David Mack

When starting in cold weather with a battery known to be of limited capacity, I have turned the engine over a couple of hundred turns on the handle to get everything moving and lubricated, so I can make use of the all available battery energy to get the damn thing started!

Indeed. But some seem to be suggesting that being licenced as a CCer exempts the boater from paying the EoG fee to CRT if they do take a mooring (and don't/can't) change their licence status.

How many do you want?

That is under the disused railway bridge at Cassio Wharf.

And no different in principle from a CCer taking a paid for mooring in a marina for a couple of nights. Some on here would seem to be suggesting that a boater without a home mooring is not permitted to pay for any mooring at all!

My Samsung phone is on Chrome 123 and yours on 106. So I would try upgrading Chrome first. I find the Samsung native browser works well on my phone. As yours is also a Samsung you could give it a try. It can be downloaded from Google Play.

After placing the tape, run a line of the colour under the tape along the edge first, and then paint the contrasting colour. That way any bleed under the tape will be the first colour, not the second , and you will get a crisper edge.

In many cases there is no contract between the farmer and CRT, and thus no contract to breach. There is one contract between the farmer and the boater, and another between the boater and CRT. And CRT's ability to control the moorings against the farmer's land can only be exercised by whether they allow the boater to moor there.

According to @koukouvagia's website: The Northern Lighthouse Board put Kelvin twin cylinder K2 engines into 12 lighthouses to charge up the foghorns. Each lighthouse had three engines – two in use and one on standby. They received relatively light use – about 500 hours per year and were regularly serviced and lovingly maintained. In the late 80s the lighthouses were automated and the Kelvins were no longer required. Many were destroyed and one or two found their way into museums. The Kelvin in Owl came from Langness Lighthouse on the Isle of Man. It was taken and dumped at the Laxey Heritage centre and would, no doubt, have ended up as scrap had not Phil Trotter of RWDavis, Saul, rescued and rebuilt it. https://www.narrowboatowl.com/the-engines

As far as I can see he's just someone fairly local who makes boating videos, with no other connection to the boat or its owner.

Steve and Nick put a great deal of work into maintaining canalplan as a free app for boaters. So better you log the bug in their system (not just here) so it can be investigated, prioritised and fixed appropriately. Creating an account allows you to save your preferences so that they are there every time you use the site (logged in) and you don't need to reenter them. I long ago set my preferences to include the journey time for each leg, as well as the miles and locks, and also the cumulative figures from the start of the trip, as this makes it much easier to obtain the miles/locks/time between two intermediate points without rerunning the whole thing.

I suspect it will vary from one prop to another, so somebody else's measurement may not be right for yours.

Oue attendance at Cavalcade in one month's time is now in doubt!

Some time back I filled up at a boatyard where the customer fuel declarations were all in a ring binder on the shop counter. Flicking through I saw that almost every customer had declared 0% or perhaps 5% proplusion. But the yard didn't have that many moorings!

And rather than an anonymous painted steel box with a morse lever at the top, how about one of these?

Then you are back to the original problem of having to stand too far back to reach the controls. That is a nice piece of work. But surely the better answer is, as often done on cruiser stern boats, to mount the speed control on a separate pedestal within reach of the steerer, rather than putting it inside the cabin doors.

The trouble with the longer tiller is that you have to move it further to the side to achieve a given angle of turn. Which then puts you further from the speed control lever...

An update on the condition of the boat which sank at Barrow. Rather shocking to see how the strop which was used during the recovery has ripped through the cabin side plating.

Not as expensive as I thought. There's 60' and 70' residential narrow boat moorings currently available at Engineers Wharf, both at £8300 per annum. https://www.watersidemooring.com/366-engineers-wharf-residential-l1/Vacancies#berth4420

Much easier to walk up the offside than to go round via the towpath.

The paddles at Knowle are bigger than on the other 1930s widening locks - labelled as 3ft square I recall whereas the other flights have 2ft 6in square paddles. Presumably because the locks are deeper, 5 wide locks having replaced 6 narrow locks.

I don't mean to be rude, but you need to do far more research about the basics of owning and living on a boat before you worry about the finer points of which boat to buy. There are loads of boaters all wanting to be in and around London, and the place is basically full. They have grown in numbers over the last two or three decades, both encouraged by lifestyle articles in the media, and driven by the increasingly unaffordable cost of renting or buying in the capital. Official permanent moorings are few and expensive, so most London boaters are so-called 'continuous cruisers' engaged in an ongoing process of musical chairs shuffling about just enough to keep CRT's enforcement people off their backs. And many struggle to manage the movement, the need to fill water tanks, empty toilets, buy diesel and gas, generate enough electricity and not knacker the batteries, heat the boat etc., all while doing a 9-5 job in an office. If you are in London 'several days a week' you won't have time to get any distance away in your non-working days. Cambridge and Ely are a fortnight's travel away from London, via the narrow beam Northampton Arm. The Bedford-Milton Keynes Waterway is a pie-in-the-sky project which will take decades to complete if it ever happens. The only alternative route to the Anglian waters is via the sea or on the back of a lorry. Sorry if that sounds brutal, but going starry-eyed and uninformed into boat ownership looks like an effective way of burning through your inheritance and ending up without a lot to show for it.

Worth submitting a bug report - the canalplan owners do respond and try to correct any user problems.