Jen-in-Wellies

You are right. Mine only fit in to Stanage tunnel with the water tank full. Froghall Tunnel was a no go. You can get more cabin height in a lower air draft by going for a deeper draft, but that then restricts the places you can get in to the sides to moor. It is all a compromise. Old sailing ships were often built with very low cabin heights. Taller sailors, after they had concussed themselves on beams a few times, learnt to stoop. Narrowboats have long cabins, so people expect to be able to walk normally, rather than shuffle around bent double, like they would in a small yacht cabin. Thicker steel base plates, with reduced concrete ballast help a lot, but these boats tend to be more recent builds and so more expensive.

Negotiate the £150 off that a BSS test will cost you if she won't provide any proof. A printout, or a screen shot of the details on the CaRT screen would be enough. All you know at the moment is that it has between the last license purchase and four years to run.

Narrow canals were designed around poor 18th century boaters, who typically didn't get a lot to eat when they were growing up. Makes fitting out boats for modern people at the upper percentile of height a bit tricky. Especially as many boats now have a shallow draft to cope with poorly dredged canals. This leaves less space to still fit under bridges. My 2007 Piper shell, lined by them, has 6'5" of headroom at the centre, and a much flatter roof profile than a Liverpool hull, so better if it has side corridors. Look for centre corridors, doors and through bathrooms in descriptions to keep walking in the centre, where height is going to be greatest. Jen

Why would a canal boater want to generate more wind? Sailing boaters on the sea, or lakes I can understand, but on canals more wind just makes boating much harder. Probably the reason no one has replied to this thread till this weekend.

I have to disagree with you about that. ?

Just altering the name to suggest the actual priorities of CaRT, rather than the ones most boaters would like them to have.

Get a set of antlers off one of these: They seem to pick up television signals just fine. The creatures shed them in the autumn, so no need to hunt one. Unless you like hunting that is.

Cycling and Rambling Trust.

On the flip side, there is commercial carrying on some of the Yorkshire waterways. This leads to CaRT putting more effort in to maintaining and repairing things. One of the problems that is keeping @Midnight trapped is that CaRT may be moving some contractors from rebuilding the Figure of 3 locks (no commercial traffic) to the Aire and Calder breach (much of the commercial traffic) On the commercial routes, not fixing a single non working lock gate, because narrowboats can still get through, isn't an option. Jen

Sure I've seen that boat on Apollo Duck. ?

If a small, or single person boaty business is answering the phone, or emails, then they aren't working on boats, which pays their way. If they are busy working on boats all the time, then they have more than enough business to keep them going. There are only so many hours in the day and they have to sleep, eat and perhaps even have a life too. It may seem a bit rude, but at some point something has to give.

I agree. Was pleasantly surprised. The basin seems a nice spot, though it is rather shallow on the visitor mooring. Have moored by the junction too. When it is your only cruising option though...

Woop de do!

It will weigh the weight of the water it displaces, so you need to work out the volume of water that the hull takes up under the water line, then use the density of water. Easiest to do it in cubic metres, then one tonne equals one cubic metre. You'll need the shape of the hull under water and the draft at the fore and aft end. It doesn't matter if it is wood, or steel, or plastic, or how much or little ballast, or load is in it. Just shape and draft under the water line. Jen

Why are knives to the left of forks in cutlery draws, yet to the right in a place setting? 79% or so of people are right handed, so the place setting with knives to the right makes sense as this is the eating iron that needs the most control. I wouldn't even consider stocking a cutlery draw any other way, but I can't think of any reason why most people do it like that. May parents and grandparents stored them knives | forks | spoons too. Jen

Dull and rusty, like the knife blades.

Nice to see a thread on CWDF where everyone is happy to admit they are talking bollards. ?

Or if you are historic yourself?

Another company having a go at battery swapping for cars. As with a lot of things, success is unlikely to depend on technical prowess alone, but on capturing a market, funding, standardisation and a big dose of timing and luck. They comment that building a car with a huge battery bank to get range leads to a lot of waste transporting that weight most of the time when it isn't needed for short journeys where they can be charged, or swapped regularly. Their idea is that you would swap, or charge a small number of batteries frequently and load up with more for long trips in to the wilds with fewer charge, or swap stations. The seem to have thought through the dividing line between battery, car interface, mechanical, cabling, cooling system and control electronics to make it interface with as many cars and battery types as possible.

There is a historic right to navigation up as far as Welshpool, , according to the EA, so land owners can't object to your passing, only to you landing. Jen