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4 minutes ago, peterboat said:
He needs to keep the Lithium battery it's a plus over old fashioned LAs especially if it's a good install
He will keep it IF its a proper install?? Otherwise tried and tested for decades never let him down lead acid will go in. To be honest depending on boat use lithium is an expensive toy. His boat useage is plugged in to mains at mooring 24/7 so any battery works well and when out he cruises a few hours a day on jaunts that charges the lead acid anyway. Lithium is of course good for cmers for instance who dont have mains and dont move and a weight saving for many applications but for boats isnt a real problem.
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4 hours ago, JohnB said:
We have had one of these Oven/Hob units on our boat for about 16 Years. And we really do like its function BUT there are issues with its design and serviceability. We don't live aboard but do travel for months at a time and Kathy takes cooking very seriously.
At present we also have an induction hob and are considering bringing the air fryer and/or Remoska for use when long term traveling.
I won't at this point go into the detail of how I have tried to sort out better functioning but if you can cope with the servicing and have a secondary facility it "should" be OK.
John
There are other small problems with the boat including a lithium battery but that's easily removed and sorted. The other bits such as fitting a washing machine are not much of a problem. He's going for a look at it. Trying to find a max 41 foot boat that's as big up to that size as possible is far from easy. He doesn't want a project and would have bought a new beetle but there is a waiting list. An air fryers will suffice as he has mains at the mooring but it's nice to have genuine feedback on the stove.
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7 minutes ago, Tonka said:
There used to be. I remember having to cut holes in my nice hardwood doors on the front of the boat to increase lower ventilation
Indeed there was but I remember it being scrapped which is weird really.
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25 minutes ago, MtB said:
Presumably the attraction of this particular boat is the price.
Gas-free boats are I suspect, bloody difficult to sell as the number of folk in the market to buy one at any given point in time is usually similar to the number of unicorns one sees around towing a horse boat loaded with 20 tons of rocking horse night soil.
Consequently the price of a second-hand gas-free boat needs to reflect the cost of fitting a proper gas cooker and probably water heater too, and of course building a gas locker and getting the whole thing certified to comply with BSS and RCR.
Endless trouble. Just buy a different boat with gas already installed.
You know it makes sense....
Its not the price as its quite expensive, he has plenty of cash. Its the size at only forty feet. He has a forty foot mooring and tiny boats like that are few and far between as he doesnt want shorter if possible. You and I both know that long boats are better value for money but he doesnt have that option.
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Try @matty40s he used to do it but I am not sure if he still does.
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1 minute ago, Tony Brooks said:
I think @Ditch Crawler has one, and he is almost as good as liveaboard for much of the year.
I think he has or did have a Dickinson?? but thanks for your input
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Hi Peeps. Years ago I had a boat I fitted mistakenly with a piece of crap diesel stove made by Dickinson, it was bloody awful. Fast forward to today. A good friend has seen a boat on brokerage that at first sight seems to have one major drawback, its gas free, never a good sign and has the Kuranda stove fitted. Now does any of you actualy have one of these very expensive stoves and can give any honest feedback as to suitability for liveaboard use please. Such as genuine useability, time to heat up and regulate etc etc. Problem is of course first owner wrongly specified gas free so removing said stove is not so easy as just banging a proper gas stove in but all boats are a compromise somewhere and is the stove a definate no no??
Taa in advance. Genuine advice would be very much appreciated but the usual humour and wind up is also completely acceptable
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16 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I think it is the one built by an eccentric who has since been sent to prison for something. It has appeared in the mags and on here in the past.
The Navy one looked far more like a real sub than this one.
Iirc the navy ones were built by John Pinder.
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7 minutes ago, Lady M said:
I think that is the pub we visited when on a canal holiday. We were accompanied by my mother and there was a fight in the pub!
There was a pub directly opposite that I don't recall the name of, I wonder if that survives also? And one 100 yards down the road. The area was called The Pole iirc?
2 minutes ago, BilgePump said:Yip. Know it well. Only just shut as pub recently. Most recent tenants have taken on the Oak at the pole as food place with good reviews. In all honesty, I think it takes a certain type of person to be running a bar, rather than the location as such. I'd feel happy walking into any bar in Failsworth on my own. Would I ever want to run one on a Friday night? No, ta! But I know people who did it for years.
We were typing together lol. I did remember the name the Pole then lol. It was 91 and 92 we did it, a proper pub then with absolutely no food available and packed each evening and absolutely rammed at weekends.
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1 hour ago, BilgePump said:
Go on, enlighten us as to which one it was
The Anglers arms, do you know it? Google tells me it's still there.
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18 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
I’ll have to face up to Cov one day. Each time I head that way I chicken out and turn off down the Oxford or Ashby.
I think I’d rather face going up to Failsworth and Rochdale.
Manchester as any fool knows is a dump. The missus and I used to run a pub in Failsworth on holiday relief a few years ago, we wore crash helmets behind the bar 😉 running a pub in such places is not for the faint hearted lol.
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My last boat had double glazed windows throughout. They cost a fortune but we're of a design that meant every or any window could be removed in seconds. On mega hot days they could be removed and air flow in the boat which was awesome. Another great benefit was being able to pass stuff out for the Barby every few feet of boat length rather than just through side hatches.
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I let em all live in my garden. Its fabulous. We get the occasional rat who I think ,lives next door but pops over for a munch sometimes. We have lovely squirrels and indeed are oft visited by foxes and most nights a couple of badgers. All caught many times by our Trail cam. The squirrels sit over our heads in the trees and drop nut shells on us when sat out in late summer. We have slow worms as our garden adjoins the Ceredigion slow worm sanctuary lol. No hedgehogs as yet but working on that.
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Ring Ed Shiers on 07922 163072
A first class no nonsense bloke.
What he doesn't know about the Travel power isn't worth knowing
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4 hours ago, cuthound said:
Is that Kate Middleton's pet mouse?
Very good old boy
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6 hours ago, GUMPY said:
Clashes with the Premiership Rugby Cup Final and Gardeners World one of which I have to record 😟
Even more importantly it clashes with the friday evening Clwb wisgi meeting in the local pub!!
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7 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
Hopefully it’ll be sunny that week, so the solar is working and topped up. Last thing they would want is rain and all the electric boats running their generators. Maybe they’ll be installing electric Bollards for the event?
The diesel gennie will still make it work 😉
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1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:
We have had the wettest February on record in the East Midlands on the back of an already wet winter. It is going to take a long time for everything to dry out.
We called in at Torksey last weekend on the way to a friends house. Not been since we sold the boat!
Think we are staying in the van there next weekend.
Hosepipe bans in august 😂
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Have you already got a wet system with pipework and rads or do you need the whole heating system fitting? If you have a system then replacing whatever boiler you have with the Hurricane is an easy fix to replace say a webasto or similar. Anyone who has fitted webasto system etc will be able to fit the whole shooting match. I found calcutt very helpful when I had any problems and they used to service mine, I just used to take it over to them in the car.
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11 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
Looks more like a De Groot than a Pedro.
I thought it was. A de Groot?
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5 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
I have done the opposite and just use the stat to control the house temperature. 17deg overnight 18deg daytime and 19deg evening. I also turned down the flow temperature from 75 to 55, so I don't get overshoot peaks. Result is house is just as warm and I've managed a 25% saving on my monthly gas bill.
This winter is much warmer here than the last two winters. I don't ever check what I use oil wise, I simply buy when needed. My heating is on like you 24/7 in autumn winter. I have thermo stat set at 15 overnight and 21 during the day. As I type boiler has clicked off and come on off at various times. I used to switch off totally on a night and sometimes temp wud drop to 12 but setting it at 15 means most nights it never comes on but when cold it doesn't take ages in the day to get back to temperature. The eejut before me removed chimney breast so I can't easily have a lovely multi fuel stove 🙄 would luuuurv one.
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1 minute ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Coal burning in town was rare before industrialisation got going. People burned mostly wood instead for heat and cooking. The particulates from wood burning were no doubt as bad for health as they are now, but all the other perils of urban living, plague, cholera, assorted STD's, murder, would get you long before your lungs gave out.
An odd little footnote. Cooking pots used to be very expensive, before cheap iron was smelted from coal. Cooking pots used on wood lasted many decades and were passed down the family. Cast iron cooking pots used on coal corroded out in a few years, so coal only became practical to cook on when coal also made iron cheap enough to make cooking pots a consumable.
I have and still use a proper cast iron frying pan, it's better than so called non stick. It's heavy and has been in constant use since 1945. It was a wedding present for my parents. Mainly used on a proper old stove but last forty years ISH on a gas stove. You simply cannot buy stuff like this in 2024.
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I found the Llangollen very overrated I would do planb. Routes are a bit like TripAdvisor.
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13 minutes ago, Reeferman said:
Good day to you.
I posted a wanted this morning and now want to delete it and all the snarky comments from your group.
Please advise.
You cannot delete. A member of admin might do? Ask a mod.
Kuranda 87D stove advice
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I will ask him, if he buys the boat.