roland elsdon

We had tug deck boat with a hatch a fabulous addition. It had a bullseye in it matching the one in the stern cabin if you line it wont drip ours never did sprayfoamed it. To ventilate the bed area it was so much easier block of wood under it on a hot day. On the right night you could open it and look at stars. ( brinklow boats built her i miss that boat) Oh yes and we frosted and doted the bullseye

We have a 12v battsfridge in our camper small domestic size which has been fantastic over the last 10 years. However when we started it this year even on mains it cycled a great deal. (Australian fridges are serious bits of kit and previously it only cycled 3 -4 times a night) now it is short cycling for a minute on and four minutes off. Obviously as you decrease temp this worsens. i hauled it out and checked seals and condenser gave it all a good clean. it has a computer fan under the cooling element this was seized. Ahah i said in my best british accent and sorted out a new one. (40 dollars from batts 45 dollars from the caravan shop but we need to order it or 13 dollars from china express delivery) i replaced the fan and yes its the right rotation side up etc and off it purred. sorted i cried in my best cockney accent. No.. minor improvements mainly explainable by overnight temps only and whether we had aircon on.(unusual) the australian sites all say its knackered and i need a new one (1250), batts says the whole condenser motor and stat is ' one unit 700. There seems to be talk of regassing but its sealed system ( hence batts approach) (knowing some the locals it would be hacksaw off the pipe refill it and bung a bit of rubber hose on the split 400...) any ideas camper is not in first flush of youth.

Ive decided as loads of people like vintage engines and fish and chips simply to install a slow reving lister d series as a generator attach it to a decent charger and run it 0801 to 7.59 daily. Ill run it on chip fat. Thats legal and keeps a significant number of people happy. If the national dish really is chicken tikka massala ill just get some ghee

A unit of speed and distance i believe implemented by napoleon. It allows an inflated figure of speed and speedometers that make lots of numbers. This excites the bogan element. ( chaves) Of course true speed is the imperial measure and the colonials only changed in order to pay another bunch of public servants to sit around discussing implentation. It made plutocrats out of the matesof the road minister who awarded them the contracts to buy the signs from china. The australians picked kms to make everything sound bigger. In reality the habitable part of the country is just over the size of the isle of white and is not near any conurbations. bwb at one point put speed in kms on the canal in some places.(6.2 kms) this caused a surge in sales of grey lorry engines with exciting names like 4 iw 5 lw etc. as the new owners were fooled once in the boat their crankshafts all went wibbly , to go at tickover you could hear the bearings rattle as they went past and when they were put in gear the towpath was washed away along with anglers ducks walkers. The batteries also went flat coss they were turning at 400rpm with 3 alternators thats why appalling duck is full of boats with huge grey lorry engines that dont sell. This knowledge has been passed down from the greybeards of the 90s to the present. It is fact. Did i digress ? No , crankshafts tick kms tick battery chsrging tick im going to sleep now maybe ive got a touch of delirium and not the tremens type.

Does drinking a beer every 10 kms ruin your crankshaft then. Ive heard of brewers droop but not crankshaft ruin. No wonder theres a sex shop on every industrial estate. Still i think if you drink a beer every 10 ks on a 200 km drive then you are unlikely to worry about yer crank.

Sorry to hear of your problems . I disagree that new boats are like morris minors and you should expect to have to deal with major issues. Whilst everything needs to be shaken down this is more than that. several thoughts. Do you have marine legal protection on your insurance? back in the day this could be used to initiate legal representation for dispute resolution specificaly for the boat. Dont know what the policies do now 30 plus years out of business secondly citizens advice thirdly did you go through broker or direct.

Getting better supply when lights on? Is you boat 12v earthed to one or multiple points you say you have other interactions. We had one of those last year i wired up a new light spurred of an existing light having replaced halogen with led - no power to the old light Then i discovered some nice series wiring on a return.

I thought bluetooth was what you got when the stoned 'makeup artist' slipped while trying to turn you into a scots warrior at a rainbow festival

Im just trying to get to grips with that its 4 in the morning and im suffering from insomnia East west boats probably have a lot of scratched cabin sides if they venture off wide canals

Remember folks with 25 tonnes on nutty slag in the hold and a fast trip required bridge holes only slowed progress by depth not angle of bridge arch. reminds me of a conversationwith a shiny boat at wilmcote this year ' im not coming here again this canals so slow' response '"well it is a horse boat canal not built for motors". He looked at me shock his head and said 'dont know what you are talking about' We fired up and into bridge 42 i think a bridge where we were once stuck with the forend and had to remove screeding to get through. Course i went in gently and walked the boat through and it did its usual stick and then wiggle through. By this time he was on our fender standing on the front his boat demanding we get out of the way!!! i told him i was treating the canal and my boat with a bit of respect and had once been there 4 hours and wanted to avoid repetition his poor wife was so embarressed , we cleared the bridge and trundled off at a stately 1 mph cruising speed. I was delighted to take the only available mooring at wet and warm. He screamed past the moorings and smacked straight into a hire boat coming through the bridge hole at the end of the straight. I suspect he was having a relaxing holiday that day was summer but couldnt recognise it , everything wrong in his life was someone elses fault.

You are talking early 80s here i got the first ever ww in a bookswap 2 years ago springer engineering and harborough marine dominated

If you stick heat at one end of a tube and expect it to reach the other you will be sad. The winter of 83 taught us this artic stove full blast next to front doors ( only location) 25 foot away ice on the walls the ceiling and the water froze in the bathroom. Didnt find the broken pipe until sun got on the boat while we were at work...no sprayfoam in those days and colecraft hadnt insulated the steel battens. Of course an eco fan would have solved it.. we swapped it for our first historic. Wooden top back cabin range and reflex stove.

Go near london walk the towpath and see the grey primer shells and sailorways lining the towpath and decide if thats what you want or fitted out 5 plus years old proven boat. we rebuilt our butty in 1993 knew what we were doing and had no engine etc it took till 1996 effectively . I was on shifts would do 4/5 hours a day go to work repeat. My partner would go straight to boat from work do 2/3 hours cleaning up and filling painting varnishing. I would never do it again

You missed several vital waterways world late 1990s articles buy a 150000 boat and put it on a closed waterway retire on a narrowboat its great ( which is why thrupp in the early 2000 was full of pissed retired corporate people who had sold up bought a boat got bored and then could afford a house in oxfordshire buy a fatbeam they are the future getting one up on poor people buy buying this boat it shows bad taste can i get away with only a 85 hp engine ) Sorry not afford a house in oxfordshire they used to ask us if we were 'staying' when we took the down at heel motor through (brasses sparkling) i used to tell them i had a house locally

Direct line 60 days i think... i just rent out under the let a room scheme

Phlotos are a splinger

So to return to the op. you bought a boat unseen? No certificate, no reciept, no proof of ownership, you are having it delivered to lunun in the worst winter weather by persons unknown. To put on presumuably regents canal. You are hoping to licence insure and moor it somewhere. if you have paid for it and it arrives which i hope ( ignorance does not invoke ill will) get a witnessed reciept before you accept it including date etc take photos time stamped. if the boat arrives you do not want to be liable for anything that may have occurrd prior to you owning it. At the very least this boat will have been smashing ice past moored plastic from manchester to lunun. unless of course you are con ing us or someone is con ing you

when the old hudsons sold and the butlers wind removed from his sails does this devalue the boat, or his he retained re inflated and goes on to serve his new master?

i have a simple solution if in doubt give em five short blasts. Then they are aware you have no idea what they are doing. Trouble is they probably dont either.

No its a wind up

The ability of a narrowboat to reverse in a straight line is inversely related to the number of observers.

if i open that door they will deport me.... you cannot cannot subvert the dominant paradigm thoughtspeak...

Im sorry but i must protest wind turbines are there to upset cyclists , why otherwise would you use a scarce resource like electricity produced by coal to produce a wind. solar panels suck up lightons from the sun lightons create heat therefore solar panels are the cause of global cooling. By stopping the suns rays from warming the earth and by default the core the problem worsens. eco fans are a way of using heat to make noise and spread the smell of reindeer droppings around the boat ( see earlier post) a green electrical tariff is a way of making people in lunon feel less guilty about their 350 cm tv. coal burned on the ranges of historical boats is fairy dust . in australia the water goes the wrong way down the plughole a shagged out springer in hackney is worth 3 times the value of a shagged out springer in coventry plus 60 quids worth of diesel. weathermen are always right eventually how ever their timing may be off, sometimes by years. spending three times as more on a boat battery will mean that you can abuse it less. 1960s steel was better than 2006 steel everything now is far worse than it used to be, what used to be a concern is now an unprecidented catastrophe never before experienced. house prices always go up, even if by mistake you rented it to a bloke in a backwards facing baseball cap 'for cash no questions asked' who used it to produce ' product' if you follow all the health advice in the readers digest the improvements will improve your lifespan by 137 years. political correctness and outrage will forge change that will benefit thingkind these are facts and set in stone run your lives according to their rules and You will ultimately enter the zone of bovine contentment and attain the highest point of maslows hiarchy of needs- self actualisation Dont arrange to have me sent to no asylum i kept the key when I 'left'

If over the last 35 years i had spent what i have spent on boats surveyors licences moorings etc on a couple of lovely propertiesin the united democratic repulic of hackney i would now be rich, on paper but divorced and mad. instead we have had interesting and varied life rich in memories. 'Being ripped off has happened a few times so what..