Kudzucraft

Love that. We want to buy a boat and cruise the canals so we can see/experience England for a couple of years or more. Same with owning a camper/caravan. It is a means to allow us to travel and see new places. It is not about the camper.

It is easy to criticize and often makes us feel better. But if you want to win an argument you have to have facts not just opinions. So my question is simple, are there any records or anyone keep track of what is going on and show with hard facts that the canals are worse under CRT? Not just saying this is broke, this isn't getting done, but documented facts showing the problems? Something that shows is was better before and worse now? When you can show or rather prove the issues, that is when you can get change. Without it you just sounds like yet another disgruntled boater not happy about something. I am not taking sides, don't own a narrow boat yet but it is very much our plan to spend a few years cruising the canals and see your country once we retire. I have an interest in what happens and want to see them taken care of so when I get there we can enjoy them.

As a kayak builder and designer I have looked at adding these to our line of products. But I don't understand the attraction but obviously lots of people do. I prefer sitting down rather than having to stand. I can cover so much more distance with the same amount of energy. Proper kayak (not a short, fat, bathtub) with a double bladed paddle will cover a lot more distance with the same effort. But each to his own and I don't fault people that like them, I just don't get it.

You can't paint over loose paint. You have to remove it to something solid, either bare metal or solidly attached paint. What you have here is a a HUGE job ahead of you and there is no easy way to this prepped for repaint. It is going to be a lot of work.

I always use the View New Content link at the top of the page. This morning it shows nothing. That is that there is now new content and of course there is. I tried two computer and different browsers. Same result. Tried a few hours latter and same thing when there is clearly new content.

Assuming UK and US are using the same or similar Bands I have been battling a similar problem at my home. We are well within range and I have tried a couple of aerials. Work great for a couple of months and then we have reception issues. Nothing changes and no problem can be found. Swap out for a better aerial and same thing. Works great for a while and then receptions degrades, we loose some channels and then we star seeing random breaks in the signal for no apparent reason. Then it improves and is fine for a while. I have done a lot of reading and one thing I have found is that digital signals are more sensitive to obstructions and changes in weather than the old analog signals. Apparently my problem is not rare but not common either. Only advice I have found is a better aerial and since we are moving (House) not to long I just live with it.

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That makes sense. But I am asking here to try to understand. The epoxy is not going have a any grip on the hull, just the blacking. So when you scrap the side your still going to scrap the epoxy and blacking off. So now you still have a small area of blacking exposed to fuel spills of what ever. I can't image fuel spill happen that often either. Just seems to me unless you apply the epoxy to the hull so you have good adhesion that you are really gaining a lot for the money it costs? Again, just trying to wrap my head around why you would do this.

The epoxy is only going to be as good as what is under it. So I see no advantage, you still have blacking on the hull and it will still come off just as easy when you hit something. So you are going to have explain to me the advantage?

Question me this. If you don't have mains, how are you going to charge a cordless tool? They don't change by 12 volts. You really need two sanders. A orbital disc that spins in a circle to remove the rust and really rough stuff.. Much faster and much more aggressive. Will leave scratches in the metal that need to be dealt with. Or something else aggressive or you will working on those rough spots for a long time. A ROS Random Orbital Sander is more of a finish tool, as the name implies it spins in am random orbital pattern. It will do a good job with the right grit at smoothing up the rough spots and and it will remove old paint but it not aggressive and can be slow at some tasks. It will be the go to tool for most the job, prepping for paint. I know you want to keep it cheap but you are taking a really big job. You can do with it nothing but sandpaper but I sure wouldn't want to take it without the proper tools.

Makes sense and while I was a mechanical designer (many years ago) I never dealt with hydraulics past specing out some cylinders. We always left the pumps and details to someone experienced in that area. Glad you chimed in on this.

On thing pops in my head and I do not know the answer. But will the old engine turn enough RPM's to properly power the pump? I know these are different but my experience with hydraulic powered tractors you have to keep the speed up to have enough hydraulic power for many tasks. Just something you should probably look at. Maybe not be an issue at all.

Now it makes sense! They are writing more for boats in marinas where you have a line hooked up under pressure to your boat! I have been total puzzled by how you could have any back-flow filling a tank because there is no back pressure. When you start talking about a pressured system from a hose it suddenly makes more sense.

OK, I can see what they are thinking on some of these. BUT, is there a contamination problem with contamination now? I don't know but seems like they are solving a problem that doesn't exist or is there something I don't know? Sure don't claim to know everything.

That is a strange. My first thoughts would be there is a problem in/with the breaker panel. The odds of all your DC powered items shorting at one time is about 0. So I would start with the panel.

Everyone seems to have overlooked this but I think that is brilliant!! Requiring the marina to do all that work for free might be a bit much, but they would think twice before allowing someone in.

Curious how easy/hard is it to find places to dispose of oil on the cut for Constant Cruisers? I have read that (some) fuel boats will take it. If you are actually cruising just curious how you find disposal/recycling places?

Nothing like internet trouble shooting but 'to me' it doesn't sound like an ignition issue. Fuel filter is a good call. Does it start back up after it stops or not? Did you check to see if has spark when it stops? Typically the carburetor is the main source of problems. Ignition usually just fails and never works. It can fail when hot but sort of unusual. That is why I was asking if you had spark with it stopped. Someone gave me a older Husqvarna recently. First check was did in have compression. Then spark and then I tried to crank it. Wouldn't run so I just ordered a new carb and it runs like new. Carb is just so ofen the issue it not worth trying to clean them. We used these, leave them with gas in the carb which eventually dries up. This leaves a varnish on the all the insides of the carb and doing this over and over it builds up and with such small openings that is usually what fails.

Speaking of fire blankets one of things I notice is where they are located. I have seen several browsing the adverts that if you had a fire, assuming it was at the stove, you would have been hard pressed to reached it without a serious risk of being burned.

While I sort of like the idea, there wouldn't be anything outside of it I suspect. I have found that after about 10 or so replies nearly all go off the rails so I just stop reading it.

No! I totally agree. I watch the boats and since we are about the sell our house and build a new one, we will need a camper/caravan to live in while we build and it is the same there. But it tells me a a lot about how they live and that they very likely did not do any maintenance to keep it up. I worked in Real Estate for many years and the things I saw just dumbfounded me. I was always thinking you knew I was coming and you couldn't even clean up dirty clothes off the floor??

You should have just moved and not said anything, you have gotten less judgement heaped on you.