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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
Also if it was a narrow Boat being considered one has to be aware of the shape.
Its basically a tube. A corridor. <<
The OP was envisaging having his boat on the northern end of the Macc.
Therefore it would be narrow.
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1 minute ago, Alway Swilby said:
We had a share of a Carefree Cruising boat and after some teething problems when the boat was new everything was sorted. The boat was well managed and looked after. It would be best if you can attend the AGM where lots of decisions about the running of the boat and its location are made.
We sold our share in 2012 so our experience is 11 years out of date.
Which is all fine and dandy if you are happy to spend two hours discussing curtains.
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Just now, M_JG said:
We are in the North too but on the other side....
Ah yes, I was forgetting you half-Scots!
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36 minutes ago, M_JG said:
Already checked in anticipation and we are set for a very cloudy evening/night unfortunately.
Boo hiss...
We are expecting somewhat better than that up here in t'north.
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I've just been reminded that the Geminids are expected to peak tonight (13/14 December) and the event coincides closely enough to a New Moon (last night) to be spectacular.
A rural mooring is an ideal place to watch them, if the weather happens to be clear.
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Yeah, and radiators don't radiate, they convect. They even conduct, if you put a hand on them.
The one in your car is a heat exchanger, of course.
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15 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
We don't need to, simply flying the Union Flag upside down is an insult to the Monarch.
Hiding reactionary views by wrapping oneself in the flag is an insult to the people of Britain.
As for insulting the unelected Head of State: NOT MY KING.
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7 minutes ago, MrsM said:
Because it was a birthday gift and we left them 2 'normal' windlasses, along with everything else they could possibly need (life jackets, furniture, new boarding plank, pole & hooks, new mattress & bedding, crockery etc etc). We anticipate getting another boat on retirement and I will be glad to have it.
But you said you were prepared to sell it.
There's a logical disconnect in there.
Why offer something you want, yet you already own, for sale? Either it's worth having or it isn't. You are never going to enjoy an effortlessly affluent lifestyle simply on the proceeds of one miserable windlass!
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7 hours ago, MrsM said:
Having sold my boat I could be persuaded to part with my Go Windlass if the price is right! 🤭😃
Why wasn't it included in the boat's inventory?
Every time I've bought or sold a boat, ancillary equipment was included in the deal.
When all is said and done, it's a windlass, FFS, and useless other than for boating.
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On 23/11/2023 at 17:46, wakey_wake said:
>> I don't know whether flag burning per se is illegal here (I don't feel strongly about it either way) but a flag-burner could presumably be done for not using Defra-approved fuel.
Only if the flag was being burned for heating purposes!
Seriously though, we are not daft enough in the UK to make the symbolic destruction of a flag illegal.
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We don't do gentrified round here.
Poshed-up, yes.
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19 hours ago, Speedy23 said:
>> "We only have your assertion that you would not be selling a faulty item" and then go on to say "No one even suggested that you are dishonest".
Come on, one or the other. What are you trying to say?
What do you mean by "IF there turned out to be something wrong with it...I would be unlikely to be fair"?
Really? You don't know me - yet you feel comfortable making potentially libellous assumptions?
You are better than that.
Erm ... even if you are completely honest and genuine, we still would not know you to be honest and genuine.
Not knowing works both ways. Nothing libellous about that.
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43 minutes ago, IanD said:
The old one at Marple... 😞
"Are you going to be long?"
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"About 58 feet".
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Urine is an excellent compost activator.
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Whogivesacrap.com
No problem at all with our macerator bog.
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Mind you, it's by no means the only sensationalist inaccurate rag.
Many years ago, I was about to fly to a West African country to see my girlfriend (now my wife). A week before my departure date there was a report in a quality Sunday newspaper about the capital's Airport being closed.
My flight took place as advertised (thank you British Caledonian), and I found out when I got there that the airport's main runway had indeed been closed -- for three hours on a Sunday, so that a part of it could be resurfaced.
1 minute ago, magnetman said:I never read what others write due to vision ossues.
How can you tell that their writing was caused by vision issues? (To say nothing of ossues).
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I never knowingly follow links to www.excess.co.uk.
Sorry!
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A de E's initial quote looks like MSN- but it's the Daily Excess report.
Say no more.
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But what about the (gas fuelled) Aga that you have running already, for other purposes?
(It could be an electric Aga, of course, but ours ain't.)
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15 hours ago, MtB said:
The problem with salt is it causes high blood pressure, a symptomless disorder that causes heart attacks. AIUI.
If one's BP is well controlled, there is no problem with scoffing delicious salt.
One way of controlling BP is to keep your sodium intake down.
You have just answered the question yourself.
However, since it's cooking salt the OP has problems with, why does it needs to be granular at all? A chunk of clagged-together NaCl will still dissolve in the cooking water or the sauce.
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6 hours ago, magnetman said:
The joys of single-use boats.
Yup. Those orange things aren't lifeboats. They are TEOSCs. The "O" is a clue: it stands for "offshore".
They were never designed to go anywhere other than few hundred metres away from an offshore installation in an emergency.
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13 hours ago, MartynG said:
Does English Heritage have any responsibility for the inland waterways ?
That won't stop them commenting.
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4 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
Buy a starting or dual-purpose battery of the same size and with the same terminal layout.
Remove ignition key, turn off engine battery master switch, remove the NEGATIVE terminal first, then the positive. Refit in the reverse order.
Clean up the battery clamp surfaces and dress with Vaseline before fitting the terminals to the new battery.
This is exactly what I've done twice (two different boats) and it's perfectly possible for an amateur. Take care and proceed slowly. It's a good idea to cover all the other batterys' terminals with something non-conducting, like an old dry towel.
Sorry Tony, I'm not telling you what to do, just agreeing!
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Since it's easy to see who has given a greenie, it's easy to see when a narcissistic loser has voted for his own post. That's on the assumption that somebody even cares, and actually bothers to look.
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Watership Down had Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and several other anthropomorphic leporids, IIRC.