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1 hour ago, Chewbacka said:
The person living in a house on the side of the canal with a smoky boat just a few feet from their doors and windows has a ‘right’ to breath clean air. Unfortunately in an overcrowded environment one persons ‘freedoms’ forces another to suffer. That’s why boats were included, too many selfish people enforcing their rights without regard to the consequences to others.
Luckily I'm not in a smoke control area but I always keep check on the wind direction when loading the fires up.
If it's blowing to my lovely neighbours on the West it's smokeless ovoids and hardwood.
To the East and it's bank em up with the proper black stuff - stinkier the better, cos he's a prize Tw@t.
It's not hard to be considerate.
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8 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I'm intrigued you found trebles though. I could only find doubles.
Coalhut are still selling trebles, Columbian and 5 star, whatever they are. Not much price difference anyway.
Has anyone been tempted by the eBay ad for a 500kg sack of steam coal at £200 collection only?
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27 minutes ago, magnetman said:
They still sell them?
I thought they stopped doing them because of the coal ban. The ones I had were not DEFRA authorised.
My experience is on a small fire on a small boat so a somewhat different scenario.
I found they give very low heat (ideal in my boat) and stay in for ages.
Still sell em at Worksop, £13-50 for 20kg. Just says "not authorised for smoke control areas" on the bag, but I don't think Lignite comes under the ban as it isn't classed as bituminous is it?
I loaded the range up last night and as the wind got up I had a gentle orange glow on the range top appearing.
I'll try them in the Epping and report back.
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
Interesting to see they also do Lignite.
This is a low grade coal but can be quite good if you want a nice fire which doesn't get too hot. An interesting alternative.
The enviro mentalists hate it but its a good fuel.
I had some when Mole Valley Farmers were selling the Union Lignite briquettes and it stayed in for ages 2 or three pieces would keep the fire going overnight. Not much heat but it did stay alight.
Also has a nice flame picture if that happens to be relevant to your usage.
I picked a couple of bags of lignite briquettes up from Mole Valley on Sunday.
I'm still not sure.. they give loads of heat out but don't last as long as smokeless ovoids, but the amount of brown ash they produce is frightening!
That's burning em in the kitchen range, a Belle portable, so not fully controllable on the air supply.
Smells lovely down wind though.
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1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:
They must have had some reason to want to leave it there. One that you nor I know.Perhaps they lived nearby, or had left a car nearby, or had pre-arranged a lift from someone from that location having not been sure as to whether they would make it in time back to the marina.
Or quite simply they may not have had unlimited time to complete the journey on that day because they had another engagement or a partner had to go to work or one of them had some childcare duties. You know, stuff that normal working folk have to accommodate in their schedule. Or maybe you don’t?
It doesn’t matter and if they’d gone 50m further we’d neither know nor care. Perhaps they had no mooring pins so they chose to leave it on the bollards.
Yes, of course I have things that I have to accommodate in my schedule.
But I, and I'm guessing nor you, would have left it on the lock landing restricting the canal.
You can suggest an array of scenarios but It's just lazy and ignorant.
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1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:
As a regular paid mover for a well known brokerage or two I’d say there’s no point in arriving after hours.For one of my regular clients I routinely moor up less than an hour short of destination where I have access to facilities and can arrive at opening time the next morning when the staff have plenty of time to deal with the boat and I have plenty of time to get home.
My point was it was less than an hour to the marina, with no more locks and not difficult in the dark.
As they were marina staff involved in the move there wouldn't have been an issue in where to leave it etc. It's also well lit once inside the marina area.
With freezing conditions forecast I'd have got it there rather than abandoning it so near.
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31 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Maybe the insurance doesn't cover operations after sunset.
Possibly, but I doubt it.
They certainly would have expected one of their regular paid movers to complete the journey rather than abandoning it so near in a crap place.
A case of office staff playing at boating I'd guess.
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3 hours ago, frangar said:
From the wording on the post it almost sounds as if it could be a boat mover…..and if they can’t cope with that it’s a worry!!
From Redhill to Mercia is a common move for widebeams going up for sale in Mercia, usually by marina staff.
What I can't understand is from where they left it to the marina is a straight run, even in the dark.
I'd guess it's more a case of they'd have enough for the day and didn't fancy any overtime.
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4 hours ago, Felshampo said:
How will that prove that air is in the pump? What will I notice if there is or isn't?
If there's air in there the levers will feel slack for several pulls, then you'll feel pressure building up and a "creak" as the injector releases.
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Give the priming levers a few pulls before you start it, that will prove if any air is getting in the pump.
I have to do that on my 3L2 if it's not been running for a month or so.
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2 hours ago, Cheshire cat said:
No good if you are in to cars though. No vehicle access
CRT property back on the market again
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142013405#/?channel=COM_BUY
Not good if you are into beer either lately.
You're more likely to find the landlord in the Black Lion at Cheddleton than in his own pub.
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5 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I understand the increase in displacement but just wondered as Stowe boats run deep usually.
Actually they don't, as can be seen in Martin's first photo.
They have higher than usual cabins, which gives the illusion of being deep draughted. The downside is often a ridiculously high tiller.
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4 hours ago, junior said:No.
I sit looking out of the window watching boats and trains every day.
Even the mrs now works from home and has her home office overlooking the boats and trains!
We still rush to the window or front gate when we hear a boat passing, and that's after 6 years in the cottage.
But as it's on the Chesterfield it's only happened twice.
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1 hour ago, alan_fincher said:
Maybe it is stating the "bleedin' obvious", but when built Harland and Wolff "Woolwich" boats had wooden cabins whereas Yarwoods "Northwich" boats had steel.
It wouldn't really be practical to put those Northwich style hand rails on a Woolwich boat, and I suggest Vesta could only really have that style once its wooden cabin was rebuilt in steel.
Has anyone actually looked at the photo I posted several hours ago?
It clearly shows the wooden cabin with an added rail behind the traditional square.
Presumably for safety when used as a tug.
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9 hours ago, alan_fincher said:
As far as I can see it didn't sport these when Max Sinclair owned it, so I don't know how it later came to have them.
I still love it, nonetheless.Looking at the photos on the Historic Ships Register they developed from a single rail without the Yarwoods style upstands.
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1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:
Best to go to Braunston to view it as the other one is Leicester.
Best to do neither as it's on the Erewash and for sale at Mercia!
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I'm a short walk/paddle from Lady's Bridge now, and this is the highest the Don has been since 2007.
That's not a good thing.
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36 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Not Dutch, British. There are only a certain number of ways of solving the "how to build a wooden cargo boat for shallow rivers" problem, so regional/national designs will have similarities as well as subtle differences.
I believe Zenatoamm was referring to a previous thread about a "Dutch barge" built at Nantwich.
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9 hours ago, Ray T said:
There is a boat named Gordon Bennett hangs around Sutton Stop.
The owner gets very cross if you ask him who Gordon Bennett was.
Had a bit of push and shove with another boat.
I'll ask him why he's got 2 forecabins instead then. See what reaction I get..
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44 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:
Fair enough - it is a very good while since I last saw it - probably at Sawley, I think.
I must admit I'd got that used to it's distinctive look at Sawley I didn't recognise it at Stone.
I presume the slightly thin bottom has received some attention too.
I heard it sunk after being sold when a large piece of ballast was prised up to move.
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18 hours ago, alan_fincher said:
The most unrecognisable I can think of is DEIMOS, renamed as SLOUGH, converted to a push tug,and operated by Rose Narrowboats. (The real SLOUGH also still exists, and also happens to feature dropped gunwales, but for a very different reason.)
The real Slough no longer has it's dropped gunwales, as seen recently on the permanent moorings at Stone.
Still has the "funnel" though.
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8 minutes ago, blackrose said:
Eventually I managed to source a 140mm dia (5.5") OD mild steel pipe and replaced the narrower one. The stove draws much better now.
If anyone wants some I've got a length going spare. 140mm OD X 5mm wall thickness. Bring your own hacksaw blades though!
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54 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:
Who was the builder of this1988 62 foot narrow boat please?
I would have thought that a 13mm baseplate was pretty unusual back then.Our 1988 was built with a 13mm baseplate, but it's a Five Towns (R. Fuller) so not exactly a volume builder.
Don't forget that not long after when steel was comparatively cheap up to 25mm baseplates were used.
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No, zinc priming isn't needed if everything else is done correctly.
I blasted my boat over 20 years ago, it was 12 years old then. I didn't do the baseplate and the deepest pit on the last survey was 1.2mm.
Change of canal gauge locations
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True, but that bridge width was reduced relatively recently to raise the weight limit to the nearby farm.
Although it's hard to find evidence that barges ever made the trip towards Retford, I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't.