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6 hours ago, Bettyblue said:
But I will make sure I view lots of boats when I get back to the UK in March .
I am curious as to how long the forum would consider likely for a complete novice to acquire a NB safely (in a financial sense) once in the UK. I would guess at 3 - 6 months for getting familiar with the subject, seeing lots of boats, and arriving at a decision???
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A geyser (on a narrowboat) is powered by gas.
A geezer (on a narrowboat) is powered by beer (sometimes).
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I had my Covid booster shot & flu jab ~4 weeks ago. I got Covid about 2 weeks later….
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
Your pension fund value is only important the day you retire. Before that it can go up and down like whores draws
My pension fund pays out my pension every month. I have this idea that what it pays out is related to its value so its important every month?
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Remember that it is mandatory to video the bow-hauling experience and put it on youtube! (This automatically makes any difficulties you experience somebody else's fault!) 😀
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My recent pension fund report states that the value of its assets has dropped by a third but that this is not a concern, due in some way that I don't attempt to understand, to interest rates having gone up. Does similar thinking apply here?
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Are you certain it is 16 years old?
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45 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
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2 hours ago, GUMPY said:
Many of those on here wouldn't know what a holding back pin was even if they tripped over one.
And as for its use.
As one of the un-initiated(?) can somebody supply a pic and provide a copy of the user manual?
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Spend long enough at Baker Street station and you will see one of my sons driving his tube train!
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Whilst we are moaning about the narrowness of narrow canals, can I just add a moan about the narrowness of standard railways? If somebody had just had the wisdom to build a wider system, maybe we wouldn't have needed HS2?
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This is the 21st century! Somebody must have made a sort of pram hood that detects oncoming obstructions and lowers itself by the requisite amount after sounding a small alarm to tell the occupants to duck, so where are the pictures??? We need to be told!
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11 hours ago, magnetman said:
Maybe of these at fixed points safely distant from sudden drops and water.
But why would you be looking for stupid people?
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Do you have a way of flagging up the cannabis marinas?
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On 06/10/2023 at 18:28, rusty69 said:
I'm not sure how I feel about being described as an artificial inseminatted boater.
Whether you are inseminatttted or not is your problem, but being called an artificial boater is highly offensive and should be reported.
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We need a competition to nominate the best post out of the 3,000,000.
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We need to be told!!!
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10 hours ago, Geoff Walton said:
The issue with burning LPG is the gradual build up of carbon monoxide in your body. Generally you use hobs and ovens for a short time and hence not too much of a problem, Whereas water heaters can run for some time and use a lot more gas. Evidently carbon monoxide stays in your body for up to 4 hours so if you are not careful you can keep topping it up until it reaches a dangerous level
This sort of information is how you can build urban? myths. In practical terms it is a load of twaddle imho.
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Halsall used to deliver stuff to to my boat when I was not there and msg me the charge which I settled immediately. It was all done on trust and was very useful to me. They trusted me to pay and I trusted them to deliver. I regret the damage that has been done to their business by this publicity - I am confident there was no deliberate intention to deceive on their part.
I feel a disagreement like the above should be handled by a face-to-face meeting in the first instance - I am not clear whether this has happened here. Misunderstandings are always possible.
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6 hours ago, aaronwood66 said:
The isolator switch was new in Feb,
Why?
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9 hours ago, David Mack said:
Excellent! They've rolled their own, a shame that they dropped the additional feature I supplied which attempted to show the best batteries to fit in a specific size of space.
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I agree with a poster above, viz avoid tapered battery posts if at all possible.
Other factors are getting the size of bat to fit your bat space, tedious when websites don't let you select by size, and terminal arrangement.
"Tayna do as it happens. By size at least. Or at least they stare size. You can’t filter by it I don’t think. "
I wrote a web script to allow selection by cost, size, type, bat posts, etc, for all of Tayna's bats, it took an age to scrape all the data of Tayna's website, and I asked Tayna if they were interested (at no charge). I got an enthusiatic first response and then somebody higher up in the firm must have stamped on it because I could not get any further communication from them.
1 hour ago, truckcab79 said:Cheers for that. You’re not kidding. It’s the same on most forums I think. Two or three members who feel duty bound to answer everything whether they know anything about it or not. And woe betide anyone who dares offer an opinion other than theirs which is of course correct always.
it’s actually really unhelpful as you think you’re getting the opinion of a forum and actually you’re getting the opinion of one obstinate individual who for all you know has never seen a boat.
I’ve said before the fact that there are no actual builds on here surprised me. Makes me think that nobody here actually does their own work. Opinions and genuine info become difficult to disentangle if it’s coming from some keyboard warrior who’s just regurgitating something they read on a forum once. Same with all forums mind . Often you’re better off with Google. Least you get a broader range of answers.
And yes, apart from the negativity on here I’m happy with where I am.
Sorry, I think you are contributing to the negativity just a bit. This will put off the people you want to hear from who haven't surfaced yet! This forum is pretty good so long as you able to ignore the less useful posts and not respond to them.
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I agree with a poster above, viz avoid tapered battery posts if at all possible.
Other factors are getting the size of bat to fit your bat space, tedious when websites don't let you select by size, and terminal arrangement.
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How Many Hire Boats?
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I wondered about hiring a 70ft nb for a week for old times sake. £2600! eek!