Chickadee
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Thank you both
I'd love to talk to British Waterways about it but no one appears to be in till the 3rd of January and our mooring application deadline is the 4th! Cutting it fine as it is!Another quick question do I send it to the boat licencing team adress in Leeds in the mooring aplication? I've also had an email from a lady in the Mooring Sales Team at Herts? I'm confused! Really shouldn't have left this so late but works been mental. Such fun working in retail at Christmas!
Actually i'm guessing its the Leeds one as if I hadn't been emailed by the lady at Herts I wouldn't haven known about that address. Ugh! Far to much going on to be dealing with this! Be glad when its done and we can get on our new mooring!
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I'm sure there was a thread about this recently but I can't find it now.
We want to buy a bigger boat in the next 6 months. We have a mooring that would take a bigger boat than what we have now. Will we have a problem changing to a different boat on our mooring? Found one line from BW that says they just need confirmation in writing about this. Has anyone done this?
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You were lucky and this advice is dangerous. I know boats that have sunk through weed hatch problems very quickly indeed.
This issue should not be trivialised.
I wasn't trivialising it just going by my experience. The weed hatch wasn't totally off just not on right and we were not taking on enough water to sink. We'd have probably got all the way to Gloucester without sinking but the boat would have been rather damp inside. I wouldn't recommend anyone try it but we didn't die or sink.
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Don't worry. Even if you left the cover off completely your boat won't sink because the rim of the weed hatch will be at least six inches above the water line. Mind you, it'll sink if you haven't put the cover on properly when the prop starts turning.
You still have a bit of time before you sink when you get going to. We did a day on the canal then got half the way down the Severn from Worcester to Gloucester before we realised where the water was coming from...
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Like many others I live aboard, so I'd have to put those items into the grab bag every time I come home. Not a bad idea I suppose, but how many people do this when they come home to their houses?
When I go to bed I use my phone as an alarm so I guess I could have a bag maybe hung off my curtain pole with spare keys in that I could put my phone in. It just sits on my shelf next to the window other wise.
I had enough of our smoke alarm going off all the time so disconnected it. Those ones with hush buttons sound like just the thing I need.
I do however have a friend who tests fire extinguishers so we have them at regular intervals down the boat. Need to move the one in the corridor though. I'm more likely to break my leg than use one it a fire.
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Ah Ha! Thanks for that. Really have to get one of these in the new year.
Just looking at the 3 page they go from 1gb to 15gb. I have no idea what I might need. I guess my internet usage is high. Almost every night one of us is on the laptop streaming music or watching TV. Even at 15GB are we going to have to rain it in a bit.
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This comes up again and again.
It is the boat that is licensed not the person.
But surely that boat is then licenced to a person?
But surely that boat is then licenced to a person?
What I mean is the boat is licenced but the licence will then be sent to a person.
Regardless spoke to BW this afternoon, doesn't sound to complicated. I guess the insurance will be more so. Hey ho, once its done, its done.
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Presumably will need to change the insurance too?
Brian
I guess so....
Better change it now just got ourselves a BW mooring today.
Wasn't sure if I was going to bid till till the last minute but thought I better had. Cheaper than where we are now and 20ft longer so glad I did. -
It will go to the same address anyway. Just changing the first name on it. Sounds like there not that bothered whos names on it then.
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I find Oxglow makes alot less ash than any other solid fuel I've used. We pay £11 for 25kg and the bag lasts a heck of a lot longer than anything else we've used to. Hate it when we have to make do with forecourt fuel becuase everywhere else is closed.
Boat was like a sauna this morning after i'd chucked fuel on to keep it going last night. Have kept it almost completly closed but it still chugs out the heat. Wish this weather would decide what its doing. Can't remember what make our stove is but its pretty small square one and is more than enough for my 42ft boat.
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Yes it is,but when asked if there would be a reduction in fees due to the " Luxury "facilities not being finished l was met with a stoney silence
14skipper
From what i've heard (haven't looked yet) its not going to be cheap mooring their either. I wonder if they are going to push the prices up when the facilities are done?
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Thats similar to others. I found my roof top boxes really handy.
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Another point is that I don't find I use any more coal now than when I used to light it each night.
You tend to give it a blast for a while to try to warm the boat up when lighting it daily, and the further reaches take ages to come to come to a satisfactory warmth. You also need kindling every day.........
.........and going from cold to hot quickly can also lead to expansion issues with collars and roof fittings, or worse, cracks in your stove......and rain gets in causing rust when it's cold........
shall I go on...
Yep, less energy wasted all round I think. Just come home, warm boat 5 coals on job done.
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Assuming you are ahppy for him to vote in the CART election
He can do what he likes.
He has up till now! I've been keeping an eye on local BW moorings not that we're desperate for one but I realise if we did want to get one the boats not licenced to me so i'm guessing he'd have to bid on the mooring for us to.... and then we'd like to get another boat in the not to distant future so we'd like to have our own mooring ready for that...
Really should have put it in my name in the first place
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Yes !
Yes to best off waiting till April?
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I have a car stereo for radio and cd's but it didn't like my old mp3 player and i haven't tried my iphone on it yet. I use my laptop for the listen again function for bbc shows and podcasts and the free view for live digital stations. I'd like a DAB radio to have up the back when we're going along.
I also think some wires might have come loose from the car stereo last time we went up Tardebigge (probably bumped a couple of times...
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My boat is currently licenced by my Dad no real reason why he did it he just did it when we bought the boat and he was sorting other things out. I'd like to get everything in my name at some point and wonderd how easy it is just to transfer a licence. I think its up in April so would I be best off waiting till then?
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The past few weeks we hadn't been keeping the fire going all day as we were low on money and fuel but then I got a cold and the BF got paid so we've been keeping it going while we've been at work and the difference is fantastic. No more shivering while the boat warms up and we seem to be getting so much more done when we get in rather than huddling on the sofa for warmth. (Dog included)
We use Oxglow (I think thats what its called) Nice big nuggets that don't create much ash and when we get in we just need to chuck about 4 on open the door and its away again. When we leave in the morning we chuck a couple of shovel fulls on turn the air hole totally closed then back 1/4 of a turn.
We use wood when we've got it but solid fuel is alot more reliable.
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All a matter of personal taste of course, but to me it looks fairly horrid and not something to show off proudly if it can be avoided. Maybe it depends on how kinky the undergarments are? That is perhaps why most land people dry their clothes in the back garden, not the front garden - but a boat of course does not have a back garden. Anyway, what happens when they blow away? (answer, they get wrapped around my prop and I have to spend 1/2 hr removing the leopard skin underwear, as we did on BCN old main line!)
Edited to clarify that said knickers did not originate from our boat!
I'm guessing that kind of underwear did not come from a washing line judging by the other things we've seen in the cut.
I've never lost anything off my dryer on the boat.My parents house everyone uses there back gardens and thats the door in and out of the house so everyone sees each others draws.
I think its a shame to see something as natural as drying clothes as horrid. I was shocked to read that in alot of neighbourhoods in the America its illegal to dry your washing outside! I know some flats come with clauses that stop you drying on balconies etc When did we all get so ashamed of a bit of clean laundry!?
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I'd still rather have nice line or stove dried clothes. I've never had a problem with damp on the boat. Maybe becuase if i'm drying by the stove I have the door open to. 11 liters of water to dry clothes sounds nuts to me.
I guess atleast if your drying while cruising your not wasting electric on it.
As for line drying clothes looking horrid. Really? Its just some clothes drying! A dead fox looks horrid. Poo on the bottom of your shoe is horrid. Line drying clothes are just someone drying there clothes!
Probably a bad day to come on this site when i'm in an arugmentative mood lol.
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I'm often too busy to do the laundry more then once a fortnight, imagine drying two weeks laundry on a boat - then there's the damp.
Two weeks!? I've still got washing not done from my holiday a month ago.
But then there are two of us on a 42ft so its hard to get anything done. I'd still rather have a dryer that i can fold away and have out when needed than a dryer machine that takes up space and uses my lecy. Never had a damp problem from drying. I'd have thought the condensation created by a dyer could be worse? -
I don't understand the love of tumble dryers. In the winter my clothes dry in a couple of hours by the stove. In the summer out in the sun or under the cratch and they are dry pretty quick. My little clippy dryer packs down real small when not in use too.
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But I did find a Boaters Phone external aerial essential.
Where did you get yours from? I haven't had a three dongle for a while as I found the extension cable it came with wasnt very effective.
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3 mifi is a kind of dongle that creates a private network so you can connect upto 5? computers/ phones at the same time, very handy if 2 computers on boat as stops fights !!!
Haha we so need this for the above reason.
I'd love to talk to British Waterways about it but no one appears to be in till the 3rd of January and our mooring application deadline is the 4th! Cutting it fine as it is!
I've never lost anything off my dryer on the boat.
But then there are two of us on a 42ft so its hard to get anything done. I'd still rather have a dryer that i can fold away and have out when needed than a dryer machine that takes up space and uses my lecy. Never had a damp problem from drying. I'd have thought the condensation created by a dyer could be worse?
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Does anyOne use or have you tried a solar dab radio? I'm a bit addicted to 6 music but can only get it through my laptop or tv.