john6767

The quote was referring to "proper users" not "proper use". Clearly "proper use" would apply to all.

Assuming the set is licensed and the operator qualified, surly use on a canal is perfectly valid and legal. So what would make them "lunatics" and what is a "proper" user?

If you have access to get the ballast out, you can do any harm, take some out and see what the effect is, you cna always put it back. Don't forget the state of the water and diesel tanks will probably have a significant impact on how the boat sits.

A similar question. On the top out our stove I an not happy with the seal between the flange where the chimney connects and the stove top. Visually there is perhaps a 2mm gap part way round the flange. It is probably going to be quite hard to take it all apart and bed it on fire cement or high temp silicon, so I wondered what other suggestions there would be. Working fire cement into the gap with a knife certainly seems possible, particularly the "softer" stuff above, but I was wondering it there is such a thing as thing are fireproof "string" that could be pushed into the gap before fire cement. Or any other suggestions?

You don't have to go to the extreme of that though. This is ours (from the sales literature when we bought it), and it gives plenty of room for 2 people inside the hatch (the non-steerer can sit on a stool if they want as well). The main disadvantage is the weight of the hatch, and there is some space at the side of you when it is raining and the hatch is pulled back and the doors closed. So if you are concerned about a trad not being suitable as there is only space of one comfortably, this makes an alternative choice to going for a semi-trad.

A trad stern with a larger than normal hatch; gives the nearest to the best of all worlds that I have seen, but I would say that as that is what we have.

Only one boat shows up as being built by "Admiral Narrow Boats"

Dudley Tunnel.

I may be wrong but I think it property sits within Pelsall Common Nature Reserve, so unlikely you would get vehicle access to Fishley Lane across the nature reserve.

That is at least something then. Is it clear the you would have regular vehicular access to least to the other side of the canal? None of this stops it being workable, but I do believe it will constrain the price, which if you only want access by boat is a good thing, although you will need to do a serious amount of dredging I suspect to find the offside edge.

Whilst GPS on the face of it is not really accurate enough for position deltas at low speeds, as long as you have an app that damps and averages the results, I believe you can get a very good indication when travelling at a constant speed for a few mins (to let it get a good running average). I feel comfortable that one decimal place (in MPH) accuracy at constant speed is believable, but perhaps that it is just me that believes that. From the BCN Challenge, my speeds indicated by GPS have tied in well against the time measurements between junctions, with the distance between junctions measured from Google Earth (I don't think the canalplan distances are that accurate sometimes).

Whilst you could physically get a vehicle over the bridge; based on what the details say I would think that you do not have the rights to do so, it is basically a footpath. I don't think it is necessarily automatic either that you have right of access to the track that leads to the other 2 properties and the area by the corner of the canal. Securing legal access would I think be very important to any value of this property and being sold without that I think makes it risky to anyone unless it is very cheap, other than the occupiers of the 2 properties opposite who may to want to buy this to prevent development.

you got me on that one!

Yes they are annoyingly spaced out, but I would not be going that way. Stourbridge, Lapworth, Hatton, Stockton etc would be the way I would go.

With your settings for speed and locks canalplan will give you the time for each route. It is also about how may locks do you want to do, you your style of cruising. Personally if I were doing that I would go through Birmingham, as all the locks are in flights, which we do quickly and prefer to spaced out locks.

I think the lack of road access will constrain the price that this will sell for.

I think it does, that is what I was playing with. Make your query and then hit the ">>" by Next, you then see the number of pages of results. As a quick approximation multiply that count by 20 (assuming you have the default 20 results per page), it you want it more accurate, multiple the count-1 by 20 and add the number on the last page. That appears to work, although clearly you are abstracted somewhat from doing a real query on the database.

Not heard the term "apparent staircase" before, and a google search only seems to come up with that exact same wording in different locations, is that a general term or just something someone made up on Wikipedia and has been copied?

Thanks for that, perhaps that is it. I will maybe dig a bit more, I was only wanting 3 nights to go watch the rugby with is over 2 days at Ibrox.

Or to provide the only volume of water, such as at Bratch and the one on Stourbridge. It does seem that the Foxton case neither fits with "side pond" or "side pound" in it's normal usage context.

If you look at how many members there are who have posted in the last 6 months, I make it 1975, the number who have logged in in the last 6 months 2850. So the number logging in is not a massive percentage of the total, and I would bet if you required re-registration if you have not posted for 6 months then a very large number of that 15000 would disappear. Interestingly if you qualify those figure to only count users who have made 5 or more posts (in total) the numbers are 1500 and 1656 respectively, ie much closer together. So you could argue* that perhaps the 1656 number more accurately reflects active users. * you can make the numbers say whatever you want really....

Looking at those figures, and assuming you just want one headline figure, I would agree that "5000 active members" would feel about right. That should cover active posters and active viewers. I think the number of posts per day figure is also one worthy of quoting as well,.

Is there actually availability of boat hire. I was looking for a hotel for during the commonwealth games period and it all seems to be booked up, which is not surprising I guess.