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On 05/01/2018 at 16:41, Machpoint005 said:
Are we failing to see the wood for the trees here?
Going in the woods (where the trees are) saves having to empty the cassette or pay for a pump out.......
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7 hours ago, Bewildered said:
For Christs sake don't leave the porridge, next thing you know they will be sleeping in your bed!
Just make sure it is hot, salty and your bed is rock 'ard.
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Don't forget a squirt of oil in the governor.
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I've also used RCR's RCR's route planner in the past.
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14 hours ago, zenataomm said:
I have had eight boats over 43 years and offer my opinion ......
Sod TV ..... what's the matter with you?
Just got back from a weeks boating.
Didn't watch any TV. Barely listened to the radio for more than a few minutes.
Can't say I missed it.......
Used a little bit of internet.
Just busy doing stuff!
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23 hours ago, bizzard said:
British Railways Cartage did not use antifreeze in their delivery vans, trucks and Scammel 3 wheeler tractors until well into the 1960's. In the winter all drivers had to drain their rads and engine blocks after use and refill them with water before use as well as checking the oil and batteries.
Auld guy I drink with used to work for Midland Red and tells me that they never used anti-freeze in their busses because they were never switched off for long enough to cool down.
When Midland Red were taken over the new management gave orders to put anti-freeze in and it all turned out to be a bit of a disaster, with burst hoses, blown head-gaskets, you name it it failed!
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23 hours ago, WotEver said:
I was watching a documentary on coffee recently and a supplier of beans said "People's tastes are changing and they're wanting a more bitter bean than in years past". Yes they are, because they've been conned by the likes of Starbucks into believing that bitter coffee is 'proper' coffee. Take a trip to Italy where coffee has long been the national drink and try a cup over there where they've not been brainwashed by tax-dodging American conglomerates and you'll see what real quality coffee tastes like.
I just wish that Starbucks would stop using the word "coffee" to describe what it is that they do!
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On 05/03/2017 at 12:13, ditchcrawler said:
Didnt Russell Newbury make one?
On 05/03/2017 at 12:14, Mike the Boilerman said:Nope
We made a prototype / demonstrator unit which one of the Register members took over when we sold the company. It was capable of running on waste oil, although it was demonstrated at the Royal Show using some form of veg based fuel.
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On 23/02/2017 at 10:51, mross said:
Reminds me of a student who failed his physics exam. The question he failed was, 'how do you measure the height of a building using a barometer'? He thought this was daft so he wrote that he would drop the barometer off the top and time how long it took to hit the ground. At his resit he said he would use the barometer like a yardstick and measure the inside wall as he climbed the stairs. On his second resit he said he would stand the barometer near the base of the building and use the length of the shadows to calculate the height. Eventullaythe examiner gave in and passed him.
Like that, have a greenie!
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My Dad had throat cancer and had to have a PEG fitted. He was able to continue boating, although he sometimes had complications that compromised his boating. Most of them were not related to the PEG tube although on one of our boating trips we had to get Dad ambulanced off the boat at Braunston due to a bleed in his stomach and he had to spend a week in Northampton General.
We used to have to find space for all his bottles of special food but obviously we did not have to shop for him.
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Oh I see.
Strange though, I find locking single handed pleasing and easy. It only gets difficult and risky when someone unexpectedly turns up and insists on 'helping'.
Me too, although I don't mind too much if they know what they are doing. As in properly know.
An offer to shut the gate after I have exited the lock is always very much appreciated though!
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I think you are all heros, I just couldn't face it.
Face what?!
It.
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I had one once, between Stourbridge and Stourton, a guy fishing on the offside behind a bush. As I pass him he asked me if I'd seen his fishing rod, I replied by asking if he'd seen my boat.........
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A friend of mine has has a compact projector in his camper van. When he showed it to me he hadn't had the chance to mount it properly (or the screen for that matter) but we had a quick play with it one evening after meeting up for a curry and it seemed pretty good.
I'll try to remember to ask him about it at the next curry night.
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That's Hillaryarious
The result won't be!
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Well, cars are a bit quicker and more predictable at stopping.
It's the old practice thing again. Someone who has one bad experience and is enabled, even subtly encouraged, not to try again, isn't going to get the necessary practice and experience to judge how their boat stops. Heck, I still only get it right about half the time and I still go in too slowly.
The bloke, especially if he's the boat owner, is far less likely to feel able to just give up trying, so will eventually get better at it.
Three years ago I drove down to the marina where we keep the boat in a scalpel sharp sports car. I loaded that boat and went away for two months. Setting off, I was banging locks, drifting where the wind, any currents, and wash from other boats carried me.
Two months later I reversed back into the marina, unaffected by external factors steering to within an inch of where I wanted to go. I moored the boat barely nudging the jetty. I got off the boat, into the car which, braking aside, seemed awfully vague! (Tyres were fine before you ask!)
So it's a matter of what you are used to........
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Whenever i have had a lady friend on my boat i have taught them to steer and we have shared it out between us, i personally think it is important that both people should be capable of moving and mooring a boat and be confident in all tasks and also to know what to do in an emergency ....for instance should either have an accident or fall overboard, i met one lady who's ex had always steered and she didnt have the first clue how to start the boat let alone steer it or operate the controls which in my opinion is madness.
Rick
Good call. I make sure any crew that travel with me know the basics as an absolute minimum.
I can remember reading a story in one of the yachting monthlies about a couple who were out sailing, he fell overboard and she subsequently spent however long going round in circles not knowing what to do while he proceeded to die of hypothermia.......
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I remain to be convinced low level vents are necessary though
Surely, on a boat, if they were too low ......Errrrrrr......... water would ......errrrrr....... come in........?
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I rescued a bat hanging from a fishing line few years ago ungratfull sod bit me, jumped out of my hand and landed in the canal last seen swimming for the bank
Good work - I like my wildlife to be wild!
Richard
Wild? WILD?
He was totally batty!
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Ah but fishermen inexplicably always believe the biggest fish are on the opposite side of the canal, have you not noticed this?
Fishing habits beat me! Why fish from one side of the cut with a 15ft pole, when you could go to the other side and fish with a 3ft pole?
Because the best fish will be on t'other side of 'cut!
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I'm tempted to put one on my motorbike ;--)
Looking at YouTube I think the in thing nowadays is to give a rev-bomb.
Helps if you have a loud exhaust of course!
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You will end up ripping it out.
This is what we did twice, on two boats.
I went though all and everything including a new S/S tank, all new pipes ( 3 times ) etc etc .
Changed it for a ceramic Thetford cassette, problem gone.
I ripped my P/O out. The "stainless" tank started leaking at a seam, I got a welder to do a temporary repair for me but it was about to go around a corner that would have made it inaccessible so I had the whole caboose ripped out and replaced it with a cassette. Big improvement! The old thank was never intended for my boat, and it ended up being cut and shut to fit. There was a problem with one of the baffles in the tank and so as often as not it wouldn't empty properly. It was a big disappointment to pay £15 to £20 for a pump out only to find most of the marmite was still there.
At some stage (hopefully early next year) I'm going to fit a composting loo.
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I can remember finding a set of air horns at work so I had an idea of fitting them to the car that I had at the time. I had to try them to see what they sounded like (like you do!) but rather than finding some wires and connecting the compressor to a battery I took the horns (there were five of them) and the hoses off it and connected to the garage airline (150 psi). While holding the horns in my other hand. Holy cow it was loud! I mean full nappy loud!
For a few minutes I wasn't sure if I was alive, dead or somewhere in between.......
Fox and anchor pub
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Called in on my way through last October for some lunch and then went back in for an evening meal. I'd give the food a seven out of ten, the service was variable depending on who you got....... Initially walked in, asked if I could have a meal and was offered a bag of crisps! I then asked to look at a menu, she went off and failed to find one, but another member of staff came along and quickly sorted me out.
After I had my evening meal I went and sat at the other end of the pub to sup a pint or two and had quite a long chat with who I assumed to be the manageress, asked me a lot of questions about boats, boating and living aboard. I'd be happy to repeat the experience at sometime in the future.