Ray T

I believe Arthur Bray and Ernie Kendall did on POACHER.

There is always the historical president!

That’s great to learn about the adapter, many thanks.

I have recently been prescribed a CPAP machine (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure), a ResMed AirSense11. ResMed AirSense 11 Auto CPAP Machine | Intus Healthcare This plugs into the mains and the machine has an inline transformer, i/p 240V 20A o/p 24V 1.5A Whilst this is okay to use at home and when the boat has mains hook-up in a marina, but what about when cruising? I don't know its electricity usage, so would running it via the inverter flatten the batteries, I have 3 x 12v 110 A/hr leisure batteries? A quick search on the internet turns up this: Portable Compact CPAP Machine Sleep Apnea Device – OutfitLondon Snake oil? Any one on here use a CPAP?

Watch a few episodes of "Canal Boat Diaries" with Robbie Cumming he seems pretty adept at falling in! 8 minutes in:

When I sailed off shore some of the boats had tiller steering some wheel steering. It was always helmsman or helm regardless of the equipment, i.e. "could you take the helm please, course to steer (whatever it was.) Never got called a "wheelman!"

Yes. Also Mike H told me often when children were learning to steer a boat the "captain" (also used for the man in charge) would put a piece of cheese on one side of the slide and a piece of bread on the other side, hence "steer to the bread or steer to the cheese." 😀

From one of the many video's of working boats "Would steerer (name) report to the office please."

Mike Humphris and his dad were in a canal side pub one evening. A fight broke out between two other boaters. One hit the other over the head with a bottle causing the bottle to break. The police arrived and Mike's dad offered to be a witness. the result being they had to wait two weeks while it was sorted out, hence no payment for those two weeks. After they were released Mike's dad said to Mike, "Next time I sees nothing." Once I got to know Mike and he knew I could be trusted he would regale me with many a story of boating life. Mike came from 6 generations of boat people.

I'm going to Alvecote by car, hopefully lack of water won't be too much of a problem. As long as there is liquid in the bar. 😀

Thank you for a full and clear explanation of what you are after.

The Freeth family working for Barlow's delivering coal for the hospital at Hatton. Photo's from CRT Archive by Cyril Arapoff. BW192/3/1/2/3/31 Off topic but this book catalogues much of the history of the hospital at Hatton. The GU for its part gets a brief mention. For what it is worth is also gives the origin of "Going Batty" and "Going round the bend." Unrecognised by the World at Large: A biography of Dr Henry Parsey, Physician to the Hatton Asylum, Warwick eBook : Robson, Alastair: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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