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  1. I think your right Mark, we've read the navigational notes in the Nicholson's as well... "CRT request no wide beam craft moor on line between here & Braunston" (it's actually on the Hemel Hempstead page I believe) Somewhere along the line some folks have turned a "request" not to moor into "your not allowed to navigate here, there's a rule about it" But, if it is something CRT are serious about, then they wouldn't organize wide beams through the tunnels at 8 am; which means we have to moor overnight before both tunnels (not complaining, just a fact); and they sell LT & winter moorings to loads of WB's online & allow boat yards and EoG moorings for WB's as well, between Hemel and Braunston. End of day, I figure we can go anywhere safely that a working pair can go when tied side by each without causing any major amount of agro to anyone else.
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  4. You can overtake a hirer on the Oxford canal at full throttle as long as you go into neutral when you get level with the boats moored on the towpath. The following wave will then bounce everybody including your own toy boat into the air. You then moor up 2 miles further down the cut and look aggressively at the boats coming slowly past. The tickover stick on was the last straw.
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  5. I'm guessing there will be an Armada of boats attending then?
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  7. Even when you are closer to the bridge, if you are towpath side, you must give way to an oncoming boat. I was told this by a steerer through hawthorn bushes on the Langollen some years back.
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  8. There are of course also those who just tie up wherever they land and don't even think about the gaps they have left.
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  9. It's not the windlass I loose but the little 3/4" to 1/2" tap to hose pipe connector. I screw it onto the CRT water point and forget to unscrew when done.
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  12. Rather than 'into the pipe' have you considered a simple pipe thermostat which straps onto the pipe - same as used on a domestic hot water tank? The old design, low cost ones are just a bi-metal strip with an adjusting knob to set the switch over temperature, so not much to go wrong. As they are usually low power AC if you do go this way, I would use it to switch a 12v relay to power the pump. The only concern I have with your idea is being confident that the pipe layout will ensure hot water reaches the point in the pipe where the sensor is before the engine overheats. I would probably also have a second unit to sound a buzzer in case of failure of the pump system to ensure there is no danger of overheating, together with a switch to force the pump relay on - in case you want to run the pump when the temp sensor says there is no need.
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  13. As time passes the number of people with the capability/incentive to carry out restoration work decreases in much the same ratio as the cost rises & a good few people tend to pass them by I guess fearing the unknown, having heard on the tow path telegraph that steel is the only way to go, Shame a lot of incorrect info has become this is the way to go on all forms of canal matters
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  16. Too bad Andy, still no luck, the first 2 showed :HTTP 403 Refusé, and whatever I filled in at the 3th didn't work either. Don't worry, life go's on for me anyway, and there are plenty of other (more important) things I have to miss too. Peter.
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  19. No, there are cyclists... end of. Then there are nice, understanding considerate people and arseholes. There doesn't need to be any limits imposed as Alan has rightly said, just the consideration of boaters and walking people on the towpath, if around any then slow right down. Simple really.
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  21. Does anybody seriously think that those boat men that used to use bikes for lock wheeling travelled anything like as slowly as 4 mph. It would rather defeat the object! I find a suggestion that cycling at more than 4 mph on any stretch of towpath should be discouraged fairly daft. I do agree that foot and boat users should always have priority over cyclists, but there are regularly miles and miles of towpath with no foot users at all, and I can see no argument for suggesting that cycling on them at a faster speed where there are no other users should be discouraged. It should be about people being sensible. There is very little point in introducing rules that it is impossible to enforce. People recognise them as such, and most will ignore them.
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  26. wow great progress - well impressed and what a difference paint makes.
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  27. Never seen a boat with its own steam powered Ferris Wheel before
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  28. I'll be bringing "my" historic narrowboat captain as usual, on the Sunday. I did want to put Roses & Castles on his wheel chair but he won't let me.
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  29. We use a considerable amount of keelblack at our workshop. Due to previous opinions and insults on this forum when I've tried to help, I'm not prepared to discuss this publicly, if anyone wants info about what we've found, please feel free to pm me. Andy B
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  30. I would just paint it and put some rubber mat down until it is in the water. If it sits arse down and the water drains to the back you can then paint it with non slip at a later date. I think though that like most small boats it will have a tendency to sit bow down.
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  31. What a great photo! Would that all traditional style canal boat line emulating a DB within the restrictions of narrow canals looked as good. (Badly put) But looking at Emily Anne, I wonder why anyone makes those awful stretched sideways boats... (I know it needs some skill...)
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  32. It's really difficult to fight someone who takes 3 days to come back at you!
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  33. I love heritage ex-working boats. They provide plenty of entertainment eg I think the phrase is "all the gear and no idea"!
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  34. Priority at lock landings is accordingly ...... 1 ... Fishermen 2 ... GRP boats 3 ... Families feeding ducks 4 ... Hire boats Ex working boats just sit in the middle of the cut waiting, those with newish boats will go berry picking on the offside when they try to do the same. Whether they end up in soft bushes or hard scratchy branches is in direct proportion to how many shillings they spent having the cabin sides coach painted. Priority for mooring outside popular pubs and V.Ms. is limited strictly to boats with marginally less on their roof than is sitting on the towpath next to them, and must be unerringly committed to staying put for months on end.
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  35. If your a member of the National Bargee Travellers Association, you can moor where you like for as long as you like.
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  36. And after leaving the lock, you must pull the boat into the side, and all your crew must board, even if the next lock is only 3 or 4 boat lengths away. On arrival at the next lock you must fully moor up to bollards, rings or mooring pins before one of your crew is allowed to walk to the lock and draw a paddle...
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  37. Increasingly, you can't open a paddle fully to start with, only 1/2, regardless of the behaviour of the lock. Obviously it depends on the lock but eg when we went up Grindley Brook the lockie was telling folk to only use 1/2 paddle to start with. When we got into the locks we just whacked the paddles fully open as we almost always do - and miraculously the world didn't end / boat didn't sink. But even those who constantly have pans of boiling water on the stove and tiny children underneath, surely this only matters when you are going uphill? No - today we came up the Wolverhampton 21 and mercifully only encountered one other boat coming down - we swithered whether to turn the lock on them but decided against it, but were rewarded by them only using 1/2 bottom paddle for the first several minutes. The boat had barely descended from my viewpoint (waiting in the lower lock) and I was thinking "surely they've left the top paddles open" but no, by the time I'd got the binoculars out they decided to properly open the bottom gate paddles. In similar vein, coming up Hatton a couple of years ago Jeff got shouted at by a volockie for opening both bottom paddles on an opposite direction boat. Apparently when there is only one boat descending in a wide lock, opening both bottom paddles is likely to wake the Kraken and cause a small nuclear explosion wiping out most of Warwickshire.
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  38. single handing is ok if you have a quick tug "you cant share my ring...."
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  39. Unlike it's contemporaries, Water Kelpie must have had two gas bottles.
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