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  1. Important to adopt a disdainful expression?
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  2. I agree with BEngo's method, but not the bit about pumping coolant overboard as Antifreeze is extremely toxic to aquatic life. My system holds over 35 litres, same engine as yours, so expect 20 or more litres from your skin tank. Draining down from the drain cock on the right hand side of the Beta 43 directly into 5 Ltd containers will empty most of the calorifier system and engine, leaving just the skin tank to pump out.
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  3. This is critically important. The OP MUST go out and buy a FLAT ring spanner. Then smartly hit the end with a hammer the weight of a claw hammer. No larger. Cylinder MUST be full of water. I've changed thousands of immersion heater elements this way in my 35 years as a plumber and I've yet to be defeated by one. Box spanners as described by the OP are less than useless for the task, in most cases. As he has found out.
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  4. ah, but we must infer that neither of you really wants to moor up within 3 miles of your work, 2 miles of a retail park and 1 mile of the kids' school, but without actually paying for the convenience. (howls of 'but we already pay for a licence, we just have to swap locations occasionally to enable us to challenge CRT' [at considerable cost financed from everyone's licence fees] from the usual piss taking suspects )
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  5. Most people have loads of credit cards today it depends how you want to live your life. My life is completely my own as I have no debt whatsoever. My only direct debits are 2 fones and the dogs insurance all of which can be cancelled in one move as non are on contract. I f someone has a debt they have no life choice other than to service that debt and tow the line, we have all been there to some extent. Some people stay in debt and obey others their entire life and others get out of debt and stay out. I know which one suits me. I dont have loads of cash just cash.
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  6. Over the passed few days we have spoken with a lady bored with boating who is selling her boat. A lady who complained her water smells odd since hubby blacked the water tank. A chap complained it was to hot to wash his boat. Several boaters moaned that it was to busy on the cut. Too many hire boats out... This morning I log into canalworld for the first time in a few days and lots of you are at it too...please, please cheer up and stop moaning. It's brilliant out on the canals! Really it is! Have fun, Ian.
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  7. It's like the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion - the first bends the law as far as it can while not breaking it, while obviously and deliberately breaking the spirit of the law, while the second just breaks it. Renting a cheap (probably northern) mooring while bridge shuffling in London penalises two sets of people - those dahn sarth who find everywhere clogged up, and those up north whose moorings are unavailable due to absentee boats. Same as the govt trying to plug tax loopholes, CRT end up paying a daft amount of money to lawyers to stop the custom spreading and cocking it up for everyone, although the numbers actually doing it are probably tiny and the current effect miniscule. I suspect that the usage of constantly amended advice and T&Cs is CRT's way of testing the waters while someone in a back offfice drafts a new Act - as this government seems to be happy bringing in new laws adminsitatively, without actually bothering to consult parliament, this would probably be easy enough to do. Again, it would probably have the support of the vast majority of boaters who only nip out for a few weeks here and there and have no intention of ever stopping in the same place for more than a day or two. As far as there is nothing whatever to stop it being shuffled between two locations quite close together provided they are far enough apart to constitute different places is concerned, that may be true of the K&A, but it is arguable that "London" or "Birmingham" comprise a single place, and that would be another day out for the lawyers and another colossal waste of everyone's licence fees.
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  8. You could of course just make the whole boat out of fenders. Although you get a bit nervous in locks as they do pop easily! I'm with the "down for mooring out of sight for everything else" group.
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  9. I fail to see the relevance of someone's attitude, and for that matter, why CRT have any business in challenging it, especially if the person concerned has not contravened anything in either Byelaws or statute law to warrant any such sort of attention. If CRT have, as you say, been obliged to re-license his boat then that very fact suggests that he is at the very least currently fully compliant with the requirements of the licensing legislation, and calls into question the wisdom of spending vast amounts of money in trying to evict him from the waterways in the first place.
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  10. Not always the case, its as my accountant said using the money wisely, only idiots throw away hard earned cash. You have to have had a business to understand, its not like working for others where you get paid regardless, you have to earn it and its bloody hard work!
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  13. There are many posts and many thousands of words on here about this subject when really the situation is very simple. if you are fortunate enough to be without any commitments and with the time to be able to continuously cruise then you will not be in any way concerned with the "rules" because you will travel further and more often than you will need to to comply with them. if you have anything that you are committed to that has to happen in one place (kids at school, job etc) then you CANNOT be a continuous cruiser. You need a permanent place to live. Everybody knows and understands the above. There are some who try to avoid a mooring cost by pretending not to. Clearly the "rules" attempt to set parameters that prevent people who need to be in one place from living in one place whilst pretending that they don't. It is always the case that defining precise "rules" to impose common sense is difficult. the fact that there are areas with too few moorings and ridiculous property prices is another problem and may need resolving. But trying to "bend" what should be simple rules is not the answer. I can't afford to live in, for example, central London. Why should I expect that to be different if I were to do it on a boat.
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  14. Thank you Tony Brooks, the rest can go do one you are condescending and up yourselves.
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  15. Perhaps we might ask, how long did it take to travel the 20 miles. If it took three months, I would have no problem with going back and doing it again if I really liked the fishing.
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  16. Then what? Well move a bit more I suppose.
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  17. I agree most very wealthy people have no real money on them. Personaly though I will rarely be without a minimum of 100 quid in my pocket and often more as proper money is instant and there are still many places ( mine included ) that only take real cash with the word sterling written on it and I would be too embarrased to try to buy anything anywhere for say as little as a tenner with a bit of plastic. It is also easier to know exactly how much money I have rather than accumulating lots of bits of paper or even worse ever using contactless. Its probably because I have no money and my upbringing was one of no debt, my parents paid their mortgage off at age 33 and never borrowed a penny from any where for anything ever again. Old fashioned I know but in life I have found especialy of late that old fashioned is much more sensible.
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  18. outer gunwales on and the temporary frame removed.
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  19. Not had a lot of time recently but I have managed to tape all the outside joints and cover the bottom with 162 gsm cloth and epoxy.
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  20. I bent the sides round the temporary frame. And stuck some ply on the bottom.
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  21. Its far too cold to be messing around in the engine bay which will be the next project. Its dark most of the time anyway. So while sitting in front of the fire I cant help but think of those long warm evenings when it would be great to go for a sail or row. I have some scraps of 3.6mm ply and a length of 2x2 which were left behind by a contractor at work so I've ordered some epoxy and let the ultralight dinghy build commence. The design process starts with gaffa taping the biggest pieces of wood together and then trimming them and twisting them until I got a shape I like. Next job is to rip the 2x2 into strips to make the chine logs and make a temporary frame to keep the shape during the build.
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  22. Great post ? If I could give Greenies with a phone I would
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  23. I'm not sure we should jump to such conclusions (neither should we dismiss the conclusion).I m also not overly comfortable in discussing a persons foibles on their own thread! However, I see myself in Max to some extent. If I'm right she has a case of "stubborn woman syndrome", just like me she is unhappy to have to admit that the course of action she has taken is not the most logical or practical and will rail against ant advice to the contrary (until a suitable time has passed and sober contemplation shows that someone else is right, damn them). Just like me saying "I told you so" just takes stubborn to a whole new level. Just like me she appears fairly competent when she has the information. Just don't expect anyone with SWS to admit they were wrong. If you don't believe me ask Im Indoors. Alyson
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  24. The best solution, that has been used for centuries (first on steam then diesels) on railway and maritime motive power, is cotton waste - available from most good industrial cleaning material suppliers. It is absorbent and very mildly abrasive and you can use it in various amounts to get into all the nooks and crannies. For stubborn dried on grease and oil use a bit of diesel on the cotton waste - used cotton waste burns excellently on a sold fuel stove so there are no disposal problems. Here is one of the many suppliers. http://www.marsonindustrialsupplies.co.uk/ Search for "Cotton Waste" ref: RAG2371 The current price is about £20 for 25kg bail - that's enough to last a lifetime! In the long run, it works out cheaper than modern disposable nappies etc. and is far more effective. Once the engine is clean a daily wipe down with cotton waste after it has been running will keep it looking new with a minimum of effort. Cotton waste is also great for cleaning brasswork.
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