JB Segal

I don't see why 'stationary' is required, as shifting in to reverse should restart the engine just fine... and if it's designed that it takes .5-1 second in neutral to kill the engine, that's a restart avoided in the shift. And yeah, a "No, really" button - or keyswitch setting - would be quite easy to do.

(Apologies is this is the wrong place to ask, but couldn’t figure a better choice) so, modern cars - starting with the Prius a decade ago, but expanded beyond hybrids, too - turn off their engines rather than idle, starting up again as soon as you press the accelerator. Have any boat engines started doing this yet? A whole lot of diesel is burned at idle and we’d (ok, you’d. I don’t have a boat and won’t for a long time) save a bunch of money if that weren’t the case, as well as being better for the environment. Just wondering... JB

Price: Excellent! Thank you. I missed that in my digging around. Rental period: Yeah, seems things have changed. Mooring: If I ever manage to do this, then yeah, I'm absolutely looking at CCing. Living in a marina is not why I'd be doing it. Thanks again!

Heck, 1000#/month is a seemingly solid piece of information that I haven't found before. Of course, given that they say "3 months" every place as their minimum, who knows how much I should trust you. (Forgive... US Keyboard...)

I'm amazed at the lack of feedback they've ever received here. I just discovered them myself, and I can't tell you how excited I am by the idea of their existence. I mean, they only have one boat where they particularly mention the interior headroom which, at 6'2"/188cm I care about a bunch, but I'd really love to hear anything about them...

You were not at home when I walked.by northbound, and asleep when I walked home from the Brasenose Arms around 11. I’m 4 boats south of you on Lily (waiting for RCR, as it turns out. ? )

... and then where did you moor?

As near as I could tell heading south yesterday, things were all moored up down to Keen’s bridge. Is there anyone reading this who’d like to volunteer a place to breast up any closer? JB - heading back north from Banbury either today or tomorrow morning.

“Collect+”? This is true, but where can I pick up a bunch of USB-powered camping fans along the GUC or the Oxford?

I’m 6 days in to my odyssey and hearing dire warnings about forthcoming heat, and my earlier discussion on that topic has become one of arborists and trees. So instead I’ll ask a more general UK-type question here: Given that I don’t have a UK address, and I wouldn’t BE at that address anyway, how can I order some cooling equipment from Amazon and actually receive it? Thanks!

@Nunovyrbizz, this is excellent! Thank you so much.

I'm looking for a list of market days in canal-side towns that would be easy for me to get to, should I happen to be in the right place at the right time. I'm particularly interested in the Grand Union from Tring, to the Oxford around Cropredy, but a general list would be excellent. My Pearson guide listed one in the text of one page, and I haven't caught any in my Collins, but without an index and without a map icon, even the textual entry is of limited use, as I don't remember where it was. Thanks very much!

It’s a loan from my cousins, of the boat their mother has owned for the last 20 years (and lived on 7 months of the year during that time) that they’re selling as soon as I’m off of it. Or maybe sooner, I hope not. This all comes up in that they are asking me to pay them back for the license and insurance for the time I’m using it, as it would be sitting moored in a marina until it’s sold, and as I’m American, the precise terminology used in UK insurance, roadside canal assistance, and so on is new to me.

For the boat I’m borrowing in a couple of weeks, my cousin (son of the owner) has been quoted this about insurance and breakdown service: Breakdown can be added on at £40 for Membership, £85 for 3 call outs a year or £100 for 3 callouts a year including recovery. Can anyone explain what these 3 amounts are? Most notably, is “membership” likely to be in addition to the callouts “packages” or is it a separate tier in some way? Thanks...

PoGo is not nearly as interesting to me as ingress, at least not before the most recent PoGo update with the trainer codes, which I haven’t looked at. I particularly enjoy mission hacking, for a nice mosaic banner. That said, I haven’t been playing much since I got to L14 and it’s all AP grinding to 16 for me. I’m quite interested in what they do with Ingress Prime...

I think of the game, myself, but then I’m American. Heck, I just visited a genuine Pong console at my favorite retro-arcade in New Hampshire a couple weeks ago.

Ah well. It’s a fun pastime and I’ll see what things are like for playing it while boating. Taking a quick look at the intel map shows a fair number of portals. We’ll see what I can reach while sailing!

If I say “Ingress”, is there anyone here who thinks of anything other than either “oh no, where’s that water coming from” or “My, what a nice hatch on that boat. Must make getting in easy!” ?

Ok, that was the only sane answer, but I wanted to be sure. Thanks.

The boat I’ll be borrowing for a month has a small propane fridge (Electrolux). I have friends with a LARGE propane fridge in the all-wood cabin on an island in the woods. They leave it on whenever they’re at the cabin, whether they’re nearby or not (IE: all weekend or week, but even when they’ve gone back to the mainland to do things during the visit. I also have seen a lot of “turn off the propane when you leave the boat” warnings, which would make the fridge sort of useless. What do y’all do, or what DID you do when you had a fire-based fridge.

My "plans", such as they are at the moment, are to start from Cowroast around July 19-20. Be at Cropredy Aug 7-11. Arrive back at Cowroast Aug 21. Given that starts with 3 weeks to do something that's a 6 day sail under ideal circumstances, I'll have extra time. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. So unlikely, not impossible, depending on when you make it to the Oxford? I'll keep everyone here informed in probably way too much detail as I figure it out, or have questions about it all. JB

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2018/june-heatwave fyi. Where are you based? I'd _probably_ be willing to do that for one. I haven't really worked out my packing list yet, mind.

So, I saw an article today saying that the next month is likely to be the hottest ever in England. Luckily I don’t arrive to spend a month on the canals until a month from now. However, I don’t actually expect that that is going to save me. So what is stupid hot weather like when you’re on the boat? Do people manage to run fans all night off the batteries? Is it OK while you’re sailing because you have a 4 mile wind in your face? Should I just plan on stocking up on hundreds of gallons of water to replace what I sweat out? Let me know... —complete novice American...