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Yes, (and sorry to sound slightly flippant here), we sold the boat with that fridge in!
Before that - not completely, if I'm honest.
Ah! OK - thank you! A friend of mine is having a similar trouble to you were having.... but I don't think they will sell their boat!
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It may be a day or two before I can drag it out of it's cubby hole again, but I'll report back on successes or failures when I do.
Alan
Alan,
A bit of a time warp here - but did you solve the increasingly hard to light fridge mystery?
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I think Shockabilly is referring to the weir at Aynho. If you get anywhere near to the one at Shipston I think you have a bit of a problem...
Nice mooring alongside the lock, though...
it is a nice mooring alongside the lock, but it has been occupied this year
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He may well be, but having quoted and answered the OPs question it is fairly obvious that he is not seeking answers, but providing answers to the question.
As ever the obvious isn't quite so. I have been looking for answers to the very same question and came across this thread. I found the question to be unanswered entirely so I asked a BSS and gas safe engineer the question. The answer I posted was theirs, in the interest of good spirit and contributing to a knowledge pool on an uncertain discussion, I added it here for any future people who may come across this thread. It was not an 'answer' but information given to me, that had I read it here, I would have found it useful in making my decision about where to install my appliance. I have put it in the kitchen.
Gender is irrelevant.
Me too. Seems pretty unlikely to me.
Us gas bods are never given an explanation of the thinking or logic behind the various regulations, our training just makes us aware of them (ALL of them!) and the ways in which they are complied with.
We often get asked by customers why a given requirement exists, and frankly, we often don't actually know but in order to satisfy the customer and sound knowledgeable we make up something plausible-sounding on the spot. It is a way of making the questioning stop, and after all it doesn't matter what explanation we give as we are going to comply with the regulation anyway. If we just say we don't know the rationale behind a reg, this sometimes results in pressure from the customer to ignore it.
I've never heard the explanation given to Bones either, and am inclined to think it falls into this category of 'made up on the spot' as it makes little sense to me, but what do I know?! My own (also made-up) explanation would be that the small room filling up with hot steam plays havoc with correct operation of the open flue on a Morco. I have no evidence to support this either!
I can't remember the last time my bathroom filled up with hot steam!
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I have just bought a new Morco water heater and discovered that the installation instructions specifically state 'not to be installed in a bathroom'. Which was exactly where I had intended to install it on my boat! Does anyone know why that is the case? And does anyone have any suggestions / comments about how to get round it other than find somewhere else to install it?
Thanks
VeeJay
I asked someone about this. The BSS does allow the heater to be installed in the bathroom. HOWEVER, the gas safe engineer recommends against it. He says the condensation from the shower can reduce the temperature of the flame causing CO which isn't good.
don't shoot the messenger
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OK...camera to the ready. I ordered the bits, but one of them was a bit of a surprise - not quite the shape I was expecting....but we shall see.
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Thank you everyone.
I have 5 inches spare - so that's a good sign.
I have been for a class on how to do it from someone who has done it.
I have PJ's number on speed dial.
what could possibly go wrong!
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I did think I would have to lift the engine or cut an access hole in the bulk head....
is it a pig of a job?
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I am pretty sure I need to replace the crank shaft oil seal. I was wondering whether anyone had done this on a BMC 1.5 before and what sort of things I should be careful about (if any!).
Thank you!
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This is another very sad incident and the second fatal boat fire this year.
Over thirty people have died in boat fires in the past 20 years.
I joined the Boat Safety Scheme in 2002, and aside from fatal gas/petrol explosions, I can only remember two fatal boat fires where a working smoke alarm is unlikely to have had any impact.
Keep safe
Rob
edited to remove unwanted emicon - note: never use 'b' and bracket together
Why aren't fire and CO detectors on the BSS? It seems they should be.
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I am SO pleased you have found pictures of this boat. How wonderful. I have heard so many wonderful stories about it.
It was owned by Cecile Dorward, whose wonderful book "Anything But Ordinary: The Nine Lives of Cecile Dorward" recounts how she bought if off Aickman and of her travels around the country from 1948 to 1955. Her voyage across the Wash was reported in the Manchester Guardian of August 1955. Soon after her husband died in December 1956 she sold it "to some American physicists". The story of her early voyages was published in the Waterways Journal (Boat Museum Society) Vol 9, 2007. I'm currently working on a follow-up, hence the details - but I am grateful to know where that photo was taken as there is a very similar black & white one in her photo collection.
Hugh
I was under the impression it was sold to Americans but one was a writer (who wrote about their tales in a column the guardian) and the other a scientist. They lived on it while he was working in Cambridge and I believe their D.Phil students have some interesting tales from it!
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I posed this question on another thread just as it was running out of steam so didn't get much response. thought I'd try again over here.
I can see a time in another few years when we might spend the whole year on board. The weather doesn't concern me at all, one thing that does bother me slightly though is how to get through the long evenings once the clocks go back in October.
So I wonder how folks who already live aboard full time while away the dark evenings or do you just go to the pub?
I do the same as in summer but fall over more because visibility isn't so good. In terms of work on the boat I tend to do inside jobs rather than outside jobs.
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I've never managed to negotiate that bridge solo, and not for the want of trying. Someone ALWAYS seems to turn up and 'help', thereby removing my chance to try out whatever smart Alec method I happen to have figured for the occasion.
For my next assault on it I was planning on chaining it open with a loop and karabiner too. The doubt in my mind is whether there is a loop set in the ground to fix it to. If there isn't, I can either whack a mooring stake into the ground or lug as many 56lb weights from my ballast as it take to hold the poxy thing open...
There is a loop. This bridge used to be easy but the last few times I have been through it it has been really tough and I haven't been able to open it from the towpath side let alone use a pole.
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Bones didn't actually put it in, but did a lot of supervising
We have our own resident Piano man at Thrupp who does all things piano wise. PM 'Pinkio' if you need any advice
yep - and it came out of the Piano Man at Thrupps' window in to my front doors. It was quite nerve wracking but I am quite sure my not helping made it go very smoothly....
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I heard on the grapevine the chap wanted £3500
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I'd quailify that by saying if the OP is a complete novice (and she doesn't say), a 60ft boat is still more of a handful than 35 or 40ft.
Only if someone tells you so. The first time I stepped on the first boat it was +60ft and I reversed it 1 mile to the winding hole. The owner was flabberghasted when he found out proclaiming "but this boat is impossible to reverse" good job no-one told me. I also had no idea that narrowboats didn't go backwards at all well. Nor did I know that single handing a 63ft boat was difficult.
The only thing I wish people had told me was that boats are meant to be warm!
Now, I did spend an inordinate amount of time getting stuck and wedged but I am sure that put me in good stead for my life on boats.
I love the space on the +60ft but I prefer the maneuverability of my 54ft.
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Hey just wondered what your thoughts are on handling 60ft boat alone, yes I am a woman lol but not sure if that matters. Just weighing up whether im best off with smaller live aboard
Yout thoughts .?
60ft single handing isn't a problem.
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If my memory serves me right, the winding hole at Somerton is signed as Private with a chain across. Willing to be corrected. I am referring to the one adjacent to bridge 196 (Sumerton Bridge).
Martyn
There is a winding hole above somerton deep that is not private, or chained. One can wind there.
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it is open again now.
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When I saw them this morning I did mention my surprise that it had lasted so long. They think it will be open in a couple of days.
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Went past Hazel at lunchtime, she's back on top of the water.
me too - up, floating and for sale. again
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There used to be 7 day moorings at Frenchay Road in Oxford - have they been disbanded? Lower Heyford is a good idea.
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It's a modern boat on brokerage at the marina.
hmm... I wasn't sure it was that modern. I should have taken a picture when I could!
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I think the one that Bones is referring to was nothing to do with the event and we if fact found it late yesterday moored in the marina. Not having a camera with me then, I will endeavours to get Bones pic today if it is still there.
I would love a pic! - thank you! I had a look in the marina but didn't see it. The pipe smoking tea towel navigating skipper said he was on his way to Braunston for the show.
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he isn't ha ha ha ha ha! i am now using it - poor Timmy is weeping along the cut (last seen springing over the hedges to buy his own). It seems to work, mostly, without the ariel and it doesn't need the great stick of the north either... I am hoping EE will end up being good around here in due course. 02 needs some competition.
thank you! I grinned. I hope we meet this year soon!