StephenA

How much can your alternator put out? Do you know how many amps per hour you're pulling to run the inverter?

Most probable cause would be a gas explosion at a guess - could be an older cooker with no flame failure device on it? http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/News/Areas/Taplow/Seven-injured-in-Bray-Lock-boat-explosion-02082015.htm

Yes - Looks like one of the processes that was inserting 195 new marker places got hung. Should be OK now. Will talk to Nick on the way to the pub. GoogleCode goes read only later this month so we've got out own integrated bug tracker system now which you can use once you've logged into Canalplan

Total distance is 33 miles, 3½ furlongs and 65 locks (not counting Hatton Top Lock No 46). There are at least 4 moveable bridges of which 1 is usually left open; 4 small aqueducts or underbridges and 5 tunnels (Shrewley Tunnel (433 yards long), Brandwood Tunnel (352 yards long), Wast Hill Tunnel (2726 yards long), Shortwood Tunnel (614 yards long) and Tardebigge Tunnel (580 yards long)). This is made up of 28 miles, 4¼ furlongs of narrow canals; 4 miles, 7¼ furlongs of broad canals; 65 narrow locks. This will take 22 hours, 38 minutes which is 3 days, 1 hour and 38 minutes at 7 hours per day. For initial calculation purposes (before adjusting for such things as overnight stops) this is taken as 3 days of 7 hours and 32 minutes each. But if you are single handing then you'll be slower at the locks and Tardebigge will take longer than expected, although if there are plenty of other boats around then that should make things easier for you.

Stern tube grease in your drinking water pump?

Non corrosive? Alum and Steel do not get on... in fact alum is a well used method for removing steel bolts from aluminium blocks.... So in a steel boat there isn't much to chose from.

I think there has always been a charge at Gloucester. Certainly when we kept Mintball there for a couple of weeks back in 2002 we contacted them in advance and got something sorted out.

It would sound like the motor has jammed. You might be able to remove the motor from the pump body and see if it can be freed up. Replacing the pump with another pump might not be as easy as it first sounds if the pump fittings are different and / or there is some fixed piping round the pump.

I suspect a white narrowboat would look very dirty very quickly. We have a grey roof and one section of it pops up and down depending on how hot it gets (and it makes quite a loud noise when doing it). So I suspect darker colours must lead to hotter steel and thus to a warmer inside temperature - however some of that will get blocked by the insulation. Of course at night those darker colours lose heat back faster that light ones.

I feel the same way - I was part of Site & Services at Wigan and a lot changed round there during and after the rally but somewhere along the line the IWA seemed to think that it didn't need to be a rally any more and that getting boats to an "unpopular" part of the canal system wasn't really important.

Don't forget as you are in the area to go to Little Moreton Hall http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/little-moreton-hall/

“Live on a boat if you love the lifestyle, not because you think it will save you money,” Mr Coggins said. Seems to be a very sensible bit of advice.....

51k for 30 seconds across all regions during the "Coronation Street" "slot" 61k for all regions during the "movie" slot

Nice idea - if only the councils had any money to spend on that sort of thing....

Your point being???? Neither of those have anything to do with CRT spending money on adverts

And where are they going to get the money to clear the backlog of dredging plus all the other work that needs doing. which was estimated at £300 million in 2012...... put up our licences by about 5000%? I don't know how many times they are showing the advert - I just gave the figure for a 30 second slot to compare it to the cost of dredging...

Yes I have been keeping up with the news about this issue... if CRT are employing companies who are doing this then it needs to be reported to CRT and to the Information Commissioner...

I posted the figures for a 30 second all region non-prime time ITV advert further up in the thread.... Plus seeing media companies saying that a basic advert (non celebrity actors, no fancy special FX etc) costs about 7K to make .....

So 1 call back - its not quite 11 is it? I think most people would think that 1 call back after a text donation was not unreasonable... if they kept calling you back then......

So maybe another 10K to make it - and I assume they'll be putting it on their website too? Its still peanuts compared to dredging. Do CRT employ techniques like that with people who have phoned them up, or is that just conjecture ?

So you are suggesting NO charities should be able to advertise on TV or is it just CRT? Getting people to see the canals as part of the social infrastructure of the country is important : get people to visit the canal and they may try a boating holiday, they may start walking the canal regularly which may well reduce vandalism (and help keep the towpath less over grown). Advertising is a LOT cheaper than you probably realise.... How much dredging can you do for £6,200 (the cost of a running a 30 second advert at daytime rates across all ITV regions)

Yes I know - but given that the house coal my brother burns doesn't produce that amount of smog I've always taken it to mean that people on boats are burning extremely cheap very high-sulphur coal

I'd always assumed they were burning raw sulphur......

As its been openly discussed on various forums for about 10 years and there are countless youtube videos demonstrating the process then the prior art clause would come into play.

There was (still might be) someone who lived in Waterside Drive in Market Drayton who basically had a serious problem with the boats on Tom's Moorings - if you parked your car on the road and he thought you were off a boat you'd come back to find notes on your car including one he'd sent to BW about the wood smoke and engine noise from the boats. He wanted it that no one could light their wood stoves etc. BW had simply ignored him and the advice from the mooring caretaker was to ignore him... But again - why buy a house near a canal or a set of moorings if you don't like boats or canals?