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3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Do you check the water level on them?
Difficult, he said they're sealed.
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Do you have an inverter? When powering only a small load it is not unknown for them to take their power from the 12v supply as a stream of short sharp pulses of current. This can manifest in the way you describe.
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The slow prop rotation is perfectly normal.
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On 19/03/2021 at 10:09, Hastings said:
This ties in with the fact that this canal (Birmingham & Liverpool Junction, from Cut End at Autherley to Nantwich) was built for fly-boating, where boats would only stop at wharves - which of course still have vertical sides. There was then no need to stop anywhere else.
I have seen an early BW guide, addressed to their hire-boaters, which states that you must not moor anywhere other than at recognised wharves, boatyards, or visitor moorings.
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If the rope is essentially running vertically down from handrail to the pontoon then the boat is guaranteed to move about, so anything you can do to change that situation will help. Definitely if possible tie to the cleat on the opposite side of the pontoon. Is there any way you can get the centre-line down to gunwale level, for example by using a fender attachment point?
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We followed the two boats racing at Ely once. We came third!
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7 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Im pretty sure the terms for both our marina moorings stated we were not guranteed a particular pontoon, meaning in theory our spot could have been given to somebody else whilst we were out cruising. Their obligation was just to provide a spot of the same length when we returned. It was never invoked but they had the flexibility if they wanted to.
I can't remember the details but there is a reason for this, something to do with the marina having to pay Council tax on a mooring if they allocate it exclusively to one boat
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1 hour ago, Bee said:
Cor! Thats a lot of wear. It is surprising how much wear a bit of greasy packing can inflict. If you are lucky then you can shift the shaft a bit so that the worn bit is in /out of the packing point. Could be overtightening the thing?
Yes it's a lot of wear - but a lot of mileage too. 20,000 miles, that's about 10,000 hours of use; in that time a car would probably have travelled 300,000 miles and would probably have worn out a few bearings too.
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We have the traditional stern gear, just a brass fitting with greaser (none of your modern water-lubricated stuff) and a plummer block but no thrust-bearing. After about 20 years and 20,000 miles of travelling it was getting difficult to stop the drips so it was inspected carefully; the prop-shaft had worn down to about half its original diameter so the shaft and bearing were replaced. Once again it doesn't leak more than a few drops per hour and I don't expect to be around when it needs replacing again.
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24 minutes ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
Have to agree that having to have a dog put down is probably one of the worst days of your life
Agreed, and after 5 times it still hasn't got any easier, but just think of it as doing for them the one great kindness that they can't do for themselves. There will be a great group waiting for me at the Rainbow Bridge!
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Definitely a pilot is necessary from Sharpness to Potishead, but as said above there really is no need for one from Portishead to Bristol. If your insurer doesn't agree, get another one, or else find one to give you one day's insurance. I'm with Towergate and had no problems with them but that was a few years ago.
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While our boat was being fitted out we visited every fortnight to see the progress. Once when the kitchen was half-finished, as we walked through it the chippy looked at my wife and said "Oh you aren't very tall, are you". When we returned 2 weeks later he had lowered the worktops by 1".
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9 minutes ago, David Mack said:
The height of that bridge suggests that the river beyond is (or once was) navigable. Anybody tried it?
Wasn't there once a loading dock for the cement works up there?
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Our worktop doesn't go under the gunwales, it stops at the bottom of the wall, so the cooker fits it perfectly. This still leaves plenty of space for the rest of the kitchen. There is a lift-up glass lid, which helps protect the sloping wall, and I simply made a rotary catch from a couple of tiny scraps of wood and a screw.
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Friends of ours had a collie-alsation cross, which they always referred to as a "collation"
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We have always had one on board, I think it's called a Wonderwash. It has a screw-on cap and uses the frothing of the powder to create pressure which drives the dirt out (says the manual). We actually find it really good for smalls and t-shirts but nothing bigger or heavier than that, and you have to be careful not to overload it.
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1 minute ago, umpire111 said:
Do I need a separate Anglian Waters pass to go on the Nene?
No.
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For those who haven't the will to watch a 45 minute video, here is my written account from 2013 of the Gota Canal (with lots of photos and a few short optional videos)
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We have two thermostatic mixers. There is one near the calorifier output, which is pre-set (ie not adjustable) at 65 degrees, and there is also an adjustable one for the hot tap on the wash basin in the bathroom. This latter is set to the hottest temperature at which you can comfortably hold your hand, making hand-washing much easier.
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When I decided to add a similar opposite-side socket in my kitchen, I found that the easiest way was via the roof. Needing to keep the wire away from the existing polystyrene insulation actually gave me a good solution, I pushed a length of garden-hose up from an existing socket to the corner of the roof, then another straight across to the other side (easy because it went alongside a support), and a third length up from the new socket to the roof. The hosepipe proved remarkably easy to push, as it didn't kink or bend sharply, and then acted as an excellent conduit into which to push the wire itself.
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On our trip across Sweden by Gota Canal, they used the technique on one tricky corner which I reported as "This is a tricky feat of navigation; first the ship must turn upstream into a flowing river section using some impressive "proper boating" techniques. As the ship passed close to the shore, the "jump-ashore Johnny" (in this case a particularly athletic crew-member whose nickname was Tarzan) leapt to the bank and ran ahead. A crew-member on the bows threw him a line with a loop on the end, which he dropped over a substantial strapping post which turned the ship part-way upstream. As the ship continued without slowing down, he lifted the line and transferred it to another post further ahead to turn a little further, and then repeated the exercise on a third post to complete the turn into the river before taking a flying leap back on board. It was wonderful to see this traditional technique being employed here to such good effect, even if most of the other passengers did not appreciate or understand it."
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1 hour ago, Athy said:
I see what you mean. The terminology used in the film was inaccurate.
It wasn't just terminology, the film made a big issue about the fact that this track was always playing at full volume whenever she was driving (the volume knob was missing), and it played on the soundtrack every time.
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I watched a film last week where one character had a 1970's car in which - she said - the cassette player had "got stuck one track" so it always played that track, starting from the beginning, as soon as she switched on the ignition. I thought to myself, I guess nobody in the film studio was around in the 70s.
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4 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Which just goes to prove the vagaries of the scheme or the ficklness of examiners, or both.
My examiner tried to fail my BSS because the locker contained a wooden bracket whose sole purpose was to restrain the bottle and prevent it from moving or striking the changeover valve. The cure was simple - I got a new examiner.
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Battery charging issue
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True but it doesn't address the particular question asked by the OP.