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2 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Hickson and Welch were once the best hope of that. If that had gone up properly it would have wiped Castleford and Allerton Byewater off the face of the Earth. We had contingency plans at Castleford Police stations in case of a full scale emergency. The command centre would have been run from Pontefract police station as the presumption was that Castleford Station would be obliterated. Its amazing what we live amongst and many people never know of the danger.
I used to moor at Fall Ings in Wakefield - the chemical works just down-river send out a very nice calendar each year with information about their test alerts and what to do in case of an emergency (we all agreed that rather than staying put, it would be better to set off upwind asap). The surrounding areas don't get developed much due to being in a flood and blast zone....
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2 hours ago, blackrose said:
If you're talking about the Northampton embankment moorings in front of the flats near Morrison's I think it can accommodate a few more narrowboats than that. I'm sure there's space for at least 3 or 4 on each side of the bridge.
That's one side:
https://images.app.goo.gl/bzoJ592NaSNg87Lj7
I'm not talking about the river moorings - the ones above lock 17, before descending onto the Nene.
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There is pretty much no mooring available on the arm below the main bunch of locks; channel is narrow and overgrown and the bank is not in any way reinforced. Right at the bottom, space for 3-4 boats outside the flats.
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I started using Linux when a laptop hard drive failed and i didn't have a spare windows install disc - about six years ago. Downloaded ubuntu and let it install. Took less time and hassle than windows. Since then I've converted the other laptop, acquired some raspberry pi's (one to run osmc as a media centre, one as a time-lapse camera) and loaded GalliumOS onto a new Cromebook - which was much cheaper than equivalent laptops running windows.
Now thinking about more pi's to monitor the solar/battery controllers and the BMC1500....
I do maintain one old pc with windows 7 only to ensure I can fix issues with ntfs formatted hard drives. I have a hp laser printer that does wifi and 'just works' with the linux machines...
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17 minutes ago, CompairHolman said:
This begs the question of who is entitled to what, someone to peace on a quiet rural mooring they are paying for or someone that arrives and needs to charge their batteries ?
Only one of us is causing a problem and its not me.
So you're both paying to be there. Sounds like it's time for the landlord to arbitrate if you cant sort out between yourselves like adults...
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So, today, four hours of gennie running on the roof bouncing up and down - why? No sun recently and an inoperable engine. Repairs underway, but unfortunately I'm going to be annoying until its fixed next week....
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1 hour ago, Ian F B said:
That will be down in the "smoke" next week ,as a liveaboard!!!?
1 hour ago, Ian F B said:It will take a little longer - last week it was sunk; owner and a couple of mates got it back afloat and he's bowhauling it (came past/round me today) and is getting on with bringing it back to life.
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Berko - I think the pound below the Rising Sun (Lock 55) is particularly prone to emptying. I've been there when the was a sudden overnight drop. In that case it seemed to be due to a pillock in the lock below rather than any natural phenomenon though.
The pounds above the main town moorings are very shallow. I was moored at Jewsons to take on some wood earlier this week and the normal rise and fall of the pound was enough to ground me. The locks between there and the main town are leaky and at least one asks for it to be left empty and bottom paddle drawn.
I'm now near the Crystal Palace, and it seems deeper and more stable....
Dave
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1 hour ago, Bobbybass said:
No... I've never normally paid...?....
Is this a new 'thing' ?
Yes,
introduced this summer. The walkway moorings are still free. (atm).
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All the boating scenes were definitely Brentford. Moored on the permanent pontoons with shots across to the gauging locks, sluice gears, warehouses and crt offices/sanitary station. The getaway scene was beautifully comic with the undrwater shot of the propeller spinning up, a pressure gauge rising and then the swan-like stately progress. Deffo on my list for next week when they will hopefully reach Hanwell.
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Looks like they've been taken off air last month - several news stories relating to a takeover by Discovery....
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15 hours ago, Chewbacka said:
My understanding is that CRT always go to court to have a liveaboard boat removed.
CRT will only have movement records from just a few years ago (when they started tightening up) and no doubt have been in communication with the boater for 2 or 3 years about his lack of bona fide navigation, so I would not rate his chances of winning as highly as you do.
I suspect its more than a few years. I asked for my sighting data last year - got it back to 2008, when I first licensed the boat. The first couple of years are sparse, but from 2010 there's good (ie every month at least) data...
15 hours ago, Chewbacka said:My understanding is that CRT always go to court to have a liveaboard boat removed.
CRT will only have movement records from just a few years ago (when they started tightening up) and no doubt have been in communication with the boater for 2 or 3 years about his lack of bona fide navigation, so I would not rate his chances of winning as highly as you do.
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13 minutes ago, bizzard said:
And how are CBer's ''Continuous Boozers'' going to afford the diesel as well to continuous cruise the stipulated distance required.
'It's not red diesel officer, it's rosé wine (hic), that's why I'm on a restricted licence....'
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Around our way Supermarket prices are £1.28-£1.30 and small independents around £1.33 / litre
In our marina 60/40 price of red diesel is £1.26/litre so little difference (apart from the inconvenience of fetching and carrying Jerry cans)
Obviously once red is no longer available in marinas the price will increase by the additional 'duty'
'Domestic' (no duty) is currently 96p/litre so adding 50p duty would bring it to around £1.46 / litre
@Mick in Bangkok I think your 1 litre an hour is low - if you are looking at a NB I'd suggest that 1.5 litres would be closer.
Its not just the duty - the VAT is also raised from 5% to 20‰ - so an extra 15% on the old base price (14.4p -'round' to 15p), the extra duty of 50p, and the VAT on that - 10p; a total rise of 75p/l - so more like £1.70/l. This is why people are getting worried about the continuing viability of canalside diesel supplies...
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55 minutes ago, DRP said:
It's hard not to get exasperated by all the combinations of ". . . Dreams" there seem to be.
Funnily enough, you never seem to see the wet variety.
Although the title is worst boat names, can't resist one of the best which used to be a tiny fibreglass cruiser on the Macclesfield; "Shy Tot".
I have seen a 'wet' one - although, on closer inspection, there were very small letters interspersed to actually make it 'sweet'...
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1 hour ago, Psycloud said:
Does it say you can use them in dongles or is that just based on recent experience?
Three were forced to do this by ofcom last year....
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14 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:
I have a three Miri dongle. Unlocked. I'm on 40 go data only.
It seems that the three unlimited data only offer is no longer. Hopefully I'm incorrect. Anyone know more on this?
Looking at their site, they're still offering unlimited on phone sims, which can now be used in dongles. Certainly mine isn't objecting these days, unlike previously....
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I would presume they're useful in preventing infection after BWML have removed your arm and leg (so they can get the others next year).
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9 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Indeed it was - it was (I hoped) written with sufficiently large numbers that anyone would realise it is an 'eggsageration'.
Although C&RT do say that there are over 5000 boats registered with them within 'London'
With the Total UK C&RT registered boats being about 30,000 (some quote 34,000 but that the numbers are falling) London has more than its fair share.
How are you counting 'fair share'. London population 9m of 56m in England (1/6) - so 5,000 of 3,0000 seems not out-of-line. By length - indeed so, but then the immediate Braunston/Napton area presents a far larger spike....
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I'm at Irthlingborough, having come down from Wellngborough yesterday. River is a foot up (and 18in up below the lock), lakes are filling and the sky is still providing more. Spoke to the EA chap changing the sign to the SSA one, and he expected the alert to be in place for at least the weekend...
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Speaking to the crew, a 6 episode itv series for the summer called 'zombie boat'. They'd been filming the day before at Three Bridges and Norwood top lock.
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There are a few still around that don't need mains power and are convertible and are 500mm wide. I recently bought a Hotpoint HAG51P. Didn't see any particular warnings against boat installation.
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I've just had this; as Richard says, the spindle wears out. There are springs n things under the top cover which need to go back in the same place.... So I chickened and gave it to a place for an overhaul. Four days and £200 it came back. Make sure you put it back exactly lined up with how you took it off the engine - theres a pointer and scribeline to match up.
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1 hour ago, eid said:
Do you need a new SIM card for use in a MiFi router or can you use one from before they changed the rules?
I'm using my old one - dates from several years back (so old it's been cut down from a full size one).
Man threatens to blow up boat on canal
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I did; it was very nice there. Order pizza on way to shower, pick it up on the way back. Coal and gas at yorkshire prices delivered. Beer not delivered, but for proper money....