Boatgypsy

Seconded! The crucial determinant is 'single appliance' system. I may not convince you, but the evidence of your eyes should.

A single appliance only needs the cylinder shut off valve, regardless of it having rigid pipe or flexible hose. Just checked with technical guy on BSS course.

I'm looking at it as a way of bringing in more business, cos I already do the compliance work. It may well take a long time to repay the costs though. I do expect that the scope of the scheme will increase.

I'm rather hoping it's going to stay, as I'm halfway through the examiners training course and it's cost me a small fortune.

MJG, my apologies if I misunderstood your post, but your quote of my post made it appear that you were addressing me. Again, apologies, it does sometimes seem that rudeness is common on this forum and I perhaps jumped to protest too quickly. Ian

To MJG, what part of 'please PM me' did You not understand! In order to refrain from discussing something it is necessary to know what that thing is! I had not read any of the thread after my last post, and am not able to do so now. To Wrigglefingers, many thanks, that was all I was asking for. Ian

I am mystified as to why my recent topic 'Get Orf My Land' has been locked. What happened? I missed it all cos I've been poorly. To save opening any contentious issues, perhaps someone could PM me. Ian

Yes, perhaps I should have been clearer. I mentioned Bewdley because thats where the EA measuring station is - there and then at Diglis. My question should have been, at what water height does the navigation close because of risk to shipping. I'm planning to go from Stourport to Diglis tomorrow, but the river appears to be rising with the weekends rain. Of course, now that it is day time I can ring Diglis lock keeper.

Can anyone tell me at what point the red flags go up on the Severn. The EA website says the river is 1.74 metres at Bewdley today - within it's normal range - but what does that mean for navigation? Cheers

If you have a darker colour, it will make the roof hotter on the outside. If the boat is well insulated it might not get too hot inside. But the steelwork will certainly expand when it gets hots, slightly distorting the shell. I used to have my roof painted in a dark green and in sunny weather I had terrible trouble with the front and back doors jamming - painting the roof cream solved the problem!

Oh, you cynical people!!!

Whilst I didn't get the courtesy of a reply from the guy I wrote to, I did get one from Sally Ash, Head of Boating, saying that he had asked her to investigate. I think there is a fair chance he did actually get to see my email.

That's sounds more sensible.

I've just been phoned by a friend who says that Canal Boat Magazine are reporting that red diesel is to disappear from the end of the year. I realise this is highly unlikely, and I've not seen anything reported elsewhere - but does anyone else have this information or can it be firmly disputed. Ian

It will indeed suffice, and is a much more elegant solution than I was first thinking of - mainly because of zero additional cost. Thanks

Big pair of Stilsons to hold the shaft while you loosen or tighten the nuts.

It does indeed sound good, but why not just make normal bread - flour, water, yeast, salt - it's not hard to do and you can't beat a bacon sarnie on fresh homemade bread.

Further update to say that Robin Evans can indeed be reached at the above email address and BW are now looking into my complaint of "serious shortcomings" - their words.

For information, it happened at Filance Lock, No. 37

Hey, thats a brilliantly simple idea. I can't immediately see any problem with that in principle. Yes, the fridge through the inverter is the largest power user. In fact the only 12v systems are backup lights and water pumps. I don't know if Smartguage can take whatever current might go through the inverter remote, but I guess that would be the only issue.

Ha! Yes, I can guarantee I was stone cold sober (hic)

Yes and no - there was a significantly high spout of water on the side opposite the paddle which seemed to be driven by a lot of air. I think the boat had also settled because of the air.

As a boater with a fair few years experience, I was presented with a new one today. Whilst locking up through Penkridge on the Staffs Worcs canal I was carefully opening the first paddle and crossing over to open the second, when I saw to my horror that my front deck was under six inches of water and a huge water spout was pouring water up over the side of the gunnel. I rushed back and closed the paddle, but not before quite a lot of water had entered the cabin around the door and my water tank had been filled through the vent pipe. I took stock and tried to figure out what had happened and tried to figure out what had happened. I'm pretty sure the boat had not become hung up on anything, but what I did notice was that there seemed to be an inordinately large amount of air in the water. I think that, for whatever reason, this paddle had sucked a large amount of air down with it, the force of the air coming up was pushing water up and over my gunnel at the same time as the highly aerated water was causing the front of the boat to settle much lower than normal. It's the first time this has ever happened to me, and it's not my first time through this flight. The gates do look new, so maybe there have been alterations. It's got me puzzled anyway. Ignore this I clicked to many time on the post button

As a boater with a fair few years experience, I was presented with a new one today. Whilst locking up through Penkridge on the Staffs Worcs canal I was carefully opening the first paddle and crossing over to open the second, when I saw to my horror that my front deck was under six inches of water and a huge water spout was pouring water up over the side of the gunnel. I rushed back and closed the paddle, but not before quite a lot of water had entered the cabin around the door and my water tank had been filled through the vent pipe. I took stock and tried to figure out what had happened. I'm pretty sure the boat had not become hung up on anything, but what I did notice was that there seemed to be an inordinately large amount of air in the water. I think that, for whatever reason, this paddle had sucked a large amount of air down with it, the force of the air coming up was pushing water up and over my gunnel at the same time as the highly aerated water was causing the front of the boat to settle much lower than normal. It's the first time this has ever happened to me, and it's not my first time through this flight. The gates do look new, so maybe there have been alterations. It's got me puzzled anyway.

It's usually fairly serious when they do this - like finding a body in suspicious circumstances or drugs/firearms having been chucked in the cut.