Hudds Lad

if they keep neglecting to cut back the saplings it’ll narrow itself soon enough

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We were space-limited so got the Hampton, very comfy as a sofa. Can't tell you about the sleeping side, as only our daughter has slept on it, and she's at that age where she moans about ANYTHING to do with boats or leaving her room in general. As said above, ring up and talk to (checks emails) Michael, he's very accommodating. Everything is built by hand so can be tailored to your dimensions usually. Bear in mind that back at the end of March when we bought, lead times were four to six weeks he was that busy, and Crick has happened since then. It's not going to be off the shelf. We ordered March 22nd and took delivery April 28th. And it came through those front doors

All weekend, and windy with it. Mind you, didn’t stop the bowling match at the Liberal Club behind us, poor devils were soaked but very vocal.

I’d go with horn required, similar to the lifejacket symbol meaning lifejacket required. Sound your horn would be a horn with lines out of it, similar to the light symbol. I think.

Make sure you have a Calder & Hebble handspike, they are dual purpose and can be used as the proverbial stick with which the more attractive boater can beat off the hordes who approach with amorous intent.

Tell that to Poynting who have provided so much factory moulded cable. I find it incredibly annoying that the cable vanishes into the unit rather than having fittings so you could replace it with a shorter length. Also makes dealing with it all attached more fiddly than it needs to be. Appreciate all info, it’s not something i’m in any way clued up on, just aware signal loss exists. Bloody internet, who’d have it

Assuming the only way to test them is with some ridiculously expensive and specialised bit of kit thats probably a nice shade of yellow or something. Looking more and more like i’ll have to live with passing the factory fit cable through the cratch and low level air vent and just have to live with a big spiral of excess cable behind the TV. If only it was simple, like ethernet

I don’t intend to use the TV connectors, just utilise the existing housing and cable routing to avoid drilling new holes etc. and if there’s room i’ll leave the TV stuff where it is (we don’t use a TV aerial) Thats the next stage i guess, start looking at what bits to acquire and associated costs. Soldering doesn’t worry me, can’t be any harder than adding modchips to games consoles, replacing blown capacitors etc. If it turns out to be too tricky/expensive to pull off, i’ll perhaps just have to pass the cable through the air vent on the front, out through the vent under the steps and across to the top of the TV cupboard. This will involve zero cable chopping but IMHO look a bugger and have to remain in situ.

Simplest solution to staying cool on a boat is to just avoid the galley. For as any fule kno, if you can’t stand the heat then stay out of the kitchen

This seems to have turned out a bit waffly, but please bear with it First a bit of background, as i’m just kicking ideas round in my head for a semi-permanent antenna on the boat, and i’ll add that my good lady wife will not suffer a cable through a mushroom or similar so needs to be tidy. Also bear in mind we are leisure boaters, spending the odd week when hols allow and weekends probably every month on board. Currently we are using a Huawei E5573 (bought when we were shareboating for our own use) blu-tacked in a porthole and for 80% of the time this works fine for general internet and streaming for the TV, and when she’s with us, the daughters PC gaming. If this does not work well enough in spotty signal areas, i slip the sim into a Huawei B535 and stick a Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 on the roof with the cable trailing under the cratch and in through the slightly ajar front doors. What i’d like to do now we have our own boat is switch to using the B535 exclusively, but have the antenna removable when we are not onboard. Ideal scenario would be to cut the Poynting’s flex and add suitable connectors to be short enough to go from roof to a cable point in well deck (there’s an existing TV aerial connector box similar to a Maxview Weatherproof Socket i could alter). Have cable following the same route as the TV coax from the welldeck box to a suitably altered wallplate with connectors for the existing coax and the new antenna. And finally patch leads from the wallplate to the B535. Question is, how much signal loss would i be looking at due to adding these connectors? Would it be negligible due to gains made from a shorter cable run? Or would it be horrendous? Hoping this makes sense 🤷‍♂️

I think what they need to remember is that your average boater is not in the first flush of youth, and more than likely with eyesight thats in decline. Any sign needs to be simple enough and clear enough to be read from the boat in the centre of whatever channel width there is, and far enough from the portal to allow you to react to other craft if its untimed one way working. I’ve seen some signs (sadly forgotten where) that appear to be full of info, but you’d need to be stood in front of it to read it.

Just be careful when placing pots of flowers on the roof, repurposing an old teapot as a planter may give the wrong impression 😬

On this day in 2020, guess where

Its supposed to be a temp one whilst they repair and update the original mast, but it seems to have been up for years now. I guess good ‘ol covid may have delayed things further, plus sometimes jobs become bigger once you start them and uncover things that were unknown (the joys of old houses ) Just done a quick Google, it was started in 2018 and expected to take five years to complete the work, it’s on schedule and is soon to be completed. The new work however has caused it to now be 8m shorter, and so below the Eiffel Tower in the tallness rankings but still the tallest in the UK

Thats a sad indictment on the mechanical ingenuity of Aussie youth But are they legit numberplates? Or are they false ones or cloned from similar legal bikes?

Nope, the ones that scream up the village here have no plates, some of the pilots are in the 12-15 age bracket too as daughter recognises them from school. Similarly the ones on the Ashby had no plates either.

Which one? To be fair i didn’t really look as we drove past it on way to the M1 at the weekend, so not 100% sure the temp mast is still up. Probably is though at the speed any repair gets done these days.

Hope the bloke on the North Oxford with the mahoosive radio mast knows, it was like Holme Moss transmitter strapped to a boat

Preferably

I know the reason why they don’t chase ‘em and i understand it. But softly softly catchee monkey, plain clothes at distance to see where they end up, pounce when least expected and crush the vehicles in a bin wagon while they watch.

Had two quad bikes and a crosser racing up the towpath on the Ashby when we were up there end of May, all unlicensed and ridden by young idiots without helmets. No different to being home as theres several idiots on unlicensed crossers and pitbikes that fly up the village on their way to ruining local moorland. I believe police SOP is not to give chase, so they just get away with it time and time again

Perhaps a new sign could be incoming in line with some of the previous ones?