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4 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:
In theory your proposal has some merit, and will offer your daughter an intersting experience. However, as you say things have changed in more recent years, and it may be difficult to find a school (other than an unpopular failing one) which will have any spare capacity to accomodate your daughter for just two terms. I would suggest that you will need to decide on a number of areas where you would wish to overwinter and contact schools in those areas. You have a couple of years to conduct your enquiries so that may make your proposal a reality. I wish you all the best with your endeavours.
Thanks for your words.
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3 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:
Have you considered to down side of home schooling, especially on a boat? I do not question your academuc ability to Teach her subect based studies, but how will you compensate for the lack of social interaction with peers she would experience in a school?
Yes of course but we live in Hong Kong at the moment and she is being brought up in a minimal social interaction bubble environment and in extremes since Dec 19. I do not want to do it at home all year, just Easter to October, then winter up adjacent to a school that can accommodate her. I have seen this work really well ( albeit they have travelling friends to intact with ) with travelling fair kids when I had a business supplying them. However the system has changed since those days.
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I am a home tutor here and together with the advances in online teaching, home schooling has come on leaps and bounds. You don't have to do it yourself with a pile of books and many online companies are accredited to "proper schools".
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Not going to do it because I do not believe in having my daughter away from her family. I did it with my son years ago when I was in the Navy and lived to regret it. It is not in my nature or her mothers. End of discussion on that option. It's easy for us to do so with The Royal Hospital School but was immediately discounted.
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Not a financial issue. Not going to board my child because ................................. well not going to.
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Is there a forum here that deals with educating your child when boat dwelling?
Looking for options of online in some months and attending in others.
I have seen that the travelers schooling arrangements seem to have been sloped off to LA's rather than CG and guess that just killed it all stone dead.
Have not lived in UK nearly 20 years and planning to return in a year or two when my daughter needs a secondary education.
Flexible to live most places.
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18 minutes ago, Bee said:
That's more than a years work! You will be able to buy and externally tidy a boat, that will keep you busy for the year if you have to move, feed yourself, find materials, wait for weather and so on. To buy a winter project boat, find somewhere to put it, travel many miles and again, source materials, tools, actually get some work done on the cold, wet, dispiriting thing, pay for the storage and everything else and keep moving your liveaboard boat and at the end of it hope to at least break even is a very big ask. I have done a fair bit of work on boats and this much is true, that you can buy a boat for, say, £5000, you can spend say, £2500 on a partial refit, - this is without engine or gearbox repairs or any welding for which you will need a good power supply and then it will need all the Boat safety stuff and surveys doing and at the end of it you will be trying to sell an old boat with a partial refit...... Nothing is impossible but some things are damned hard work for sod all return, How do I know? Guess.
Hi Bee. I refitted a Minesweeper back in the day in 12 weeks so a narrowboat in a year seems a little "slow". but, get your drift. Also had a dockyard to work on it, not myself !! In our first year I would hope to spend half of it finding the boat and buying it, Suppliers are not much of a problem as i am a Marine Engineer so the stuff and its " uniqueness" are no mystery to me, apart from the fact that tech has moved on and products that used to be good are not now. They are being superseded ( say for insulation ) by space blankets etc. Also for a lot of the stuff I can easy ship from the US or HK as my business was supply to UK distributors from Chinese factories and I have access to all the channels. Sometimes I look at the branded gear in the Chandlers and know the factory that make it, with many badges for the world. Even stuff made in UK or Europe is, at the component level, sourced here.
So If I found a boat in the summer I could order all I need in advance and have it on hand. Even engines.
4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:I was (is) European, but we have agreed to continue with all EU legislation that has already passed in to UK law. Given time, and Political interest, some of the laws may be revoked / rescinded / removed, but I reckon they'll have enough on their plates for many years to come, without bothering about a few 'sewer-tube builders' on the canals.
The vast majority of the boat building industry in the UK builds for export so I doubt they would cease manufacturing to the RCD requirements even if there was no need to do so.
True enough.
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10 minutes ago, Duck-n-Dive said:
£30 a week in Chorley, I don't know if that's good, or how much in other parts of the UK.
Once you have worked out how long it is going to take you, write it down, then cross out the word "months" and replace it with "years" and you are probably about right.
Noted with thanks and Chorley looks nice. When we come back from HK, although my roots are in the Southern Nancy protectorate of England we will come to anywhere in UK that gives us all the things we need.
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7 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
When looking at space to rent, just consider how you are going to get 20 tons of steel into a farmers field, and then back out and onto the water.
Being in Hong Kong you may not be aware of the Recreational Craft Directive (RCD) which now covers 'major work' (not just building from new), so engines, refitting internally, gas, electrics and anything else that can alter the "safety" (ie stability) is covered.
If you are building a boat for yourself then there are exemptions, but if you are planning to re-furb and sell-on you become a commercial operation and ALL of the rules apply to you.
Thanks Alan. been away 16 years now and that RCD smells very Euro to me. maybe Boris will have thrown it out with the rest of the rubbish come December. BUT ... in any case ..... all understood and your right, a business would have different rules.
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What is the options available / ballpark costs of renting space to work on boats 1) In marinas, 2) industrial areas adjacent to waterways, 3) the ubiquitous farmers field adjacent to waterways.
Using this info to build a plan to buy and externally renovate a boat then liveaboard and cruise but buy a couple of projects as they appear in the year and refurbish in the winter season to resell.
Retired Engineers never really retire do they!
Thanks in advance.
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Thrust bearing. I was wondering about that. Most install videos I see ( Live in Hong Kong, not many narrowboats to see here! ) Haven't got them so I assumed were gearbox intergarted.
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Again Tony , Thanks. This looks like its going to cost me some rum in reward for the info!
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Noted on the gearbox . Good call.
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Thanks Tony. That about says what I was thinking and yes Vetus seems a good one stop shop for anything needed in whatever size.
Just have to get er done in the usual disorganised way. Did tighten the pilgrim nut on the port shaft of my minesweeper back in the day so lots of experience -- said no one ever !
Good community her so looking forward to posting more novice questions.
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The y axis is not really what I was looking for but more the X axis to judge lengths of the tube and calculate shaft length.
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Does each boat builder manufacture its own design of shaft tube and internal exit position / dimension of same to the engine bed or are they standard?
Thinking if I buy a shell then the engine fitting is easy ( Ex RN Mechanician Sweepers to Carriers to O Boats) but the stern tube, shaft and prop are problematic if there are no standard dimensions.
Will be on a standard narrow boat 60 or 70ft with a 42 - 50hp motor, maybe one of those hybrid donks. This because I image the prop is dependent on the weight / width of the boat and gearbox type ( looking at PRM 125D2 or 150D2. Water seal rather than stuffing box. Oh, and as a submariner I would be cavitation paranoid even though we would be running opened up on the surface all the time. ?
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I AM a contract NET ( Native English Teacher ) running courses in schools and home tutor, here in Hong Kong. Retired Engineer ex Royal Navy. Tutoring is a prime industry here and 90% of families have a tutor to their home or go to a learning centre. My experience may be a lot different to a tenured teacher in the UK where ( when I was in UK 16 yrs ago ) homeschooling was the preserve of a parent who didn't believe in the system and had skills to get their child to excel. Or believed they did.