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From experience of working a full size pair (with varying degrees of success) you will need to avoid situations where you have to unexpectedly hit reverse, especially if you are in the process of turning. The butty will have considerable momentum and you risk it overrunning the towing boat, effectively jack-knifing the pair. So, with a super-cautious approach to, for example, blind bends that might hide moored boats, you may well be OK.
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32 minutes ago, The Gravy Boater said:
Question is... will a Skip float? Add a sleeping bag, a tarp and an outboard... job done.
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Just by way of how far things have changed from the days of everyone having their own mug ....
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2 hours ago, cuthound said:
Likewise. After the practice stopped I always preferred a glass tankard with a handle. The modern straight glasses ensure that your hand slowly warms the beer up to body temperature. Ugh.
Speaking as a pub owner I would encourage you not to sit warming your pint in a death-grip for too long. Get it down your neck whilst it's cool and buy another.
In anticipation .... sorry about the prices - supermarkets sell their beer cheaper than our suppliers do, and we have overheads to cover. Our suppliers put their prices up 18% recently, which equates to 60p a pint if we were to maintain a fully viable GP. We haven't done that yet, just 30p.
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7 hours ago, LadyG said:
It's illegal to offer up a soiled glas to a beer tap, it's called hygiene.
Pour your new pint in to the old glass.
No. It isn't. However, as I said, should any contamination occur that causes illness and that can be specifically traced back to the re-use of a glass, more generic legislation would cover it.
Same principle as it not being illegal to smoke whilst you're driving, but if it leads to you being distracted and crashing, it could be held that you were not in proper control of the car, which is an offence.
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16 hours ago, Owls Den said:
Very handy point thankyou. Hoping to move in tomorrow. Will camp out in the saloon until I’ve finished the cabin, and then puppy coming on Thursday.
It’s got 5 leisure battery’s and a 3kw charger/inverter.
I will unplug on Friday and test out the kit properly.
Will get the disco setup out to test properly…Records, smoke machine, light-up dance floor and glitter ball!
There are others on here way more knowlegeable than me regarding these matters, but even though that sounds like a robust set up all battery systems have their limits, so with (I assume) a 230v fridge freezer and washer dryer you may have to plan a bit. Keep in mind there are rules about when you can run your engine if not moving, many say running them without any real load is bad for them and running them in gear whilst moored is frowned upon as it can potentially damage the canal bank.
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Not sure about the legality of it TBH, but where the beer is served via a long spout that is partly submerged by the pour, it is conceivable that a previous user may have transferred 'something' via saliva into the glass, which then transfers to the spout and lurks before being washed off by the next pour. We don't sell real any ale,* most often associated with that type of pump and use short nozzles that don't come into contact with the glass contents for our fizzy beers and ciders. Default is a fresh glass every time but no argument if you want to keep hold of your first one, as there is a negligible chance of contamination where there is no immersion.
* I wish we did, but our punters don't want enough of it to warrant stocking it, we were chucking out half kegs every week. 'Spoons across the road that we can't and won't try to compete with on price.
Edit to add: I was pretty sure it isn't a specific requirement in law to use a fresh glass each time, and it seems that's the case. That said if anyone falls ill and can prove the cause was the sort of contamination I've described, you could be in bother, thus the safe practice is to insist on a fresh glass every time for the serve. Nothing stops the punter from keeping their glass and decanting.
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If you are intending to cruise, suggest you unplug the shore line mains ands see what works and for how long before you set off. Can't see any reference to what batteries / inverter you've got.
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On 01/01/2023 at 10:53, peterboat said:
Not true we go to pubs with our campervan park for the night for free, there's a book for it and an app I believe?
Briststops and SearchforSites.
However:
A lot of pubs are charging now, or expect you to eat which can be a quick way to spend £50 or more for a 'free' pitch.
Very few pubs have water or waste disposal.
Very few pubs have EHU.
So true enough for the OP to have to be aware given his travels will be dictated by where the boats are rather than heading for cheap stopovers.
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5 hours ago, Naartjie said:
With our limited budget a cheap camper van maybe the way to go, prices seem to be around £100 a day.
There are very few 'cheap' camper vans that would suit your purpose I suspect, their value went waay up in 2020 and hasn'r really come down yet. If you buy a liveable one, aside from the registration issues mentioned, you'd probably have to sell it before you could buy the boat, and risk losing more money than you'll spend on hotel rooms. Note too that the UK isn't particularly motorhome friendly - you can't just park up in a layby overnight without the risk of being moved on and the availablility of fresh and waste water facilities is limited to sites that you have to pay to be on. They're cheaper than hotels, but can still be £25 and more per night.
The Trivago website is a good place to look for room prices as it searches a lot of other booking sites like Hotels.com, Booking.com AirBnB and Vrbo. There are rooms in the likes of the Ibis chain near Rugby for around £60 a night.
Might be worth doing a lot of the legwork on line via the ApolloDuck (or another broker's) website - it'll be a lot more efficient to arrive with a list of a dozen boats to look at at known locations. Factor in time for surveys etc.
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2 hours ago, David Mack said:
Epic thread revival!
I'm glad you pointed this out - I was about to go on a rant about how bloody cheap even the 'expensive' prices quoted are. Commercial rates have been quoted as high as 97p a unit recently.
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5 hours ago, zenataomm said:
Ah, now then, I know you're only doing this to help others, but I think you've copied it wrongly.
Shouldn't it be Benevolence built by Nursers.
Violent Ben was a Nurse, who lived in Braunston, easily confused I realise.
Bugger, you're right. I knew his evil cousin Mal.
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I run the website for a canal related organisation. I've been contacted and asked to help advertise the sale of the Benvolence, built by Nursers of Braunston in 1938. I have no connection with the seller, and have suggested Apollo Duck but also said I'd post here.
Facebook marketplace link: https://m.facebook.com/groups/292859678589451/permalink/761203775088370/?comment_id=761209028421178¬if_t=group_comment¬if_id=1659277361018517&ref=m_notif
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If it helps, my electricity has gone from 16.8p a KwH to 27.1p, and the gas more than doubled from 3.06p to 7.12p / KwH.
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This was a cross threaded and thus not tight 12v connection on my brand new car last year. The bit thats missing is a melted, but not blown, 200amp fuse and the other post. About two minutes away from the plastic catching fire when we found the problem.
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Five families have had a cash-only monopoly for over a hundred years. I suspect they could swap the fleet out for electric boats quite easily, but would have to explain where the money came from.
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One way to simplify the computer side of things is to get a 12v screen, which may end up being a 12v telly with HDMi input, to work with a laptop that is also powered by 12v.
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37 minutes ago, Col_T said:
How much notice was given of this impending change?
The referendum was in 2016 ...
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I wouldn't press too hard with the brush, that stern is waffer thin.
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56 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:
The mass in running order of the van we want is 2980kg leaving a 520kg payload. I doubt we will get over that it is quite a generous payload for the size of the van.
Grey water we are not as concerned about. With the size of the tank we should get a few days out of that before it needs to be emptied by which time we will have had to find somewhere to empty the loo anyway.
Righto - don't forget to count yourselves in the load.
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On 09/02/2021 at 16:55, Naughty Cal said:
The van we want has 120 litre water tank and 110 litre grey water tank so we won't need to be filling up and emptying those every day, they are bigger than the boat tanks were.
If we can get a couple of days out of the toilet cassette that will be a bonus.
On a side note, that's 230kg of liquid if they're both full, probably enough to take you over the vehicles safe / legal weight.
With impeccable timing, we acquired a motorhome last year .... you can maximise the time the cassette lasts by not putting any water in when you charge it, just the 'blue'liquid (ideally the green stuff, so you're cesspit friendly). It's also not unknown for the chaps to take advantage of darkness and not necessarily use it.
Grey water can be just as much of an issue, dropping it in to surface water drains or just letting it run into the verge is getting Motorhomers a bad name.
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A couple of things spring to mind:
Typically the hull depth of a boat built for carrying will be more than one built for cruising, so do some guesstimates of what it will carry safely and if that's a commercially viable amount.
When empty, it's going to be high at the front end - is that going to be an issue for the wheelchair user?
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If you've got a wetvac and need to adapt the nozzle, why not just suck the water out?
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1 hour ago, LadyG said:
A bus route, you are so last century, lol
Eh?
Fund Britain's Waterways. Birmingham Campaign Cruise. 12th - 13th August
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Some of the boats present: