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I'm so sorry to read this, Dave. Please accept my sympathy and those of Lady Muck. We will be thinking of you in the coming days.
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22 minutes ago, tree monkey said:
I still have the scar
They nailed my toes to the stern bench and pushed me over the stern, head nestled on the back button fender. Surprisingly comfortable ...
What a brilliant weekend though ....
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1 hour ago, Dave_P said:
I'm feeling surprisingly chipper considering the amount of imbibing yesterday. Drank my own boat dry. Then went to Ma Pardoes. Then to the offy!
i must take this challenge seriously one year.
Tsk ... moderators .... hurtling up Ryder's Green at Tawny warp factor .25
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STOP........THIEF.......................Someone has nicked both of my beloved warning points..................
Surely not ... who dun that then?
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Your jokes are all too good to deserve a warning point...
Nobody ever, ever gets my jokes. Not ever, not even Athy; that's how clever they are.
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This was such sad news on Sunday morning. John and Fi were soulmates in everything and radiated that love to everyone they met.
Fi will be much missed by John and Craig and by the rest of us. Whether we knew her in person, or through the blog of NB Epiphany's travels, we have all lost someone dear.
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Jaq,
It was so moving to read your account of the last days. It is very hard to record the passing of a loved one so eloquently. I know that the love that surrounded you will continue to provide comfort in the coming days. Please be mindful of your own need for care and rest now; I wish you well and keep us up to date with your progress, when you can.
Jill
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Good work all round folks.
Don't use Mr Muscle on your expensive fabric cratch cover or pram hood because if it's a very nice and expensive one, chances are that the cloth used is worsted spun mohair (as used on car tonneau hoods) and even weak household bleach will dissolve animal protein. Mohair will dye effectively with food colour and vinegar though. Don't try black food colour because it's actually dark green or blue; that's how my Dad kept his Edwardian suit looking smart in the 50s.
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Sarah Edgson sold Cobbett and I like her very much. Straight-forward and knows the boat market inside out.
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Exactly this. It took me ages to work just how much welly Cobbett needed to get her working for me. It's a completely different skill set and I was utterly nonplussed at first. You don't need to be in the least bit subtle with the power. I was generally too timid with Cobbett.Canopus needs the engine winding up faster than the previous owner may have shown you how. This will give you a bit of oomph to help you with steerage.
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Sometimes you have to give it some welly.
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Canopus can and will work for you if you ignore normal modern hire type boat skills.
Partly, that was because I had the wrong engine in her, I think, in hindsight. I'd been talked out of having a Gardner 3LW on the grounds that it would be massively over-specified and I didn't have the skills to maintain it. The secondhand Beta JD3 was a disaster although the new short engine that replaced it was fine once Richard did some modifications to her. Nonetheless, it revved far higher than a Gardner would, and so I was extremely timid around over-revving her.
I did get far more confident with her over time though and found when I went back to helming a modern narrowboat that it slipped all over the place and was far more twitchy. If I could get Cobbett into a deep channel, she'd helm herself and not deviate; in shallow water, much less easy. She always swam well, though, in chug-a-long mode she barely disturbed the water.
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Well Canopus is recorded as having a Lister JP3, both powerful and slow revving so should normally need a pretty big blade.
However, if the sales brochure is correct, this only has a 2:1 Blackstone box on it, which will dramatically reduce the required prop sizing over what it would need if on a 3:1 reduction.
So without knowing what reduction box Cobbett had, it is perhaps difficult to comment on how comparable the two situations are.
What I can say is that "Sickle's" HA3 manages to swing a 26" x 19.4" blade, and also only has a 2:1 reduction. However the characteristics of an HA3 will differ substantially from a JP3 despite a similar power output, and I'm not sure what the JP3 can cope with. I'm staggered anybody thought an Axiom was a good idea on a JP though!
I'm trying to remember exactly where, but it must have been you we passed somewhere, almost certainly on Thursday, I think, travelling North up the GU, somewhere North of Weedon.
At least she looks and sounds alright!
Corbett had a PRM260 on a near as dammit 3:1 reduction. What I do know about Cobbett (62' curvy swims and planked double curved front Josher bow, absolutely no rivets) drew 2'7" at build but once people and stuff were loaded on her, was gauged at far closer to 3'. She liked to get into the channel and sit chuntering along. I found her very responsive even after she was fully loaded. She did, however, steer very differently to my previous boat which drew less than 1'10". Learning to steer her was a long learning curve but worth it. Boating with her was quite the best thing and I deeply regret not being able to keep her because my bloody knee made boating so difficult.
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It seems to me that Canopus is over-propped. Cobbett at 62' had a 20" square prop on her and I had absolutely no issues whatsoever. She also had no fake fake rivets either.
If I recall correctly, Canopus was only a 'loose copy' of a Northwich and had some amendments to the design called for by the owner. They were documented here at one point. If I can find a link, I'll post it.
Being as we have two threads running on the boat, I'm going to merge the threads and move the whole lot to Building and Maintenance rather than History and Heritage.
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Cobbett has exactly the same build on the rear and handled like a dream, forwards and backwards.
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All done. I'll close this thread in the meantime.
Link here http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=89017#entry1936757
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Right ... I've split out the non contentious bits. Because we've lost the opening post, it doesn't make much sense, but until I can resolve the copyright issues, it is as it is.
The summary is that the OP used NB Sculptor as an exemplar to criticise the build of NB Canopus, in particular, the skeg design.
Take it away ....
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God Jul, Jan!
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It could, but without the photographs, it wouldn't have made much sense. We had an in-thread complaint about breach of copyright regarding the use of the photographs which is a contravention of the site rules. You are welcome to continue discussing the nature of swims, skeg design and how it affects how a boat steers, that's not a problem. It's just the copyright issue with the photographs ....
When I've got a minute, I'll haul out the non-contentious stuff, I'm up to my ears in half a goat, Christmas pudding and nuts .... and I've yet to have a drink ... sob!
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An alleged breach of copyright, Alan. Just investigating at the moment ... will reopen or post a response when I get answers, might take a while today!
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Poor sod, he's probably panicking over his Key Stage 3 homework and now you've destroyed any confidence he might've scurried up. Some dragon of an old bat* is probably nagging him to death to Get That Coursework In Otherwise I Can't Mark It and You Will be Forced To Spend Far Too Much Time in After-School 'Club' (read enforced detention) Catching Up.
Be kind ...
*'fess up time ..... I used to be that old bat.
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I would have disappointed by the quality of the work if it were for a GCSE course!
Quite ... I'd be having words at BTEC L1 TBH, but hey! Not my monkeys and not my circus either, just a panicky request for help, wonkily worded. We've all been there, even if we'd like to think we haven't!
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TBH, I don't think it matters that much Tam, I think we're just helping him fulfil his brief as he sees it. I very much doubt it's going towards a government research paper, this time. Sometimes students just need help even when they're misdirected.
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I very much doubt it's really a final year degree survey, it looks like it's more a BTEC L1 questionnaire, but we can be kind and help at Christmas. He'll be marked on the structure of the questionnaire as well as the analysis of the answers. It's not a questionnaire that I'd let one of my students use because it limits the response. There are errors in the possible answers in any case.
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I'll try again, Nightwatch ...
https://surveyplanet.com/5850067922b714057516560f
It's because I had to cut and paste it.
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So, we had a request from a student for yet another survey. I've done it. Be kind.
Here's his request ...
Hey guys!
Im currently Doing my Final Major Project at University and would love to get as much feed back as possible from my Canal boat themed questionnaire. It focuses on problems and difficulties on the canals . I hope you can all give it a blast! The more detail the better. Many thanks!
https://surveyplanet.com/5850067922b714057516560f
PLEASE GIVE IT A GO! SHORT AND SWEET CANAL BOAT QUESTIONNAIRE
Sewing Machines
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Jan,
If you've not parcelled up the fiddle base Singer 12 for Carl, I'd put a bid in for it as I have a case for it, but my machine was dropped by a child (on his toe, which made me feel that karma was at play, somehow) and it fell down some concrete steps. Sad times.
It may be worth you contacting Helen Howes if you have part machines you need to shift on that Carl doesn't want. She buys, rebuilds or breaks very antique machines for parts. Some of the older parts are getting harder to source, in particular, boat shuttles and bobbins. I have her details if you'd like them.
If anyone would like a treadle 201K in working order but that needs the case titivating, let me know; one seems to have taken up residence here. I know it works, I've sewn two suits of sails on it.