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2 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
at Chirk there was a pub I think beside the aqueduct but I forget its name,
That'll be the Bridge Inn at Chirk Bank.
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47 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
You may consider that for a house but they are not allowed on boats subject to the BSS.
The OP refered specifically to a 'summer house' rather than a boat in his thread entitled,
'Zibro Ethanol fuel fire.........not for boating'
2 hours ago, LEO said:I have a garden Summerhouse, obviously cold this weather, I ideally I would like to install a small wood-burning stove, not possible at the moment, electricity is not connected, I have been looking at a Zibro Ethanol stove, available through Wayfair or Amazon.
I'm guessing that by no stretch of the imagination would anybody consider a summerhouse to be a boat or a boat subject to the BSS and thus, in the context of the thread title and the opening post...1 hour ago, FredDrift said:For our summer house, I'd probably consider one of the butane Calor heaters...
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Ethanol is relatively expensive as a space heating fuel. We briefly considered one for our house with it living room fireplace now on an inside wall following the addition of an extension. We went all flickery flames with electric which only use for the flickery flames.
For our summer house, I'd probably consider one of the butane Calor heaters... they range from £95 for the 'mini' up to £400 for the 'Provence' stove like models.
https://www.calorgas-heaters.co.uk/12-calor-gas-heaters
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On 01/11/2023 at 14:18, HenryFreeman said:
This is 25 quid from BCMW. Who is making one of these in an hour to let them still make a profit? Children, I suspect. And not children from this isle.
Probably knocked out in their hundreds in China - Same scuttle here for £20…
https://www.charlies.co.uk/mansion-large-black-coal-chute-with-deluxe-cast-iron-handles.html
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37 minutes ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
I think it should be 2x 150w as 300Kw would be house/commercial size??
That begs the question, ‘how big is the house that has 300kW of solar on its roof? 300kW is firmly in solar farm territory.
19 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:300Kw is 300,000 watts.
You'd need a big field to install all that.
Guessing you mean 300w.needed to get 150kW
You are guessing wrong - I didn't mean 300W to get to 150kW at all…. The '2 x 150kW solar panels' is taken from the broker’s sales blurb.
3 hours ago, Bromleyxphil said:I will be more specific. Anyone know anything about this boat https://www.nationwideboatsales.co.uk/shop/tranquility/
'How much roof space do 2 x 150kW solar panels take up?' was a rather tongue in cheek question based on the broker's sales blurb . Quite clearly it should read 2 x 150W solar panels.
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How much roof space do 2 x 150kW solar panels take up?
Quote2 solar panels each with 150kw
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I seem to recall having not bad pub grub at the Bridge Inn just down the hill at Chirk Bank…
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2 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Dome head allen machine screws with nuts are neater and easier than coach bolts. Available in lots of sizes and gauges.
Like these on ebay but engineers suppliers will stock. Stainless is nice, no need to paint!
If the allen head is outside fill them with Araldite after tightening to render them difficult to remove.
Same theme but pin hex in a plethora of sizes…
https://www.tcfixings.co.uk/product/m10-x-30mm-h6-pin-hex-a2-button-head-security-screws/13201
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10 minutes ago, robtheplod said:
The hire company maybe don't emphasise the need for caution, or they shouldn't be permitted to go that route if a risk of this is apparent?
Isn’t it the case that the Broads boat hire companies collectively fund bridge pilots at Potter Heigham & Wroxham and that no hire boats should pass under either bridge without the services of the pilot?
You’d imagine damage occasioned by hirers hitting these bridges is outside of any insurance provided by the hire companies.
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On 07/09/2020 at 22:35, MrsM said:
I apologise if I have offended you @happynomad. I was sending a message to Lady J to encourage her to continue with the forum. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate if I had sent a private message. M
You cerainly didn’t offend me MrsM... I suspect a case of mistaken identity between me (happynomad) and the similary named @The Happy Nomad.
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Our first ever narrowboat holiday was on Taw Valley out of Springwood Haven. If I remember correctly it was a 48/49 ft semi trad and we were surprised at just how smart and well appointed it was.
We enjoyed the boat and our holiday enormously but for reasons quite unknown, and despite quite a number of years of three or four hires per year, we never hired from Valley again.
These days, I think hire company’s are pricing themselves out the holiday market. Hopefully the staff of Valley will get some sort of pay / redundancy settlement and go on to find new employment opportunities.
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On 14/06/2019 at 18:11, Mike the Boilerman said:
As a kid,i seem to remember Halfords being a chain of bicycle shops, which they still are in moderate depth. The car stuff i think is relatively recent. I.e. within the last 50 years ?
My first bike came from (and was branded) Curry's which started as a bike shop but of course, have long since stopped them.
How I loved that bike. It got stolen and was never recovered although I think the old man sold it for beer money ?
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7 hours ago, Chris Williams said:
1968, hired this wooden outboard 2 berth cruiser from Blue Line at Braunston.
My vey first boating holiday was from Braunston in the sixties - grandparents took me and my brother for a week to get us out the way for the birth of third brother. It was on an outboard motor powered camping boat named Bluebird I / II / III or IV - (can't remember which now but there was a number of them available for hire and probably Blue Line too.
We got as far as Banbury - working the locks and lift bridges, lock keepers in all of the lock keepers cottages, working boats (looked very very big compared to our little punt shaped camping boat. Probably twenty feet long with square bow and stern and very small foredeck on which two coal scuttle shaped tall water containers stood. To divid the boat into two 'bedrooms' a canvas divider was hung from the roof frame. I used to have an image of one of these boat - different owner and paint scheme though.
My brother and I and I absolutely loved it.
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I'm sure Clifton Cruisers used to hire out 'static' narrowboats - floating holiday cottage holidays type of thing at their base on the North Oxford canal. That they don't appear to do so now may suggest that there isn't a real market for it.
If you look look at the current per week hire price of a narrowboat, hiring one to go nowhere makes little sense compared to hiring a cottage. The cost of operating a boat for hire, whether static or cruising is probably not going to be hugely different.
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Life ring on every boat, kinda makes sense. Not sure if its a requirement for hireboats? But locks have ladders, there is still a reasonable chance of getting out if you fell in. The main danger would be the boat hitting or squashing you etc. Life ring not much help there. Being coherent in the first place helps a lot though.
Having hired many boats, I don't recall one with a life ring on the roof but in every instance, life jackets were available if required.
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I think! Napton Boats have a base on the Thames somewhere. But, I may be wrong.
I think that it's Black Prince on the Thames.
The last time we did the south Oxford (hire boat from Ventnor Farm near Wigrams Turn) we managed Banbury and back in ten days.
We did stop for a night in Braunston before back tracking but I think the peace and tranquility of the south Oxford is such that distance travelled became unimportant for a short relaxing there and back holiday.
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Sorry for not keeping up just got in from work .still don,t like the dog house
. Would think that was quite obvious I don't like the dog house
Does anybody, anywhere actually care a nano-jot about your likes and dislikes?
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Hardly.
It's CART's choice to close on-line moorings. If the NAA charge doesn't lead to an equal amount of additional revenue that the marina wouldn't otherwise have got, it's just an extra cost that the marina has to bear - and pass on to the berth-holders.
Furthermore, not every displaced boat will go to a marina. Some may decide to pack it in, others to CC.
And what about those marinas that DON'T pay the NAA, but will benefit (according to you) from the withdrawal of moorings?
What's more, this is a cost that falls ultimately on marina berth-holders. CCers don't have to pay it.
So it's not a level playing field.
in the same way that the cost of renting a lock up garage is borne entirely by the users of said garages and not those who choose to park at the kerbside.
CCers don't pay for on-line moorings either so are they in any way pertinent to any discussion about marina NAAs?
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From a CRT viewpoint would it be a hire? That would be the real stumbling block (given their requirements pertaining to hire boats) in terms of whether it was do-able and worth doing...
...as long as the respective insurers are fully informed and / or paid for appropriate cover It works insurance-wise with house - swaps, even where the use of a car is included (with exceptions - some companies apparently won't insure some overseas house swappers to drive privately owned cars in the UK).
Not thinking of entering into such an arrangement - just a curiosity really.
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Hi Canal Boaters,
I am thinking of buying a canal barge in the future but would like to give canal life a thorough try-out before spending all that money.
So, I'm looking to rent a smallish barge for up to a year if you want a break from boating.
Or you can take a break from boating for the duration by living rent free in my quiet, detached, well-equipped, well insulated home in St. Asaph, North Wales (on a main bus route with Rhyl station 3 miles away)
I'm a reliable, sensible person who will look after your boat while I'm renting / swapping it.
I can travel to any part of the UK to start the arrangement.
Please contact me via this post or email to cannonballdaze@gmail.com.
Cheers - Joe
Discounting a specific hire...
If no cash is changing hands, i.e. the boat owner and the house owner simply agree to exchange their accommodations for an agreed time and both parties pay the day to day costs associated with the accommodation they are 'holidaying' in, - no cash benefit to either party - is it still a hire?
Would it be any different in reality to allowing a friend to use your boat whilst you house-sit for the friend?
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Actually you are both wrong.
I certainly wasn't throwing stones and I rather hope I am not wrong... If I am then my entire career has been a complete sham and I need to get out of it before I am rumbled.
Perhaps you would be so kind as to point out where, in the context of what I said, I am wrong...
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No, your thinking is confused.
The sale value adds to the bottom line, whilst the cost reduces it. It's the net figure that adds to the bottom line.
ALL costs, (other than capital items, which technically aren't a cost in the usual P&L sense) come off the bottom line ultimately, although they might first (as in your example) have come off gross profit.
And most capital expenditure will also come off the bottom line over time in the form of depreciation.
Pedantic perhaps but the net figure (sales minus cost) is the bottom line...
Paul, please don't waste my time with facile nonsense.
Surely only you are wasting your time by responding to PaulG's 'facile nonsense'
If you didn't buy the item at all, you could not sell it. The bottom line would be reduced.
Therefore (as I said), the net effect of the cost is to increase the bottom line.
You can't just lump direct and indirect costs together and pretend they are all the same.
Not sure what you are thinking here... Or are you just popping at George94?
At its most basic, revenue is revenue, cost is cost whether direct as in cost of sales or labour or whether indirect as in variable or fixed costs. The bottom line is simply revenue minus cost.
There is no net effect of cost - there can't be a net effect of a single item. The net effect (whether at gross profit or at operating profit level) is simply the result of revenue minus cost.
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missed word in last line...
Llangollen or south down the Shroppie?
in Holidays Afloat
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Righto... it depends on the aqueduct but... 'the big bridge' wasn't mentioned where specifically, Chirk was...
The Aqueduct Inn is (as far as I am aware) in Froncysylite and the Telford Inn, is in Trefor - one at each end of 'the big bridge' but neither are in Chirk (unlike the Bridge Inn).