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David Mack

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  3. In which case it would still be better to angle the flue pipe slightly forward or back to avoid the support beam.
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  5. No doubt a certain forum member can quote screeds of industry guidance (good practice but not actually a legal requirement) to this effect, but I doubt that it is specifically banned, as it probably didn't occur to those who wrote the rules that anyone would do such a thing!
  6. I was a little surprised to see this event targeted very specifically at the narrow boat market. I assume that developments in electric/hybrid boats are happening across all types of boating, and I would have thought that it would benefit all concerned to share knowledge and experience across the wider market rather than developing a niche activity.
  7. Back in the 70s my father owned Leam, a wooden ex Thomas Clayton butty, converted and motorised. A Petter PH2W was installed in the back cabin, a stern tube fitted through the sternpost and the front part of ellum cut away below water level to accommodate the prop. And that was it. No anti-cavitation plates, and a thick wooden rudder right behind the prop. And while it worked, Leam was the slowest boat on the cut! I probably have some general photos of the boat stored away, but none of the underwater detail as we never had the boat out of the water. (Under the water, yes, but that's another story). After Dad sold her Leam was moored in Battlebridge Basin in London for a while in the 80s, but the new owner's planned restoration never happened, and she was broken up some years later, at Winkwell I believe.
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  10. Why is it odd? Both sides of the cutting are through the same ground strata, both would have originally been cut to the same slope angle, being in common ownership both sides have been subject to the same maintenance (or lack thereof), and both have been subject to one of the wettest winters on record.
  11. It doesn't show the Ilkley to Skipton Railway which opened in 1888, so the map is unlikely to postdate 1884 by much.
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  15. Fit the battens running fore and aft so there is through ventilation. You may need to adjust a few of the top layer of ballast blocks.
  16. Yes. I've read of a few instances of high CO levels, including fatalities, resulting from fire/stove ash or barbecues (with glowing embers beneath the surface) left to cool slowly in or close to living/sleeping spaces. And never put your stove ash in a bucket in the front well deck, unless it is cold. Otherwise CO from smouldering embers could find its way into the cabin through low level vents in the front doors/bulkhead.
  17. What are the opening hours? And will there be shorter slots if the listed time windows fall partly within and partly outside opening hours?
  18. I prefer to drop down the 3 locks and moor outside The Boat for the night.
  19. On most modern narrowboats the widest part of the hull is at the top guard, the upper part tapers in a little from there to the gunwale and the lower part tapers down to a 2m wide baseplate. The internal lining may follow that shape, or more likely just run straight from under-gunwale to chine. A few builders build 'Brumagem square' with vertical sides below the top guard down to a wider baseplate. Most working boats were built with vertical sides between the upper and lower guards, but tapered in above and below to the gunwale and baseplate. Modern boats built as faithful replicas of working boats may do the same. Only thing you can do is measure your boat.
  20. I would expect those Allen bolts to be tight anyway. If they were loose enough that you could nip them up then water could be getting through the joint behind the front part of the gland and/or you could have lost some of the grease by the same route. Can you actually see it leaking? How many drips of water per second (or seconds per drip). A continuous dribble is worrying, a drop every few seconds can safely be left for a week or more between manual bilge pumping.
  21. Perhaps more likely that the engine was mounted in line with one of the props, using the standard kelvin gearbox, with a chain drive across the two propshafts.
  22. We are told OP's partner is a joiner and neither of them knows much about engines. We don't know how much either of them knows about 12V electrics (which are different from house wiring), plumbing, heating systems, LPG gas systems, BSS requirements, welding, painting, etc. etc. So at the moment a bit of an open question as to the overall level of their practical abilities.
  23. This boat? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315200806314 Ad suggests hull is OK (but then it would, wouldn't it). Could be OK but a lot of work. Not just joinery and an engine refit either - there's plumbing, electrics, heating, gas etc. to do as well. If you've never been on a narrow boat do you really want to take all this on? And the previous engine was probably a Sabb (not a Saab) and to my mind a nicer engine, but presumably now history.
  24. A bit more than that - it's a standard technique for relining and reinforcing sewer pipes. The fibreglass liner is inserted into the pipe with a plastic tube inside it. The tube is first filled with water under pressure to force the liner against the existing pipe structure and then hot water is circulated through it which triggers the temperature-sensitive setting reaction of the fibreglass resin. Then the plastic bag is removed and the fibreglass ends trimmed.
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