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There is still the odd 50 year old Springer around for similar money, in good, broadly original condition that would make a much better buy, IMO.

And "fully-priced" shed too!

There's another aqueduct I see from time to time in north London, over a very main road somewhere around Camden I think. Probably an original structure though rather than a new one part of a renovation.

And my impression is this is one such boat. a fair amount of work has obviously been done but the deckheads are a mess, suggesting someone has already had they heart and wallet broken by this boat and been forced to give up on it. Probably by endless new problems emerging such as water leaks wrecking the new work.

Yes I was just thinking of this one too. Is this the one over the A331 at Ash, just east of Aldershot? Nice link about it here: https://www.hampshirelive.news/whats-on/family-kids/a331-ash-aqueduct-hampshire-hidden-4226823

I'd imagine like DMR says, there is a lot more to it than just this. I'd imagine the above only applies when it increases the difference in height of the CoG and the CoB. If it reduces it, the boat could become more tender. Also inertia effects need taking into account.

Stand by for a great topic swerve here. I learned recently something that surprised me. I'm not fully convinced yet but it was from a reasonably authoritative source (though not one I can recall right now). Thinking actually consumes energy. Actual calories! Intuitively I've always felt that after a day at my desk doing thinky work (phone calls, web design or whatever, etc) I shouldn't feel as hungry in the evening as after a day out doing proper work. But I often do. Seems as though we can burn calories just by writing thoughtful posts on here. Yippee!!

Taking the old BD3 out of Aldebaran and fitting the Kelvin K1 made the boat noticeably more tender despite the engine being quite a bit heavier. So much so that it was not just me that noticed, but friends and family commented on it who you would not expect to notice. I put it down to raising the centre of something or other. Or perhaps raising the centre of gravity relative to the centre of buoyancy.

That water heater flue looks a right bodge, leaning backwards like that. And hard to tell for sure but it looks to me as though there is a gap between the top of the heater and the start of the flue! IF the flue is actually connected into the flue collar on the heater it will still work fine, but the bodgery in the photo might notbe not a good indicator of the standard of all the other work in the boat. Point of Order, its a galley when its in a boat, not a kitchen. And while I'm on, another point you didn't ask about - the roofline seems to slope downwards noticeably more to the left. The height of the join between the roof, oops deckhead and the left hand cabin side looks about 6" lower than the join with the right hand cabin side. Maybe its just camera lens distortion but the shell looks decidedly asymmetrical in the pic.

Lol I have a Renogy battery. The battery works fine but it drives me nuts to have to re-log into the app every three months, and it won't use Apple Keychain to remember the password! DIdn't realise they have a forum. I'll have a look later and maybe have a moan about this

Too busy posting on FaceBook, probably....

If they did, those spots would fill up immediately and then people would complain about THAT, instead!!

Its still out of the water having just been overplated!

I was so busy Thwacking you I missed that!!!

I'm inclined to think these days that any firm saying you are the only one with this problem un-prompted, is possibly trying to head off a "class action"!!

Pretty sure the boat is on the bank. (Hence the warnings about scope for ballasting problems.)

And in a similar vein, I've sneaky suspicion Sir Christopher Wren didn't literally build St Paul's Cathedral using his own bare hands. Happy to be proved wrong though!!

Its a curious thing, on the many (over the decades) I've had occasion to complain to a company about <whatever>, they nearly always make an effort to tell me I'm the only one with this problem. And once, on the gas engineer forum, there were several of us making the same complaint to a boiler manu and all of us were told we were the only one with the problem. This was even happening with the Postmasters scandal. All of them were told by the Horizon helpline when they first asked for help that no-one else was having any difficulty. Apols for swerving off topic....

Did you actually read the OP?

Very decent of him to answer on a Sunday, IMO. Carefully crafted wording to avoid accidentally accepting liability though!

Who's a clever boy then? Well done, pat yourself on the back. Thing is, once a thread reaches a certain length people stop reading back through the whole thread before making a helpful comment in case someone said the same thing earlier in the thread. This usually starts happening at about one page or 25 posts. This thread is up to 17 pages now, or 400+ posts!

A search using 'what'? If you were googling, its hardly CRTs fault that google isn't returning the page you want. The CRT stoppages section is here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices?page=1&tab=0 Where you select your waterway, dates and other filters to get a sensible result.

Translation: "I dunno how to use ChatGPT" 🤣

ChatGPT said otherwise! Baseplate and sides up to say, 600mm

I think the theory is the fisheyes are forming over microscopic corrosion pits filled with rust which the surface prep could not erase. Rust soaks up Vactan like no tomorrow so I'd expect rust in tiny pits to suck it up, making a fisheye.