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  1. So yesterday I bought a steel Dutch cruiser, its a boaty boat rather than a corridor 🤣 I currently have a widebeam but I have lusted after this boat for a few years, it has a Sole 44 diesel engine with 146 hours on it. The previous to last owners can only be described as the artful Bodger! He didn't fix anything correctly ever!!!! The list of bodges he did are endless, as I sort them I will list them, i have fixed the water leak on the front hatch already. I only have until the end of may to do it as that's when the BSS runs out, pictures for perusal
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  2. Not just about faster trains, but to provide greater capacity to the transport network which is sorely needed, especially when personal transport options are being seriously curtailed and punitively charged.
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  4. Tunnel bands is a modern term for them. Since the 60s, I’ve always known them as counter bands. I don’t think the waterways press help in this respect, I’ve seen what I know as a stop beam referred to as a “ boatman’s beam” , likewise a cabin stool called a “ boatman’s stool”. Side doors called swan or duck hatches make me wince….
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  8. Can we end this speculation as to which member is human and which is an AI. Seems to come up with increasing regularity. New members are on moderator approval for their first couple of posts. We make enquiries of some of these and they don't get approved for general viewing if we aren't satisfied that they are human. There are AI posters about. We get some of them. There is a middle ground, where we don't know who is human and who is an AI from a single post. Speculating about the humanity of a new member is very off putting to that person. If you have concerns, then report the post and the moderators can look in to it. There can be all sorts of reasons why a first post can appear "off", from English not being their first language, through to cognitive differences, to to the wish to give a detailed technical answer. Once AI's start going boating and have some valid experience to contribute, then they won't be a problem. Until them, they are regurgitating information in their training data, with a sprinkling of making stuff up, which will degrade the usefulness of CWDF if it gets out of hand.
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  11. According to CRT's newsletter, the landslip was caused by climate change. Funny that, some of us thought it was due to lack of maintenance.
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  16. If it was about improving the rail infrastructure they would have built a new goods-only line from Harwich to the Midlands initially, with extensions to Liverpool, Southampton, and even that corruption centre of the NE, Teesport. The line would be similar to the one built between Rotterdam and the Ruhr, so high speed for freight, but nothing like HS standards, and thus much cheaper. The initial phase would cut across an area of low population, through fairly level ground, and relieve the congestion at Harwich, particularly noticeable during Covid. It would prove of benefit to the whole country, with the existing passenger network continuing to serve smaller towns which will be bypassed by HS2. HS2 is for the suits who want to rush around appearing to do something useful, while the general population will not be able to afford tickets if they are priced to pay for the infrastructure.
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  17. But who is going to be travelling on it? I'm a regular rail passenger (don't have a car) but unless the fares are ridiculously cheap I can't envisage any occasions I'll travel on it. Why would anyone want to go from not the centre of Birmingham to not the centre of London on a line that is mostly in tunnels anyway. I'd sooner take 20 minutes longer and have a more interesting trip. Yes, we need improved infrastructure but this isn't it.
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  21. I let em all live in my garden. Its fabulous. We get the occasional rat who I think ,lives next door but pops over for a munch sometimes. We have lovely squirrels and indeed are oft visited by foxes and most nights a couple of badgers. All caught many times by our Trail cam. The squirrels sit over our heads in the trees and drop nut shells on us when sat out in late summer. We have slow worms as our garden adjoins the Ceredigion slow worm sanctuary lol. No hedgehogs as yet but working on that.
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  22. Ahhh, interesting mate - and that makes total sense! Will have a good nosy about tomorrow when not under the influence and hopefully be able to suss out! thank you Thank you so much everyone again! I’ve just had a good nosy and found a loose wire in the changeover switch! I’ve just re-attached and I now have a working travel pack! can’t tell you how delighted I am, genuinely absolutely made up and grateful to you all! thank you all for diagnosing!
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  34. It’s nothing to do with maintenance since cuttings aren’t really maintainable. CRT have many miles of cuttings and they could if they so wished undertake lots of risk reduction work that is akin to a rebuild using vast amounts of money that they don’t have, never have had, and the public almost certainly wouldn’t want them to have. It would be capital funded work quite different from maintenance and it would consist of work such as devegetation, installation of toe walls, regrading, rock fill, slope drainage and crest drainage. But because of the relatively random nature of where and when slopes fail it’s far more cost effective to treat the places that do fail post event. It’s not like CRT have to pay damages for closing the canal. The parallel failure of the railway cutting that occurred the same week will have cost six figure sums in penalty payments yet there is a limit on what preventive work rail authorities can undertake and it often comes down to containment rather than prevention. The railway cutting concerned has a series of remediation works undertaken over many, many years but like Easenhall it’s a big cutting and it’s simply not practical to treat it all in a preventive manner. Climate change of course simply increases the likelihood of a failure, it doesn’t cause it.
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  36. I have been a member of this forum since 2007, longer than Nick Norman and Ian D, but not as long as Tony. Every year we seem to have one of these threads , accusing people of being nasty to newbies, or someone complaining about the way the forum is run, that there aren't any posts about boat builds, that people with too many posts should stop posting, it's killing the forum, newbies won't stay. Amazingly the forum keeps going, new members do stay - not all of them obviously - and a fair few of the older members who were here when I joined have gone. It will settle down, it usually does when the weather improves and people can go boating. This forum is very useful - it saved us making a huge mistake and buying a boat - and it can be extremely entertaining, particularly those who take themselves far too seriously. I rarely post these days, and rarely even log in which means I can avoid even seeing the politics section. Quite simply, no one forces you to be here. If you don't like it the way it is, and has been for many years, you are free to leave.
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  42. You haven't got your boat yet, and looking for somewhere to put it first is an excellent idea. But you need to do some research yourself before posting general questions. For example, a bit of reading would have told you that genuine residential moorings are virtually nonexistent but "under the radar" ones can be found if you can live with the insecurity. And you would have learnt that most of these are on CRT water, which the Bridgewater isn't. There are a fair few farm moorings which allow residents, but as far as I know there's no central database of these and the only way to find them is to go and look. I presume you've hired boats, so you know the limitations - maybe hire one in the area you want to live and go and see what's available. Call in and talk to people on likely moorings, most boaters like to chat. That's the only way to learn if a marina will let you live on, too, as they can't advertise it without getting into planning permission trouble. It's also rare that a mooring is sold with the boat, the mooring owner will usually take the opportunity to whack the rent up. It's two separate deals. And, finally, don't get snotty on here, we don't like it. You'll just get told to use the search engine as every question you can think of has been answered many times, so you may get answers phrased humourously (or what we think of as such) and some of us are less patient repeating advice than others. Posting the same question twice is regarded as rude, and complaining about jokes made because you haven't even checked the title says what you mean is just silly.
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  44. Oh dear. I have got the name wrong again. Sorry about that. The fact is that as children we called it the River Stroud. Anyway it was good fun for us when it flooded. I haven't got a photo of us sailing on its water meadows, but here is one of sailing on the Stroudwater. I doubt it is a sight often seen these fifty years. In the days of trade however no doubt sails were used whenever convenient. And better set than in the photo. The rig was a sliding gunter and something has gone wrong. Reverting to my story and back to Gloucester. Here is a photo of the docks, looking towards the drydocks. I accept it is a poor shot but it may give some idea of the variety of commercial vessels in the 1950s. In the drydock, the white bows of the Shell Glassmaker. Clustered around the entrance, to the right, Regent King, an unpowered tankbarge, to the left Severn Trader, the first of a new batch of IWE traders of which it was the first and the last, then the diesel tug Severn Iris, and the steam tug Primrose. Plus some lighters the names of which I have forgotten. In the foreground, at left, the Glevum. Now I believe a residential barge in Bristol. Again, I accept it may be difficult to make them out. The quayside right in the foreground, had below it an outlet from one of the mills. From it one could catch good big roach with the aid of a stick with a line and breadpaste hook. Not good to eat but fun to catch. Now to the other end of the Ship Canal, and our alternative route. We could not moor in the Dock itself, so we used the Old Dock. Right under the bows of the Gravesend Sea School's Vindicatrix. Just to the left of her is the hull of the schooner Dispatch, built on Speyside and famous in her day. Inboard of her one of the war-built ferro-concrete barges, of which there were a number hanging about the Old and New Docks, all ending up beached on the banks of the Severn at Purton. Save one which was retrieved, towed up to the museum in Gloucester where it stayed for a while before being relegated again, this time to the timber ponds near Sharpness, where it is still, sunk beneath the waters. Our mooring in the Old Docks was quite dramatic.We overlooked the Severn Railway bridge, and the sight and sounds of the river as the tide roared in and out brought home just how dangerous the river could be and was. The weather could change in minutes to a thick mist which blanketed everything. However my father didn't much like being moored close to the tankers, nor did he appreciate the early morning activities of the cadets clumping about on the deck high above us. Here for good measure is a photo of the Regent Queen, fully laden, waiting to depart at 6 a.m. for Stourport. Under the old coal shute. Neither still exist. The Regent Queen was broken up on the foreshore by Sharpness Docks and the coal shute a remarkable building, was demolished. So we moved. Where we then stayed, off and on for three or four years, was at Purton. This was a wild and beautiful place. We could see behind us the railway bridge and watch the steam locomotives trundle across it. And on the other side of the towpath was the Purton Graveyard. In the 1950s it was the finest collection of wooden hulled vessels, both local and national, anywhere in the country. It was visited by the maritime historians of the day. And by me. Just two of my many photos. On the right the former schooner Sarah McDonald, built in Perth in 1867. To the right, the former trow Edith built at Bridgwater in 1901and a local trader, first in sail and then by motor. Both destroyed by arson in 1986. If you go there now, there is little to see. The same vessels from a little distance, but including in the foreground, the Kennet barge Harriett, and the Gloucester built towing barge Dursley. The Harriett remains, I think, sinking ever lower into the mud, with such protection from damage as a scheduled Ancient Monument can command. Right. That is enough. That is the end of my beginning.
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  46. Codswallop. It is caused by government who insist on scuppering agreements at the last second. Staff do not want to strike. They do not want to do less work. Instead the government is trying to introduce plans that are unworkable and make the railways less safe. They also want to scrap long held perks that would mean basically no increase in remuneration. Companies which the government cannot control are not involved. Does that tell you something?
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  47. Well i'm frankly disappointed in you all... Not one guess at an engine. Lister HR3 is the answer. I picked up this genset with 5 hours on the clock from a local farm after a chance chat with someone who worked there. The SR3 mentioned earlier in the thread is fully rebuilt now (and very shiny) so if anyone wants a reverse rotation SR with electric start then give me a shout, happy for it to go cheapish as it's no longer needed In no way is it implied this was driven on the road with the engine in the back The reason i've gone for the HR3 is because by having the generator it gives me absolutely buckets of power (25 KVA...) for running kit like a washing machine, allows me to offset the engine from the centreline of the boat by running a 3 phase motor to drive the prop and I have a rough idea to build a workshop butty after this, and being able to plug that into 3 phase would be mega. To get it in was a bit of a game, step 1 was to cut a massive hole in the stern. Much of this needed replacement anyway and i've held off doing it for this reason After that the Land Rover could be backed up some ramps to get it level with the counter And the engine pulled off using a chain puller Then craned down with an engine crane In other news i've been distracted by painting other people's boats rather than my own... (Wey & Arun Canal Trust's dredger float) Still more to come
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