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Usual "climate change" hype to describe effects of weather.
Historical extreme highs and lows of the Rhine:River Situation From To Rhine Low water 1947-10-01 1947-11-20 Rhine High water 1993-12-01 1994-01-15 Rhine Low water 1971-09-04 1971-11-30 Rhine Low water 2003-07-02 2003-09-02 -
20 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
More please. Do their premises leave much to be desired?
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Thanks very much for the replies, Guys!
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Any recommendations for somebody to make a double-skin chimney for my boat?
Off-the-shelf ones don't fit properly, as the flue comes up at an angle, so the exit is off centre in the deck collar.
Boat is in Tewkesbury marina.
Thanks
Paul
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Travelled the Severn from Tewkesbury to Worcester and back over the Bank Holiday weekend, and saw quite a few.
I was lucky enough to see one dive down from an overhanging branch and return with a fish in it's beak.
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Increasing the concentration of antifreeze will raise the boiling point of the coolant...
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I recommend spray-on starch.
Very effective at reducing buzzing.
Larger flies just glide out of the window.
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Is it not the case that a stove on a boat qualifies as a "portable furnace" (or similar), and is not subject to the Clean Air Act?
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8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Good example - I bow to your suggestion.
Colregs DO apply to the canal system (as I have suggested in previous discussions).
It is good fun to debate subjects and sometimes 'stand' on the side that you don't normally take. The school debating society has a lot to answer for.
However, the Lower Avon Navigation Trust by-laws *used* to define the river as a narrow channel, and specifically required small sailing craft to keep clear of power driven vessels.
Whether this is still the case since the amalgamation of the two Trusts is difficult to know as the link to the by laws on the ANT website doesn't work.
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1 hour ago, peterboat said:
I have been following this subject on another site, its interesting in so much as the writing is on the wall for fossil fuel powered stations are going to be done for soon. A new breed of wind turbine [12.5 MW] is being developed and tested even as we speak. These new turbines will be offshore and have no subsidies, I never thought I would see it but I suspect clean green energy is just around the corner.
It always has been...
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The old "rule of thumb" for 2-stroke outboards was a pint per horsepower per hour.
Does depend on whether you are pottering or hooning around, and also the type of hull it is driving. Maybe 4-stroke outboards are a bit more efficient these days as well.
I've also heard of a litre per 10 HP per hour being used as another way of estimating consumption.
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The club that you passed was Avon Sailing Club.
You probably noticed that is was on the Severn. To find Severn Sailing Club, you need to look on the Avon.
When you meet sailing dinghies with a narrowboat, it's best to ignore the colregs and take a pragmatic approach.
Firstly, if they are racing, collisions with narrowboats do nothing to improve speed, and can damage the dinghy.
Secondly, a sailing dinghy is several levels of magnitude more manoeuvrable than a narrrowboat. By zig-zagging around, you are actually making it harder for the dinghy sailors, not easier.
By far the best approach is to move over as far as possible to the right, and just motor though slowly at a constant speed.
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Thanks for your input guys!
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I'm going to replace my ancient steel cratch as (apart from being ugly) has pretty much rusted away in places.
I'd like the new one to be a wood construction, but I'm not sure what type of wood.
Anyone able to advise on the pro's and con's of different wood types?
Also, anyone have any experience with International's Woodskin varnish?
Good, bad, or are better products available?
Thanks in advance...
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On 14/08/2017 at 21:51, Crow said:
Don't know where to post this,and would any one even believe me, coming back from Boston this weekend on the river witham,we saw 2 big turtles / Terrpins laying out on a bit of 1/2 submerged bit of plank sunning themselves ,we turned the boat round to try and get a photo ,but by that time they were on panic mode and under the water ,there backs/ shells were 8 inch wide. X 10 long ,At a good estimate, I didn't even know they were any in this country,has any one else seen any,or could they have been flushed down someone's toilet when smaller,any way they looked fit enough to me,and thriving well
I've seen turtles (or terrapins) in the Warwickshire Avon and the Staffs & Worcs.
Supposed to be some in the Glos & Sharpness as well, but I've not seen one yet -
There is also a story going around about a farmer living near the Droitwich antennas being prosecuted by the BBC for stealing power.
Can't find any authoritative sources, so I think this is probably an urban (rural?) legend...
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2 hours ago, Debs said:
We have not long bought a 45' narrowboat but we are finding that it doesn't have much power in reverse. This means that it's really hard to stop as well even when going at very low speeds. When we are at standstill, it will move backwards but very slowly. To resolve the issue, would we be looking at getting a bigger propeller or an Axiom one? The one we have at the moment is a 3 bladed, bronze right hand rotation on a PRM 80 2:1 gearbox. We don't know what diameter it is though.
I've got a 55 footer with a 27hp.
That's rubbish in reverse as well...
Don't waste your money on an Axiom prop.
Snake oil, IMO.
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14 hours ago, Stedman II said:
When under power, our boat goes in a straight line when the tiller/rudder is also straight. When we take the power off (i.e in neutral) and leave the tiller alone, the boat heads off to starboard. It did this twice yesterday in long bridgeholes, with the danger of scraping the handrails. The boat lists slightly to port. Is the veer to starboard a likely consequence of the list?
IHMO yes.
When I sailed dinghies I did a few "rudderless" races. You steer by heeling the boat one way or the other.A list to port would cause the boat to steer to starboard, and vice versa.
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42 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I know and I think that although its aggravating by and large we accept it and try to help. I trust we will continue to do so.
It was the tone of the OPs last post that got me. If he trusted his expensive system why did he need to ask on here originally (rhetorical question). It is clear that something is/was wrong with both his understanding and expensive system and having taken the advice he gave those who contributed a "foxtrot oscar". I feel that is rather different to going quiet and ignoring the advice.
Its going to take me a long time to forget the "lady" who was an exemplar of what you are talking about.
However, for every "Richard Head", there are many more who read the sound advice given by yourself and others and learn something from it.
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10 minutes ago, Rog Davies said:
This is a question only for those who keep [or have kept] their boats in big marinas, as opposed to CRT online, small yards, boatclubs etc ... what do think you are getting for the money you pay?
I have only been mooring in a 'proper' marina for the last 10 years and have felt that security of leaving the boat in others hands was a welcome peace of mind. I'd assumed that the staff would regularly wander around to see if everything seemed 'normal', and that like me, other moorers might notice anything out of the ordinary. Safety in numbers if you like.
Imagine the shock I received on Sunday upon returning to the boat after an enforced gap of six weeks, to find the boat sitting two feet lower in the water than normal. The engine room was flooded over the gearbox, and an oily, 12 inches of water throughout the entire boat. Now I know these things can happen, and hulls can spring leaks, but what amazes me is that no-one had noticed. People live onboard all around my mooring, including one guy who lives on his boat at weekends just across the jetty, 4 feet away! And the man on the boat behind me on the same jetty said he'd heard the auto-bilge pump running and thought it was odd because no-one was on board! To compound matters, the marina manager admitted that they had been around to every boat three days earlier to read the electricity meters.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not apportioning blame, but I am beginning to question the large amount of cash I hand over to moor in a 'posh' marina. It seems that if the boat is not being monitored in any way, I am paying nearly £200 a month to have somewhere 'safe' to leave the car whilst boating .... but I even question that now.
To be fair to our marina, the staff do go round all the pontoons on a daily basis to clear duck sh*t etc.
If my boat was flooding to that extent I'm sure they would notice it. They did once ring me to let me know that I'd left the padlock off the rear doors.
This was deliberate, as it happens, but it might not have been.
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Is this the boat?
If so, I'd question how long it was on brokerage, as it may not have been on the landline for a long time and so the batteries would self-discharge and become sulphated and therefore knackered. Don't ask me how I know this!
It does have twin alternators, so there's potential for a decent charge rate when running the engine.
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3 minutes ago, pete.i said:
Good grief looking at that lot you would think the only canals in Britain are down south.
There are canals in the north?
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Are you sure that they were 4.5mm?
It's non-standard AFAIK.
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Skull and Crossbones flag.
Remote oil filter
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My word, doesn't time fly...
4 years on I've finally got round to buying the bits that I need.
Before I do the install, there are a few things that the engine gurus might be able to comment on.
The remote filter mount will be significantly higher up than the mount point on the engine.
If possible, I don't intend to mount it any higher than the valve covers.
I'm assuming that I will need to fit a brand of filter that has a built-in anti-drainback valve?
Ideally I'd like to mount the filter in a vertical position (i.e hanging down from the mount) as it seems to me to involve less oil spillage when changing filters.
Of course, the mount on the engine is horizontal, so is the change in orientation likely to cause any issues?
Lastly, it should be possible to fit a longer/bigger filter than the current one (Coopers Z121 or similar). Good idea or not?
As always, any help or advice is much appreciated...