Jen-in-Wellies

Trimming bits of Lithium off with tin snips might. Trimming bits of Lithium off with lead snips perhaps. Trimming bits of Tin off with lead snips possibly. Trimming bits of Lead off with lithium snips could. Trimming bits of Tin off with lithium snips arguably.

Weigh both batteries. Place them either side of the fulcrum at distances calculated from their respective weights. Result - Your LiFePO4 batteries are now balanced. You can find cheap Chinese fulcrums on Ebay, but they are liable to catch fire as they are not designed to cope with the extra rolling and pitching they are subjected to when installed on a boat. Jen

What @ditchcrawler said. The "dry" in dry dock is the water being removed so the boat sits on a cradle to allow work on the bits of the hull that are usually wet. Some have a roof, some are open to the sky. Having your boat in a dry dock could make working on the windows harder as they may only be reachable up a step ladder. You would be better with a covered wet dock, Often the sort of thing used for painting. Jen My boat in a covered dry dock, showing how relatively inaccessible the windows become.

Excellent news. ?

Suitable for boats up to 4.5m long it says. My boat would need four of them.

You also need to consider if you are going to build it to the RCD directive, with all its associated paperwork or not. If you don't, then you can't legally sell it for five years. Your circumstances may change in that time and not having the option to sell could be an issue. Jen

Just received this email from CaRT: Notice Alert Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigations Location: Sheffield & South Yorkshire navigation - closed Friday 8 November 2019 08:00 until further notice Type: Navigation Closure Reason: Information Original message: Due to the severe weather conditions the Sheffield & South Yorkshire navigation is currently closed to navigation. We are monitoring water levels and will update this notice when the situation changes. You can view this notice and its map online here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notice/16553/sheffield-and-south-yorkshire-navigation-closed You can find all notices at the url below: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

Nah, far too modern for Northern. This is their Rotherham train replacement boat service. Excellent green credentials, oar powered by their unfortunate passengers, so extra profit for the owners. Unfortunately, it is broken and being repaired, so the service is cancelled.

Yikes! Stay safe. Glad we're at the top of the Tinsley flight.

Noah built a boat 300 cubits long, 50 cubits beam and 30 cubits high. A narrowboat is a lot smaller. With yet more torrential rain today I am wondering which animals I should load two by two and which I should leave to drown. Can I save enough species to provide a stable and thriving ecosystem in the postdiluvian world?

The Daily Mail of the waterways news outlets. Doesn't let fact checking get in the way of their editorial line. I've pointed out minor errors to them in the past and they have corrected them speedily. When the fact invalidates the entire thrust of the piece it has been ignored.

Excellent. Please can you put up some pictures and describe how you did it? Jen

There are lots of different ways the tiller and rudder could be connected. No standard way of doing it. Maybe a few pictures of the tiller around the base would help identify how it is done on your boat and how the misalignment might be corrected. Jen

^^^^^This. There needs to be a gap between the flue and collar, filled with fibreglass rope and high temperature silicone sealant. The flue expands in length when hot and the gap and compliant filler accommodate this expansion. Without it the top of the stove can crack from the stress. Also needed to reduce the heat transfer to the ceiling. Going for a bigger flue than normal means that the collar and chimney will have to be custom made. Jen

Very pleasant. But you've all forgotten to complete the title by saying who the band, or composer is. Sailing By who? There is Sailing By Rod Stewart, but that sounds completely different. Jen ?

Something like this seems to be a common solution. Put a tray, or bowl of some sort under the stern gland, so that drips go in there first. On some boats, a section of bilge under the stern gland is walled off in steel and the bilge pump usually lives in there. Only being moved to the main bilge should that get wet. The small area means the water level builds up quicker, with less water needed to trip the auto switch. The half inch or so left when the pump turns off is only a few litres. The rest of the bilge mostly stays dry. I've seen people hang a fine mesh sieve under the stern gland, which seems to trap a lot of the grease from conventional stern glands, leaving slightly pure water to drip through. This reduces the amount of grease in the bilge and lessens the chance of the pump float switch getting gummed up and stuck. As others have mentioned, there needs to be a fuse in the circuit to protect the wiring. It will be a Boat Safety SCheme fail, if the inspector spots that there isn't one. Jen

I do too. They work really well.

Placed on the grate to reduce its size, so concentrating the fire in a smaller area and removing air flow around it, making the fire deeoer. Coal fires keep in better if they are deeper as it slows down the air passage through them. A smaller area, but thicker fire seems to work better than a wide area, shallow one. A firebrick will be denser, with much less porosity. If a house brick is used, then moisture in the pores could cause the brick to explode, or crack when heated the first time. Much less risk with a proper fire brick. People have used house bricks successfully, but that is the risk. If you have a squirrel stove, then they sell cast iron bits that do the same job. At Morso prices though! Maybe they are cast gold, not iron. The squirrel coal inserts go each side of the grate. The recommendation above to put them at the rear was to reduce the temperature there and hence heat transfer radiated to the boat wall. This being the closest point and most at risk. On my stove, the Squirrel has a couple of thin metal plates spaced off the back, built in that help convect warm air at the rear. These considerably reduce the heat to the wall behind. There is a small risk that the different thermal stresses by deliberately cooling one wall might crack the stove. I bought my Mum a couple of fire bricks last winter when she wanted to use smokeless coal in her stove in her house, instead of wood. They were a present, so I asked the man on the till at Travis Perkins if he could gift wrap them for me. Surprised to be told that this wasn't a service that they offered! The fire bricks work well and have reduced the coal consumption to reasonable levels. Jen

You might be better with a helicoil. Normal (course) pitch M5 threads are 0.8mm, so enough to get plenty of threads in a 4mm cabin side. Jen

How thick is the metal you need to rethread? If it is too thick for rivnuts you might be better with a helicoil. What diameter thread do you need to do? Metal thickness and everything else for rivnuts. Jen

There is the ever popular primer grey, with rust polka dots.

And this is with the boat fleet fully converted to electric* in perhaps a couple of decades time. The investment can be made incrementally as the number of electric boats increases, once a minimum number exist to allow a boat to cruise, say one charging point every fifteen to twenty miles. Once that is there, then you add more to cope with the electric boat traffic as it rises. Just keep track of the number of fist fights and boat rammings at popular charging sites. Signs that you need to add more! This is why I suggested popular hire routes as a good starting point. There is little difference in cost for a hire company to build a new boat as a battery electric, or as a diesel. Once built, the boat will have a much lower running cost They have a regular turnover of boats that are then sold on as they reach a certain age. Provide them with enough bollards that their hirers can travel and you have the beginnings of a waterways electric charging network that can be expanded as the numbers increase. *In 20 years time there will be a few people running vintage Beta 43's on chip fat. ? Jen

CaRT can plan bad weather now!

Moor it in the wrong part of town and a local scallywag will tag it with a spray can for free. You can then change the name with CaRT to whatever they've sprayed on the side. Jen?

Some locks are instrumented to count the number of times it is cycled, with a level gauge in the chamber. It is collected as part of their scada monitoring of water use. This would be a good proxy for estimating the number of boat journeys along a stretch, especially for narrow canals. Summary data for 2018 here. The top four are N Oxford Hillmorton, Llangollen New Marton, T&M Colwich, T&M Woodend and S&W Tixall, with between 8,600 and 6800 lock operations. Not all operations will have a boat as some will be to set it if it is against a boat. The boat movement checkers data would give a good idea on the travels of cruising private boats. Propulsion charging needs would be based on the numbers of boats passing along the canal in peak season, their power consumption, charge time and battery capacity. This would then need to be set against availability of nearby grid power. The data is already there with CaRT to do this. Jen