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Canal Jousting 🙂

Indecent incedent

Easy when you've got Parkinsons Disease among many other ailments. It was 11 yrs ago. Averaged roughly 15 litres of diesel per day (228 lts used by day 15) pretty good I would think. It's just a blur now, I recall being exhausted at the end of each day and sleeping like a log! (woke up on the SF stove... )

22 days! I'm losing, or more likely, lost the plot 🤣 364 miles, all canals apart from Isis/Thames, where we took a days break, so 21ish days.

It was a faught trip worrying that Innisfree might fall off the lorry.

Jeeze, calm down everyone, I've obv got it wrong, when the Mrs finds her diary I'll come back Bit like the old gas meters... Perhaps I should have omitted the forward slash We did manage to get Innisfree on the plane at one point

Can't remember exactly, I know we were in a rush and belting along from early morning until nightfall, totally knackered at the end. Mrs will dig out her diary tomorrow.

Doubtful

It is an approximation, as accurate as can reasonably be achieved. When we did a long run (Skipton to Devizes in 3/4 days) we used 60/40 It doesn't 'know' anything, it just runs when g'box is engaged, I remember now, I fitted it to the Morse lever.

Clue: when g'box is turning boat is cruising. Work out ratio of g'box/engine running hours and apply to amount of diesel purchased, ie 20 hrs g'box ÷ 100 hrs engine = 0.2 = 20% = 20/100 split (20% cruising) Simple. To be honest I can't remember how I installed it, long time ago though it was quite straightforward.

FWIW when self declaration was introduced, to avoid any confusion we decided to be honest, so I installed an hour meter on Innisfree's gearbox, as full time ccers we used to average approx 20% propulsion, if any supplier refused our declaration we would cast off and p**s off, though that was rare some expressed doubts, it seemed to me they didn't understand HMRC's wording and were worried, I seem to recall that they might have thought they had a "duty of care" to ensure boaters didn't unintentionally declare the wrong split. Confusing then as it is now.

I've made my own fridge with 6" thick PU foam, a bit small internally, enough room for one pack of butter in fact, but it's very efficient...