Grace and Favour
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I've just run into the chap who's bought my first boat, we sold her on a couple few years back. He's in the process of putting an electric powered prop on the back. Will this power a waterbug over a long distance, his idea is to top up the battery via a solar panel. If this does work why aren't more people doing it?
Wellll . . as you know Larry - - he'll need to do a power audit, and balance his charging capability with his proposed consumption
It's going to be one hell of a big solar panel
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I drained the calorifier on my boat today prior to re-siting it. As the water was draining, and the level getting quite low, the water turned a milky colour, with what looked like limescale pieces in it. Has anyone had a similar experience? If it's limescale, I can't see it being a problem, because I've now flushed it out, but there did seem to be an awful lot of it.
Every Spring I clean out the system with Milton sterilising fluid and I was wondering if perhaps there was a reaction with the copper of the calorifier. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
If you're cleaning it out - - may I suggest you'll get rid of a lot of the limescale by treating it with de-scaler (and rinsing it out before you re-install of course) Limescale seriously reduces the efficiency of your calorifier
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Thanks for all the replies. Sorry, haven't looked on the forums for a while.
In answer to your questions:
I will put a new add on Apolloduck tonight when I have got all the new photos ready. It has nothing to do with the blacking (that was a separate comment unrelated to interior pics), but just that I had to wait for some sunshine to take the interior pictures!
With regards to ebay, I guess I might as well put a classified ad on there. The more internet coverage the better.
Still sad though, although I'm excited about being able to grow vegetables, keep chickens, and live near the sea in the South West!
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I envy you the opportunity to grow veg near the sea in the South West!
(If I could live anywhere in England it would be in that part of the world)
Enjoy
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What? 'Fear' I can't think of a more simplistic engine/drive chain! You want to work on a 1990's plus Japanese engine THEN you smell the fear!
To be fair the hardest part on working on a A+ engine installed in a Minin or Metro is the lack of working space rather than the technology.
Hah!
My first car was an Austin Eight - - 4 pot side-valve, - - that really was easy to work on!
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Enjoy - - and keep the diesel away from the bacon butties . . . .
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It's a lovely stove, I like that it is designed to cook on too. But it will be hot! We have one at home as well as on the boat, think it is same heat out put (definitely 5 or less so we did not have to have an airbrick) and it gets very hot. Usually end up with the window or back door open. I think you will need to sort something else out for the summer, as you are suggesting.
Val
If it's just for cooking (in the summer) - have you considered a small microwave (assuming the electrics are designed to feed it)
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Does anybody know where you can get iron ballast and how much it costs?
Not scrap iron in awkward shapes but regular slabs?
My attempts at googling have been unsuccessful for quantities less than hundreds of tons!
I can't help, I'm afraid - - other than to suggest you speak to a few of your local scrap / metal dealers - - - they'll know of a local supply of pig iron, or cut rail line (I think that's good too)
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Am I doing the right thing by purchasing a new Isuze 35 for £3,000. e.g. are they reliable? are they noisy etc?
I think they may not be the best on the market but good value.
Thanks
Hmm - - Assuming you're not going to install it in a 1957 Francis Barnett frame . . . .
and that there are no mechanical/dimension reasons for not fitting it in your boat . . .
My only experience of the Isuzu engines has been whilst on a number of Hire boats - - I think Alvechurch fir them to most of their craft because they are value for money, reliable, easy to maintain, and fairly fuel efficient . . and, I don't think they are particularly noisy, either
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So, no-one really knows if the Kelvin fuel pump is at risk, but if it is increasing the lubricity would be a good idea. A dollop of engine oil will probably turn out to be the best solution but in the meanwhile I'm going to Google lubricity additive to see what pops up.
N
KY Jelly??
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So - - I've asked the MD of a company that supplies a goodly percentage of 'De-ionised / De-mineralised / Distilled water to industry & retail . . . .
His reply was:
"In answer to your question, the end result is the same - pure water without the minerals (or ions). It's the process that is different. Obviously distilled is formed by a distillation process of heating the water to make steam then back to water again. You can also get the same result from a dehumidifier or from defrosting the fridge.
De-ionised or demineralised as we sometimes call it uses filters and current which attracts and removes the ions/minerals. "
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I heard that in Southam...your wife / girlfriend is probably your sister..?
Bob
You'll get no-one to testify to that!
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We're thinking about selling up and moving further South. Yes, we are finally succumbing to the call of a house with a garden for chickens and veggies. Mostly though, we want to be near the coast and that doesn't seem to be possible if we stay on the boat.
In order to be able to put an offer in on a house we need to be fairly confident of how much our boat will sell for. I've been trying to keep an eye on Apolloduck and similar websites, but it's hard to see what's selling and what's not.
So what I'm after is an idea of what the boat-selling market is like at the moment? Is it easy or difficult to sell? I know that may be a 'how long's a piece of string' type question, but somebody might be able to give me some kind of idea.
To give you an idea of what our boat is like: 57 x 10'6 widebeam built by Colecraft in 2005. 2 bedrooms, semi-trad stern. Just been blacked and BSS checked. I know there's a lot more to it than that, but those are the basics.
And no, this isn't a For Sale ad; I will be sure to put that in the For Sale and Wanted section. This is just so that I might be able to get some opinions about how easy it is to sell a boat at the mo.
As far as I can tell - - the majority of the boats are selling for 10% ~ 15% below the asking prices that you see advertised
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They've sent me a new password, now.
Here's the Apolloduck ad for it.
It is indeed very pretty:
Apologies, in advance, to anyone who may take offence but would an Arctic Penguin be Bipolar?
That makes me soooo sad . . . . .
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It chills one unto the core
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I favour a more yellow undercoat than the one recommended (Permoglaze BP21 chrome yellow is my favourite, tho' it's hard to get these days) With thinned scumble I get a rich glow in the cabin that suggests that the oil lamp is lit before it is, if you see what I mean.
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Available in 21/2 and 5 ltr tins here
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Jan and I have a name in mind for a boat, and we would like it to be as unique as possible.
The name we have in mind does not come up when searching Jim Shead's excellent site, however how indicative is this that the name doesn't exist currently, or at least I guess there are very few boats with the name in question.
Whats the informed opinion on this one?
edit to add yes I see my Wallace fat finger syndrome has caused me to mis-type the title, hopefully we'll spell the boat name correctly.
As far as I know Jim Shead's data may not be comprehensive - - but it's probably the best data easily available
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Whilst I am not interested in starting an argument I have to agree, it is an unacceptable term that has no space in intelligent thinking. I doubt the OP meant harm by it but would like to think that it could be thought about before being used again.
Wanted - - I have to agree - - it's a term that has, over the decades, become less acceptable - A victim of this excessively 'politically correct' society (may the socks of the promulgators rot in hell) - - but - as we're constantly told - language is an ever-changing thing (I find there are unpleasant to some of these changes I must admit) and I find there are words or phrases I would use that now offends some of the more delicate amongst us. Out of courtesy to those peeps - I'll not use such phrases in their company.
It would be similarly courteous if FrigateCaptain offered such (social) respects
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Sloe gin is now fully ready and going down nicely. Hic
At what point does it become fast Gin?
(about 3/4 of the way down the bottle?)
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Thank you so much for replying, but you might as well have written in Chinese for all I could understand of your post! I'm afraid I'm a technology virgin.
If I were in your position, Mandy - - I would take the above responses to say that your Genny & system should be looked at by a boat electrician before you (ideally) use it again.
While using it as it is will not guarantee that you electrocute yourself - - it will lay you open to a greater risk of a shock - - and, tbh, that's not wise.
Speak to a good electrician and cross his palm with silver
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.......cough, cough...
Sounds like you've a badly seated exhaust valve - -
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SWMBO tells me that the fights were always in the town hall square right outside the cop shop
Well - - you've got to admit - at least the locals are considerate - - and The Rozzers had but a short journey with them to the slammer
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I totally agree - but if the hypothetical "good typographer" does not have the requisite experience in the signwriting of boats, then for all their skills they are only one step above "enthusiastic amateur".
A computer achieves a design by mathematics, a precise and unforgiving science.
A good signwriter does it by eye - and it's moderated and embellished by experience and artistic skill
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I have relatives in Keighley who might disagree
That normally leads to a fight outside a Pub in Keighley - - doesn't it?
Edited for spolling Errer
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To make this poll fair we need a radio button for "Can't be bothered to vote"
Could we also have a radio button for:
"I wanted to vote - but all the other buttons aren't working for me"
planning objection?
in Waterways News & Press
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Ah - but is (allegedly) has the blessing of (an 'erbert from) British Waterways
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