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Fit a proper multi fuel stove, end of 👍
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3 hours ago, peterboat said:
Same on our moorings most livaboards are there due to divorce or failed relationships, both sexes.
Many, in fact most of the considerable number of liveaboards we know do it purely as a matter of choice. We vastly preferred life on a boat to in a house and only downgraded back to a house due to health reasons. Both myself and missus never wanted to own a house again, it is a case of needs must
Most of our long term friends were likewise, I reckon you live on a boat by preference? Of course some do it for financial reasons these days but those of us that lived aboard for some years were mainly by choice.
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27 minutes ago, peterboat said:
I remember Whitefield sitting at new and used boat company when I bought my widebeam, had a look around her she really needed to be electric with lifepo4s and a generator to make her work properly.
Would your preference have been a diesel internal combustion engined gennie or a petrol internal combustion engine?
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2 minutes ago, magnetman said:
Whale gulper is quite expensive. Not like cheap and cheerful shurflo pumps.
I wonder if there is some scaling causing the leak. May be worth getting the thing apart for inspection
Indeed the gulper is better than the water supply units, they are brilliant. However at probably over twenty years old!!
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Years ago I used to pee about with various kits for these and other pumps. The fix would last a few days/weeks at best before more intervention was needed. They are like diesel in reality, a consumable. The price is low as they are built down to a price rather than of quality. They are a case of stop wasting your time
Bin and replace.
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4 hours ago, MtB said:
Some population density stats for comparison:
The UK has a land area of a little over 90,000 square miles with a population of 68m approx. 755 people per square mile on average.
The Gaza Strip currently in the news has a land area of 141 square miles and a population of 2m, 14,184 people per square mile. Roughly 20 times the population density of the UK.
Hong Kong has an area of 1,000 square miles approx and a population of 7.4m. 7,400 people per square mile. ten times our population density.
France has a landmass of 213,000 square miles. Population is the same as the UK at approx 68m, which is 319 people per square mile.
Its shocking where we live in Ceredigion. The population density is 40 people per square KM, I dont know what that equates to in proper money?
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16 minutes ago, magnetman said:
I still think there might be a 'marine' thing going on here.
Canals are not marine areas. Marine usually implies tidal.
The MAIB did the investigation when the Nottingham Princess hit Trent bridge in Nottingham.
No I wasn't driving 👍
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From the horses mouth
Who ever owns the dry dock has certain responsibilities because they are charging for the dock so classed as a commercial activity. Even if the deceased wasnt at work at the time. Local authority have their own health and safety inspecters that regulate low risk activities HSE regulate high risk. It will depend on too many factors unknown on this post so could be either a local authority job or HSE.
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I will have an answer in a minute or two lol.
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My bet is contaminated fuel/filter etc. Work of the devil are diesel/kero heaters.
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41 minutes ago, Victor Vectis said:
FWIW
We though that whole business was dodgy from the off.
Yeahbut.....
Did any of that cash get into the pockets of the real heroines/heroes of the covid crisis?
I mean the staff on the wards who had to work in full PPE while caring for their patients.
In hard cash terms no cash was paid out but, two of my daughters both got substantial hampers from the money raised and doshed out to NHS staff.
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4 minutes ago, peterboat said:
Yes 5kw to the room and 5kw to water and central heating, its an enhanced backboiler works very well, currently childish here radiators warm, oven at 200c everything cosy
😂 Dont you just luv spell chuckers
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10 minutes ago, StevieN said:
For the people with money who want to buy!
If you've something to sell no matter what it is, it is *you* that should be making the effort to bring the customers to you.
It looks like you have come up with a unique idea!! Why not set it up and make yourself a fortune?
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40 minutes ago, StevieN said:
Like I said, the alternative is travelling and making several journeys.
The point I'm trying to make is asking why there's no second hand dedicated boat show with everything in one place.
Boats are not so easily moved about, many are several days travel apart, the logistics and costs involved would be horrendous which is why there are many brokerages about for you to visit. Think of it more like buying a house that you travel to look at.
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The location isnt good but facts are the stove is too small. My friend had a squirrell on his barge that proved inadequate to heat it so I bought it off him and fitted it to my last boat which was a narrowboat and we all know a squirrel works well on those. My widebeam had a fantastic Masport Fatso stove fitted in it when I bought the boat which was awesome. I think @blackrose has a morso Panther? on his boat so he may be able to advise on his thoughts as a widebeam owner.
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19 minutes ago, M_JG said:
Bloody Nora Carl - good to see you...
Indeed so. The forum is suddenly getting back to normal as a result of the in memoriam thread 🤪
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Best advice is to skip it and install a multi fuel stove 👍
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Please be careful when you disconnect it!! Put at least eye protection on. We had one explode at work and if anyones face had been near it when it went off it could have been disastrous, the heavy case exploded like a hand grenade.
21 minutes ago, GUMPY said:If you leave it on charge it will go bang😱
On occasion a bloody big bang!!
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10 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Contact Kate Saffin as its a closed group for obvious reasons (2) Kate Saffin | Facebook
Kate is as mad as a box of frogs and a lovely lady, she even extols the virtues of composting bogs bless her cotton socks.
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2 minutes ago, dmr said:
Just before I purchased my first house a friend gave me some really good advice, buy a house within easy walking distance of a good pub, you can drive to work, you can drive to the shops, but you wan't to be driving home from the pub,
Lol. When I downgraded from the boat to the house a couple of years ago it was a priority. I have 3 establishments within 300 yards of my front door. Oh and the chemist is less than 100 yards plus some proper caffs for proper breakfast, lifes all about priorities innitt
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2 hours ago, Loubeloo said:
Im in Leeds, West Yorks. The beauty of the mooring is that its a nice friendly marina on the Leeds Liverpool, I walk past it all the time! and its ten minutes walk from my house so i wouldnt need to drive and theres a great pub nearby.
You will be fine, you obviously understand lifes priorities as you state there is a great pub nearby, far more important than a whole host of other stuff that people worry about.
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If well maintained all those will suffice. Remember engines in such boats are seldom if ever stretched. Oil and filter changes where applicable are key. John Deere are good, one of the trip boats I skippered had twin Fords with over 30k hours on each engine without even ever having the heads off. The other had twin John deere, we also had a volvo genset and a perkins genset with mahoosive hours on each that ran without fault.
We serviced and kept meticulous record on each unit.
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5 minutes ago, Michael Siggers said:
No, it was the brokerage guy who 'opened her up' and I think I quickly glanced at the ref counter but may have misread it.
Interesting about the prop too. Maybe it had a larger one fitted previously. When I put the boat in tick over, it revs at about 400rpm.
The name of the drive escapes me as its on my other paperwork which I don't have on me.
Mike
I wouldnt be suprised if its deliberately slightly over propped? My dv36 was fitted to a 65 foot boat that started life for two years as a hire boat with a 15 inch prop. Reason it had a small prop was so it would whizz round and charge batteries as it was hire and didnt go fast but freely revved. I fitted a prop stuck in my spares bin which was iirc a 19inch so whilst it didnt rev it did push boat along well enough on canals where it spent most of its life anyway.
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I didnt use to take boats for a spin before I bought them but as the bloke with the cash in your pocket and wanting to take it for a quick spin b4 deciding I think its a fair thing to want to do. Broker doesnt want to do any work for his easy money it seems? Its your money spend it where they want it.
Overwintering, heating control.
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Get some lubbly jubbly oil and a boiler. Mine is on as I type. Even when it was minus 12 last winter we could achieve over 20 even in this old stone house. Good old tech 😜