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1 hour ago, IanD said:
Agreed. From https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html#api_5.2 assuming the only power source is 800W of solar panels with optimum tilt, and the only power use is the water maker:
Useful.
You've suggested a battery capacity of 6000wh which equates to 500ah, which would be about 4 typical lead acid leisure batteries. Perhaps the OP is wondering what would happen if they greatly increased the number of batteries, say up to 40 batteries.
Here's the answer:
It actually makes matters worse because there will be even fewer days when the batteries actually get a full charge. So the batteries will get ruined even quicker.
Assuming 1 batteries costs about £100, that will be £4000 wasted.
So to answer the original question, there are no batteries which can be recommended.
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On 10/02/2023 at 19:14, Mike Adams said:
Although I've been boating for a mere 54 years I have never understood the concept of living on a boat full time unless it was due to financial hardship. I still really enjoy boating but unless you can afford a large boat such as a dutch barge and a freehold mooring you are at the behest of who ever is the mooring operator and are living in a very cramped space. I have never liked mooring in a marina and have only ever done it on transit and it seems more like a car park to me and most of the time you are just looking at someone else's windows. You would probably be much better off buying a park home in a very nice part of the country where you have at least some security and hiring a boat for couple of weeks out of season. Marinas are often off the beaten track without shops and good bus services so you are reliant on driving.
I'm the opposite. I can't understand the point of owning a boat unless you're gonna live on it for a significant portion of the year. If I had a boat which was lying on its mooring unused for most of the year, I'd sell it and take up a part share or hire holiday boats when I wanted to.
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On 10/02/2023 at 13:42, Tony Brooks said:
I have been looking for your link in this topic and can't seem to find it, will you give us it again.
In response to:
and others.
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I'm always amazed at the responses on here from those who claim to be boaters yet seem to hate it.
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Are you sure ?
There are some (one in particular) on the forum who says there is not a shortage of residential moorings you are just not looking in the right place and then produces a map of moorings with one available near Luton and the other one in Sheffield.
By far - the majority of boaters will say that a residential mooring is hard to find - particularly if you want to be in a certain area - getting a Widebeam residential mooring is even more difficult.
Please don't misquote me. I was responding to earlier posts which essentially said resi moorings don't exist and there was no point looking. The OP on that thread was open to a mooring pretty much anywhere outside of Birmingham. I therefore directed him to a site with a choice of available resi moorings. I'm sorry that it upset you so much.
10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:The bit about convincing her husband worries me, if they aren't both up for it 100% I don't see it working for long
Agreed.
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1 hour ago, Goliath said:
I’d say you’re trivially arguing.
If you say so. You began by saying Brum was empty. Now you're saying it wasn't...
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31 minutes ago, Higgs said:
The thing is, moving a widebeam in an enclosed area is not for the faint-hearted. The pump-out and diesel will make that necessary.
Did the OP say they were faint-hearted?
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18 minutes ago, Goliath said:
Ever seen it full? I've never specifically looked to see if it was full.Ever struggled to find anywhere to more? I've been unable to find a 14 day mooring there without resorting to the outskirts where I don't feel safe.
I’d say 2 boats between Old Turn Jn and Vincent Street Bridge (?) is an empty stretch of mooring. I'd say you don't know what empty means.
That’s what I witnessed this Winter. One Boat was Granny Buttons.
If I’ve read it proper, that stretch is to become 2 day in the Winter!!
I can’t help thinking this is an example of CRTs energies being wasted when they could be doing something better.
They even have the cheek to propose giving a mooring over to a ‘Welcoming Boat’. Welcoming who?
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Perhaps we could take inspiration from Freemasonry or Dungeons & Dragons. Then we could aspire to be a "Master of the Brazen Serpent" or a "Numinous Hierophant"
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Just now, RichM said:
I think this relates to the new update as the forum started calculating "achievement points" since that update and has only just finished at which point these badges appear.
We will need to review this further. I will speak to Dan and the team later today and more info will be available soon.
Why should I care about what you think? After all, I'm a Grand Master but you're only a Veteran.
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12 hours ago, rusty69 said:
I would say it is more physically demanding than house dwelling.
Physically you will have to deal with
1.fuel handling, be it coal/diesel /wood /gas.
2. Toilet emptying
3.Water tank filling
4 Boat maintenance
All of these things are much easier in a marina than not, but still not comparable with house dwelling.
I know many people in their 70s that successfully do so, but the majority have an exit plan to escape to bricks and mortar when the time comes.
There is also little security of tenure.
Good luck.
I don't really see that any of those things are harder than maintaining an average sized garden, which many elderly people in houses do.
Maybe the number 1 on your list, but there are ways round that. A boat with a diesel stove and a pump-out toilet would mean virtually no heavy lifting.
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Update: I've seen the list in the other thread. The badges are disappointingly boring. I've changed my mind, get rid of them if you can't spice them up a bit.
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I quite like them, but I'd like to see a list of the available badges.
For example, is there an "insufferable twat" badge?
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14 hours ago, Goliath said:
I went through Brum during the Common Wealth games and it was empty
Ive been through Brum several times over the winter and it was empty, so definitely don’t need to be 2 day only during winter, which is the new proposal.
Too many moorings are already given over to the trip boats and seem little used.
Looks like CRT are proposing more service moorings for Sherborne who only offer a part time service.
I agree there ought to be more disabled moorings but that’s about it.
Cambrian wharf can be confusing, but 🤷♀️so what
it really reads like some control freak in an office has had nowt to do all winter but f about.if Birmingham is a confusion and mish mash of moorings then that’s been CRT’s fault over the past years
keep it simple and stick to 14 days
oh, September was busy and it was great to see it that way, but there was still room to spareI pass through Brum regularly, including during the Commonwealth Games. I've never seen it empty.
13 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:When I went through in September there wasnt a single moored boat from Holiday Wharf all the way through Gas Street.
That's generally the least popular place to moor due to the passing footfall. I'll bet there were plenty of boats down past the Sealife Centre on the mainline.
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59 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Half the information supplied on here is expert advice, and half of it is opinion. Even the expert advice by known experts gets argued about and the usual suspects would delight in amending wiki entries to malicious effect.
Anything indicating that the internet is a reliable source of information is dangerous...
This is exactly the problem.
This is a discussion forum. People post their opinions. Other people disagree. Very little to do with boating is absolutely factually true in all cases.
Yet a wiki would cast in stone the opinion of whomever wrote the entry.
This is asking for trouble.
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1 minute ago, BilgePump said:
Just steer clear of roller coasters. The high acceleration/deceleration can set off the crash detection feature and people didn't realise it had activated.
It's quite simple to disable the feature while on a roller coaster.
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I have an iphone 14 and an apple watch. The latest iphone, in addition to the emergency calling feature, now has satellite connectivity. This means I can signal for help, and give details of what the emergency is even when there's no phone signal. I can also use it to update my location to friends/family via the 'find my' app, even when there's no phone signal. The Apple Watch includes both fall detection and crash detection, so if something happens which knocks me unconcious my watch will start an alarm to try and wake me up. If I don't repond it will automatically send my location to the emergency services.
I'm not aware of anything else which can provide this level of peace of mind.
Alternatives to this would be the PLBs etc discussed above, or satellite phones, or satellite communicators. But none of these have the fall detection system. If I'm on my own and fall and knock myself out, they're no use to me.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/27/emergency-sos-satellite-game-changer-canada/
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9 minutes ago, George and Dragon said:
True, he says one quarter of British households. Which is probably less than one quarter of the population.
That's the first problem. Average household size is around 2.4. As a crude measure you could divide the one quarter (25%) by 2.4 which would give around 9%, but that's unlikely to be in any way accurate because it would assume that in any given household, 1 person has all the assets and the others have none, so the real percentage will be a lot lower.
Added to that Mr Worstall is playing rather fast and loose with the figures he quotes and also mixes up different studies done according to different methodologies. For example, he quotes the ONS as saying the 75th percentile of British households have $1m in assets, but if you actually look at the link provided, it actually says it's the 83rd percentile.
Put all these things together and I'd be surprised if the actually proportion of British individuals with assets over $1m is more than 5%. Of course that's just a guess, unless you are aware of anything more concrete.
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1 hour ago, George and Dragon said:
That was a letter in the Grauniad recently. I'll see if I can find it again.
1st Feb from a Tim Worstall, Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/31/the-enemy-within-guardian-readers-and-the-1
That doesn't support your claim.
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15 hours ago, john6767 said:
The red line seems to be down the arm at the point where there is the road bridge over the arm, it is after that bridge that the long term moorings start.
Apologies. You're quite right.
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3 hours ago, john6767 said:
If the red line on the above aerial photo is the boundary of the development, then the long term moorings, services, and winding hole are outside that area. You just need to pass through the area to gain access by boat.
Looks well within the area to me
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24 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
“caravan” means any structure designed or adapted for human habitation which is capable of being moved from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer)
It must be either towed, or transported BY a motor vehicle
Sorry but it doesn't say what you think it says. It only requires that the structure is capable of being moved in that way. I've seen narrowboats on the back of lorries on the motorway so they definitely fit the definition. Also, you've missed off the second part of the sentence: "and any motor vehicle so designed or adapted".
This is presumably included to cover motorhomes, but could easily include boats. Wikipedia certainly considers a boat is a vehicle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle ) so there's a good chance the courts would too.
6 minutes ago, David Mack said:A powered boat is certainly capable of being towed, or being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer. The word "must" does not appear in the definition. Neither does the word "only". That a powered boat is also capable of being moved by other means (such as under its own power) does not mean that it doesn't fit the definition.
you beat me to it
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
The Mobile Homes Act 2013 (which we are licenced under as a 'Static caravan Park') defines a caravan as :
Under this strict definition (it looks as if) a powered boat could not be a caravan, but an unpowered boat could be.
Appendix 2: Definition of a caravan
Section 29 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960
“caravan” means any structure designed or adapted for human habitation which is capable of being moved from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer) and any motor vehicle so designed or adapted, but does not include:
(a) any railway rolling stock which is for the time being on rails forming part of a railway system, or
(b) any tent;Section 13 of the Caravan Sites Act 1968 – definition of twin unit caravans as amended by the Caravan Sites Act 1968 and Social Landlords (Permissible Additional Purposes) (England) Order 2006 (Definition of Caravan) (Amendment) (England) Order 2006
(1) A structure designed or adapted for human habitation which:
(a) is composed of not more than two sections separately constructed and designed to be assembled on a site by means of bolts, clamps or other devices; and
(b) is, when assembled, physically capable of being moved by road from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer), shall not be treated as not being (or as not having been) a caravan within the meaning of Part 1 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 by reason only that it cannot lawfully be so moved on a highway when assembled.
(2) For the purposes of Part 1 of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960, the expression “caravan” shall not include a structure designed or adapted for human habitation which falls within paragraphs (a) and (b) of the foregoing subsection if its dimensions when assembled exceed any of the following limits, namely:
(a) length (exclusive of any drawbar): 65.616 feet (20 metres);
(b) width: 22.309 feet (6.8 metres);
(c) overall height of living accommodation (measured internally from the floor at the lowest level to the ceiling at the highest level): 10.006 feet (3.05 metres).
(3) The [Secretary of State] may by order made by statutory instrument after consultation with such persons or bodies as appear to him to be concerned substitute for any figure mentioned in subsection (2) of this section such other figure as may be specified in the order.
Which bit would exclude a powered boat?
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17 hours ago, BilgePump said:
There's only one residential mooring out of 11 available north of Luton, in Sheffield. It's also twice as expensive as a leisure mooring over in Cheshire. In comparison there are over 130 leisure moorings available. Take advantage of family address and save a lot of pounds?
Agreed. But my original response was to those claiming that resi moorings were virtually a myth and it wasn't even worth trying to find one.
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Changes to moorings in Birmingham being considered by CRT
in General Boating
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I wouldn't agree that it isn't broken. The signage around the city centre is poor, but that's par for the course for CRT. If only some effort had gone into making the signage clearer around the network over the last few years, rather than replacing old confusing signs, with new confusing signs, with a different logo on.
But in general, I'd agree that mooring in Birmingham as a visiting boat is ok, and certainly better than many other places. There's a good choice of spots to choose from.
I still think moving the Sherborne services mooring to the towpath was a huge mistake. It's resulted in fewer visitor moorings, been problematic for Sherborne Wharf itself and has caused conflict with the neighbouring pub.
It only made any sense while Earle and Toni owned the pub, but that particular foray was a bit of a disaster...