Tom and Bex

Have you got any dates going back before 2000? I'm sure I went to one on the Neath Canal bank in the 90's. Also helped with the preparation and setting up for one in Taunton when I should have been doing GCSE's so that must have been 90's as well 🤣

Congratulations to Rebellion from all on Tatty Lucy!

I don't think grade B cells would be an problem for typical domestic usage. That deal from Fogstar does look very tempting, and if we hadn't just bought a 100ah for our camper would have been seriously tempted by that offer. Still very tempted to get this to expand our current bank! Our current cells were rejected from diy EV use as the voltage dropped to much under heavy discharge. We're on our 7th winter with them, and no detectable drop in capacity over that time. Rated capacity of 320ah, and when installed we measured 300ah before BMS low voltage cut.

Think Black Prince used these on their hire boats at one time, might be worth asking them if they have any spares lying around.

Something I've not seen mentioned so far, is a lot of lead acid chargers have temperature compensation to raise the charging voltage at lower temperatures. You need to make sure this is disabled for lithium charging. Often this is just a battery temperature sensor that can be left disconnected, but some chargers do have this built into the charger itself.

Love these boats, hope someone buys the moulds and keeps them going!

Haa been for a while - past 2 years we've helped tow non-challenge boats off the mud here, and no chance of getting near the bank on either side.

And a huge thanks for organising the Challenge, and the work you put in to get the winners announced on the night! Definitely a change from the first few challenges we did where the results came out weeks later. Hopefully the increased entries again this year will continue, and the media coverage on Friday evening was mentioned by several people we met along the way. Thanks again.

Thank you! Tatty Lucy won! Very pleased with results and big thanks to the crew including our girls who have to put up with my planning and early starts on the challenge! Lily (our 8 year old) is delighted with the result!

I was thinking as we came down I was glad we didn't have a historic boat to squeeze through the gap on that gate 🤣🤣

Yeah, couple of the lower pounds were flooded due to the empty pound further up. We only let down enough water to get through, so some of the upper pounds were left a bit on the low side! Hopefully CRT will get them all refilled to correct level, think the problem was obstruction behind top gate on lock 6 leaving a 6" gap, and bottom gates on that lock being left open😱

The boat important question my crew keep asking - has Barney entered the challenge this year??? Hopefully it stays clear until adjust we've gone down!

Depends how deep you are🤣

Perry Barr completely empty between 5 and 6. Top gate not shut properly on 5 is what I suspect caused the problem. Currently running water down most of the flight😱 Pound refilled, obstruction cleared behind top gate on Perry Barr lock 6, and we're on the move again. There's now a few low pounds on Perry Barr so deep draughted boats might need to let a bit more water down!

All set and ready for the start! Follow us on Twitter, and hopefully you can track our progress on the following link: https://livegpstracks.com/dv_75017166190272811840646.html