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3 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
and the rest frittered awayWho said that?
(or similar words)
W.C. Fields
"I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol, and wild women. The other half I wasted."
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27 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
What size boat is that ?
They've got several. 45' or 50', I think, maybe 55'. Beam is about 11'.
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Metric sockets and spanners. The gearbox filler is 18mm, which is usually omitted from spanner and socket sets. I carry extra 17mm and 19mm spanners. Also a 25mm for engine mounts. A good quality adjustable comes in handy as well.
Tools accumulate as needed. I didn't used to have a socket set on board, but added it after the nut on the gearbox output flange came loose. Similarly, a small vice, drills, cable crimper, etc got added when I found a need for them
Oh, yes, forgot the oil filter wrench!
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4 hours ago, Lady M said:
The maximum number of people you can take on a moving boat is 12 plus one or two crew.
If the 12 are paying passengers, then the boat comes under MCA rules. They don't specify maximum crew numbers, which is governed by stability tests for maximum number on board. One of our local charities has been known to have 12 passengers in wheel chairs, 12 carers, counted as "crew", plus a boat operating crew of skipper plus 2 or 3. The skipper does not hold a Boatmaster licence, just an IWA Inland Waters Helmsman's Certificate. The MCA are happy with this arrangement.
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22 hours ago, Ken X said:
We went through Big Lock during last years Middlewich Festival. Didn't realise until we came down through Maureens Lock and saw the crowds.
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Made very sure the centre line was ashore so we could, at least, retrieve the boat at the end. One of the bottom gates was a right sod though. Hope it has been sorted by now. Enjoy.
If it's the bottom towpath side gate, no, it hasn't.
Centre line to back bollard on towpath side is our usual method for working that lock. Works perfectly going down; occasionally gets boat on the wrong side for steerer going up.
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27 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Exactly. Our opinions differ - such is the nature of opinion. Mine is that that cannot in any way be seen as a continuous cruise. Largely because it isn't continous, it's continually inerrupted.
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I'm off to play the fiddle.
Even someone living on their boat could to be said to be interrupting their cruise as soon as they moor for longer than overnight. Living, or not, on the boat is irrelevant.
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3 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Would cost more in bureaucracy than it would bring in, especially as just about all of it would end up being paid by the benefit system one way or another.
CC licences should only be granted to those who actually live on board for the duration of the licence. Anything else is daft.
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I'd have thought it would be perfectly possible to cruise around the canal system while having a permanent address on the bank, and not living on the boat. Cruise for a few days, moor up for a week or so and return to home address, return to the boat and carry on with the journey. Even just boating at week ends while on a progressive journey would comply with both the letter and spirit of the legislation, in my opinion.
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3 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:
I think the term the OP was groping for might be consultant.
It's arguable whether CRT should have the expertise in-house, but the fact is, they almost certainly do not any more.
FTFY
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2 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
I do like demobilisation. I wonder if they mobilised the construction site in the first place, though I suppose that would the second place, as they'd have mobilised it from the first place, in the first place, to Tod, which would then be the second place.
I wonder though how you can demobilise a site, unless you just take the wheels off.
Not that it matters. Happy St Pat's Day everyone, I'm off to play me fiddle.
Maybe they just give it a demob suit?
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17 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
When I first met the boss she had a Vauxhall Chevet, The time chain cog gave out on that Christmas eve at the exit of Dartford tunnel, no other damage
Petrol or diesel? A petrol engine is far more likely to escape damage, as the lower compression ratio allows greater valve/piston clearance.
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
I once saw a coal Boat who offered lavatory pumpout which shall remain anonymous discharging via a hose to a large drain beside the A406 aqueduct.
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Fair enough if it was a foul water drain. (If not, NOT!)
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2 hours ago, IanD said:
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It's not just that Peel don't seem to want to encourage boaters to visit Castlefield, they seem to be actively trying to discourage them by making it hard to find anywhere decent to moor... 😞
Agree: there are a lot of other potential moorings in the other basins, which are buoyed off to prevent entry
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The option of "such a security ... " was removed in 2019 by The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019.
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3 hours ago, Martin Nicholas said:
If it's very recent, a walk along the towpath will produce the culprit. Look for your paint on someone else's bow. It must have been heading to the right in your picture.
I'd have thought right to left. Initial impact to door, then scrape as Tilley Anne rocks away from impact, so the scrape goes down the side as it progresses.
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20 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
If caught with red in a road vehicle you risk having the vehicle take off you. Same applies to cooking oil and chip fryer waste.
You can use straight cooking oil or oil converted to biodiesel without being liable for tax, provided that annual production does not exceed 2,500 litres.
Edited to add : I see that this point has already been made
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17 hours ago, Michael Siggers said:
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The query I have relates to the operation that should happen if I leave a tap on for a long time. Not a usual habit, but I guess more applicable to when I run the shower. Never thought about it before, but am I correct in thinking that the pump will/should run continuously while the tap is open/shower running, only turning off after the tap/shower is closed and the accumulator recharged. In other words, it's not supposed to start and stop at various intervals during the open tap/shower while it recharges the accumulator mid flow? Hope that last bit makes sense.
Kind regards
Mike
As others have said, quite normal for the pump to cut in and out when tap open continuously, depending on flow rate.
With a shower, depending on the source of hot water, it may smooth out temperature variations if there is an additional cold tap running enough to make the pump run without cutting out/in. Effect particularly marked if hot water comes from an instant water heater.
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15 hours ago, nicknorman said:
There is no morse code for inverted commas. Or a question mark. Or a slightly smiley emoji. (snip)
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2 hours ago, nicknorman said:
You have to consider the heat dissipated in the “resistor”. A short length of rod with resistance 1 ohm and 100A is going to dissipate 10kw! Apart from anything else, 1 ohm is far too much as it would drop 100v. More realistic would be 0.01ohm which would drop 1v at 100A. But that is still going to dissipate 100w and will get extremely hot. This is why a long wire is the preferred choice - the longer the wire the more scope for dissipating power without getting too hot.Would 100A through 1 ohm not need 100V?
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Would only apply to a Pleasure Boat Certificate, though, or, as CaRT (incorrectly) refer to it, a Rivers Only Licence.
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My usual "quicky" for scratches is a rub down, followed by Vactan (which cures to black). This holds everything until I/we get round to painting. We usually paint side deck to top rubbing strake on one side in one hit, which makes a better job than touching up.
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18 hours ago, Victor Vectis said:
Mi Gawd!
What on Earth is the boat in that last pic about?
Avoiding VAT, I think
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20 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
What about the Falkirk wheel with boats just coming down ?
Initially, that will "pump" a quantity of water equal to the boat's displacement up to the upper pound, with the water displaced from the top caisson and flowing into the bottom one, then getting transferred to the top as the next boat comes down. However, with the extra water in the upper pound, the effect would diminish with successive boats, as the extra water in the upper pound would result in the top caisson filling to a higher level than the lower one.
This effect, however, would be negligible compared to the water added to the upper pound by the necessary operation of the staircase locks to bring the boats to the top of the wheel, and the pumps and sluices would operate to keep the levels correct.
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12 minutes ago, max campbell said:
Thanks for the replies.
I have "sprung off" on a sailing boat, with curvy sides. Would springing the bow off by reversing into a stern spring have any effect on a parallel-sided boat? I'll try it next time. I can imaging motoring forward into a bow spring might swing the stern out, but then you've got to try and reverse, and I have little control over reverse direction, and the bow gets blown back on.
It works most of the time, but fails when length of boat plus wind speed combine to overcome the leverage of engine against stern post. Short and wide helps; narrow and long hinders,
When we moored at Barton Turns, the service area seemed to always be a lee shore! Easy getting in, but hard to get out. My most successful method was a bow spring to take the stern off, and then reverse back to the marina entrance, where the boat could be turned. The reverse was made easier by the wind being from the stern to bow. Th OP may find this method will work, as a centre cockpit Sea Otter is 26' or 31', so can get the stern to a greater angle than is possible with a longer boat.
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2 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:
I used to have a high-top motor caravan (a Toyota Newlander) that, at around 8'6" high, was too tall for local garages, so I used to have it MOT'd at the local HGV MOT station, where they had a day for testing that class of vehicle once a fortnight. The vehicle was built on the Toyota Hi-Ace pickup truck chassis, and as part of the test, the tester inspected the interior to check that beds were present. He explained that, if it hadn't had beds, he couldn't have tested it as a motor caravan, and it would have had to have had the more stringent test applicable to a commercial vehicle. So on that criterion, the essential difference between a motor caravan and a van, is that one has beds and the other does not.
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That's interesting: some years ago I was chatting to a showman whose living accommodation was the trailer of an artic, The vehicle had a normal MoT, which he obtained annually by post from somewhere in Aberdeen!
Its official we've, broken the climate
in General Boating
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No. However, one change since then is the reduction of sulphur dioxide emissions.