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  1. booke23
    Thank's for asking. I thought he was swearing....after all stove issues can get quite trying!
  2. booke23
    I hope not, the boat seems reasonable. Also the OP hasn't visited for nearly 36hrs so has hasn't seen the whole hot water debate!
  3. booke23
    And if the OP were to let us know their boat dimensions we could roughly calculate how many bystanders they would need to load to get the boat down in the water sufficiently to get under the bridge!
  4. booke23
    It's not!! Your boat is 2.35m which is a shade over 7 feet 8.5 inches......google always converts to decimals but 7.7ft is not 7ft 7 inches! In other words your boat is half an inch too tall and will hit the bridge.
  5. booke23
    It's funny, because the actual hull of this boat is very similar design to an Aintree Beetle hull although it clearly isn't a Beetle. Square stern, tiny bow locker.....I bet this boat has a small gas locker at the stern, big enough for 2x4kg gas bottles just like the Beetles.
  6. booke23
    That's exactly what I thought. That rear door design with external steps going down from the cruiser stern seems much older than 2008 too. Every pun intended I hope!
  7. booke23
    Yep. Twenty British hundredweight (112lb) in a ton. Hence why those weights we use to trim the boats are 56lb...half a hundredweight.
  8. booke23
    In your stove. Other stoves and experiences are available.
  9. booke23
    You're comparing apples and oranges. Burnwell is a high petrocoke cheap coal whereas Taybrite is a high anthracite premium coal. Taybrite - comprising anthracite (60 to 80% of the total weight), petroleum coke (10 to 30% of the total weight) Burnwell - Comprise of a blend of anthracites and coals up to and between 10% to 40%, petcokes up to and between 60% to 90%
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  11. booke23
    I know. I was going to joke back that I would only have needed a 6' 10" plank to clear the CMers!
  12. booke23
    Continuous moorer. Typically someone who lives aboard and habitually overstays on towpaths or visitor moorings, usually for months and months at a time.
  13. booke23
    Nah, mostly to get over large overgrown reeds etc! For the benefit of the OP I'd actually say the K&A isn't really as bad as it's reputation suggests for CMers....except possibly the section west of Bradford on Avon to Bath.
  14. booke23
    Might be an idea. I had an 8ft plank and on a couple of occasions I had to use every 2.54cm of it.
  15. booke23
    Yes, although 2 months is pretty good going! The average VM overstay is probably about a year on the K&A 😅
  16. booke23
    ....there's always a blue tarp involved.
  17. booke23
    Regarding a plank on the K&A.....If you manage to only moor on Visitor moorings you'll never need a plank, but I found most Vm's were pretty full last time I went down there. Also the very prettiest rural spots (my preferred moorings) nearly always require a plank on the K&A.
  18. booke23
    That's just silly. Practically no-one in the UK knows their height in meters/cm. I'm sure I've heard Popeye use that word!
  19. booke23
    I didn't know you'd spent time in Los Angeles......It isnt the city it used to be these days.
  20. booke23
    True, although I remember we did briefly cover imperial measurements in secondary school. I suppose growing up my dad always referred to any measurement in imperial, so that’s how I picked it up. They have the same feet, inch, pound and mile etc! And practically every film released in the UK is American along with a substantial chunk of TV, which is what I meant about cultural creep.
  21. booke23
    I suppose while the USA still uses imperial measurements, there'll always be a slight cultural creep towards using imperial here for certain things for the foreseeable future. Also I find it's just easier and more natural to visualise some measurements in imperial.....like 'the canal is about 4 foot deep' rather than 'the canal is 1.2 meters deep'....and I'm in my 40s.
  22. booke23
    I for one read @mrsmelly post as a tongue in cheek jokey post and responded in kind. I don't think a debate on the merits of imperial vs metric is strictly necessary!
  23. booke23
    I'd have to agree....the BS1363 (standard 3 pin plug) is widely regarded as the best designed mains plug standard in the world and it is an evolution of the BS546....really hard to better it.
  24. booke23
    That's very impressive, they even advise you to drink a pint of water and then go on to mess up the conversion to metric (should be 568ml) in keeping with old British luddite style. I like that health trust!
  25. booke23
    Yes that's true, however I'd have thought the projector just comes with a basic 240v version of the power supply.
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