[March of the Widebeams]

1 hour ago, alias said:

 

For information, (and not expressing an opinion about the mooring location), the left hand side is the marina entrance "V", and the towpath is that side, with a bridge over the marina entrance.

 

Certainly explains why PaulC can't see the towpath on the right! 🤣

 

 

[Diesel propulsion splits - new advice from HMRC?]

17 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

You declare what you think you are going to use, not what you used last time, so there is no way of measuring it, you can only estimate 

 

I usually declare 80/20. If I turn out to have made an error, I'd happily stump up the difference.

 

Can't imagine HMRC (or me!) having any way of finding out though, or ever being much bothered. They have bigger fish to fry (hopefully!)

 

 

[March of the Widebeams]

9 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

If you read the Facebook post fully, which i guess you didn't, it was temporarily put there by a boatmover whilst space was made for it to be lifted out. Not someone mooring up and living their best life.

 

 

Even thinner end of the same wedge. 

 

How long should a single fattie (fatties are banned from mooring on this waterway) be allowed to moor on this waterway, in your opinion? 

 

And how about if another one arrives? 

[March of the Widebeams]

1 hour ago, Hudds Lad said:

Just for fun, here's an overhead where i've cloned a widebeam from the marina to the approx position. Plenty of room.

 

 

 

Thin end of the wedge. 

 

If it's fine for one to moor there, why not five?

 

And if five or more are ok, why not have the whole stretch made officially a wide canal?

 

 

[Traditional working narrow boat]

What are each of those two level gauge tubes connected into? I can't really tell from the photo....

 

[March of the Widebeams]

2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

This was moved by a boat mover and is there to be lifted out and transported 

 

I can't see the crane pad next to it....

 

 

[Morso back boiler system]

2 hours ago, Peugeot 106 said:

 
if I needed the money and wasn’t retired I would be marketing them for Morso Squirrel stoves

 

I can think of better ways of making large sums of money!! 

[Grounding queery]

1 hour ago, Sneill said:

Hi guys thanks for your input 

the boat is named Gower

pls see attached photo of the header tank situated in the engine room

it is one header tank but has two tubes to show coolant level 

hope this helps 

 

Wrong thread?

 

Looks like two separate header tanks to me, but maybe re-post this pic in your thread?

 

 

[Liverpool boats]

4 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:

So Liverpool boats died? Did they? Thought it was something like the Dad retired, handed the business over and it became Collingwood, same builders, business strategy from what I saw. Give the public what they want at a price they can afford and still make a profit.

 

Giving the public "what they want" and "good quality" often don't coincide. 

 

 

[Rewiring advice]

18 minutes ago, dmr said:

 

But keeping the arc short is key to good stick welding 😀

 

Also, there are persistent apocryphal tales of DIY arc welding being possible using a 12v car battery instead of a Halfords stick welder. 

[Liverpool boats]

2 hours ago, Barneyp said:

You mention Aldi and Lidl, while they maybe at the bottom of the market from a price perspective that doesn't mean the quality is poor.

 

Ahem, yes it does in my experience.

 

I also shop in Waitrose and M&S and the food quality in those outlets knocks Aldi and Lidl into a cocked hat. 

 

Their market is people who can't tell the difference. Or don't care about it.

[Rewiring advice]

35 minutes ago, Richardcn said:

Apologies, I thought it was a well known term, my mistake.

 

Yep, your mistake!

 

So I just found out what it means by googling it. It is an acronym for "Marine Rated Battery Fuse".

 

 

[Rewiring advice]

What on earth is a MRBF?

 

Never a good idea to write in jargon without explaining it....

[Liverpool boats]

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

You could well be correct - did you know there are collectors & restorers who believe that a Trabant is a classic car of the future.

 

A classic car NOW. There is a perfect, immaculate, shiny one better than new a few miles up the road form me here, I'd imagine the value of it is well over 50p by now. 

[Heating changes]

1 hour ago, Chris-B said:

Can I just T this of off the main run or do I need to fit a valve / reducer 

 

Both, really. Hardly any extra work to fit a gate valve for balancing in case you find you need it....

 

 

[Plywood Flooring - Creaking]

48 minutes ago, Michael Siggers said:

Used it when I bought the boat to poke in every possible access hole and void. Used it under the floor to check, and still do periodically to keep an eye on it. (Sad I know 😃).

 

Not sad at all. A more accurate term would be "Looking after your boat".

 

 

[Another canal side property for sale]

1 hour ago, Mike Todd said:

Is that Blowers Green?

 

Not again!!!

 

 

[Finally shroppie fly comes good]

28 minutes ago, StephenA said:

 

It doesn't sound good, whatever the underlying reason is. It's a pity because it can be a good pub.

 

Sounds horribly like the avaricious PubCo has put the rent up from £20k a year to £85k....

 

 

 

(After reading on here how well the pub is doing...)

 

 

[Liverpool boats]

On 07/10/2024 at 16:14, Kipper 2 said:

I've got a Liverpool Boat and I'm more than happy with it. If I was rich enough to be able to afford a brand new Braidbar Boat ... yes I would swap. 

 

No. The Braidbar would make you feel like the dick in the petrol station looking faintly embarrassed filling up his £300k Ferrari just like all the other proles in there with their Transit vans, just like you and me....

 

Don't EVER feel bad about having a Liverpool boat. They are the classics of the next century, will be drooled over by all the whitebeards!

 

 

[Review my fitout plan - Lights]

36 minutes ago, truckcab79 said:

Just popped in here to see how this build was going. Nice to see it’s gone the same way as any other useful thread. 🙄

 

Keep it up chaps. Grand job 👍

 

 

And yet another content-free post from Truckcab complaining about the other posts and littering the forum up.

 

Oh, hang on.....

 

 

[Twin wall flues and BSS]

3 minutes ago, uncle nick said:

Rather than cobblers, I’m leaning more towards in a fully theoretical scenario compared to the short flue fitted in a typical narrowboat. 
Knowing me, I’ll probably end up sticking with single wall flue as it’s cheaper and neater! 🙄

 

Bear in mind the point of using twin-wall is to reduce flue-chilling in order to increase the draw. But on a short flue in a NB the flue doesn't suffer from chilling and draw is so fierce that a stove will run away if the bottom air vent is not kept almost fully closed during normal use. Flue chilling is only a problem with very tall flues such as you'd find on a stove in a two or three storey house. 

 

P.S. I didn't mean to imply YOU were writing techno-babble. I meant the source of wherever you got it from is techno-babble! 

 

 

[Twin wall flues and BSS]

15 minutes ago, uncle nick said:

I understand using twin wall flue is theoretically more efficient, so the stove ‘may’ use less fuel (and air) for a given heat output, even allowing for it burning hotter to allow for less heat from the flue. 

 

Which is of course, absolute cobblers.

 

Techno-babble written by non-technicians to sound plausible to other non-technicians, in my opinion.

 

Just fit a normal single-skin flue, they work perfectly well on a stove such as a Squirrel. Or a twin wall if it makes you (or your BSS examiner) sleep better! 

 

 

 

[Lithium main bank for engine starting.]

3 minutes ago, Lady M said:

It's also easy to use all the batteries together (or even just domestic) for engine starting in an emergency.

 

This only applies to LA domestic battery banks.

 

The typical LFP domestic battery bank can't deliver the current. 

 

 

[Lithium main bank for engine starting.]

28 minutes ago, Gybe Ho said:

 

1, 2 or 1 + 2 battery switches are so 20th century. This side of the millennium a computerized shunt talks to a programable boat brain and the brain can then command another widget to cut the power feed to the domestic switch panel when the remaining battery capacity drops below a user configurable level.

 

Have a look at the circuit diagram in the Victron link I posted yesterday.

 

The upside of a mechanical switch however, is you can figure out what it is doing by looking at it and often fix it in an emergency by taking it to bits on a cold, damp and wet Sunday evening in December and the boat won't start. Much easier than trying to deal with a sulky 'programmable boat brain' under similar circumstances. 

 

 

[Traditional working narrow boat]

23 hours ago, Sneill said:

Apologies for the vagueness in this request.I am asking on behalf of a mate. I know little about boats

 

Ah thank you, that explains a lot. apologies for my snarky reply from late Monday night. I was imagining you were asking about your own boat. 

 

Les Allen boats are generally very nice and there aren't that many of them so as Tony says, if you give the name of the boat the chances are quite high that someone here will know the boat. The Russell Newbery I'd suggest is unlikely to have a pressurised cooling system, these is more probably a steel fabricated header tank on a bulkhead in the engine room. This is the arrangement on both of my vintage engines. The second most likely system is direct raw water cooling. I don't think I've ever seen a heat exhanger on an RN.