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I bought what looks identical for work much more than fifteen years ago. With a wooden deck added, it was abused greatly, visited every nuclear power station in the UK and a few on the mainland, and took everything that my team could throw at it or stand on top of it. Not good in mud though, but better than most of the mickey mouse ones from Aldi etc.

In the good old days you could get beam focus magnets from dead tellies. They made excellent magmounts.

If you follow the links, it's not at all clear that anyone is throwing money at the company promoting the big stuff. Their website might possibly incorporate a lot of woo!

It's harder to have a pee while steering a van than when tillering on the back deck of a boat. On the other hand, you don't find so many anglers hiding behind bushes.

We were last in Cambrai two years ago. Quite a lot of small pontoons but space for five or six bigger boats. I didn't feel comfortable that there was space to wind our 16 m without a bow thruster, it was a bit of a job reversing back from the water point. She pulls very insistently to port in reverse. Lots of people emerged on the plastic boats opposite and put down fenders! Francis was a very helpful bloke even if he didn't own up to understanding any English. His young assistant was great and refused to speak French. He booked us through Ricquevalle. We were amazed at how pretty the c. st Quentin is.

I think it was the Navionics app that I played with recently. Can't remember why I deleted it. It was quite good on French canals, totally useless in the UK other than the bigger rivers.

Yes, I don't want to diss Canalplan at all. I have used it on the mainland, but mainly for estimating timings. It is difficult to find places due to rather random naming, and, last time I tried, it got in a bit of a mess when crossing borders.

Sincere apologies. I really CBA tearing the whole thing apart, but for starters, let's consider a hypothetical 100 W battery powered by Co-60. Let's be generous and suppose that there's a way to capture all of the radiation emitted using a tiny device and to convert it to electrical energy. I'll omit the electron anti-neutrino emissions as even the original writer would (probably) accept that intercepting these might be tricky. 100 W requires at least 240 TBq of Co-60. Co-60 is a high energy gamma-emitter, which is one reason why it's not used in RTGs. It's difficult to shield. Another good reason is it's half-life of 5.27 years, which would mean having to replace the battery rather regularly. To get the external radiation down to a level generally accepted as safe would require arounda 55 cm radius of steel shielding, even if the electrical conversion device were miniscule. A 110 cm steel sphere weighs a bit over 5 T. A realistic device which occupies a finite volume would weigh more than the boat but might be useful as an anchor. I could go on, but won't...

This sounds good. These's nothing like a pointless canal. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/feb/09/the-fabulous-folly-of-madagascars-pangalanes-canal

The Noscript fix doesn't work on the Times, the FT or the Irish Times. The Torygraph being carp (anag) doesn't surprise me. The article is utter BX too.

Quite likely to be the pressure switch - I don't use Shurflos but I guess that's the two black wires going in to the end. Worth bridging them to see if it runs? It looks like one of them has some insulting tape over it.

I my days as a wage-slave I've looked at and turned down several proposals for "nuclear batteries". They have a very niche market (space etc) where money is no object. If you calculate how much energy as heat output is available in e.g. Sellafield, it's a problem to get rid of but rather miniscule if you want to divvy it up into batteries, before any practical problems are considered.

Canalplan is patchy and the naming is erratic. (e.g. last time I looked, Reims wasn't there). Best source is to join the DBA (barges.org) and use their downloadable waterways guides which are actively maintained by members. They give the latest info on moorings, fuel etc. The Catre Fluvial series are good but eye-wateringly expensive. There's a similar big atlas for Belgium (de rouck geocart voies navigables Belges) which covers the whole country but that was well over 50€ (I think quite a lot over) .

BX. 5.27 years.

Frozen?

https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/retailers https://www.flogas.co.uk/stockists You're welcome.

Both the engine and the Webasto get our water hot enough for a shower or washing up in about twenty minutes. Roughly an hour from either to get to the tank being more or less fully up to temperature.

If they could be an aid to visually impaired steerers [1], maybe guide logs for the blind? [1] including steerers who may have overstayed in the pub, a discussion of which elsewhere lead to the question being asked.

Bridges (I'm thinking the G&S here but doubtless elsewhere) often have floating timbers leading to the opening, presumably to guide badly steered boats into the hole. Is there a proper name for these?

I find it's easier to run it without the ash pan in it and just shovel ash out into a stainless oven dish kept under the front for the purpose. It will go for a couple of days if necessary without emptying. Simple is better! Riddling with a poker is no great bother, I've got one with a bent end (best not ask) which is handy for a gentle poke underneath the grate - if the fire is low it gives less risk of putting it out.

Nope, they come in all sorts of voltage. The only thing one can say with confidence about yours is that they are > 12 V. The controller regulates the voltage to maximise the output from the panels under any conditions of illumination and to match the battery demand. It's basically a fancy invertor. Mixing panels of substantially different Voc may destroy one of both sets, and is unlikely to be better than one set alone.

I'd have thought that most domestic thermostatic shower controllers would be OK on a header tank unless specifically designed only for higher pressure, and even then they'd be good down to 1 bar or so. Worth checking the rating though.

It's likely to be ext3. There are utilities to read these on Windows, whether effectively I don't know.

Bloody Vikings get everywhere!