under charging of licence fees is being blamed on the present situation while the real problem is that government doesn't appreciate that the canals are a national asset that deserves to be maintained.
4 minutes ago, Bobbybass said:It worries me.....if they start to close some canals, can you imagine the pressure on the rest of the system with all those displaced boaters ?
That could be an issue but not a reason to avoid closing canals to navigation as an option. Let say its done initially on a phased/trial basis so the impacts can be monitored.
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1 hour ago, MtB said:
Go on then, list a few!
Conventional holidaying in hotels/ b&b'sh/package holidays abroad
Cruises
Camping/caravan/motorhome holidays
Inland waterways boat hire holidays abroad
Owning and keeping a boat in the EU (eg Netherlands /Belgium /France)
Coastal boating in the UK
Owning a holiday home abroad eg France /Spain
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5 minutes ago, MtB said:
If boaters stopped being such tightwads and paid for their licences what it actually costs to keep the canals running (i.e £15k a year each - the same as rent on a three bed house), most of the canals could stay open.
There is no way that would work as other options/activities would become much more financially attractive .
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20 minutes ago, MtB said:
Hardly. Nobody other than boaters cares about that. Provided the unused canals still have 6" of water in them and a towpath, the saving in money from closing them to boats will have been worth it.
Just playing Devil's Advocaat....
I dare say nature will fairly quickly take over canals that are not used by boats . But that doesn't necessarily prevent the canal from being restored in the future.
Giving the Grantham canal as an example there have been very low bridges built over it and at the R.Trent end the canal was built over. completely , cutting off the connection to the river . This sort of thing shouldn't be allowed but most of the general public don't understand that and don't care .
Unfortunately the end of some canals as navigable waterways may well be in sight.
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1 hour ago, Jon57 said:
To us maybe. But the program hopefully will raise the plight for better funding by the government. We live in hope 😁
Which is not likely anytime soon.
There are other priorities that are far more important than the canals.
C&RT simply have to work with the budget they have. It does seem likely that some canals will need to be closed to navigation. The challenge will be to do so in a way that that would allow the closed canals to be restored to navigable status at some future time.
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Maybe a society that has overseen the construction of locks i recent years could help , in return for a suitable donation.
http://www.granthamcanal.org/gchi-blog11318/
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On 07/01/2024 at 13:27, Naughty Cal said:
I'm guessing the pontoon and bollards are working their way downstream somewhere by now.
Same with the pontoons from Torksey Lock Cut!
We were at Torksey today (by road) .i am pleased to report the former tea room has opened as a coffee shop. Open Wednesday to Sunday .
The pontoon on the tidal side is still there
There were sandbags with plastic covers placed in lines as if to defend against the gates over topping but they looked clean so perhaps the water remained just below the gates.
The water level is still fairly high but nothing like it would have been in the floods.
Even now the fields are saturated so the slightest rain causes the river to rise . We need a dry spell.
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I see this is almost a year old but just wondering if the OP has some images of the paint job in progress /when completed.
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20 minutes ago, magnetman said:
It must be fairly easy for someone from the EA to spot the source using a bit of common sense.
Depending on the sewer network the source could be some distance away.
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On the canal oil thing clearly some commercial operation is putting waste oil into a drain which they should not be doing at all (even if its a foul sewer) . The sewer may be blocked by the fat and if its a very old sewer there may be an overflow into the canal. Or maybe they are using a surface water sewer which is even worse.
Any oily contamination like this will easily be spread by the wind and by any flow, however small that flow may be, in the canal.
Hopefully the source of the oil will soon be discovered by the relevant authorities.
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23 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
So what? If you're going to comment, please try and make sense.
You refer to complaints of the forum of gentrification
But according to your post on another topic its just discussion. Its not real.
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6 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
There were lots of folk complaining about the gentrification of the canals on here a while ago and its effect on the less rich fraternity.
But let's not forget what you wrote only a few days ago
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18 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:
I didn’t think antifoul was necessary on a canal boat?
Friends had a wooden cruiser boat for years and just painted standard spirit based gloss paint on every third year with usual prep.Steel narrowboats commonly use bituminous blacking which is toxic to the aquatic environment so in theory should act as a form of antifouling.
But bituminous paint on a GRP hull is not appropriate.
Bituminous paint on a narrowboat hull is easy to touch up . Narrowboats tend not to use fenders eg when going through locks so the side s get scraped while GRP boats do use fenders and boating is much less of a contact sport for the vast majority of GRP boats.
An epoxy coating could be used on both steel and GRP hulls but antifouling paint below the waterline is commonly used on GRP. Epoxy paint alone has no antifouling properties apart from being a smooth surface that may be cleaned.
Really a GRP hull should be epoxy painted below the water line when new to create a surface that is less permeable than the polyester gel coat but this seem rarely to be done in practice.
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That will be 9m2 per litre.
At the weekend I applied a coat of antifoul with the same coverage rate to my 33ft boat and 2.5L was just sufficient.
So you can be confident that 3 litres will be sufficient.
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Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.
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