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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
I did them without traps and that saves about 5 inches. For what its worth I discovered last week that the waste I our house runs uphill from the trap to the hole through the wall.
One problem with having no trap, is that on windy days you get a cold draught blowing into the boat through the pipe.
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Do you own a horse?
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I once tested my steering ability on the straight Witham by putting up the Sky TV satellite dish while we were moored in Boston, then travelling up to Anton's Gowt while the crew watched the TV. Never once did the picture drop out!
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On 04/03/2021 at 15:58, Loddon said:
I first thought it was to do with my Amateur licence rather than VHF, glad it's not as that would get complicated
Yes I had that confusion at first.
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1 hour ago, Scholar Gypsy said:
By the way did anyone else get an incomprehensible email from Ofcom yesterday?!
Yes, me too. I think it can be safely ignored.
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If only our old Ellis boiler could achieve the same level of gas efficiency. In the depths of winter it can consume a 13kg bottle in less than 3 days. Even with the coal stove keeping the living area warm and the thermostats turned down low for background heating only, it is difficult to make a bottle last for a week. Gas availability becomes a big problem if we are frozen in!
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How about curtain rings? These for example are about the right size but they have a range of others too
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I thought the printing on the paper said "In the interests of economy, please use both sides"
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15 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Was he allowed to move his backside first??
We let him move as soon as the boat had been lifted enough that the hole was clear of the water. By then we had about a foot of water in the bilges.
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On the Norfolk Broads in 1971 we seriously holed the hull of our hired sailing boat below the water line. We took the person whose fault it was and forced him to sit with his backside in the hole while we sailed as quickly as we could to the nearest boatyard which was about a quarter of a mile away. The yard immediately winched the boat up by a couple of feet and nailed an offcut of plywood over the hole while we had a beer in the nearby pub; here's a photo of him doing the repair.
Within an hour we were on our way again and it didn't leak a drop for the rest of our fortnight's holiday.
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49 minutes ago, Sea Dog said:
Still, since they cocked the job up and then they didn't put it right either, at least you didn't have to part with any money, eh?
Actually that was just one of several mistakes. They have promised (in writing) to put them all right, and by agreement I paid a part of the bill and will pay the rest when they have done so.
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We had some paintwork done last year; one of the items to be painted was the control column, upon which as well as the gear lever there were the horn button and a multi-way microphone plug. One of the workers unscrewed and removed these latter items (despite being asked not to), then another worker noticed before starting the painting that there were two round holes in the column so he fitted a steel plate over that area and then painted over it. So I now have no horn and cannot speak on the VHF radio.
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1 hour ago, Midnight said:
I reported a pollution incident to them on Battyeford cut awhile ago but basically were's interested said it was CaRT's problem. CaRT gave it their usual priority.
Yes that's always been my experience. Both CRT and EA say it's the other organisation's responsibility, repeatedly, until it goes away.
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Our tank had to be steam cleaned. None of the regular chemicals would kill the bug, but steam cleaning did a great job.
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Maybe not the same incident but I got T-boned on the BCN just after coming through a big wide bridge, by a hire-boat (with drunken helmsman) coming at full speed out of the side-turning and doing a classic "straight on at T" into my offside bow. My insurer's "legal assistance department" said that I was partly at fault because taking a 20m boat through any bridge without a crew member on the bow as lookout was a clear contravention of Colregs regardless of whether or not I had sounded my horn and regardless of the fact that my view through the bridge was clear in the straight-ahead direction. The insurers only paid part of my costs so I took the hire company to the small claims court for the rest (and won).
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A friend of mine went through a Scottish lock with a crew member sitting on the front of the boat holding the end of a line that passed around a lock-side bollard. When the paddles were opened, the boat was pushed back so hard that the crew member was lifted high up off the deck; they remained holding on, swinging in mid-air by the lock wall, until the boat had risen up to their level. The lock keeper thought it was hilarious (but didn't drop the paddles at all)
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Are the domestic batteries still charged ok? If so, you could probably start the engine by simply putting a jump-lead from the domestic batteries to the starter battery.
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I assume that "general screen" means either the lock-screen or the home screen, and the OP wonders if the recipient will see a notification that a message has been received - the answer to which unfortunately is that they might do or they might not, it depends on precisely how they have set up their phone (or tablet or pc or whatever).
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On 23/01/2021 at 14:10, Keeping Up said:
I'd be willing to bet that a tinfoil wrap would work a lot better than the cheap jump-leads that I bought from Halfrauds a few years ago!
Just a late thought, on thinking further about this. Good quality tinfoil is appatently about 0.02mm thick, so a typical 300mm width would have a cross-sectional area of 6 sq mm. I reckon that ought to be enough if the resultant twist was wrapped 3 or 4 times around the terminals.
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Our old boat, an ex-butty but not BCN, had a cabin top fitted while slightly spread and got stuck in Napton. The owner removed an internal bulkhead and some trim, then welded a couple of eyes to the inside and winched the sides together using chains and a bottle-screw. He got through the lock (which has since been widened) then removed the chains and carried on with his journey.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a smart Moorhen, they are the stupidest species I've ever met! Coots on the other hand, now they ARE clever.
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2 hours ago, Idle Days said:
It seems that avoiding the Co-op for any insurance is an essential first step.
Also from my personal experience I would recommend avoiding them for banking.
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Deleted after I realised I'd confused Braunston Boats with Braunston Marina
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Given the lack of a multimeter but having a lightbulb I would test as follows. Disconnect a wire at the pump and attach the bulb, which should glow brightly; if not you have no 12v to the pump so look for a faulty wire switch or fuse. If it glows brightly, touch the pump's wire back on and see what happens. If it stays at EXACTLY the same brightness the pump is taking no current so the pump or its switch is faulty. If it dims slightly, the pump is taking some current but is not turning so is almost certainly faulty (or just possibly may have seized although this would probably make it dim more than just slightly). If it goes out, there is almost certainly a fault in the wiring switch or fuse.
1 minute ago, JackShaftoe said:Yeah I only have led bulbs available. I can get hold of a multi meter if that will help
Definitely an LED bulb is not particularly useful here. A meter would be best.
Residual Plate Thickness
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Yes 0.2mm is above average but even if it were maintained then you would only lose 4mm in the next 20 years and would then still have a perfectly good (usable, saleable and insurable) boat. And if you are lucky, a change of location would halt the corrosion anyway. So I would say ignore it, if you like the boat just buy it enjoy it and stop worrying about it. And I speak as someone whose boat had 23 years without corrosion followed by a year of incredible but unexplained pitting and now several years without any corrosion at all.