Ray T
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You will be glad to hear that the great big hairy bloke has left the marina and been replaced by Steve and Allison - we have just had a temp mooring and would definitely go back - very helpful in the office as well.
Have "the powers that be" read this thread then?
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We called in last June. Very pretty it was too. Unfortunately the little shop and every where else was shut, so we just winded and carried on our way.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17771318
I think it would do a roaring trade selling fried rice and chop suey - looks as if it were built in China Town.
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Do you have a diesel central heating system that runs through the carorifier?
If so you will need to blank that off as well.
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Hirers will do anything
Of course I wouldn't do it now I have my own boat
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Well done you. We are presently at Braunston and will pass the "marina" possibly tomorrow. It will be interesting to see what if anything has been done since we last passed in the autumn. Anybody been past recently?
We came past last week and 3 pontoons had been installed.
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Bloody hell hadn't heard that in years. I think it is called the laminar effect? Tuners use the same principle when gas flowing cylinder heads I am reliably informed. Too smooth a finish on the ports is said to reduce gas flow and not improve it.
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Have spent a Friday night in the basin no problems there was a party going on nearby but they packed it in at 10 :30. Your biggest problem is getting there the canal is pretty rubbish strewn but most of the locals are friendly .
TC
<------------ I'm a local and very friendly!
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Not so daft as it may sound.
When I sailed dinghys there was a fad for having a matt finish on the hull of your boat (Go fast white). The theory was that water clinged to the hull in the tiny crevices of the matt paint. This produced a layer of water attached to the hull which caused less friction as the boat travelled through the water. The converse was that if you had a highly polished hull the air would cling in globules, the reverse of water on a highly polished car and slow the boat down.
Never really knew if this was true or just a marketing gimmick.
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Title says it all really.
I noticed these at ColeCraft as I passed today.
As far as I could tell they appeared to have cruiser type sterns two were broad beam craft and the two with the orange dazzle camouflage looked narrow craft.
They all had pucca navigation lights.
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Fascinating, thank you.
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Hi All this is my first post so please bear with me...Has anyone heard of or any information about the Shanghai diesel engines? There is oone fitted to my recently aquired narrow boat. I believe it was supplied by T.F. Marine ltd who appear to have ceased trading. thank nyou for any help
Pete
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Is this site of any use?
Shanghi Diesel Engine Co., Ltd.
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Lovely film, any piccys of the plane please.
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I've said it before. Make your choice, either a new railway or a new motorway. Extra capacity is essential. I only hope that if the motorway wins it will follow the exact same route as the proposed railway, then watch the nimbys squirm!
George ex nb Alton retired
You'd sqirm if it were your house and home facing demolition.
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who often pulls cunning stunts
"All in the best possible taste".
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Waterscape gives a map that shows the areas at risk and also lists the reservoir levels which aren't good. I understood from some other posts that there was some back pumping at Napton and also into some of the resevoirs.
http://www.waterscap...reservoir-watch
If we're lucky its a temporary closure to let the reservoirs fill before the summer holidays start (Fingers crossed)
We're moored at the centre of the South Oxford top pound
:( Came past Napton Reservoirs last week and they were fuller than I have seen them for a couple of years.
Incidentially if you loook at the Waterscape map there seems to be confusion as the Oxford goes through Leamington Spa and the GU through Rugby?
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Those are Coach SCREWS. I must admit I've never come across them with Diamond heads. A Coach Bolt is a BOLT with a domed head & a thread for a nut.
I reckon the one you've seen had a Rose Head spike in it
I'll get a picture later & post it.
Tim
Whether they are called screws or bolts really matters little, I think. But when I worked for BT they were always known as coach bolts which is why I refered to them as such.
The device in the mop at Stoke Bruerne did look like your last illustration. I have not heard of Rose Head Spikes before and I apparently eroneously though the fixing device was a diamond head bolt. You learn something every day. Possibly if rose head spikes are in short supply a diamond coach screw could be used.
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What's a diamond coach bolt?
How do you screw a coach bolt into the end of the stale? Others have referred to using a coach bolt, I'm a bit mystified.
I've made a few mops in the now rather distant past, generally used a rose head spike (I appreciate not everyone will have those to hand), & a strip of tough leather as a washer, looped over the head of the spike so that the spike passes through it twice and the leather also shields the spike head from causing damage.
Tim
When I worked for BT they used coach bolts to hold the footsteps in place on the wooden telegraph poles (still do). They were always hammered in, never screwed even though they were machined with a screw thread.
Similar to the illustration shown by Davidss. The ones BT use are longer though.
Of interest is the pointed leading end.
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There is a rag mop on the roof of the mock up of "Sunny Valley" at Stoke Bruerne museum:
The mop head is held in place with a rubber washer and a diamond coach bolt.
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There is similar at Fenny Stratford, but I believe this one has been there a substantial time.
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When we had our boat painted a couple of years ago we had the sign writing and great crested grebe varnished sorry just realised it was laquered not varnished along with the rest of the boat.
To some extent the laquer coat has protected the writing from being damaged by bushes, branches etc as a boat will inevitably get scratched.
First time you scratch your new paint job causes much anguish, subsequent scrapes get easier
Ask Mr. Moore or Mr. Speight they are both well qualified to answer.
Closet shiney boat brigader
Error corrected 7.46 08/04/2012
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The sums boaters pay may not be BW's major source of income, but they are hardly a "drop in the ocean".
Do not boaters who moor in marinas, on the bank side contribute to BW's (C&RT) coffers in addition to licence fees and HMRC taxes? I understood that marins owners were obliged to pay a % to BW for every space available whether occupied by a boat or not.
Reference to the latest BW Report and Accounts shows that BW's licence and mooring income was some £23.7m out of a total income of £176.5m. In addition boaters will be contributing directly or indirectly to some of the other listed income sources such as BWML profits, BW's retail sales and rental income from BW property let to boatyards etc.
By comparison, BW's income from grants - which includes the taxpayer funded element - was £58.9m.
So the picture of the taxpayer covering most of BW's costs, with boaters making only a token contribution is simply untrue. Boaters contribute something like 30% of the boater+taxpayer income.
And as Dor has said, if canals were not maintained in navigable condition, then many sections would have gone, and be no longer available to walkers, anglers and all the rest. Lets not forget that the Rochdale and Huddersfield restorations required the removal of buildings built on the canal line at Failsworth, Stalybridge and Huddersfield, and more would have gone if the canal societies hadn't lobbied for restoration for some years before physical work started. How many more urban sections of canal would simply have disappeared under bricks and mortar if it hadn't been for boaters?
Also you just have to look at restoration films to see the junk, builders rubble etc that was thrown into canals when BW deemed them of no further use.
David
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When I saw the heading of this post I Just Knew that would come up sooner or later!
But surely it would need a mast as well!
Rare on narrow boats.I thought it was a bowsprit that a figurehead nestled under?
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Rare on narrow boats.
Easter Sunday in Worcester
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As the boat on theleft appears to be Sweden, We were moored at Stoke Bruerne a couple of years ago and Sweden was moored in front of us. As a couple of "old dears" passed one said to t'other "Look that boat has come all the way from Sweden".