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I just looked at their website. Zone 1 and 2 moorings (nearest the show) are sold out but was astounded by the cost of Zone 1 at £2.40 per foot!
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I went down at Easter. Huge anounts of water sometimes flowing over the top gates when the lock was full. Lovely trip and nice to see all the work that has been done. It was hard work though 7 hours from bottom to top single handed.
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Message sent. I'll let you know the outcome.
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If anyone sees the narrowboat "Northern Lights", a blue boat heading north from the Milton Keynes area, please let them know that their keys have been found. Contact information has been left at the Giffard pub and that the keys are aboard my boat, moored not far away.
Do they moor at Heyford Fields marina? If so I have their contact number.
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There is - it's called Picot and I have the phone number if anyone wants to PM me
I have contacted the boat and they tell me they will make a 3 week turnaround from Leighton Buzzard to Uxbridge beginning at the end of April.
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Wait till you see the size of the Arla dairy. It`s taken a big chunk of countryside that was pleasing to the eye.
I had the misfortune of walking around the Arla site on a scorching hot day last summer. We did a sponsored 50km charity walk at work last year and one day 2 of us did a training walk that was to take us from Grove Church to Aylesbury and back. When we reached the collapsed lock I looked at the diversion map and set off in what I thought was the right direction around the diary. We walked and walked on hot tarmac until we eventually found a way back to the canal. As we returned to the towpath I spotted a couple who had been sitting on a bench at the start of the diversion and it then dawned on me that we had set off in the wrong direction and taken a far longer and uncomfortable route. The return walk was a lot more pleasant and quicker!
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Its the same place. The BW yard used to have a concrete works on it called Fencrete.
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I hope you're not planning to go down next week, like we were, because the arm is closed at the top lock on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next week.
No I saw that. Thought I may take a look at Easter. Havent been down for 4/5 years and would like to see all the changes.
Plenty of room:
Thanks.
Thanks! Even I should be able to get round in one then!
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Nice one thanks!
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Perfect thank you!
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With the redevelopment going on at the basin is it still possible to turn there?
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Yours for two and a half grand a year, unless there's a bidding war:-
https://www.crtmoorings.com/vacancy/vacancy_details.php?id=6185
Ends on Wednesday
And only boats without solid fuels stoves allowed!
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Just bought 5 bags of Excel, what marvellous stuff! This is definitely my preferred choice of solid fuel.
Excel has a very high (up to 80%) Petroleum Coke content which may damage grates etc as it burns so hot.
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I drove through Long Marston last weekend when the canal was closed and there were sandbags placed in several places including the pub on the corner (Queens Head?). The drainage ditches at the roadside were very high and flowing fast. Also as has been reported Watery Lane in Marsworth was flooded and not passable.
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The latest I have seen in senior and published areas of our large multinational company and is now being bandied around at all levels is the 'Onboarding' session....
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Very high at Seabrook and flooded fields at Grove. Watery Lane in Marsworth not passable.
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And if I remember correctly he never received the full award that was offered to solve the Longitude problem as the establishment couldn't or didn't want to believe that a humble carpenter had found a solution that they believed could only come from astronomy.
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Excel is full of Petrocoke
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Ok stupid question about the different parts of the fuel.
Which is best for lots of heat? High petrocoke or high anthracite?
Good question. I started looking at the composition after reading that Petrocoke burns fiercely and can damage stoves or grates (I have some damage on an open grate at home since using Supertherm, but also generally using more coal than wood, so its not conclusive that its the type of coal). One stove manufacturer states not to use greater than a 20% content. But I have also seen Anthracite referred to as burning to wildly!
In a stove I have used Taybrite and Supertherm and both seemed to burn well and stay in. On an Open fire I have again used both and Supertherm seems to last longer and burn hotter although takes a while to get going.
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It probably has nothing to do with the licence reminder bit of their systems, but looking at their wider picture don't forget that BW, and now CRT make much use of the SAP accounting systems.
And SAP 'standards' will be the reason that all BW/CRT boats had an additional number plate added with a long format 40000xxx asset number!
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If anyone is interested I have summarised the average main components of the main brands that I have come across although each component can often be +/-10% or more. The rest is either made up of other types of coal, natural products and binders.
Brand Anthracite% Petroleum Coke %
Supertherm 45 45
Taybrite 70 20
Pureheat 60 25
Excel 25 70
Homefire Ovals 60 20
Phurnacite 75 20
E Coal 50 30
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Plug a mouse in, problem solved...
Didnt have one with me! Will try next time
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I was using a Windows 7 E Machines laptop on board recently and noticed a strange situation. When the laptop is plugged into a 240v socket which is run from a MSW Sterling 1800 inverter the cursor cannot be moved with the trackpad. The keyboard still works but the mouse will not, the battery charges properly. Does anyone have any idea why this may be? Could it be to do with the MSW from the inverter?
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The only way of distinguishing, apart from burning them is in the size/weight.
Supertherm briquettes, manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, which—
(a)comprise a blend (in the proportion of 19:1 by weight) of anthracite and medium volatile coal (as to approximately 93% of the total weight) and cold-setting organic binder or a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);
(b)were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll-pressing;
©are unmarked ovoids;
(d)have an average weight of 160 grams per briquette; and
(e)have a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5% of the total weight.
Supertherm II briquettes, manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, which—
(a)comprise anthracite (as to approximately 36 to 51% of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to approximately 40 to 55% of the total weight) and an organic binder or a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);
(b)were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll-pressing;
©are unmarked ovoids;
(d)have an average weight of 140 grams per briquette; and
(e)have a sulphur content not exceeding 2% of the total weight.
I contacted CPL and received the following explanation:
Original Supertherm was made by a separate company that CPL acquired in the 1990's and production was stopped. It was reintroduced in 1998 and listed as Supertherm II but the original was never removed from the list. It is this compostion that is sold today as Supertherm.
If anyone is interested I have summarised the average main components of the main brands that I have come across although each component can often be +/-10% or more. The rest is either made up of other types of coal, natural products and binders.
Brand Anthracite% Pet Coke %
Supertherm 45 45
Taybrite 70 20
Pureheat 60 25
Excel 25 70
Homefire Ovals 60 20
Phurnacite 75 20
E Coal 50 30
E Coal 50 40 25
Pump-out Near Cowroast ?
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The Pump Out boat mentioned above "Picot" is coming through Seabrook heading south today.