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Awww common. lol this is me being serious lol. No one else on this planet could answer these.

EDIT: perhaps due to the shear amount of questions feel free to focus on one question instead of dismissing the entire list. So I posted a silly questions post last night. Today i have some more serious technical questions as follows below. 1. Why are narrow boats not designed to be bidirectional so that winding holes are not necessary. Either engines at both sides or directional thruster jets with an impeller(think jetski with more thrust vectoring.) or even Voith Schneider propellers(VSP) or perhaps just mount the entire boat with a dozen bow thrusters all over. Joy stick controls even. 2. Why don't narrow-boaters use peltier modules or freepiston sterling generators on their stoves and engines to create power from waste heat. 3. Why dont pump out toilet users have aerobic membrane filters with UV treatment. This would allow the discharge of most the liquids of black water and grey water together into canal cleaner than the canal is. Pump outs would occur 10x less often. Aerobic treatment removes a huge percentage of fecal mass via methanogen bacteria. Membrane filter removes only clean water from tank. Can be uv filtered and disposed in canal as it would be near drinkable at that point. Pump out biannually like a septic tank 4. Why do the canals not have active or passive filtration via artificial wetlands or even waste water treatment technology? Water quality could be pristine. You could even require a small filter on each vessel so that its distributed. 5. Do narrow boaters use dripless bearings? Why is everyone on youtube using grease packing? Dripless is so superior from a technical standpoint. 6. Why is there so much wood and not drywall or even cement board on a boat walls. Wood rots, its ugly, lights on fire etc. 7. Why is no ones floor tiled with radiant heating? Seems like it could be part of ballast if designed properly. 8. Why dosent the canal trust put more electrical sockets on the cut. I imagine that a for-profit could manage and grow the system with some kind of access cards and normal financing. I think you could have sockets on 20% of moorings within a few years just with leases from canal side houses and businesses. Could charge boaters 10x cost to buy power from utility and it would still be better than what most are paying/doing for power now. 9. Why dosent the canal authority use suction dredges to clean the canals. I only see back hoes and such in videos. 10. Why are people using outboards at all? Also why arent more people using them? 11. Why dont more people steer from the front or middle using hydraulic steering cables? Is there advantages to the old school steering rudder design? 12. Would an electric trolling motor move a narrow boat? Why dont people have a trolling motor for short hops and silent maneuvering slowly. In addition the the main motor. 13. Why dont people who own canalside land develop the relationhip with the canal better in terms of real estate development. Seems like many opportunities to turn the canals into a world treasure. 14. How much does it cost to make a length of canal or a lock. Assuming volunteers and what not like river trust does. Im trying to figure out why their isent more of these systems being built around the world. Do they only exist because of cheap labor done by coal extraction long ago? What is the monetary value of the canal system in total or even sections. 15. Why is there no connections into Scotland. Why dosent Scotland have canals. 16. Is there a website with statistical data on canals. 17 Why is there no visible micro hydro dams on the canal for power generation. Could power sections of the cut that are remote. See question 8. 18 Are the canals that bad water quality? How does it vary from place to place. Does anyone test water quality. What are common poisons, lead, oil? Why are the clean areas clean and dirty areas dirty. What could be changed in the dirty areas to make them cleaner. 19. Can you filter canal water enough to drink it or tank it? Reverse osmosis, and particulate filters come to mind. Also atmospheric water generators as everyone seems to get condensation a lot from my readings. 20. Does anyone tank rain water? 21. Do you drink your tap water on the cut.

Got any pictures? You should invite a narrowboat youtuber to film you. I would kill for a good narrowboat remodel youtube.

That needs to be pinned somewhere lol good stuff.

I felt like this forum needed some newbie snark to go with all the old-timer salt pouring from the heavens. Feel free to post more or answer some of these pertinent questions i have about narrow boating. Why arent all boats cruisers? Can i eat the fish in the canal? Can i swim in the canal? Can i pull boat with rope down towpath with self/horse/children? What is the ideal boat length for turning around in narrowboat. What happens if i leave all the locks open and drain everything into lowest lock or other accidental horrible destruction of canal resources. Can I airbnb my boat while im away. Can i lease a residential mooring and then spend most my time living abroad? Can i build my own marina on land near the canal. Can i make a new canal on land i own next to canal. Are all experienced boaters amazing nice people who love to answer the same questions over and over? Will solar power work during the winter if i stay moored at the same spot for 15 days and dont want to run engine? Are their pirates on canals? Does anyone steal boats? Do i really even own a boat that i buy? Why is there no titles on narrowboats? Why cant i dump shit into the canal but i can wash shit off my ass in the shower and dump that into canal? Can i just omit the toilet and shit into my shower? Why dont more people rent canal boats to their friends and family for very low cost? Why are their almost no 50% syndicates avail? How many family members can sleep on a narrow boat together? What is murder rate? When will i stop posting dumb questions?

So get an ex hire boat and figure out power. Does anyone use another engine for power or just run more alternators?

Im am new to narrowboating. Live in hawaii. I want a boat looking for a 50/50 partner. Or house/boat swap of some sort.

Im really surprised there is not an entire cottage industry providing those services. As someone who lives in a tourist mecca i can tell you if they arent now their will be soon. 100%snowbird marinas. Marina should do all that and take a 30% cut just like regular short term property management.

As someone from Hawaii NEVER underestimate what tourists will buy, rent, lease. It sounds crazy till you see the bank account. I used to airbnb my yard for camping for 60 a nite.