David Mack
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3 hours ago, agg221 said:
Thanks - that would put it a bit further north than this video from last September which I think is near Cassiobury Park.
Alec
That is under the disused railway bridge at Cassio Wharf.
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2 hours ago, Paul C said:
The charge is for not having a home mooring for >6 months - which is a different thing.
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!
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57 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:
Using incognito mode is the only way I can access the forum when my phone is in the "unsafe" mode. I had to go incognito earlier today, but at present it is working normally, although it had forgotten my saved sign-in.
Here is a screenshot of my Chrome data. It's the only browser on my phone.
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.
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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.
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14 minutes ago, Paul C said:
In the above case, if a farmer is renting out 11 moorings (or the length equivalent of 11) and the contract he has with CRT is for 10 moorings, then he is in breach of that contract with CRT.
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.
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4 hours ago, MtB said:
Did not quite a few get installed in lighthouses? Or is that an urban myth?
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.
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2 minutes ago, Andyaero said:
Seems its not the owner making this video, is he fixing it for them, was it not fully insured? Or has he got it as scrap and fixing it up?
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.
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1 hour ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
This is the site I was on prior to the error pages screen capped. This tends to happen when I hit "confirm" after making changes of any kind (e.g., changes in preferences or setting the trip to number of days instead of 7 hour day default). I'm afraid I am not motivated to create an account for a bug report under the circumstances - I've described the issue to the best of my ability here and under the circumstances don't anticipate that having an account on the site to track the credentials of will serve any purpose for me.
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.
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I suspect it will vary from one prop to another, so somebody else's measurement may not be right for yours.
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Oue attendance at Cavalcade in one month's time is now in doubt!
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4 hours ago, haggis said:
I don't think we do but we are keeping quiet about it 🙂 . I have heard on the grapevine that some suppliers are quite happy with zero propulsion for any boats but I couldn't possibly comment on that !
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!
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6 minutes ago, David Mack said:
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.
And rather than an anonymous painted steel box with a morse lever at the top, how about one of these?
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2 hours ago, blackrose said:
Not if you hold it in the middle when pushing the tiller away from the controls. Just because it's long doesn't mean you have to hold it at the very end
Then you are back to the original problem of having to stand too far back to reach the controls.
7 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
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.
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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...
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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.
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1 hour ago, agg221 said:
If you are not looking to live in the cheapest way possible, there are permanent liveaboard moorings west of London which are within the range of the underground network. Engineer's Wharf sometimes has moorings, as does Brentford. They are, perhaps surprisingly, not always full with a long waiting list because they are not central London and it is more expensive than shuffling around the towpath, but they do come with water, power and the security of being there legitimately without any need to move.
AlecNot 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
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5 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
Knowle is difficult to single hand. Not least because the locks are each stuck out on their own little isthmus.
Much easier to walk up the offside than to go round via the towpath.
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21 minutes ago, Stroudwater1 said:
Knowle locks seem different to the other Ham Baker gear locks. If you get too near the top gate then opening the same side paddle will tend to push your boat across. The other locks are more forgiving. This is a pain as the lock ladder on the left side going up are close to the top gates. However it’s easier to get from lock to lock on the left side as you don’t need to cross the old narrow locks.
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.
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1 hour ago, Emc said:
If I buy a boat, I would hopefully be on the Grand Union or Regents Canal travelling up and down rather than a mooring (I work in London several days a week so need to be based close by but I think moorings seem to be difficult to get?). I would also love to be able to travel over to East Anglia and the River Lark and around Cambridge and Ely but it looks like the stretch of canal from Milton Keynes to Bedford isn't completed yet (or maybe only for widebeams) which is a shame.
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.
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5 hours ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
I've seen the suggestion for Canalplan before, but it really doesn't like my computer. It goes wonky and gives me off firewall errors in any browser (I have no firewall beyond whatever is native and passive in windows and have never encountered this on another site).
Worth submitting a bug report - the canalplan owners do respond and try to correct any user problems.
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6 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:
All very welcome but there was certainly plenty available in 1971 (even if almost all towpaths were impassable) - enough anyway to get us hooked in 1967.
Quite a lot got added in 1974, but not all of it BW/CRT waters, including:
Ashton & Lower Peak Forest
Caldon
Great Ouse
Upper Avon
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10 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:
I assume that sort of weed cutting has finished now? It used to be said that Norfolk reeds provide the best for thatching houses.
Thatching still happens, so it must come from somewhere!
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1 hour ago, davidg said:
Getting strong clues from the buildings visible in this one😁
Ah, but do you need proof?
Looks much the same today.
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
in General Boating
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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.