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Cheers. To answer number 1, I just investigated that, and it's a strip of rubber extrusion. We've only had the boat since July, and I can't say I'd noticed it before! I took a quick look and couldn't see any drainage holes down there, but it's quite dark now and the frame is full of a bunch of gubbins that I'll clean tomorrow and investigate further tomorrow. On number 2, great idea! It'll definitely be much easier to cut some foam into a curved shape. I'd just need to make sure it is precisely the thickness of the magnetic tape (or maybe even slightly smaller) to avoid it preventing the two halves of the tape from making contact. Cheers for your feedback mate, really appreciate it!

Hi all, not sure if this is the right section to post this, so I guess mods can move it if they feel it would be better placed elsewhere. I am most of the way through doing some DIY 'double glazing' using sheets of perspex/acrylic sheets and magnetic strips. I wrote a little blogpost following the build process which might be useful to someone else. Also welcome to any criticism, advice, 'you've done something stupid and here's why' responses https://blog.punk.voyage/2022/12/30/diy-double-glazing/ ta

Anyone else got to a lock you intend to go up, started filling it, and after about 5 minutes realised most locks work better when you actually put your boat in the thing? No? Just me then 😅

Pretty sure I looked at every single page on la-mora.org and couldn't see a single reference to any plans to sail across the channel in her. Indeed, there's only a single reference of sailing her at all, briefly mentioning the need to satisfy modern safety standards, which... seems like a good thing to me? Not sure why the torygraph felt the need to fabricate this 'plan' to sail across the channel but whatever I guess

Think I might've heard you just as the sun was starting to set, did you moor on the off side just by the cafe at Stensen lock?

Today 2022. Bridge 20 on the Trent and Mersey, just next to the closure for the work on bridge 20A. Even if it were open I don't think I'd be going anywhere...

I'm afraid I'm visiting my parents today else I'd take a quick cycle along the towpath and check the condition of the ice for you. When we cruised on Friday I'd say maybe about half the stretch was frozen, and I can only imagine it's gotten better since then so I reckon you'll be fine.

I cruised from Shardlow to Stensen marina this Friday, so I've done a job clearing some of the ice for you already There were some patches of thicker ice but nothing too troubling, and if anything the ice will have thinned since then. For a while we were actually iced in a Stensen, but it's mostly thawed there on the cut (though it looks like there's still a bunch of ice in the marina proper - we're just moored on the cut). You'll likely want to cruise sooner rather than later, with this other cold snap coming in. **edit** Actually scratch that, not sure where I got the idea it was getting colder... after Thursday it's supposed to start warming up again, and it'll even hit 10C this coming Sunday

Couple of pics from today, moored up at the clock warehouse in Shardlow

My solars this time of year 😭

I emailed Daniel Horner, the chap that used to run the now-defunct blackprinceowners.org.uk , , asking if he still had the information that was contained on the site (with a view to potentially rehosting it myself). He provided me with an Excel spreadsheet containing the following information on 538 Black Prince boats: name, class, BW/CRT number, year built, first and last years in service, base marina(s), previous name and 'became' name. I'm happy to provide this spreadsheet to anyone that wants it, I don't think it'll be much of a problem, just get in touch via DM and I'll send it to you! As well as that he also sent me the two original pictures of Why Wait? (né Carla), which I'm really happy about

could've taken you 0 letters to say nothing at all too mate, but who's counting?

Yep this is what I've read too. Climate change leads to instability of certain patterns and systems that keep the weather 'in check'. This is also why a generally warming planet has caused some of the coldest winter snaps in states like Illinois, Wisconsin, etc. in the US - The colder the planet (or rather, the areas in the upper hemisphere), the weaker the polar vortex gets. As it gets 'weaker', it gets wider/less tight, which causes these northern states to get blasted by these freezing arctic winds. Just another example of how a generally warming climate can lead to sometimes unintuitive effects on local weather

Yesterday 2022, on the Trent where it meets the Derwent, a short cruise to Shardlow

Yeah that's definitely something I've noticed looking at the layout of other now-privately-owned BPs. The boat we hired from the Canal Boat Club (owned by ABC) was much the same so I figured that's par for the course for rental boats. Thankfully the previous owners of Why Wait? did a good job at changing that, with us instead having a much roomier-feeling boat at 52ft with just the 2 of us

Scraped as in using automated tools/writing programs to take the text from web pages and do *stuff* with it, though oftentimes before that data ends up scrapped due to the site going down or otherwise becoming less accessible.

Hi all, pleased to be a new member of the black prince owners club if you'll have me 😉. We purchased our 52ft Carla 511743 (and renamed her to Why Wait?) in July this year, down in Slough from VC Marine. After an ardous journey along the *very* weedy Slough arm, and an extremely pleasant summer journey north up the GUC, we've got ourselves pottering around the midlands. She's a 2005 build, with a trad layout. Off the top of my head, I believe we're the 4th owners. Previous owner had the electrics redone, with far too many USB sockets on the walls and all new 240v wiring I believe (great since both me and my wife are computer people). At the front is a very large galley, and there *was* a dinette next to it, but I just got done ripping that out and moving it amidships to make room for the sofa to go next to the woodstove, which you'll see in the pics below. Sorry for the mess. It's interesting to hear about the pumpout tank being split down the middle - the slight list we developed after waiting a bit too long for a pumpout was a great visual indicator it's time to get a pumpout 😅 One thing I'm very much enjoying is the size of the tanks in general. Am I right in understanding that the tank sizes are pretty big for a boat this size? (300 litre diesel, 600 litre water and 500 litres pumpout) Finally, here's some pics of the interior towards the bow after I've been at it with the toolbox, and a little drone shot for good measure

Can't argue with that, for sure! But at least successful sales, while not necessarily being complete entries in the set, could be considered not entirely garbage. I guess I'm biased cause a lot of projects I've worked on in the past have relied heavily on scraped data 😅

Filled out 😁 took all of about 5 minutes, cheers. Interested in your project too, I'm assuming it's for college or uni? Would it be possible for you to make the model available once you've completed it? Have you also potentially thought about scraping sites like Apollo Duck, eBay, etc for data? Obviously it won't be as rich as a survey with regards to condition Vs price, but with ML sometimes quantity over quality eh? 😉

It's nice that you seem so concerned with what other people are eating 🙂 the point would be giving people not wanting to eat meat more options. If you're happy eating meat then that's fine, it doesn't affect you. But for those that don't want to, having more options and lowering the bar can, in my mind, only be seen as a good thing. I'm not too concerned with whether something has been done for hundreds of years as a justification for anything to be honest - it's just nice to be able to have a decent sausage. Well, a base vegetable stock (I cheat and use Knorr stock pots or the veggie Oxo cubes), with some reduced mushrooms etc, thickened with a basic roux gets you pretty far! Maybe a bit of red wine in there too and you're left with a pretty delicious sauce

Gonna throw an opinion here: give Richmond's vegan sausages a go! As someone that recently turned vegan, I've been massively disappointed with the vegan sausages on offer. But the Richmond ones (can come in a bag frozen or sometimes in the fresh section) are simply incredible. Couple that with some mashed potato, peas and a gravy made from a knorr stockpot and a simple roux and you've got yourself a meal!

Oof. This will tip our license to just over a grand 😞 Sure, as a liveaboard, another hundred a year in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot but when factored in with *everything else* getting expensive it stings a bit.

This is quite common in tech R&D - initially it's only viable for high-cost items/services, but that helps fund further R&D that develops more effective/efficient innovations, which drives cost down, which makes it a more feasible option for a slowly increasing number of customers. Unless, of course, it's a dead end... like dirigibles.

For an anecdotal point of data, my wife and I just put in an offer for a boat and our terms of purchase/sale gives us 28 days from laying down the initial 10% deposit to get the survey etc done. Now, I'm sure that's just their bog standard template but it's also from a broker that operate out of a marina with a crane, so you're a bit less pressed for time if you can find a surveyor available. As it happened we only went with an in-water survey, as we have the results of the hull survey from only a year ago (sept 2021 to be accurate).