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That beer looks a bit "opaque"

Gordon has his gills caught in a trap

I used to be conceited but now i'm perfect.

One occasion a few years back, It was pre-Covid, we were moored just past the hat factory. Walking back from town with groceries we heard some glass being smashed. A bunch of kids were inside the factory smashing every pane they could reach. They shouted out "are you going to call the Police" "we don't care" "they never catch us" etc. Those same kids have probably now graduated from damaging empty and derelict property to vandalising occupied premises. Wondering what they will move onto next.

The big benefit of buying a boat to live in instead of a house is the initial capital outlay. The average price of an acceptable boat is, say, £50k whereas the national average house price is what, about £250k. So instantly you have "saved" £200k. The downside comes at the end, after about 20 years, when the boat may still be worth around the initial asking price but the average house will have gone up in price to, who knows? perhaps £400k.

My first pint after the 2020 lockdown was Vanilla Porter in the Vine. Well worth the wait, I would rate that pint 9/10

What would happen if a boat is in a full lock and completely leak-free lock, ie all paddles closed. Then you lift a ton of ballast out of the boat? There will not be a ton of inrushing water into the leak free lock. Then you drop the ton of ballast into the water but because it is more dense than water it will not replace the full ton of water? CRT advise me they have yet to find a leak-free lock!

Are we looking at weight, density or mass here. A 16 ton narrowboat floating on the surface 18 m x 2m x 0.5 m below the water line = 18 cubic metres of displaced water, or a 16 ton block of solid steel which would be fully immersed (unknown volume but at a guess only 5 or 6 cubic metres) Which would displace the most water ? Or is this a red herring?