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  1. Go for Mayfair and Parklane
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  2. AA batteries should be fine then. I was under the impression it was a full scale boat.
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  4. Theres no such thing as a " pretty " pram hood old sport!!! They are the thing of the devil and an obscenity on our waterways.
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  8. Instead of pulling it what about pushing it? I've seen small butties with a stern that is the shape of a inversed bow of the main boat. I'll try and find a piccy
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  9. Too nice to worry about technicalities!
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  10. Last comment = does not matter where the transition colour boundary is as long as it's not wonky and proportions are kept sensible .... imho.
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  11. Roof to cabin sides if it's the same as many boats. It's what I did on WotEver - it worked well.
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  12. Luxury! We use to live in Lake and get up 1/2 hour before we went to bed each mornin.
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  13. Believe me, it took all my strength not to!
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  14. From colours of the cut, hope this helps.
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  15. Yes. Our first liveaboard boat had a hand start only engine, a foot operated water pump and only one 12volt domestic battery and hot water was heated on the stove as it was the only way. We luvved it and lived on it nearly five years cruisng around and updating. We now have all the usual crap that we all think we need today but in reality ninety percent of it is nonsense. We live on a boat not a poxy house so why do we fit household stuff that costs a bomb to maintain and power up? Yes I am a dinosaur but the more basic the boat the better it is in reality.
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  16. You will be glad to know that the cooling water problem was fixed and we got past the stoppage, now off to Cavalcade. Tim
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  17. No Mr Onion Bargee, its not every boat, its YOUR boat CRT tracks every ten days
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  19. One problem with this is that the kind of uptight people that report other boaters for overstaying don't check why first, there are reasonable reasons why boats overstay, months in some cases where the owner has terminal cancer. Many boaters feel its none of anyone's business if they have an " authorised " overstay, and may not advertise the fact. CaRT are aware of the movements of every boat every ten days, so there is no need to report anything to them.
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  20. rubbish. he has a hole that he wants to extend by 30 to 40mm. no problem. take about 2 minutes each.
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  21. I did go to Specsavers,I took those Hose with with me as it was Potable
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  22. And the joke. Chap went into an iron mongers. I'd want to buy a bastard file, he said to the girl behind the counter. Oooh!! she went and ran of to tell the manager there was a customer swearing in the the shop. What did he say said the manager, he said he wanted a bastard file, said she. That's correct, that's what a certain type of file is called said the manager. Oh, said she and went back to the customer. Well sir, would you like this little bastard, this middle sized or this big bastard file. No, said the man I think I'll have that big f----r over there.
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  23. Point of order M'lud. Keeping an eye on your batteries' capacity is the one thing a Smartgauge cannot help you with. It re-calibrates itself as capacity reduces with age. Nick probably meant state of charge. The BMV will be more help in keeping an eye on capacity.
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  24. Scotia has been discussed here at length before. Until now , the engine installation was not certain, though I think Mr Hogg had a very educated guess at a National. The motor conversion was done at the Gorton repair yard and the LNER apparently sought to buy a locally produced engine, the National Gas Engine Co being about 3 miles away in Ashton Under Lyne. As far as I know the motor was fitted about 1927, though this sounds rather early for the 2DM production , does anyone know the start date for this model? Perhaps for comparison purposes, the LNER's only other motor for their "Western Canals" (Ashton,Peak Forest & Macclesfield) , Joel , was fitted with a Kelvin petrol/paraffin engine type E2, rated at 9HP, this installation and the boat lasted until 1948 when replaced with a new Joel , engine uprated to a Kelvin 15HP F2 . I understand that Scotia still exists in part at Stone(?) having been recovered from Whatcroft Flash on the T & M thirty odd years ago. Bill
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  25. Hey, I've got to moor somewhere, I can't hover!
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  26. I'd go for a 12v fridge if you can stretch to the cost. A fridge is a pretty important thing and if it's reliant on an inverter, the chances of having a warm fridge and mouldy food is increased, although to be fair a decent inverter should be pretty reliable. The other stuff you describe is less important and doesn't need to be used 24/7. When looking at inverters, be sure to check out the idle power consumption which is very variable. We have a Mastervolt Combi that uses about 0.75A when idling, and that is not in any sort of power saving mode. I think Victrons use more unless you go for the power saving modes, which can be problematic. Small, cheap inverters can use more power idling than a top notch big one. For monitoring, the Victron BMV is fine as an AH counter but the addition of a Smartgauge will allow you keep an eye on your batteries' capacity (recent issues with calibration not withstanding). For a leisure boat I'd be inclined to start with ordinary leisure batteries, maybe go for AGM once you have got the general idea about looking after batteries. Solar is great if you intend to spend days tied up, but most people using their boats only for leisure tend to cruise every day so perhaps the roof clutter and ugliness isn't justified for your needs. edit: just checked the datasheets, the Victron 3000 inverter uses 20w doing nothing. Our 2500 Mastervolt Combi uses <9w. So the Victron left on permanently will use >20AH per day more. Why would you want to buy a Victron?
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  27. More than welcome, god forgive you to make this faux pas to the local Berkhamsted residents association, you'd be strung up in the castle!
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  29. And, of course, the more onerous (and expensive) you make the regulations and mandatory checks, the more likely people will become to simply try and get away without having them. People who are currently prepared to accept the (I think!) relatively low costs of a BSS inspection every 4 years, might take a different view if it, or something equally expensive, was forced on them every year. For those of us who own our own houses, even if who can do various installation work is now highly regulated, there is absolutely no requirement for safety checks of any kind, or at any interval - that should put it into some kind of perspective, as houses don't blow up all the time. Clearly you have to be a bit more careful with gas on boats, as they carry their own supply, may take the odd bump, and tend to fill up with the stuff if a leak develops. But I continue to say the measures we have to go through compulsorily should be constrained by the actual history of risk, not because of some hysteria that properly carried out LPG installations on boats still represent a very high risk level, but with no data to prove the point. Yes, of course someone can find a story about a boat with gas leak, fire, or even an explosion - possibly even occasionally one where someone has died. I can always match that with a story about someone else who has died in a boat, or on the canals generally, but not because of an LPG fault. Just because someone manages to go off the back end of a boat and end up killed in the prop, I would never insist that everybody had to have a 5 foot high fence around the back end - it just wouldn't make sense. If individuals want to spend extra money on additional checks for their own peace of mind, it is entirely their prerogative to do so. Without proper statistical data to back up their claims of danger, they should not try and force such things on others.
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