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THE BATCHWORTH BOAT RALLY, RICKMANSWORTH May 17
THE BATCHWORTH BOAT RALLY, RICKMANSWORTH

This rally was started in 2024 when at very short notice the huge Rickmansworth Festival was cancelled. The Waterspace team decided to keep the boat gathering but as a much smaller event. With some enthusiastic parters it was a huge success in 2024.

So Next year as an appropriate "Theme" for the times we are Calling all GUCCCo, FMC, Severn & Canal boats.particularly those built in 1935 as next year the Batchworth Boat Rally would like to see them all gathering at Batchworth in Rickmansworth to celebrate their 90 years.
The rally will take place on 17/18th May, two weeks after the cavalcade at Little Venice.
Please put the date in your calendar for next year and drop us an email then we will make sure to include you on the mailing list when bookings open in January.
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How to fit an expansion vessel?
How to fit an expansion vessel?

Jen-in-Wellies replied to Karen Lea Rainey's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance

The expansion tank can be plumbed into anywhere in the hot water system and located wherever convenient, including slongside the calorifier. That will be no problem. Make sure where you fit it, there is easy access to the car tyre style valve on the tank that is used to repressurise it. The air in the internal bladder will lose pressure over time, like a car tyre and need topping up. It is a good idea to make this easy to get at. The valve may be hidden under a plastic cover. I find I need to top it up once, perhaps twice a year, but this will vary, depending on it's age etc. By the way, Tracy D'arth has passed away.
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Tame Valley Lock
Tame Valley Lock

Ken X replied to 1st ade's topic in General Boating

There's at least one lock on the Thames which has multiple side entry points for the culvert. Can't recall which one, but the lockies warned us before filling as it catches you out if you don't expect it. A full length narrowboat gets quite a shove. Think it's in the Windsor area.
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How to fit an expansion vessel?
How to fit an expansion vessel?

Michael Siggers replied to Karen Lea Rainey's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance

Hi @Tracy D'arth Late to this thread but finding it useful. I already have an accumulator installed after the water pump in the bow. I'm looking at installing an expansion vessel to my Calorifier on the outlet at the top where the PRV is. It's a vertical tank and the PRV is mounted here. Would it matter if the actual expansion vessel is installed alongside the tank even though it would be connected to the top of the tank? I have enough space to install it next to the tank but not above. The PRV would also remain and this is already connected to a pipe to the engine bay bilge. Mike
- 6 hours ago6 hr
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Google in Firefox

Cheese replied to David Schweizer's topic in The Virtual Pub

I use Firefox on a Windows 11 laptop, but the Google homepage hasn't changed for me. It is still mainly white, with just the single search box. So it may not be a Firefox issue.
- 6 hours ago6 hr
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Electric Boating
Electric Boating

Wanderer Vagabond replied to Jen-in-Wellies's topic in Waterways News & Press

I take the points you make. The observation from purely anecdotal experience of the electric boats I've come across would be that if I were travelling at the speed they were (circa 1mph/ 1000rpm ) I would also probably be using a lot less diesel than when I'm running my boat at 1600rpm and 3mph. At 1600rpm I seem to use about a litre an hour,I don't know how much I'd be burning at 1000rpm, but certainly less. It would also raise the question of whether an electric boat travelling at 1mph is actually going to get much further in distance in their 8 hours of electric cruising, than I am with 3 hours of cruising at 3mph. I had a brief chat with the guy on the electric hire boat when we stopped at the Mailbox CRT services in Birmingham and he said he had been told not to go above 3kW (no I don't know what that meant). I wasn't complaining to him about his speed, I merely told him that when he set off to go past the Mailbox he'd need to give it a 'bit of welly' since that location is a bit of a 'wind tunnel' and at the speed he had been going he would almost certainly be blown into the side.
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Portholes for Viking widebeam
Portholes for Viking widebeam

MtB replied to grantinthecloud's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance

I doubt you will. From what Matty says, it seems more likely you'll be waiting until Easter 2027.
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Great Haywood
Great Haywood

MtB replied to Bluepeter's topic in Holidays Afloat

This bit amuses me, the second part in particular. How is it possible to have "a wing which only relies on one of these"? If a wing has "Higher pressure below" then it self-evidently has lower pressure above. It cannot have higher pressure below and the same pressure above. This would be a logical impossibility. Nice wine, this.
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Tame Valley Lock
Tame Valley Lock

brianthesnail96 replied to 1st ade's topic in General Boating

One of Andy Tidy's Canal Hunter YouTube videos shows him demonstrating that at least some of the Perry Bar locks will close the bottom gates when you draw the top paddles. I think it's the "Carrying Coal from Cannock" series. That's a rather nice diagram, I hadn't considered that the ground paddles would be at opposite ends of the same culvert but why wouldn't they be if the culvert extends the full length of the lock, and with the multiple links between the culvert and lock chamber it'll smooth the flow in both directions although obviously far more noticeable when filling.
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