roland elsdon

Looks as if batteries are also not secured to me though id be glad to be wrong. If the are not any movement ( hitting cill or gates ) can move them. That at best puts strain on connections which may induce resistance or corrosion as the loosen. Not to mention no cover and a hot exhaust boiling off electrolyte.

Kingfishers are intelligent and beauty loving creatures. They have abandoned the lower grand union due to the proliferation of aqualine fatboat mark 2 studio flats running their engines night and day, to charge their camera batteries waiting to take birdlife shots.

I think 20 pound notes are now plastic and non tearable. Its a way of making plastic disposable. Send them to me and being a greenie i will recycle them for you.

I bought my first boat. Fired it up waited for the red flag to change to amber at the end of the cranfleet cut, and cruised down the trent and on to the soar. At redhill i got stopped and told off. ( soar on red) Id never steered a boat in my life. No anchor 8 ft mooring lines... ignorance and youth ( i was 22 ) protected me. By foxton i was hooked! im sure you will make the diesel point just go slow...

As the person who today attempted to take his fat boat through braunston tunnel has now discovered, there are nobbly bits. Im sure they will polish out . At least the foliage is getting cleared in a lunun based direction.

So what you are saying is that whatever you do someone can find evidence that you are wrong... my professional life was so full of that... reminds me of 1985 at the boat museum with the Thaxted, this bloke walked the full length of the boat twice completely ignoring me, i was mopping off. As he walked away he shook his head and muttered ‘wrong size rivets!!’ I nearly fell off the boat laughing. british racing green ,wooden cabin scumbled roof wrong engine. The only correct bit was the hull and engine room.

Ah yes small block of complicated electronic gizmo . Great things, Not much good for immersion heaters though as the inverter creates a lot of heat trying to produce a lot of heat. I recon an immersion heater produces a hot alternator hot inverter hot wires and a tepid tank of water.. only one of those items is designed to get hot and it gets tepid...

Thank you for correcting me appreciated. Thought it was voltage not hz. I may have misread the rotational speed requirement my eyes are not too good... so and im no physicist ( though married to one) this geny is good on resistive loads poor on inductive, also as the voltage and hz changes according to speed no good for doing washing on move , but fine when you can run it at a set speed. Good for ‘ generating’ ie moored up at fixed engine speed but no good under way. Thats why you need a clutch. my plan is to use it on our 1.2 kw hot water heater, and for power tools instead of an inverter . We had one on thaxted in 1985 it was great as long as you got the hz about right, but not too good under way. At idle it was only putting out about 180 volts, but that could go way high. Forgot it was on one day plugged in the battery charger while the boats were breasted for a lunch stop. Didnt disconnect before heading on and it popped the battery charger on the butty. its not fit and forget its fit and fiddle unless you have a constant speed engine.

If you can buy a boat with a mooring you can sometimes keep the mooring and change the boat. The mooring is the hard bit. The boat is the easy bit as the number giving up is high. rule of thumb 2 winters or 18 months , used to be the generaly accepted figure. Course some people skew statistics...

Thanks for that Starman. ok everyone else this is the deal. This is a very fine piece of late 80s technology. I remember them when they were new. There is however one small catch. They control output by speed within a small rev range. this means they are great for stuff that diesnt mind voltage variation. our boat has a slow reving engine in an engine room, there is one place to fit this device. If it doesnt fit i am stuffed. second i have factor out pulley sizes as it needs 2000 rpm. Rather than screw up this generator before i do anything i will make sure it fits in the space and i can sort out pulleys. If i cant i will do as starman has done and hold it until someone can else can use it. So watch this thread...

If you have it please put my name on it can pick up tomorrow by boat im only 5 miles away but have no car

Petrol diesel or bamboo?

Boat to bridge moor up get off boat lift bridge return to boat go through bridge repeat mooring up walk back to bridge drop bridge walk back to boat untie and cruise off next week how to tie your shoelaces of course you can just lurk about till someone comes the other way and zip through shouting thanks id help but...

We used to keep our pair moored on the castle. It was a nice spot. In those days the pub was fairly dodgy

after farcebook allowed others to mine my data in australia i hardly use them . They are not trustworthy

Yep and Dr's, lawyers, real psychologists, police, scientists , engineers, proper mental health specialists, lecturers, and teachers. Frequently with years of knowledge and some free time, who make informed statements at times, as well as humorous or facile points. This group frequently don't take everything too seriously, unlike those seeking offence or outrage, at any opportunity.

Amazing within a 40min cycle of you if you are on the mooring , no rain till 8pm.

If you have spent a few years in australia with ‘regional radio’ you would hate abba too. The radio stations consider them ‘current’

Yep moored by crack hill many times, but not during rally. Only do oddball rallies after being banned from national rally for daring to tow butty through , upsetting the shiny boat speed kings. That was in 1985 can only imagine now worse. Besides we have a RoyceRoyce narrowboat, not a skoda like josher. It has a toilet in the engine hole, electric light stuff off a car battery. A range to heat and cook on. It even has an electric commencement device. cant see how progress can be made from that , so stands have no attraction and I hate popcorn and abba.

Job lot of white gloss? You been down in lunun looking at how they ‘modernise’ boats bought from whilton?

I think he is taking off a previously wholly fabricated set of top ends decks and sides, and replacing possibly with riveting. Those rivets in the first picks look too perfect, the metal is up pitted the guard and stem post are perfect. like the I can stand in the cut framework.... Lot of effort to make.

I think you have missed the point. That's it after Steve has gas axed off the good bits. What's left floating will be scrapped. The good bits 1980s deck and cants and that bit of 1930s rubbing strake and bow section plus hatch will go to the new star class relica that is being built. Is is called Expector confusion. This is a constellation on the dark side of Mercury. ( there have already complaints been made by a lady at Brinklow) Expector Confusion a Ricky motor was believed to have been renamed in the 1940s I'm sure someone will come along with more details shortly.

Three day tickets? 1 hr would be 60 mins too long

any old grease is fine on an old boat. Modern canal cruisers need marks and spencers organic vegan water soluble right on grease. However they rarely get stuck hence the profit dip. Continuous moorers dont own grease,why would they?