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This must be a sitting on a wooden fence moment for you.

....the Yul Brunner look. ( unless you shave in the shower)

it would be a jolly good idea if someone could design all the electrical details for a boat in a 3D programme, and from it produce a readymade wiring loom that can be just fixed into the boat. no chance of any misunderstandings, anything going wrong or not fitting properly. .... and of course totally flexible when minor changes are found to be necessary as the fitting out progresses. ................. NOT!! personally I found the design and fitting of the wiring into a sailaway shell to be one of the more relaxing and satisfying parts of the fitting out process after butchering the insulation foam and measuring, marking and cutting huge sheets of plywood in a restricted space.

I can see how you prefer ThunderBoat.

Things of the devil................

I'd love to know how many London buses are equivalent to one NASA rocket launch in atmospheric pollution terms.

A useful tip is: After you have popped down into the cabin to get your coat for the approaching storm, when you run back up the steps and reach the tiller, if it has moved significantly off centre then push it back the other way at least the same amount, before looking to see where the boat is going. You will then likely apply the right correction a second or two earlier and this can be enough to avoid the shalllows/trees etc.

I've downloaded all 6 episodes. Watch W1A if you want to understand why TV schedules are now a bit old fashioned .

I've not seen this before, but looking at the IPlayer list the series starts / started with a different episode / day / start time depending on the region where you are. I thought I'd missed the NB one which London region had last night, but instead here in the South we get The Thames Barge tonight (Saturday) at 20:00 hrs. What a muddle. I know regionalisation happens on BBC1 but not usually on BBC2. Anyone understands the logic behind that??

I trust you don't mean moorings like Macclesfield, where a developer built brand new housing alongside visitor moorings that had been there for years. The new householders then complained about those nasty boats. BW/CRT in their usual supportive to boaters way, initially installed notices telling boaters not to run engines and then spent a six figure sum of boater's money moving the water point and installing new moorings further along the canal. Sadly for CRT, new housing is now being built opposite the new moorings so I await the next round of appeasement with interest! Regarding your second point, most legislation in this arena is not respective and would only be applied to new builds. George

As has been noted, the potential banning of wood burners in London is a publicity grab by the Mayor, so no surprise there. Reducing the pollution from road traffic would be a much more achievable target to aim for and be much better for public health. Cars that stop and start all by themselves are becoming more common even in this peaceful backwater in La France Profonde, and no doubt they are wonderful. The nearest thing to a traffic jam or a queue at a traffic light around here is to be found in Limoges - where by the way, there are trolley buses - and on our most recent visit there we didn't witness any of that Parisian hornblowing. Life here is much more peaceful and slow, to the extent that when arriving at a country T junction it is normal to stop and let a car on the "main" road - main being a relative term - go past, even if said car was as much as 300 metres away when first seen. Wood burning stoves are the norm here, as heating by wood has been calculated as being about a quarter the cost per kilowatt hour of the cost of electric. After all, wood does grow on trees, whereas electricity doesn't.

It's very worthwhile - my opinion only, but it's likely to be a more valid opinion than yours since I've actually done the entire length.

I thought it was more to do with the slight risk that the original purchaser had not paid VAT on the boat on the basis that it qualified for exemption under the residential rules (only possible in a wide beam IIUI). I agree that that should not affect a subsequent purchaser but some of the brokers, notably ABNB, check the tax status of any boat they are selling with the builder.

Never mind the wood smoke what about all them spliffs

I don't have any data, but I'd have thought the greatest impact to the quality of air in the capital over the past 15 years or so has been the massive increase in the use of diesel vehicles, encouraged to reduce CO2 emissions from petrol cars - so we basically just swapped stratospheric pollution to ground level pollution (different pollutants of course). Sometimes when I'm driving I see thick plumes of exhaust pouring out of the back of what appear to be relatively new private diesel cars and I can't help wondering how on earth these vehicles pass their MOT emissions tests? Does anyone know if limits to emitted particulate matter (PM10 & PM2.5) actually form part of the annual MOT tests for diesel vehicles? I suspect not...

Just because its intresting

Nope, Volkswagen buy it.

My understanding is that the smoke removed from coal to produce smokeless coal is sold off as a by product and then used by manufacturers of E cigarettes as an extra way of generating profit .

that's why I stockpile in July/August/September got 60 bags stashed now for the winter for Cottage and boat.

A good reminder to also check on you engine on a regular basis.

Do they have an aluminium bar between the two panes. If so they are very likely to be sealed units in which case once condensation appears they have had it. 40 years old isn't doing to badly.